Chris Antley

[Riot]

maybe the solution is bigger horses.

Or horses with bigger bone.

Some professions in life demand that you be a certain size. A jockey is obviously one of them. If you can't be the size it requires, than you should not be a jock. It's pretty simple. Don't you think with a few pounds the same unhealthy practices will be going on?

Yes, as long as jockeys are required to be a particular weight, many will have to keep their jobs by abusing their health. Hey, at least there exists an athletic population not on steroids.

But the weight the sport calls for is arbitrary. Jocks are incredible athletes. Wish the sport could allow them a little more health, as the practices required to make weight have long-term and permanent negative health ramifications.

Whatever you may think of Wayne Lukas, hasn't he at least earned the right to have his name spelled correctly?

My sincere apologies to Mr. Lukas for misspelling his name