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Thoroughbred Horse Racing Jockeys and Workers: Examining On-Track Injury Insurance and Other Health and Welfare Issues: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce House of Representatives.

2006 · 63969 — Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 816 p. Illustrations. Serial No. 109-34. This hearing was in part prompted by a 2004 accident during the seventh race at Mountaineer Park Race Track in West Virginia when jockey Gary Birzer borke his back in a fall and became permanently disabled. WHen he turned to the organization that he believed was providing the catastrophic insurance coverage he discovered that he and other jockeys had no coverage even though they had paid the fees they paid their dues to that organiation. The insurance policy had been allowed to lapse two years earlier. This illustrated a very serious problem facing the entire horse racing industry. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback