A friend of mine was recently contacted by HISA stewards and was informed that he was going to have to forfeit his earnings from a recent race at SAR. The reason was his rider 'appeared' to strike his horse 10 times during the running of a recent race. I asked my friend to clarify if he was contacted by NY or HISA stewards. He told me they introduced themselves as HISA stewards and the call came from KY.
They had scheduled a zoom hearing with him yesterday (Sunday) at noon. The zoom meeting never occurred and he was not NOT contacted by HISA of any cancellation. Typical government response. My friend told me he was being interviewed on the Steve Byk show this morning to talk about this incident.
I'm interested to find out how the interview went what happened to the HISA stews. I can assure you that if HISA had conducted the zoom session and my friend would not have joined the meeting he would immediately lost the purse.
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