Investigation Focused on Weights
In raids yesterday on NYRA offices at Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga, state police carted away boxes of records having to do with race entries and jockey weights. “All the forms removed from Aqueduct document what weight a jockey was assigned for each race and what weight was actually carried in a race…. If the attorney general believes that weights were deliberately falsified, it would be a violation of state law and could be considered a felony for tampering with a sporting event,” reports the Daily Racing Form.
More: “New search warrants for three NYRA thoroughbred tracks” (Newsday) and “Authorities are quiet after raids on three racetracks” (New York Times)
