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Yet Another Veteran Mahoning Jock Suspended For Easing Up At Wire And Losing Win By A Head

Jockey Terry "T.D." Houghton on Wednesday was suspended 30 days by the stewards at Mahoning Valley Race Course for failing "to use his utmost exertion to obtain a winning performance by standing up and appear[ing] to have stopped riding before the wire." The alleged lapse of judgment occurred in the second race Jan. 6, when Houghton had cleared the field by 1 1/2 lengths inside the eighth pole aboard the 5-2 third choice, Grace in Excess (Connect), in a $5,000 NW2L claimer over 1 mile 70 yards. The Equibase chart...

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