DEL MAR SUSPENDS VALENZUELA FOR REST OF YEAR.Byline: - Kevin Modesti Jockey Patrick Valenzuela's career, highlighted by a Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby One of the classic U.S. Thoroughbred horse races. It was established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Ky. With the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, it makes up U.S. racing's coveted Triple Crown. win and championship streaks but chopped up by drug-related suspensions, will be over if a ruling Friday by Del Mar Del Mar is the name of several places in the United States of America:
Acting after a three-day hearing last week on Valenzuela's failure to submit to ``hair follicle'' testing, the stewards suspended the 41-year-old rider for the rest of 2004 and recommended he not be re-licensed by the California Horse Racing horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with Board. The Arcadia resident's conditional racing license, which requires frequent drug testing, is set to expire at year's end. ``(Valenzuela) has been a talented jockey for many years, but it is evident that he has failed to learn that he must be held accountable for the consequences of his behavior,'' read part of a statement by stewards Ingrid Fermin, George Slender and Tom Ward. Neil Papiano Neil Papiano was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1934. He played football and baseball at Stanford University , where he received his B.A. in 1956 and his M.A. in 1957. He received his LL.B. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1961, and affiliated with Phi Delta Phi. , Valenzuela's attorney, said the ruling ``will never stand up'' and indicated plans to ask the CHRB CHRB California Horse Racing Board CHRB Community Housing Resource Board (Montana) CHRB Commonwealth Health Research Board to intercede to avoid a court challenge. Said Valenzuela, ``We're going to keep fighting it because I didn't do a thing wrong.'' Valenzuela, who rode 1989 Derby winner Sunday Silence Sunday Silence (1986-2002) was an American thoroughbred race horse. He was foaled in 1986 Sired by Halo out of Wishing Well. Though he was registered as a dark bay/brown, he was in fact a true black. and swept Southern California's major riding titles in 2003, returned from his latest long suspension July 1. Expected by state investigators to provide hair samples of at least 1 1/2 inches that day for drug testing, Valenzuela revealed that he couldn't because he had shaved his body. |
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