What happened to Jose Lezcano in that race?? 

Whenever jockey look back, left and right, slow it down,they usually wait for other horses to come up and win. If he not slow it down, he can win very easily.

Looking for the juiced up Baffert horse 🐎

Race fixing happens every time. Even the stewards got involved sometimes. Specially on harness racing.

Like Ace Rothstein said in the movie casino he is either in on it or too stupid either way 60 days should be a good suspension

i think he really thought he had all the horses covered at that time, he only started pushing once he saw the one on the other side. rearview mirrors needed on the horses? :D .

Fixed. Reason I don't go to the track anymore. Lost over $300K since 1997. On March 20th it will be exactly one year since I've been to the track.

if it looks obvious, it's probably not fixed. These guys are pros, they know how to make it look good when they want to.

Im trying to give JL a pass here with some kind of an excuse, but damn it’s hard. I’ve worked ( trained) for over 40 years and this looks bad. Wonder what the judges and NYRA think ?

When the smoke around this one clears, there will be more than Lezcano involved. Need to get after the trainers, as well!

Jose was trying to look after his mount. He thought he was going to win easy and wanted to protect the horse. Unfortunately he did not see the horse on the outside. He had the best of intentions and made a mistake. Thankfully only money was lost.

Thank you Jose for putting another nail in horse racings coffin...good on you mate...good on you

Set-Up Race..?

🗣 The fix is in!!

They were discussing the the Rigged Script 😂

doesn't Lezcano know there is a thing called Replay where they can watch this race over and over again

He was looking for the 5 horse. It came in just like they planned it.

For those of you saying this was some sort of “safety” issue or similar, you simply haven’t watched enough horse racing. And you definitely don’t pay attention to top jockeys like Lezcano who routinely dodge and weave through extremely tight spots completely neglecting safety in many instances in order to give their horses the best chance to win. His horse was clear as could be, he has ZERO safety concerns. That’s the first point. Secondly, this isn’t the way you race ride 12.5k claimers. Possibly in much higher stakes, every blue moon, a top rider will try to get an advantage by “race riding” in such a manner. But the fact is, with cheaper horses at North American tracks, the name of the game is to try and set reasonable fractions, and then get separation at the top of the stretch. This practically guarantees victory, especially with cheaper horses. Cheaper horses usually aren’t good enough to overcome large deficits at the top of the stretch. These are practically the cheapest horses on the grounds at Aqueduct. You don’t think Lezcano is aware of that and aware of the situation? He NEVER rides like this. He’s always focused on getting separation or gaining on the top horses - not looking around to see where the competition is at like he’s on some sort of Sunday morning stroll in the park. Lastly, this was the first race on the Sunday card out East. A race that is usually not at all in the spotlight as the majority of racing fans aren’t paying any attention to this race. Most of them haven’t started even watching the races this early. The perfect race to put a fix on as it’s an “unimportant” race to most bettors, especially horizontal wagers. It was obvious that what Lezcano was doing was looking around for the 5 horse to make sure his mount got passed by McCarthys horse. Once passed, he knows his mount well who isn’t good enough to re rally for the win, even under heavy urging so it’s ok to go ahead and start urging AFTER the 5 horse has passed you. Watch more racing if you think this was some sort of safely concern or something by Lezcano. The way he rode this horse is NOT how you win races in North America.

Nothing will come of this. He had a kink in his neck. It's astonishing he finished 2nd.

Trifecta 🤑

What the hell? Following a formal film review of Sunday's opening race at Aqueduct Racetrack, the Board of Stewards will take no action against jockey Jose Lezcano for his ride aboard Foxtail. The matter remains under ongoing review," said New York Racing Association spokesperson Pat McKenna.

Who was the trainer???? I guarantee he was given instructions not to win this race. Biggest problem......he had way too much horse and it was impossible to hide it. He should get a lengthy suspension .

That's another reason I quit betting NY tracks.this has been going on all winter since Aqueduct open

He was like - what's for lunch after race 3?;

Nothing happened he rode on Friday so I guess he didn't do anything wrong

Good video, the steward took action on this rigger!!

Looks like he wanted the #3 horse to be in the mix and the one to come beside him

This bunhole make sure he get the trifecta key!!

Give him a lifetime ban

I used to bet on horse racing but now I just buy expensive things 😆

I’ve been playing the horses for 50 years and that was one fuk’d up, weird ride. Turning for home it looked like a 1 1/2 race and they were going around again. When the 5 finally went by him, he waited until that horse was well clear of Foxtail before he started riding again. Call it want you want….but that was just “WRONG” I’d like to know what the owner of Foxtail has to say about Jose’s ride….hmmmm

We see this every day at louisiana circuits

I started betting horses in 1986. By 1989 It's all I did, traveling the country, until In 1994 I was able to bet from home! If you know anything about this game, the last couple years the game has become as side show. I've left the game that I love and I believe it's only a matter of time before it all goes away.

he thought it was in the bag. you cant tell he fought all the way to the wire

Well I see the Ortiz brothers do this every other day

Yes indeed. What happen to Jose.

Que descaro buscando al otro de la Cuadra que barbaridad

Looking for a slam, (bump) on his side?

“ They had all there money on him for 2nd”. 🏇

Looks to me like he never saw the horse on the outside til it was too late

Was over confident didn't see the 5 untill to late this is the truth

I love when everyone is a trainer talking about switching leads. Stop talking guys

The announcer also knew, just listen to him

No sugar coating this ride ...suspension for 1 year to protect the bettors but just wait there's more and more people are involved so your guess is as good as mine . .

He somehow had a brain freeze and thought he was at Parx.

Simple explanation, fix race..

Horse TRAINERS do NOT FIX races to LOSE... They try to dope horses to WIN... Drivers or Riders FIX races, usually by keeping FAVORITES out of the money... Sometimes they do this on their own and get others in the race to hold them good horses back... But more often than not, the FIX comes from outside the race track... and... you better not win if you are not supposed to .... because of what might happen later to you or your loved ones.... And, incidentally, you cannot fix a race for big money if you do not have a good, large handle amount of cash bet in that race on horses that are not gonna be in the money that time... But if the fix is in, they NEVER tell the TRAINERS... because that is simply like informing the enemy about things they should not know about... One other thing that you don't know unless you are out there: It isn't hard at all to LOSE a race by a head or neck...

They take turns

He just let he’s friend winning 🤣👌

Hes look to the outside tambien ponlo

That must be a fix race why is he waiting for the number five horse to pass him ?

With sports betting in nyc now,gamblers will start betting on games.

He should be suspended for 3 years for that s*** I'm a retired jockey I've never done that

I was checking the entries for Friday and Lescano was riding I guess he didn't get suspended

People are always making accusations that the jockey fixed the race,always negative responses never positive,the way I see it Jose Lezcano reads the racing form or Past Performances 🤔 maybe he thought he had a lot of horse and was always aware of the horse he thought he had to beat in that race,as you can see he is looking back trying to move before the five and practically block him out,he starts race riding again when he sees 👀 the five on the move but by that time it was too late,already surpassed,only lost by 1/2 lenght,, bad ride maybe by a veteran rider,not done maliciously on my opinion..

He must have thought the #3 horse was going to come out on him. He wouldnt have road the horse that hard down the lane if he was trying to get beat

hay se.ve como arreglan las carreras

Aqueduct and race fixing isn't a novel endeavor -- he was actually looking to see if the 3 was up for a 3rd place finish -- if he had rode his horse just normally woulda won by 3 or 4 ----- it was a fix

I think he thought he was siting on Kelso an had tons the best is what I think playing the role

somethin STINKS!!!

Jockey Lezcano was looking to stop and tag the rail with the initials of his girlfriend.

Did he get suspended he cost my friend a $200 exacta?

En Venezuela ya le hubiera cancelado la matrícula

The jockeys, trainers, racing secretary etc..play those exactas straight not boxed!! They don't bother with the tri's, supers, or other prop bets

The race was obviously fixed. The jockey on the 3 also stiffed his horse. Wished we could see the result prices, That could tell us more.

parece que estaban esperando a alguien

They had 5 4

Se sobre confío

Por favor, que descaro de José Lezcano. No se puede defender lo indefendible.

