Choquette Set Down Ten Days; Loses Derby Mount: Suspended for Ride at Jamaica; Shoemaker to Pilot Gallant Man, Daily Racing Form, 1957-05-02

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Choquette Set Down Ten Days Loses Derby Mount MountSuspended Mountr r Suspended for Ride af Jamaica Shoemaker to Pjlot Gallant Man ManJAMAICA JAMAICA L I N Y May 1 Johnny Choquette who was scheduled to ride Ralph Lowes Gallant Man in Saturdays Ken ¬ tucky Derby was handed a 10day sus ¬ pension by Jamaica stewards today for his ride on Grayce Mars Ace Mar in Tuesdays first race here As a result he was deprived of his Derby mount which would have been his first experience in the Churchill Downs classic classicAce Ace Mar who finished second came in sharply at the far turn Nerud was to fly back to Churchill Downs after saddling Admirals Joy to win the third race but before he left he telephoned William Shoemaker in the Bay Meadows jockeys quarters and offered Shoemaker the mount on the Migoli colt Shoemaker of course accepted


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