The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.), which encourages the retraining of Thoroughbreds into other disciplines, has created a performance award pilot program for the second half of 2013.
Duane and Wayne Murty, the brothers charged with second-degree animal cruelty after neglected horses were found on a central Kentucky property they leased, entered not-guilty pleas to those charges Monday in Woodford District Court, the Lexington Herald-Leader has reported.
For the second half of the year, Byrama will focus on longer races, including Saturday’s $300,000 Clement Hirsch Stakes over 1 1/16 miles at Del Mar.
Jesse “Sonny” Wigginton, a trainer for more than 40 years who regularly raced in Kentucky and Arkansas, died Wednesday morning in a hospital in Lexington, Ky.
Mucho Macho Man enters Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney Invitational Handicap as a bit of a wild card in the eight-horse field.
In a move to preserve live racing and simulcasting rights at Agricultural Park in Columbus, Neb., five area businessmen have formed a nonprofit to put on the 16-date meet that opens Friday.
Thursday, trainer Carla Gaines began a 30-day suspension for a medication violation from 2012. During her absence, her assistant trainer, Jerry Quinn, will assume control of the stable at Del Mar.
The idea of almost weekly commercial flights in today’s air-travel climate is daunting, even if you can curl up in a first-class seat. Jockey Mike Smith has it down to a science.
Back from an injury and back in Saratoga with a race under her belt, Madame Giry looks poised to return to her winning ways in Friday’s $100,000 Caress Stakes for filly and mare turf sprinters at Saratoga.
Ed Allred, the owner of Los Alamitos and one of the nation’s most prominent Quarter Horse owners and breeders, won two of the three six-figure stakes on the California Champions Night last weekend.
