happens at Belmont and Aqueduct all the time.....

always good to know a tough little exercise rider. they are small enough to smack a jockey and get away with it. it's a good thing when they know if they hold your hoss, it could result in a beating, they let em run.

as far a Billy Patin, why didn't he just fall off the hoss and shove it in the dirt? ya made the score, take one for the team Billy, ya dope ya

Kev..

Happy belated birthday!

Definitely overdue for return to Tampa.. Will try to make that happen.

Curious so just pulled his plea agreement and now the rest of the story.

He is pleading guilty to a single count of fixing a sports contest. (He was only charged with 2 counts despite there being at least a dozen fixed games and a half dozen fixed races listed.) On each count he was facing 5 years and $250K in fines. (Had the government taken the time to file a count for each incident he would have faced a max of 90 years and $4.5 million fine)

He is also consolidating a second Federal case, namely 14-CR-20749 for food stamp fraud, where he was paying 70% for SNAP benefits in cash and then receiving 100% back from the government thereby netting a 30% profit. The SNAP recipient then undoubtedly used the cash received from Manni for non-SNAP purchases, namely liquor and drugs. On this charge he faced 20 years and a 250K fine.

The plea includes a worksheet that cites his past criminal record and low and behold Manni did 2 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine (2/1/91). He has a violation of the tobacco tax act (3/20/00), Attempt to possess a firearm by a felon (5/19/00) and felon in possession of a firearm (actually three guns). He has been in federal custody FCI Milan since 7/3/13 and is requesting time served be included in figuring out his plea bargain sentence.

What's disturbing is he reserves the right to withdraw his plea should the total sentence decided upon be greater than 70 months. :zz:

Unlike State prison where everyone most often ends up doing a little less than 50% of time sentenced in the Fed it's 80%. So if the judge went along with the suggested maximum Manni would face 56 months. With one year and 5 months already served he'll be out in 3 years and 3 months.

So much for getting tough on crime!

Please Mr. Prosecutor, for the sake of the broken down horseplayer, let's take this POS to trial, on separate charges, as a habitual offender!