The Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission has revoked the licenses of four racetrack veterinarians who entered guilty pleas last month to illegally administering substances to horses on race day, according to copies of the rulings provided by the commission.
The Maker’s 46 Mile lacks its superstar from the last couple of years, but at least the Grade 1 race has a more competitive look than it did for those two runnings.
The champion Untapable drew post 2 in a field of seven for the Grade 1, $600,000 Apple Blossom Handicap, to be run Friday at Oaklawn Park. The race is one of two stakes on the program. I Spent It, the winner of the Grade 2 Saratoga Special, makes his second start of the year in the $100,000 Bachelor. Entries were taken Tuesday.
After a fairly dismal 2013-14 racing season, betting, as well as the racing product in general, rebounded during the 2014-15 race meet at Fair Grounds in New Orleans.
Trainer Simon Callaghan has always considered the 3-year-olds fillies Desert Steel and Windy Forecast prospects for turf sprints, but with such opportunities rare for 2-year-olds, neither has run on grass.
Something will have to give when a trio of undefeated 3-year-olds put their records on the line going in Thursday’s $34,000 main event at Gulfstream Park.
Dayatthespa, already winner of the Eclipse Award as North America’s champion turf female of last year, was named New York’s 2014 Horse of the Year on Monday during the New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc. annual awards banquet.
Historical-racing machines at Les Bois Park in Boise, Idaho, will remain operational due to a veto by Gov. Butch Otter on Monday of a bill that would have prohibited the devices.
Horses to watch from Woodbine Harness.
Without the use of the turf course and with a depleted horse population, New York Racing Association officials carded only eight races for Thursday and Friday at Aqueduct. Thursday’s card has one $70,000 maiden special weight for fillies and mares at a mile, otherwise the richest race on the program is for $40,000 claimers running for a pot of $55,000.
