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Goggles for Docs

June 12, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.
Goggles for Docs

Several jockeys at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., have collaborated with the organization Goggles for Docs to donate goggles to healthcare workers for protection as they treat COVID-19 patients around the country. Goggles for Docs has collected more than 45,000 pairs of goggles. The organization prefers, in some instances, jockey goggles because they are small, […]

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On a sloppy track, jockeys wear up to 9 pairs of goggles

June 11, 2011.Reading time 2 minutes.

The track today for the Belmont Stakes is sloppy. I suppose that’s better than the 100 degree heat in New York earlier in the week but the wet conditions create a different challenge: mud. When jockeys race in the mud they wear up to nine pairs of goggles, pulling them down as they go around […]

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