Re: It's a Raid!!! (395 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: December 17, 2004 07:38PM
I agree records should be hard to find if this is a "weight off" issue...lol
I can't find anymore on it and the reports I found last night indicated it was about the public not being informed of overweights, so for the time being I'll assume thats what it is. Trainers like five pounds off. So I'm inclined to think its a jockey or two going to the clerk of the scales and saying "Hey, put me down for 112 pounds and when I win at that weight you got 25% of my purse portion."
I can't see a trainer going for a clerk of scales deal for five pounds all the time. I believe that weight matters and I could see a long term benefit, but, theres too much of a trail too. The Clerk, whoever puts the lead bars in the saddle. (Is it the clerk. I really don't know...lol) All the jockeys, (They hold their saddle and weigh in post race.) To me theres not enough deniability.
Its not like with testing postives, though I know theres a certain amount of "strict liability":
"My horse? It wasn't me!!! No one saw!!!! I wasn't there!!! You sure you got that reading right? ReTest! Maybe we administered a little too much. That Vet Sucks. Couldnt be. Someone got to my horse!!!"
CtC