ferrer suspended.

[intense]

from drf.com I didnt like this guy after I took my gf to the track and he was all creepy and eye ****ing her when he came around the paddock.


Jose Ferrer suspended at Hawthorne
By MARCUS HERSH
CHICAGO - Jose Ferrer, the second-leading jockey at the current Hawthorne meet, has been suspended 30 days by Hawthorne stewards, who allege Ferrer failed to do his best to win the fifth race Saturday while riding Burke's Legend.

Ferrer took off his mounts Sunday, though the suspension does not take effect until Friday, Oct. 27. Oscar Sanchez, Ferrer's agent, said Ferrer proclaimed his innocence and would appeal the ruling as soon as possible.

"He didn't do anything wrong," Sanchez said.

Stewards saw things differently, taking swift action less than 24 hours after the race in question. Burke's Legend, trained by Jerry Gryczewski, was the tepid 5-2 favorite in a $4,000 claiming race. He broke in front under Ferrer, raced in second most of the backstretch and around the turn and still was in contention while racing between horses into the stretch. Ferrer appears to pull on the reins at about the three-sixteenths pole while looking to his outside, as Cleaning House, the 3-1 second choice, swept past with a wide run on his way to an easy victory. Burke's Legend would wind up a close third behind 7-2 shot Bull'o the Woods.

Chief steward Eddie Arroyo said authorities were "still investigating" any sign of irregular betting patterns.

The stewards ruling cited Ferrer for violating a statute that says: "Every horse in every race must be ridden so as to finish as near as possible to first and show the best and fastest race it is capable of at that time."

Arroyo said the 30-day suspension was discretionary. "We could have given him more, we could have given him less," he said.

[randallscott35]

Should get 6 months.

[GPK]

I knew it....I FREAKING KNEW IT....I have seen enough of his rides to know the guy is a cheat. I have told Scavs and Gander countless times the guy is a crook.

[pweizer]

Nothing could be worse for the game. This is much too short.

Paul

[GPK]

I say take away his freaking license. Very few people watch more races at Tampa Bay Downs than I do, and I have seen him give enough shady rides down there to know he is a cheat.

[Scav]

http://www.hawthorneracecourse.com/l.../061021-09.asx

5th race

[blackthroatedwind]

I just watched the replay...pretty odd. I would guess someone alerted the stewards to this as few are sharp enough to understand he didn't allow his horse to win.

The guy should lose his license....period. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are bet on these races, this guy is clearly cheating, and he gets suspended for a month? Huh? I say give him a fair trial, and if convicted, throw him in jail. Maybe that we would could find out the whole story. Tampering with a sporting event is a federal offense...right?

[NoCarolinaTony]

Looked at the Video too, It certainly doesn't look good for Jose Ferrer upper stretch. He rode enough at the end to finish in the money to make it look better.

Not good for him or us gamblers to see this stuff.

NC Tony

Originally Posted by NoCarolinaTony

Looked at the Video too, It certainly doesn't look good for Jose Ferrer upper stretch. He rode enough at the end to finish in the money to make it look better.

Not good for him or us gamblers to see this stuff.

NC Tony

Tony, I have a hard time accepting that ferrer gets 30 days for this when Gomez gave a far more obvious bizarre ride(same thing, standing up and yanking a speed horse back to last place before going widest of all to get beat a neck) at Belmont on October 9th in the 3rd race to Graeme Central. If Ferrer got 30 days for this, Gomez should have gotten a year.

[NoCarolinaTony]

I'll take a look at the video. I have not seen this one yet.

NC Tony