Insurance Issue Panel Formed
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association announced on Monday plans to form a panel to study the jockeys’ insurance issue, after the matter came to a crisis point at Churchill Downs this weekend. The track banned more than a dozen riders for the rest of the meet after the jockeys organized a boycott for this Wednesday in protest of inadequate insurance. (Courier-Journal)
More: “Health insurance pits Churchill, jockeys” (Lexington Herald-Leader) and “The agent for Rafael Bejarano, the leading jockey in the country, said Monday that he had dropped his rider because of the way Bejarano protested what some jockeys consider inadequate accident insurance at Churchill Downs” (LA Times).
Related: “Rafael Bejarano, the national wins leader and one of 15 jockeys banished by Churchill Downs management, is leaving the Kentucky circuit to ride in New York, possibly on a permanent basis, according to both his former and current agent.” (Daily Racing Form)
