International panel names Arrogate best horse of 2016
Arrogate was honored by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities as the world’s best racehorse at a ceremony in London on Tuesday.
Marcus HershJan 24, 2017
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.
Provided the status quo holds and there are no further cases of equine herpesvirus at Fair Grounds in coming days, the track will begin accepting shippers again next week. Off-track horses are entered to race on the Friday, Jan. 27 card.
The Spendthrift Juvenile Stallion Stakes at Churchill Downs will be split into two divisions for the 2017 renewal, with the addition of a race for fillies.
Jessies First Down, a winner of five stakes at five tracks in three states, was named the 2016 World Champion Quarter Horse in a ceremony at Heritage Place in Oklahoma City on Wednesday evening.