NYRA jockey's cancel racing on Sunday

[str]

On Sunday, the riders decided to shut down racing after the first race at Aqueduct. They cited "a lack of respect".

“They don’t respect us, they don’t care about our feelings, they don’t care about making us feel like we’re the head of the sport because we are the jocks. We do make the show go on,” Carmouche said Sunday. “It’s the jockeys and the valets standing up for what’s right.”

Somebody might want to point out to Kendrick and all the riders that without fans, there is no game.

Without management, owners, trainers, grooms, hot walkers, exercise riders, betting tellers, gate crew, the parking lot people, track maintenance, medical staff, Stewards, racing officials and and many more, jockey's have nothing.

The game is made up of a hundred different groups and races cannot be run and bets cannot be made without all of them .

After Sunday, they had three dark days to resolve this but decided to screw everyone involved for an ego trip.

Sorry Kendrick, and every jockey who voted with him, you were WRONG.

Let's hope the fans don't decide to have an ego trip of their own, much less any of the other groups.

One would think that someone might point that out to the jockey's who might think they make the show go, but don't.

It takes a village Kendrick.

 

[BMR Genie]

Looks like there's more to this line/story. "They cited "a lack of respect". Is this still ongoing?

 

[str]

Looks like there's more to this line/story. "They cited "a lack of respect". Is this still ongoing?

Sorry for the delay Genie.

That statement was not the smartest thing to say. I think the rider that said it was pushed to be the mouthpiece for jocks and most likely regrets it. If he doesn't, he's a damn fool.

Because I was not there to witness all that goes on, it is unfair for me to say what really happened, but, seeing it multiple times before, all this is a smoke screen for an underlying problem that will be fixed and all this will go away.

In all likelihood, this is an age old problem that has gone on since the beginning of jockeys riding horses with certain weights assigned.

This thing was handled as poorly as you can imagine by both riders and management, and it will most likely all go away. If it does not, I will explain what is going on in all likelihood, having seen it several times during my career, but for now, we will let sleeping dogs lie.

All the best Genie.

 

[BMR Genie]

Aw, no worries, and thanks for checking in, STR.

Dam.. I didn't know it's been a long-time issue between the jockeys and the management. You really know this field. Just not good for the fans.

 

[str]

Aw, no worries, and thanks for checking in, STR.

Dam.. I didn't know it's been a long-time issue between the jockeys and the management. You really know this field. Just not good for the fans.

Actually it's not between the jocks and Management, it's between the jocks and the protocol needed for weigh ins and outs.
So when Management fires a Clerk of Scales or asst. Clerk, it becomes a family issue. Management did not handle this the way it should have been handled.

Poor judgement by those that made decisions is what led to this most likely but again, I wasn't there to witness all that went on.

Sounds like it was a crap show between lightweights.

 

[str]

Aw, no worries, and thanks for checking in, STR.

Dam.. I didn't know it's been a long-time issue between the jockeys and the management. You really know this field. Just not good for the fans.

Management did not think anything through. Almost sounds like it was a Barny Fife moment and someone tried to assert authority instead of use their brains.

Never should have happened. Needed to be handled by someone that knew what they were doing.