“He reached back with his right hand, and he whipped that horse in the face. I don’t know if he hit him in the eye, but he whipped him hard across the face.”
Friday, I wrote this: In West Virginia, the stewards at Mountaineer say jockey Jose Leon “was caught striking a horse across the face” during morning training Sep 10. What did they think was an appropriate penalty for, again, “striking a horse across…