Posted on 12/29/2014 5:30:36 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Parx Racing-based rider Angel Suarez, who was a finalist for an Eclipse Award in 2012 as outstanding apprentice jockey, is in critical condition after being shot Sunday following an alleged break-in, assault and other offenses, according to multiple Philadelphia-area television news outlets.
Bensalem, Pennsylvania, police told the news outlets that Suarez, 21, was shot by a resident Sunday evening in an apartment that Suarez had allegedly forcefully entered where he assaulted two residents.
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That makes sense.
“Suarez had allegedly forcefully entered where he assaulted two residents”
Aren’t jockeys notoriously small fellers? Seems like a bad plan to choose a strongarm type crime if you are so lightly built.
He should have used his size to his advantage, say by hiding in air ducts to burglarize stores or something. I remember there was one dwarf in a story I read that would hide in wastebaskets until the department store closed.
I thought Pro Jockeys got paid quite a bit, but apparently, not quite enough. Maybe he has a drug problem, where there is almost no stopping of the expense.
They don’t shoot horses, do they?
They weight roughly 112-115 pounds, give or take a couple, though I am familiar with one who was under 100 and only 4 foot-9.
“Officer, there is a 3’7” tall man wearing nothing but a helmet and riding boots... and he has a riding crop in one hand and in the other...”
Turf Paradise in phoenix is by my home
They frequent the bar across the street
Most are pay check to pay check and gay as Obama
Little mans disease can kill ya .....evidently.
I see what you did.
Who can blame him.
Love, Benjamin Martin
He made 1.45 million this year, most of these guys are on drugs and they blow through their money
LOL! Good movie.
Jockeys always stirrup trouble.
Jockeys are, almost by definition, small people, but they seem to be excellent athletes. (Try picturing yourself in that crouched position atop a RACEhorse. I get leg cramps just watching an occasional TV race.) Maybe this guy allowed his self image to lead him into trouble.
Not critical enough, if the crime, as reported, is true.
Oh come on, he was just horsin’ around.
Thatz whut he gets for horsing around.
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