Just days after he was honored with an Eclipse Award as the champion steeplechase horse of 2016, Rawnaq was pronounced out for the entire 2017 season as the result of an injury he sustained while training for his shot at a $500,000 bonus in March.
The Jockey Club of Canada announced the list of 2016 Sovereign Award finalists on Tuesday, and Conquest Enforcer has a chance to become a Canadian champion in four divisions.
Ten new names are among the 23 separately listed wagering interests for Pool 2 of the 2017 Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which opens Friday at noon Eastern for a three-day run.
Arrogate was honored by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities as the world’s best racehorse at a ceremony in London on Tuesday.
A dominant run of stakes performances during the Hazel Park meet helped Pink Pajamas earn the Michigan Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association’s Horse of the Year title for 2016.
The New York Gaming Commission on Monday approved proposed rules that would require trainers to file reports on horses suffering “serious” bleeding episodes and to maintain detailed medication logs for their horses.
The Grade 1 winner Gun Runner is not expected to start in Saturday’s $12 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park because of a disagreement between the horse’s owners and Gulfstream officials over a requirement to test negative for equine herpesvirus through both a blood test and a nasal swab.
One barn at Turfway Park and two at Keeneland are quarantined and the horses residing within them are being tested after a filly that left Turfway Park for a farm for the 2017 breeding season tested positive for the wild-type strain of equine herpesvirus (EHV-1).
Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., and Sam Houston Race Park in Houston, which both had closed their stable areas to horses shipping in from Louisiana due to the equine herpesvirus positives at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, each issued updated ship-in policies Saturday.
There will be a pick six carryover of $306,342 on Saturday at Aqueduct after the wager was not hit for a third consecutive card.
