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Jockeys argue for right to wear corporate ads by Associated Press Jockeys argue for right to wear corporate ads by Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky.-- Hall of Famer Jerry Bailey and other top jockeys appeared in federal court Monday to ask that they be allowed to wear corporate logos and union patches while racing in Kentucky. The jockeys have argued in separate complaints that the right to wear the logos during races is speech protected by the First Amendment. They have asked a judge to block the state law that bans the union and corporate logos in time for Saturday's Kentucky Derby. Shane Sellers and fellow jockey Robby Albarado were each fined $500 apiece by the Kentucky Racing Commission for wearing a guild patch during last year's Derby. Albarado is also a plaintiff in the guild patch suit. Bailey and Sellers said sponsors have approached them offering up to $30,000 to wear a corporate logo on their pants in the Derby. Bailey is riding Wimbledon in the Derby, and Sellers will be aboard early favorite The Cliff's Edge. ''You don't make a lot of money just riding races; you've got to win,'' Bailey said during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Louisville. The hearing was scheduled to continue Tuesday.
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