Another Call for Dr. G’s Removal
A group of permanently disabled Jockeys’ Guild members, troubled by the disappearance of the disabled jockeys’ fund and the unsatisfactory answers given by Guild officials to questions about the organization’s management, have sent an open letter to the Guild’s board of directors calling for the removal of president Wayne Gertmenian and the reinstatement of former manager John Giovanni in his stead:
An emergency meeting of the Guild Senate to discuss management has been scheduled for November 15 and more than 200 jockeys across the country have signed petitions calling for a change in leadership. Asked if he had any intention of stepping down, Gertmenian said, “I promised everybody as I went around the country the heat would fall on my head and I wouldn’t quit.” How noble.
