{"id":894,"date":"2004-04-30T07:15:19","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T11:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/kentucky_derby_jockeys_can_wea\/"},"modified":"2004-04-30T07:15:19","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T11:15:19","slug":"kentucky_derby_jockeys_can_wea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/kentucky_derby_jockeys_can_wea\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Derby Jockeys Can Wear Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know very little about horse racing, other than that the horses go around the track.  But I was interested to learn that Kentucky Derby jockeys had to sue to <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/news\/archive\/2004\/04\/29\/sports1517EDT0676.DTL\">win the right to wear advertising<\/a>.<br \/>\nI had thought the Kentucky Derby was a private, rather than a public enterprise.  So I&#8217;m not sure why the state is regulating jockey attire in the first place.  But I was a bit amused by a legal argument made by state regulators:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attorneys for the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority, the state agency that regulates the sport, argued during a two-day hearing that letting jockeys wear ads could lead to corruption. They also argued that the presence of ads or other patches could hamper racing officials&#8217; ability to determine a winner in a tight finish, or whether a foul was committed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Advertising patches would make it difficult to determine who won the race?  Does that pass the straight face test?  Don&#8217;t they have cameras to figure out who won if there&#8217;s a tight finish?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not too surprising that the state lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/kentucky_derby_jockeys_can_wea\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Kentucky Derby Jockeys Can Wear Advertising\"><p>I know very little about horse racing, other than that the horses go around the track. But I was interested to learn that Kentucky Derby jockeys had to sue to win the right to wear advertising. I had thought the Kentucky Derby was a private, rather than a public enterprise. So I&#8217;m not sure why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}