Attorneys for the indicted trainer Jason Servis have asked a judge to throw out evidence collected through wiretaps of his phone because prosecutors “materially misled” courts that authorized the wiretaps.

Getting inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is a reward for a body of work. But every trainer knows that, in the eyes of the fans, they are only as good as their last starter. That’s what Todd Pletcher was musing about on Tuesday, less than 72 hours before he was to become one of the newest members of the Hall of Fame.

Kristian Rhein, a veterinarian who was indicted last year with more than two dozen other people connected to horse racing on charges related to trafficking in illegal substances, entered a guilty plea on Tuesday before a federal judge to one felony count of drug adulteration and misbranding of drugs.

David Gall, the fifth-winningest North American rider of all-time, died on Sunday morning of natural causes at his home in State College, Pa., where he had recently moved, according to his son. Gall was 79.

Riding mostly at Fairmount Park in Collinsville, Ill., over a 43-year riding career, Gall racked up 7,396 wins from 41,775 mounts. His career total puts him behind only Russell Baze, Laffit Pincay Jr., Bill Shoemaker, and Pat Day on the all-time wins list. (Perry Wayne Ouzts, who is still active, is 192 wins behind in sixth.)

DEL MAR, Calif. - Trainer Dean Greenman has been suspended 30 days for animal welfare issues related to the care of Surfside Sunset, who was euthanized earlier this year after a bout with colic.

The decision was announced in a ruling published by Del Mar stewards Grant Baker, Luis Jauregui, and Kim Sawyer on Sunday. The suspension runs from Aug. 9 through Sept. 7, although Greenman has indicated that he plans an appeal, the stewards said.

Monmouth Park stewards have handed California-based jockey Flavien Prat a seven-calendar-day suspension resulting from his ride aboard disqualified Haskell Stakes winner Hot Rod Charlie.

Jorge Navarro, one of two prominent Thoroughbred trainers indicted with 25 other individuals in March 2020 on charges related to administering illegal substances to racehorses, will change his plea of “not guilty” in the case in a hearing scheduled for Aug. 11, according to a court document filed late Friday.

Roman Chapa, a journeyman jockey who was handed multiple penalties for using illegal foreign objects to spur horses on in races, died Tuesday after sustaining injuries in a March accident at a bush track in Georgia, according to social-media posts from his family. Chapa was 50.

Chapa, who rode 1,722 winners in 10,243 sanctioned U.S. races, was in a medically induced coma for 45 days after the accident, according to the social-media posts. 

Dale Baird would’ve turned 86 in April 2021. His brother John Baird still dabbles with training in West Virginia, and had Dale Baird not perished in a 2007 crash on an icy Indiana interstate, maybe he, too, would still be saddling the odd horse at Mountaineer Park.

Steve Asmussen was born to this.

He and his brother Brian Keith Asmussen are children of horsemen who are children of horsemen. They virtually were raised in horse barns. The older one, Brian Keith, started galloping Thoroughbreds as a 9-year-old. At 12, Steve had a groom’s license. As teens in Laredo, Texas, by the time school began each day, they had been up for hours. “You can get a lot done before school if you start working at 5,” Steve Asmussen once said.