Just taking care of the horse…didn’t want to overextend him. If the horse had it the other horse never would have gotten by. I don’t like seeing horses pushed to the limit.

Claro está estaba buscando al caballo gue viene por dentro , y claro está

Looks to me like he was paying attention to the wrong horse, and it's late run. If somebody as going to beat him he made sure they would have to go four wide into the stretch run. And a horse did just that. "Pay more attention, you moron" is what I expect losing tickets yelled at him after the race.

GUISOOOOOOOO INMENSO! JAJAJAJJ

I think it was simply a bad ride, lazy ride in the first race at aqueduct. He knew he had the inside horses beat and assumed no one was coming on the outside. He was waiting to open the horse up. You can actually see the look he gave when Trevor slid right next to him. He was surprised. It was a bad ride. He definitely cost the horse the race. I would bet he loses that mount.

Here is a good one: The owner of the winner Indian Bella use to own Foxtail. Matter of fact they were a coupled entry in thier last start on January 13 as the 7 to 5 favorite. Guess where they both finished?? Dead last and third last as the 7to5 favorite coupled entry. Watch the race and determine if it wad a hack job by both jockeys. Lezcano and Castro. Linda Rice claimed Foxtail and we know that she is an upstanding sound trainer with no investigations or license suspensions in the works. A straight shooter. Lmao

I think he was trying to eye any potential threats, and he was oblivious to the horse coming on the outside

This was nothing tvg announcer made a comment and everyone ran with it like a hot potato, give me a break ! JL Is a hell of a jockey always in my superfecta he's no slouch!

Suspension ? yes

I guess its safe to say something isnt kosher with this race.

So cheating in NY racing has been prevalent for years, and I don't think it would be fair to point the finger at Jose Lezcano alone, a number of jockeys are guilty of it. The simple answer is he was looking over his shoulder for the 5. When he realized the 5 was passing on the outside (not the inside), he kicks it back in to ensure he runs second (as intended). Cheating in NY needs to be cracked down on. I know it happens everywhere, but it's BAD in NY state. Always has been. I'm sure some very important people had the 5 4 exacta cold. Lol

Looking for his triple he played for 50

The horse was on his right lead on the turn. That's the wrong lead for turning left. He should have been on his left lead. If he had roused the horse while the horse was on his right lead while turning left, the horse would have been unable to hold his line, and would have drifted out very wide. There is footwork involved in turning, and changing to the proper series of footfalls in order to maintain speed and cope with centrifugal and centripetal forces involved. This horse did not employ the proper footwork.

Horses have 2 ways of "seeing"........both eyes focused on something, or each eye independently.....ever wonder why horses spook that are in front?....it's never the one in 3rd 4th?.....this is why.......switching eyesight freaks them out......objects can appear to jump out of nowhere......horses like seeing other horses in herd....some freak out in front and pull themselves up....... This topic is probably why horse was on wrong lead. .............if it was another reason, that's fine. Again.....pat day did this ALL THE TIME......great jock......

This race is clearly fixed. The key is looking at the #4 around the far turn. Notice how easily the horse comes up to the leaders WITHOUT ANY URGING WHILE THE OTHER TWO HORSES ARE BEING URGED and then when the horses enter the stretch, the two inside horses are all out and being whipped WHILE LEZCANO DOESN'T EVEN URGE OR WHIP HIS HORSE UNTIL THE OTHER HORSE PASSES HIM. He clearly had the horse to not only take the lead but draw out by several lengths. The whipping at the end was only a show. THIS RACE WAS CLEARLY FIXED! PATHETIC! Anybody that knows anything about horse racing can guarantee you the jockey was purposely keeping the horse back when he should have easily won. Sad. I would ask for a refund.

