Trainer Gus Headley was fined $1,500 on Jan. 29 for removing a horse from another trainer’s stable and administering medication to the horse, according to a ruling issued by Santa Anita stewards Grant Baker, Scott Chaney, and Kim Sawyer.
A record total of nearly $2.6 million in purses will be offered during the spring portion of the National Steeplechase Association’s 2017 season.
Ralis, the winner of the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga in 2015, has been retired and will begin a stud career in coming weeks, trainer Doug O’Neill said Saturday.
Arlington International Racecourse’s 2017 stakes schedule will consist of 20 races worth a total of $3.4 million, according to a Friday news release.
Larry Collmus hasn't called a horse race since the Breeders' Cup Classic, but he will return to the announcer's booth later this month at Charles Town in West Virginia.
The official time of the $12 million Pegasus World Cup has been lowered nearly .80 of a second following a review by Gulfstream Park and its official timer, Trakus, according to an amended chart that was available late on Thursday.
A memorial for popular trainer Armando Lage will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Golden Gate Fields. Lage, 59, died Monday night after suffering a heart attack.
Classic Empire, the winner of the 2016 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and the 2016 2-year-old champion, was assigned 126 pounds to top the annual Experimental Free Handicap, a ranking of the top juveniles to run in North America last year.
Last month, New Vocations Thoroughbred retraining and adoption organization opened its New York satellite facility at Dan and Danielle Dill's October Hill Farm in Fort Edward, about half an hour northeast of Saratoga Springs.
Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colo., will race 39 dates in 2017, from May 19 to Aug. 13. Hank Demoney will be the new racing secretary. He most recently served as a steward at Arapahoe.
