Delta Jocks Paying Scale Clerk

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Where did you come up with that? The Stewards probably arent allowed by rule to give them more than 6 months hence the note to get the racing commission involved.

Exactly - they are not, and escalated the case to the racing commission to throw the book at them, as they feel the violations are egregious enough to warrant much steeper penalties.

For what? Bribing the clerk of scales to allow them to carry less weight? Sure didn't seem to impact their performance based on the Equibase stats -

These are 9% jocks at a low rung slot palace that clearly did not benefit personally from whatever malfeasance they are accused of being involved in. Their performance is similarly flat going back quite a ways...

Logic would dictate that there is something much more insidious to the rest of the story, considering the stewards threw the book at them, and then went to the LSRC to say what these jocks did (allegedly) deserves a much stiffer penalty that what we (the stewards) are allowed by charter to invoke.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

Exactly - they are not, and escalated the case to the racing commission to throw the book at them, as they feel the violations are egregious enough to warrant much steeper penalties.

For what? Bribing the clerk of scales to allow them to carry less weight? Sure didn't seem to impact their performance based on the Equibase stats -

These are 9% jocks at a low rung slot palace that clearly did not benefit personally from whatever malfeasance they are accused of being involved in. Their performance is similarly flat going back quite a ways...

Logic would dictate that there is something much more insidious to the rest of the story, considering the stewards threw the book at them, and then went to the LSRC to say what these jocks did (allegedly) deserves a much stiffer penalty that what we (the stewards) are allowed by charter to invoke.

I think you are overthinking this. They bribed a racing official. That merits a pretty severe penalty in itself. In NY there was a criminal investigation with grand jury hearings and everything over the same offense (even though it wasnt true and this one is).

If there was intent to fix races dont you think that they would have been suspended for that as opposed to paying the clerk to ride heavy? Which has been going on as long as there have been jocks and weight assignments.