Racing officials involved with the effort to gain approval for uniform medication rules in U.S. racing jurisdictions reacted with dismay and frustration at the portrayal of the sport and its ongoing reform efforts during the Jockey Club’s Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing on Sunday.
The Jockey Club will push for federal regulation of horse racing if the vast majority of racing states do not adopt a set of uniform medication rules that has already been endorsed by a handful of major racing organizations, the chairman of The Jockey Club said Sunday at the close of the Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing.
The Jockey Club will continue to press the argument that the future of the U.S. racing industry depends on the sport’s willingness to toughen its medication policies, a position that will be defended Sunday morning during the organization’s Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing.
A handful of tracks are invigorating or implementing policies that reward trainers and owners for starting horses in races, sometimes regardless of where the horse finishes, introducing subtle concerns about the impact of the policies on other tracks and the safety of horses and riders.
Kirk Breed, the executive director of the California Horse Racing Board since 2008, died on Wednesday after a two-year illness with cancer, the racing board announced.
Calvin Borel’s induction into the Racing Hall of Fame will be one of the highlights of the ceremony, especially to those who have followed his rise from the bush tracks of his native Louisiana to the heights of the sport.
The globe-trotting Invasor proved that attitude might indeed be everything.
Lure is one of a handful of horses elected to the Racing Hall of Fame who was not a divisional champion during his days on the racetrack. He joins the extraordinary company of such horses as Alydar, Exceller, Majestic Prince, Bold ’n Determined, and Gun Bow who fall into that category.
Forty-one years after his final race, Tuscalee is no longer with us, but he’s still steeplechasing’s all-time leader by wins with 37. His best season came in 1966, when he set a single-season record with 10 jumping victories from 13 starts, and the Thoroughbred Racing Associations named him the year’s champion steeplechaser.
One could easily argue that McDynamo was the best steeplechaser of the millennium’s first decade, and the numbers would back it up.
