Jockey Barrington Harvey to serve 10-day suspension

Jockey Barrington Harvey, 61, begins a 10-day suspension on Saturday for causing interference in the fifth race at Los Alamitos on June 23, which resulted in jockey John Valenzuela, Jr. being unseated from his mount.

Harvey was cited in a June 29 ruling by stewards Grant Baker, David Nuesch, and Kim Sawyer for crossing over without sufficient clearance. Harvey’s mount, Mischievous Dylan, was disqualified from second and listed as unplaced.

The suspension covers racing days on July 6-7, 20-21, 25-28, and Aug. 1-2, coinciding with dates of daytime Thoroughbred racing at Los Alamitos this weekend and at Del Mar beginning on July 20.

Harvey will be permitted to ride the nighttime programs that include lower-level Thoroughbred races at Los Alamitos on July 13-14. There is no afternoon Thoroughbred racing in Southern California on that weekend.

Through Wednesday, Harvey has won six races from 38 mounts this year. He has won 584 mounts in a career that began in 1988.

Valenzuela was briefly hospitalized after the fall on June 23 and resumed riding at Los Alamitos on June 29. He has one mount during daytime races at Los Alamitos on Friday and Saturday.

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