I’m going to guess he’s back on the sauce as well. 
Which of course doesn’t excuse anything.
Yup. That’s a shame when talented people can’t pull it together after multiple tries.
Losing a mount in the Pegasus Cup. He’s used up so many chances.
I hope whomever he brutalized is OK.
Terrible that he harms himself. Worse that he harms others.
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That’s true. Because of his violent behavior, he lost the ride on Stilleto Boy who ran 3rd in the Pegasus today which would have earned him, and presumably his family, almost 30K.
Ugh. One wonders (in these cases) how much of a role repeated TBIs have in causing this aggressive, violent behavior?
There have been many cases of NFL players (past and present) who have been “repeat offenders”: domestic violence, general over the top aggressive behavior, outbursts, and suicides - and despite helmets, there is increased risk of head injury for both football players and jockeys.
Or maybe he’s just a bad dude…
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I think alcoholism is his issue. Some people can’t drink without becoming nasty.
Football players by necessity are physically aggressive people. I think concussions don’t help when a person already has an aggressive nature, but I don’t think concussion can be blamed for the violence and drug abuse by some players in football.
The depression and suicides, especially after retirement, are another matter
That’s an interesting theory.
I tend to think pro sports on the whole probably attract more aggressive personalities than you see in a sampling of the general population. I also think pro sports show a representation of all kinds of kinds: people from all walks of life.
A repeat offender like Desormeaux just makes me wonder how this keeps happening.
A pro jockey has a really tough life. They are constantly chasing rides, travelling distances between tracks, subject to the whim of owners and trainers, only as good as their last winner, with an erratic income in a risky sport, combined with the physical stress of making the weight, of maintaining strength and agility, handling the mental downer of loosing a race, chasing rides, constantly on the road, at the whim if owners and trainers, only as good as their last winner… It is no surprise that many jockeys have mental and/or substance abuse issues.
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There’s a video podcast about Jockey Mental Health on the TDN website.
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