Jockeys’ Fund Likely to Dissolve
“The Disabled Jockeys’ Fund, which in 2003 provided more than $371,000 in financial assistance to permanently and temporarily injured riders, is set to dissolve at the end of the year, leaving questions of how the Jockeys’ Guild will fulfill one of its core missions to support disabled riders.” (Thoroughbred Times)
Related: Jockeys’ Guild president Dr. L. Wayne Gertmenian offers up a bizarre commentary on last month’s incident at Churchill Downs — or, as he dubs it, “Churchill Plantation” — in which jockey Shane Sellers was escorted off the grounds. “I was in a time warp. It was Macon, Georgia and Selma, Alabama thirty years ago. I had hoped the days of Master and Slave were over.” (Jockeys’ Guild)
