Wow! I didn’t know they did that. I hope to see more of it.
That natural live cover rule can create problems.
Where does the article mention live cover? I’m curious.
It has nothing to do with live cover. These are all individuals, mostly (if not all) trainers, with drug violations and animal cruelty violations.
I know quite a few of these people personally and they don’t breed and don’t even own themselves, so I’m not quite sure what “removing registration” privileges means. I guess I should read rule 19.
The rule was covered in the article and didn’t seem to mention live cover, hence my question above
Right. But from what I’m seeing, the penalty is they can’t register foals.
I’m not sure if that applies to being an owner on registration papers or being the trainer of record? Because the people on this list whom I know don’t register foals, at least not on any sort of regular basis. They run claimers. So it’s kind of an odd non-penalty unless it extends to having registered horses in your care.
Here’s the link to the full text of rule 19, if anyone is curious:
https://www.registry.jockeyclub.com/registry.cfm?page=tjcRuleBook#nineteen
After reading it, I can’t say anything is any clearer. There is the
“Any person or entity (collectively “Person”) may be denied any or all of the privileges of The American Stud Book…”
part, which maybe could mean than the JC could prevent ownership entirely? But that doesn’t seem to be what the blood horse article is saying, right? Only that they’ve been denied the ability to register foals?
Which yeah, if they don’t do that, seems to be a whole lotta nothin.
This is mostly if not entirely symbolic. People think the Jockey Club wields actual power in horse racing when in reality they are just a pedigree record. I doubt if many of those people are breeding mares anyway and if they are they will just put them in someone else’s name.
Well that sucks 
I was hoping a good stiff penalty would help to put the brakes on this type of crap.
That was my first thought. Just “sell” the foal for a dollar to somebody else who can register it.
They’d likely sell the mare for a dollar first. There would have to be a breeder of the foal, which is the mare owner.
I guess it is a warning to others? But not sure if anyone really cares…? :-/
