Hong Kong is crazy for horseracing, and jockey there are well-paid celebrities. “So when the Hong Kong Jockey Club sought applicants for its apprentice jockey program, 150 candidates showed up — and almost none had ever been within spitting distance of a horse, much less sat on one.” Only six hopefuls made it into the eight-year training program. (International Herald Tribune)
– “Friends” to aid New York racing (NYP)
– Graves: Smith’s “Friends” good idea (TU)
– Haskin: Spring of the Samurai? (BH)
– Turf Paradise raid yields drugs (AR)
– Bailey plans to ride in 2005 (DRF)
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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)
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