Golden Gate Trainer Ruled Against in Rape Case

Trainer Ari Herbertson lost a civil rape case and will owe the unnamed plaintiff $9 million, according to an email from Diane Rames, law office administrator at the Oakland firm Gwilliam Ivary Chiosso Cavalli & Brewer, APC.

According to the firm's email, Jane Doe was attending live racing at Golden Gate on Jan. 12, 2019 when she was drugged and raped by Herbertson. The latter was first criminally prosecuted and plead no contest to a lesser charge of assault with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced to one-year incarceration and two years' probation in that case before Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Brand ruled in the civil case Jan. 17. The civil action alleged various torts related to the rape. Judge Brand awarded the defendant $3 million in general damages and $6 million in punitive damages.

“I commend Jane Doe for pursuing her civil case,” said attorney Randall Strauss of Gwilliam Ivary Chiosso Cavalli & Brewer, who represented the plaintiff throughout her civil case. “She was viciously and violently attacked, yet she was unafraid to pursue her attacker in court. Her bravery helps send a message that our society will not tolerate sexual battery and will work to seek justice for victims of sexual abuse.”

According to equineline.com, Herbertson trained from 2016-21 and compiled a record of 134 wins from 447 starts. Click to see a copy of the court order.

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Boudot Suspended Three Months

French champion jockey Pierre-Charles Boudot, who was on Monday arrested in Chantilly and on Wednesday charged with the rape of a work rider in February, has been suspended from race riding for three months by France Galop stewards. Also suspended is jockey Pierre Bazire, who was charged with failing to prevent and report a crime. Boudot has been released on bail of €50,000 and placed under judicial supervision.

The charges stemmed from an allegation made against the 28-year-old Boudot by a 25-year-old female work rider from an incident in Cagnes-sur-Mer on Feb. 27, 2021, and from a large number of interviews conducted in the interim, according to the Senlis public prosecutor's office. Boudot, who holds a commanding lead in the current jockeys' standings in France, had been previously accused of rape in 2018.

France Galop had initially stood down Boudot and Bazire for two days following Wednesday's indictment, and with Friday's decision noted that the two jockeys remain presumed innocent during the ongoing criminal proceedings, but that the seriousness of the allegations and potential damage to the image of racing necessitated the suspensions. French racing's governing body likewise noted that the sanctions could be lifted or renewed depending upon information it receives on the proceedings.

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