not such a bad idea IMO

[Honu]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

I am not sure what you meant by blocked. The point I was trying to make was, that if you had a hunch or maybe even knew that a trainer you were riding for was jucing horses, how could you be suprised if he was flagged and you didn't get your cut. I think you as a jockey are in a very bad place, because if you know what are you supposed to do? Report the trainer and maybe face a backlash from the rest of the trainers and colony. Or maybe just not ride the horse, but if it is a smalltime track, maybe mounts are tough to come by. Plus you know someone else will just pick up the original mount anyway. If you have no idea and the horse gets flagged then you get screwed out of your cut. It just seems to be a bad situation either way.

Heres the thing , as a jockey I didnt know what the limits were for meds. or withdrawl times, now that I have been more involved in day to day training I know what the rules are.
I have scratched horses in the post parade when I just felt that it was not safe to ride or let the horse run. I also have riden horses that are cheap and have bad arthritis or whatever that take a long time to warm up but usually I was a pretty good judge of when to hold em and when to fold em.
There were their times when a trainer would say hey ,"this horse is gonna run diffirent or better today , we did some work on him"., Most of the time I had a clue like they must have injected them, or whatever but to be honest I didn't know if what they did passed the test. I would handicap the race in the room and if when I came to the paddock and the trainer said "hey lil jock this horse is ready to go " lol was I suposed to ask him for a promise that the horse was gonna pass the spit box if we won?