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Louisville, Ky. Flash back to last week, when I previewed the Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park. I wrote that I would not bet on it, “because jockeys have been disarmed by the New Jersey rule that bans them from using their crops unless it is for safety reasons. That is too wild a card to bank on.” Little did I know. Let Saturday’s lightning rod of a race be the launch pad for someone who is not quite a billionaire to lift off. Sorting fact from fiction in the Haskell. The video of Midnight Bourbon’s spill and Paco López’s fall are seared into the memory of any horseplayer who was paying even half a mind to the Haskell. Horse and rider are fine now, but social media lit up with debate over the rule that prevents jockeys from using their crops except “when necessary to control the horse to avoid injury to the horse or rider.” With Flavien Prat riding, Hot Rod Charlie finished first but was disqualified for veering inward and causing the accident. “Yes, the lack of a

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