Luke Johnson will be quizzed by stewards after appearing to ease up on his mount and surrender a huge lead before being ...

Patrick O'Brien was suspended for 14 days by raceday stewards at Roscommon on Tuesday evening after they adjudged he had ...

Colts Neck Stables National Law, the horse jockey Paco Lopez hit with his whip after a race in December, will run in Saturday's Haskell Stakes.

A video has emerged of veteran jockey Noel Callow, who has ridden over 2,000 winners, abusing pedestrians while riding a bike ...

Oct 16 (Reuters) - Cesarewitch Handicap winner Alphonse Le Grande has been disqualified after apprentice jockey Jamie Powell was found to have used the whip above permitted levels, the British ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - The winning jockey in this year’s Kentucky Derby is facing a fine and suspension for his treatment of winning horse Sovereignty, who was trained in Marion County.

Mixedwave is not the first horse to be disqualified. That ignominy went to Lunar Discovery who was second in a bumper at Ayr on Valentine’s Day when Charlotte Jones used her whip 11 times.

Kentucky's six-whip limit was instituted in 2020, in response to the wave of scrutiny inspired by the spate of horse deaths at the Santa Anita race track in 2019.

That’s because jockey Oscar Ceballos crossed a threshold with his use of the whip 11 times that triggered penalties, not just for him as the rider, but also for the horse and his owner.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jockey Junior Alvarado is considering appealing a fine and suspension for using his whip eight times on Sovereignty in winning the Kentucky Derby on May 3. Alvarado was fined ...

Riders who violate the six-whip limit typically receive a $250 fine or 10% deduction of the jockey's portion of the purse - whichever is greater. Alvarado claimed $310,000 in winnings.

Jockey Russell Baze was suspended for 15 days and fined $2,500 by the Bay Meadows board of stewards Sunday for violating rules on use of the whip in an incident with an injured horse in Thursday's ...