I always thought that high purses mean less holding of horses. But in the winter in NY those 12,500 races are nothing more then future fair horses. But the purses are so high for them why would a rider risk getting Sent down for dis honest riding. 🤔. The purses in NY are just to high. The jockeys get what 10% of the purses right. But guys remember how dangerous it is out there. And if once and awhile even in NY racing they do something so what. Why so what. THEY CANT FIX DEATH HEAD INJURIES AND SPINAL CORD INJURIES. THERE NOT REPAIRABLE NOT IN 2022 MEDICINE. REMEMBER ITS NOT THE OWNER OR TRAINOR IN DANGER,,, ITS THE RIDER. ANYONE WANT TO SIT OUT THE REST OF THERE LIFE IN A WHEELCHAIR ♿. I DONT.

Unbelive... Horse racing is by MiNiTs time. From Barrier to Post. Obviusly.& Live human max weight to ride' 50' kg horse 500kg'. Been run on earth...fast & "dangerous". The jockey with the white silk colours looking around at home turn

With the track for 44 years. Flat out, jocks cheat.

I am a expert at this

I've been a fan of horse racing since was 10 years old. Because things like this, I have decided not to waste my money betting horses anymore. I would rather play the lottery, because if I hit I will be set for life. Enough is enough, these people become millionaires robbing hard working people when fixing races like this one.

He was looking for the number #5 horse

Looked like he was waiting for competition, but who knows at this point? With everything going on in thoroughbred racing, it's quickly spinning into oblivion....

I've been playing the horses for almost 40 years with some success and have read, analyzed, and guessed payoffs for many races. The Daily Racing Form mentioned those looks Lezcano gave and also said "..seemed surprised by the presence of the winner then lost the advantage. Kept on under a drive while fighting inside that foe and just missed." I had to shorten but that's the meat of it. DRF's comments about a horses performance in any race are very accurate and I rarely disagree with them. Race callers usually get it right too. Some comments here did not bother to read the chart or analyze the payoffs in this race nor compare it to other races the same day. The exacta paid $32.40 for a 2 dollar bet. There was 142K in the exacta pool which was similar to races 6 & 7 with the same 5 and 6 horse fields. Race 7 was a stakes race. The rest of races on the card had a lot more money in the exacta pools. I would think if there was a "fix" the pool would have been much bigger. For an almost 4-1 horse winning, a 5-2 coming in 2nd and the 2-1 favorite failing, it's a very reasonable payoff. The horse was game coming down the stretch, that is obvious for all to see. Lezcano was trying to win the race. Why he took those looks is a bit of a mystery to me. Since I usually do not play Aqueduct I am not familiar if Lezcano has ridden this way before. Safe for me to analyze that in no way did he hold his horse back late in the stretch, he was trying to win the race. An exacta fix should be easily seen and it is not.

It seems that they had "cooked" him, it is evident that he did not put all the intention of winning, only at the end when there was nothing to do. Alert for Lezcano

crop guys he rode a over confident race n lost to a bustling rider come on guys dats racing de guy is a great rider

Baby needs new shoes.

Que descaro lo paro lo freno lo guiso

Indian Bella was the better horse in the race, I been a fan of her since she won me a nice dd at Remington. Jose knows he has a good horse, on the turn his inside horse the jockey started turning hard and using his whip. Jose looked and wanted to be aware of his environment out of safety. On the stretch he did give effort and made progress and could have won but McCarthy on Indian Bella had the momentum and outmatched her opponent to win. Indian Bella was that much better in this race. Had I known she was going to run I would have took interest. I remember losing on races when the jockey looks around when they have momentum. Javier Castellano did that to me on a race as soon as he looked towards the finish line Santana finished by a head, I thought if he didnt look for that split second he would have won. Not a fan of the jock looking around but they need to for strategy and safety. I dont think he fixed the race.

Something smells fishy that's what we need more fixed sports thiefs.

They keep it corrupt game for sure scandal after scandal between race fixing and drug horses one thing is there always happy screw over gambler

Y así es como estos enanos acaban con los reales de la gente

He knows he has the two under him measured entering the stretch, he's looking back at the runner behind those two to see how much horse that one has, but gets caught blinded when the winner engages him at that moment, and is just outrun to the wire.