KHC hires Schneider as executive director
The Kentucky Horse Council has hired Susan Schneider as its executive director, effective Aug. 21.
DRF Breeding StaffAug 14, 2013
The Kentucky Horse Council has hired Susan Schneider as its executive director, effective Aug. 21.
Morning-line favorite Broadway Empire will break from post 11 in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Canadian Derby at Northlands Park. Post positions were chosen by representatives of the 12 horses that entered the 1 3/8-mile race for 3-year-olds at a brunch held Wednesday morning at Northlands.
Tuesday’s Northern California Sale at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton had a higher sale topper and an increase in median price from 2012, but a decline in average price.
Golden Gate Fields opens its 19-day summer meeting Friday, and for the first time in three years, the meet will include a stakes.
The $2.4-million All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs is billed as North America’s richest race on the calendar for 2-year-olds of any breed, but a number of entries in the flagship Quarter Horse race’s 28 trials are the direct progeny of Thoroughbreds.
There are four sons of the good turf sire Philanthropist in Friday’s Woodbine headliner, including Crushin Hard, who is seeking his second straight win in the one-mile turf allowance for Ontario-sired runners.
Marketing Mix was 3-1 when beaten just a head by I’m a Dreamer after rallying furiously down the stretch in the 2012 Beverly D., and this year, her price figures to be shorter when she takes on eight other fillies and mares in the 24th running of the 1 3/16-mile race, for which entries were drawn Wednesday. Marketing Mix, with Gary Stevens to ride from post 6, has been listed as the 2-1 morning-line favorite.
Three days before the 133rd renewal of the Alabama Stakes, Edward Stanco, owner of Princess of Sylmar, stood on the backstretch of Saratoga, gestured to the grandstand across the way, and smiled.
Canaveral Leader scored a 6 1/4-length victory in the $50,000 Northlands Park Oaks, and a similar effort would make her tough to beat in the $50,000 Sonoma at Northlands on Friday night.
The lawsuit to allow cloned horses to enter the American Quarter Horse Association registry saw action once again on August 12, when a district court judge announced that she will enter an injunction requiring the AQHA to register clones and their offspring.