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Sponsored by: The start of 2021 hasn t been particularly positive for the sport of horse racing, acknowledges Joe Clancy, editor of the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred. A quartet of incidents stand out: the Gordon Elliott photo, the suspension of jockey Alexander Crispin over weight disparities, a trainer with 45 listed medication violations on the ballot for the Hall of Fame, and a horse with two failed drug tests earning an Eclipse Award. Racing is “at some kind of crossroads, again or still depending on how you look at it,” Clancy wrote in a recent editorial. “At its core, racing exists because of a public trust,” he continued. “Those outside the industry need to trust that the people inside the industry are doing the right things. The questions are pretty simple.” ....
How It Works: A Look At How Jockeys Weigh Out Sponsored by: Bill Shoemaker with Santa Anita clerk of scales Hubert Jones, Feb. 1962 The subject of jockey weights has been a central part of the news in racing this week as reports circulated that Eclipse Award-winning apprentice jockey Alexander Crispin has been fined and suspended for carrying a lower weight than advertised in a race on Jan. 16. Most people probably know that jockeys are weighed both before and after a race to ensure they are carrying the weight printed in the program or on the changes list, but unless you ve spent time in the jocks room, you may not know the finer points of how the process works. ....
View From The Eighth Pole: If Weight Matters, Take It More Seriously Sponsored by: Digital jockey scale We can only guess how much the weight carried in a race affects a horse s performance. All other things being equal, a horse that carries 120 pounds in a race will have an advantage over one carrying 123 pounds. Maybe it s a length, maybe more, maybe less. But it is an advantage. That s why racing officials everywhere should pay heed to the ruling against Alexander Crispin, the Eclipse Award-winning apprentice jockey of 2020, for riding under his assigned weight in a mid-January race at Laurel Park in Maryland. ....
Sponsored by: Alexander Crispin Eclipse Award-winning apprentice jockey Alexander Crispin has been suspended for 30 days and fined $1,000 for carrying the wrong weight during a race at Laurel Park in Maryland, the Daily Racing Form reported Tuesday. On Wednesday, DRF reported the circumstances surrounding the ruling. Maryland stewards had heard rumors about Crispin allegedly riding under weight. The race in question is the ninth on Jan. 16, 2021, in which Alpha Queue finished third. The horse, trained by Lacey Gaudet, was disqualified, and the Equibase chart notes that it “carried wrong weight.” Crispin s listed weight in the chart, presumably the weight at which he was supposed to ride Alpha Queue, was 115 pounds. ....
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