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One of the world's most famous jockeys is more pissed than a race horse -- claiming he's been saddled with an unfair suspension for allegedly trying to screw up a race.
Corey Nakatani was suspended for three days after a January 15th race at Santa Anita in which he allegedly "failed to put forth his best effort to maintain a straight course" -- in other words, he's accused of intentionally trying to cut off another horse.
Now, Nakatani has filed a lawsuit against the California Horse Racing Board claiming the ruling is total horse s**t -- and that his suspension is "illegal, erroneous, not in the best interest of racing, and violates [Nakatani's] right to pursue his livelihood."
Nakatani is asking the court to issue a stay of the board's ruling, pending a hearing, so Nakatani may continue to race. His suspension is scheduled to begin Friday -- this might be a photo finish.
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He looks like an older version of actor Billy Crudup. I know that is off topic, but I just can't help but throw that out there.
Ride those folk at TMZ....they lost thier shorts with MADOFF.....Sad BUTTss true
Wake up now TMZ wake up....OH shilt huge huge drooply sad sad sorry assed TMZ???? where are U????
Is he a celebrity? Hey, I know a shoeshine guy who lost his wax last week. Maybe you could do a story about him? He once auditioned for a movie and he seems like he could be important. I mean, after all, anyone counts as a celebrity on this site - even some jockey no one has ever heard of except the gamblers.
It's really sad when people posting (like #1) have no comment except that he looks like a celebrity. And that's about as clsoe to a celebrity as he is. So sad tmz. You guys really suck. It makes me long for stories of Shauna and Prince Von A hole.
3 day suspension and he's crying?? GEEEZ, grow up man. Obviously DMX shud be his role model. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time!
if any of you played the ponies you would know who nakatani is. has been around a long time and won many races. i've never seen him be unsporting but hey, you never know. i'd rather not believe it considering his record.
I don't know why this is news or why this is on TMZ. Suspensions get handed down all day every day in horseracing. Stewards impose a harsh penalty, it gets appealed, it gets reduced or reversed. I didn't see TMZ report on Donnie Meche's 6 month suspension for his ride on Cleaning House a few years ago, or any of the other jillion and one suspensions in California racing. Maybe Corey was riding Harry Levin's horse.
I guess I can remove my bookmark from Bloodhorse.com if TMZ is going to give me my daily horseracing news now.
I saw that race, he didn't just cut off the horses but he used his horse to ram the other one which was passing him. A 3 day suspension I think is being to nice to him.
For those who dont follow racing, CNak, is the biggest baby around! He loves to whine and pout when things dont go his way, he loves to "race ride" which means trapping horses down on the rail and that sort of thing, but the minute he gets called on it or someone does it to him, he gets all offended Grow up Corey and btw ...and he is far from being a "famous" jockey. He is an average jockey.
A sense of entitlement is held by certain of our specie. Perhaps a penalty more in line with Mr. Nakatani's pugnacious brutality should have been more firmly dispensed when he attempted to inflict great bodily harm upon Ryan Barber during the running of a race.
