Yikes! Rose Gets Six Month Suspension

[Barbaro06]

Blood-horse article:

http://racing.bloodhorse.com/article/45859.htm

[dray33]

I suggest you don't watch the head on replay. Rose got off easy. If that was my horse, I'd whip HIM.

[spex4me]

I'd do more than whip him , I'd pop him in the eye with it too!!!

[wilf]

I watched the replay head on and the pan-shot. It was a rapid turf sprint that set up for an exciting finish until the winner came out into Rose's path and his filly lugged in. He gave only one illadvised slap to the left side of her head close to the wire; a move that I could not understand unless she was close to the fence,which she was not.. Mmm I just don't get it and it seems very uncharacteristic however he will have plenty of time to second guess himself on that one. Really would like his explanation as I am sure that he is feeling much remorse for one single angry action. I knew of one jockey at Penn National in the early90's who did the same thing by accident and covered the vet costs while feeling extremely contrite for years after.

[Tucumcari]

Yet another good thinking by a pinhead. Just what racing needs. To feed PETA more ammunition

[ageecee]

PETA will be all over this like white on rice..

[NorthStar]

This unfortunately happens a lot more than we hear about. I know of one horse that lost an eye that way and two that were blinded that way.

[gotpaints]

:evil:

I'd do more than whip him , I'd pop him in the eye with it too!!!

I'd do more than just pop him in the eye... I don't tolerate abuse for any reason. If I was the owner I'd probably pull him off of the horse and take him back behind the barn.

[Toccet02]

"Rose is required to attend and complete an anger management course to be approved in advance by the stewards at their sole discretion within the next six months."

I'm not surprised. During coverage of one of the Triple Crown races, the camera from some tv station (ESPN I think) was in the jock's room focused on Rose dunking his head in a bucket of water, cleaning up, unaware that the camera was on him. When he looked up and saw the camera, a really ugly and very angry expression crossed his face before he quickly replaced it with a sunny "hi Ma!" smile.
Not surprise or annoyance, but real hard anger.

[Ill-bred]

Where did you guys watch the head-on replay? I use Twinspires for replays, but I only saw the pan shot.

[Equipoise28]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NBFmTT50Y0

[Toccet02]

ouch. Mega ouch.

[hdembski]

I'm not a learned horeman but i know with dogs if you hit them after they've gone to the bathroom and too much time has gone past they can't relate as to why you've hit them. I can't imagine a horse running his heart out and getting hit in the eye. i once caught a hockey puck in the eye and thoguth i was blind, it's a horrible feeling. It's why i respect European racing much more. Give me all turf races, you don't see the spills, fatalities or abuse of any whip. along with drugs the whip should be next to be banned. Then well find out who the real horses are and the real jockey's are.

[ZZTOPPERS]

Does anybody know this guy personally or work around him? I'm curious if he's this way more often--that head slap with the whip was nothing short of viscious, and six months is the right call. He should also have to pay the owner and trainer for lost earnings while the horse rehabs. There's no way that was an accident as he claims, the horses head was going straight up and down, and his stick came across at the top of it.

[ArchDandy]

TVG mentioned whips that are quite long, and are felt tipped, or the end resembles felt (something like that) but its designed to have a flat, loud spanky effect and cause much less stinging. I hear its already in use in other countries. Seems like a useful implementation for U.S. racing.