Maryland jockey Christopher Martin was thrown from his horse during a 2005 race and filed suit three years later claiming permanent disability, contending “the irregular shape and poor maintenance of the racetrack caused his thoroughbred, ‘Miner Distraction,’ to collide with another horse and stumble.” (Bill Childs, TortsProf, Sept. 15).
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The track is actually in Northampton, Mass (not Maryland as the tag suggests).; not sure about the lawsuit, though I suspect it is here too since the local paper noticed it. My post was ambiguous and I’ll fix that.
Oops, sorry. Fixed now.