One Thing After Another
This isn’t NYRA’s week. A report issued by New York state comptroller Alan Hevesi on Tuesday accused the organization of spending more than $1 million on inappropriate and excessive expenses between 2002-2003, including country club memberships for two NYRA executives (Lexington Herald-Leader), and this morning came the announcement that the clerk of scales Mario Sclafani and his assistant Braulio Baeza have been suspended indefinitely as a result of the ongoing investigation into jockey weights at New York racetracks. Throw in the latest on the Jockeys’ Guild and it’s all enough to make even the most devoted fan feel a bit hopeless about the corruption and mismanagement that seem so rife in the game. (San Francisco Chronicle)
