The jockey and owner of a thoroughbred horse can sue a rival trainer for defamation for accusing them of cheating after their horse edged his own during a million-dollar race, a federal judge has ruled.
Trainer Eric Guillot claimed that Will Take Charge’s jockey Luis Saez used an electronic device to shock his horse during its successful stretch run at the Travers Stakes at Saratoga in 2013, when Saez’s horse nosed out the Guillot-trained Moreno.
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