Smith gets like 9 days. 7 for excess whip aboard Midnite Bissou. 2 more for a bad weigh in. Irad got days and 10% pay cut. This is a tough bunch of Stewards

Smith Responds to Saudi Riding Suspension - BloodHorse
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/238855/smith-responds-to-saudi-riding-suspension

JimP: A word of warning for Mike Smith. > Khashoggi.

hellersorr: LOL.

(Literally.  I LOL\'d.)

mjellish: Excessive use of the whip?  She just missed winning.

Pretty soon they will be giving out speeding tickets to the jocks at Santa Anita.

Flighted Iron: Saudi news report: Saudi Racing Commission decision to suspend jockey applauded.


 According to reports the morning after the world\'s richest thoroughbred horse race, runner-up Midnight Bison was found curled up in the corner of her stall despondent and unable to eat. Longtime groom and veteran of the gulf war was nearly in tears when quoted \" before yesterday I\'ve never seen anything so brutal and inhumane in my life\".