Jockey Luis Saez maximum security suspended for 15 days for "failure to control his mount"

While the disgraced Horse Maximum Security claims justice in the courts following his disqualification in the Kentucky Derby for unruly races, his jockey, Luis Saez, was suspended by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission for "failure to control his mount and effort to maintain a straight course. "

During the May 4 race, Maximum Security – which I always want to qualify as "security" as if it were his last name – broke the last straight and finished first by a length and a half, but was disqualified soon after determined that he had zigzagged the trail in such a way that it interfered with the trails of other horses. This decision was the first disqualification of this type in the long tradition of horse racing. As a result, first place was awarded retroactively to Country House, who finished second in the race. Some would describe this kind of anticlimactic result as more evidence that video playback is a scourge that must be eradicated from all sports; others, who defend opposing points of view, are children.

Due to the timing of the horse racing calendar, Saez's suspension could prevent him from participating in the final stages of the Triple Crown horse racing. Like his horse, he seeks to annul this decision. By the Louisville Courier-Journal:

His lawyer, Ann Oldfather, announced that he would immediately appeal and that he hoped to cancel "this suspension without support or support."

She added that she would also request that the suspension be suspended while waiting for the appeal.

Otherwise, it would prevent Saez from racing on Belmont Stakes in Belmont Park on June 8, as other states, including New York and Maryland, honor the suspensions granted in Kentucky, according to spokesman race of these two states.

Saez will be suspended from May 23 to 27, May 30 to 31, June 1 to 2, June 6 to 9 and June 13 to 14.

Neither Maximum Security nor Country House will participate in Preakness Stakes Saturday, depriving the sport of the luck of a Triple Crown winner and a captivating redemption history. By God, the PC police went too far this time.