Parx Cancels Remaining Card on Sunday

Evelyn:

I only follow PARX on Mondays & Tuesdays... As of late only George had a lot of interest when PARX was canceling .

Lt1 is the true expert and follower of PARX........


Pres

Evelyn:

Since you bought it up, what happened at AQU was a farce on Saturday, if the Management was so concerned about the jockeys and Horses they would have never run the first race.
You saw what the Horsemen said in the article that was posted, the Ortiz boys are trying to run the show. Without Johnny V,Javier around the "leadership" is in very bad hands.

I follow AQU,Tampa Bay,FG,Turfway,Santa Anita,PARX....



Pres

Jon, maybe some people should enroll in a few night courses in Civil Engineering - particularly one that my friends and I took as sophomores - Soil Mechanics. That might cut down on some of the spurious comments about why race tracks are forced to cancel their cards when the weather seemingly is good.

I recall watching them run 1 race a day at Suffolk tons of times. The law said they could not do simulcasting if they did not run live product. (I believe)They ran the 1st and cancelled the rest. Loved betting the 1st. All the jocks except Dodie Duys would come out of the gate pretty much wrapped up. She came out whippin & whistlin.

Nice to see you DonRock! I've heard the name DodieDuys and seen it in charts but I knew nothing about her. Well.......she was definitely a tough cookie!

OK - am going off topic but this is pretty good!

I found these articles among many and just said"ohmigod" LOL

June 1986
Female Jockey Fight Nets Bite on Arm and $50 Fine
June 30, 1986| Associated Press

MIAMI — A female jockey was fined $50 after biting another female jockey in a fight which broke out in a lounge at the Calder Race Course.

Laurie Paynter required a tetanus shot after Dodie Duys bit the inside of her right arm during a battle in the jockeys' TV room over a race last week in which Duys fell.

June 1993 The Telegraph

Windham (AP)- She has a soft southern accent and a private-school upbringing. She loves horses and a terrier named Freddie. She once studied to be a landscape architect. Get her on a race track though and jockey Dodie Duys is 112 pounds of tough and tumble rider. And if you cross her, she just might punch you out.....




Duys faces a 15 day suspension because she attacked jockey Carl Giam,bardella following a race last month at Suffolk Downs in Boston. She admits knocking him to the ground..........

Her first big battle came with a female jockey. She claims the jockley, acting on behalf of a male trainer with whom Duys was trying to end relationship, purposely knoocked her froma horse during a race."She was bribed by the trainer to drop me and she did. It crushed three disks in my back. I got out of the hospital and I whipped her butt." she says, her eyes brightening.

the full article and a photo of Dodie and Freddie:
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19930619&id=k4JKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zZMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2559,4435924

In all fairness the article ends with:
Bubba Webb, state racing steward for Louisiana, says he remembers Duys continually being involved in controversy, including a time she was punched by a male jockey at the Fair Grounds. "She's aggressive and I guess a woman has to be to make it, especially out there on the track"

I couldn't find any updates but she stopped riding on 2006.
Equibase
Career Statistics:
•Starts: 14,720
•Firsts: 1,796
•Seconds: 1,830
•Thirds: 1,846
•Earnings: $13,873,217
•Avg. Earnings Per Start: $942
All Years
Year Starts Firsts Seconds Thirds Earnings
2006 268 27 42 40 $332,650
2005 68 9 12 6 $197,662
2004 381 35 35 47 $608,567
2003 468 58 49 56 $690,603
2002 733 113 102 83 $1,085,400
2001 555 88 67 71 $733,743
2000 527 57 56 71 $560,930
1999 772 120 110 104 $933,043
1998 499 64 56 67 $476,948
1997 634 73 88 70 $654,543
1996 876 122 125 107 $877,818
1995 696 72 93 74 $622,612
1994 878 121 117 101 $812,514
1993 1,284 176 190 184 $1,304,229
1992 1,072 140 149 123 $854,296
1991 1,524 208 197 203 $1,229,115
1990 689 76 83 100 $479,598
1989 141 7 14 12 $61,395
1988 1,092 97 91 135 $558,162
1987 651 65 78 89 $251,983
1986 239 15 18 28 $108,199
1985 389 29 37 49 $280,390
1984 257 21 17 23 $138,904
1983 27 3 4 3 $19,913