Preakness update

[Hamster]

Preakness 2012: Kent Desormeaux Fails Breathalyzer, Taken Off Tiger Walk

May 18 4:23p by Brendan Porath


Legendary jockey Kent Desormeaux failed a breathlyzer test at Belmont Park on Friday and has been taken off his mount for the Preakness at Pimlico on Saturday, according to Tim Wilkin of the Albany Times Union. Desormeaux has battled alcohol problems throughout his career, and this latest incident has now cost him his ride on Tiger Walk in the Preakness. Via TimesUnion.com:


It didn't take long for the connections of Desormeaux's Preakness ride, Tiger Walk, to act. The colt, owned by Sagamore Farm, about 30 minutes from Pimlico Race Course, now will be ridden by New York-based rider Ramon Dominguez.

Desormeaux was scheduled to ride in three races at Belmont on Friday, which requires a breath test for all jockeys under NYRA regulations. He apparently had a blood-alcohol content higher than .05, which is the threshold for a jockey being unfit to ride.

Tiger Walk is a local Baltimore horse, owned by Kevin Plank, the founder and CEO of Under Armour. Desormeaux was initially chosen to ride Tiger Walk after Dullahan, his Kentucky Derby mount, pulled out of the Preakness.

 

[Nosigar]

Damn ragin cajun. Nothing changes. :0003

 

[Jimboski]

Makes sense to me

Makes sense to me

Hey, "Dwinkin and Dwivin don't mix".

BTW, after watching this year's Derby, I ain't too interested in the Preakness. I did go over the PP's and it really doesn't point any of them out to me. Just about every one of them have performed (equally?) well in graded stake races at race tracks all over the place.

As a fan - I'll watch it; may not play a thing though.

Thoughts for now...

- Won't play Bode' at the odds even though he is the figure hoss.

Derby winnah? .. .. . wouldn't surprise me if he runs out of the moola... er, just like I figured in the Derby.

Need to take a closer L@@K at nos. 5 and 6 in the prerace but the no. 6 will need to show something for me to bet him cause they just might bet him down too much from his M.L. EVERY time I look over this horse's pp's - I do like him more and more. That would be Creative Cause.

Shocker?.
And that would be no. 3. He doesn't have to show me much at 30-1.

GOOD LUCK and thanks for the update on Desormeaux, Hammy. That guy is always dangerous in big races even if his horse doesn't appear to be.