Re: dumb weighters ny post page3 (565 Views)
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Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: September 21, 2005 02:01PM
Its a very interesting story. Is this the weights story we heard rumor of last year? I imagine it is.
15 pounds overweight? Does anyone else find that highly unlikely? These are all 115+ pound guys as it is. Think they could really ride at 130+ and folks wouldn't notice?
What is the proof going to consist of? How are they going to prove Santos was 15 pounds over in a particular race and not merely 4 pounds over? Does it matter? Is there a reason to think 4 pounds over is not as big a problem legally as 15 pounds over?
What about this blurb from the story:
"Co-conspirator jockeys then rode horses in races and thereby caused the horses to carry in excess of five pounds over the designated weight"
Why is the number 5 pounds used as if it is a threshold?
This had to be looked into and stopped, but this Spitzer needs to focus. This is an attention case that is going to be very hard to prove. It will cost the defendants a lot of money to fight however.