You're right, mate! US jockey Patrick Valenzuela WILL ride the Yankee sprinter Cannonball in Sat's Grp 1 Lightning Stakes at Flemington. He's been given the all-clear after a probe into his US disciplinary record. Seems it wasn't so bad after all. Valenzuela has ridden more than 4000 winners in his 30-year career. He'll be on Cannonball for the first time. Valenzuela, whose wins include the 1989 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes on Sunday Silence, has for some years ridden under an agreement w
You're right, mate! US jockey Patrick Valenzuela WILL ride the Yankee sprinter Cannonball in Sat's Grp 1 Lightning Stakes at Flemington. He's been given the all-clear after a probe into his US disciplinary record. Seems it wasn't so bad after all. Valenzuela has ridden more than 4000 winners in his 30-year career. He'll be on Cannonball for the first time. Valenzuela, whose wins include the 1989 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes on Sunday Silence, has for some years ridden under an agreement with the Californian Horse Racing Board that he submit to regular drug testing. He was suspended on drug offences eight times in the 1990s and in 2000 spent 22 months on the sidelines for a positive drug test. He has since been suspended on drug charges in 2004, 2006 and 2007. In 2008, he rode his 4000th career winner.
Like a dog on a bone...Queensland Racing stewards have begun appeal proceedings against the decision to overturn the two-month suspension incurred by Sydney apprentice Daniel Ganderton.
Idiots' time...Music festival gatecrashers broke into several high-profile stables and let valuable racehorses out of their enclosures at Flemington on Tuesday.