Race 7 - Alysheba Stakes
Trainer: Todd Pletcher
Jockey: Irad Ortiz JR.
Watch the video.
If you look at the horse on the inside rail #5 Olympiad clip heels TWICE on the inside rail. This could have sent the jockey flying over the rail and killed him or her.
If that is not BAD ENOUGH - look closely you can see Irad Ortiz Jr. on the #7 horse "Happy Saver" punch the jockey next to him, in between him and the horse on the rail in the head - causing that horse to check the horse next to it - "Olympiad" into the rail, like it was a hockey game.
This is reckless riding at it's finest. IF two motorcyclists were going over 35 miles an hour and one punched the other in the head while doing it, there is no doubt they would be charged with reckless driving if caught on tape like this was.
Evidently the stewards at Churchill Downs DID NOTHING - and Irad Ortiz Jr has got away with it. #RidingDirty XOXO
In hockey we call this move "checking" it has no place in horse racing. XOXO
Here is the video - see for yourself. XOXO
This is the 6th horse of Todd Pletcher's to be raced this weekend.
They should ALL be dq'd for this. XOXO
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