A. P. Indian, a multiple Grade 1-winning sprinter, was retired from racing Monday after being withdrawn from Saturday’s Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap at Saratoga due to lameness in his left front ankle.
The 7-year-old Indian Charlie gelding raced as a homebred for Richard and Sue Ann Masson’s Green Lantern Stable and was trained for the bulk of his career by Arnaud Delacour. A. P. Indian retires with 11 wins in 20 career starts for earnings of $1,477,434.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Two horses suffered fatal injuries while training over Saratoga’s main track Saturday morning, while another horse suffered a non-life-threatening injury during Friday’s Curlin Stakes, leaving horsemen and racing officials searching for answers.
Howard Beach, a 2-year-old colt trained by Rick Violette, and Positive Waves, a 3-year-old gelding trained by Tony Dutrow, both suffered fractured sesamoids and fractures of the cannon bone in their right forelegs while putting in workouts Saturday morning. Both horses had to be euthanized on the track.
The New York Franchise Oversight Board on Friday gave its approval to a request for proposals to develop two parcels of land on the property of Belmont Park on Long Island.
The RFP, which was drafted by the Empire State Development Corp., a state agency, seeks proposals for the development of an eight-acre site adjacent to the “backyard” at Belmont, just southwest of the track’s grandstand, and a 28-acre overflow parking lot south of Hempstead Turnpike.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Former Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association president and director Larry Regan died Wednesday morning at age 85.
Regan was active in the Canadian horse-racing industry as an owner and breeder since 1951. He sat on the board of the Ontario HBPA for 30 years, along with the Canadian HBPA board for 12 years.
In 1989, Regan was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in the Thoroughbred Builder category and won the Sovereign Award as Man of the Year.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
DEL MAR, Calif. – The same care and nurturing that Kosta Hronis utilizes growing grapes and citrus in central California was practiced by trainer John Sadler when Hronis got into racing seven years ago. Both are bearing bumper crops.
Hronis’s family-owned farm is one of the leading produce growers in California, and with Sadler as his trainer, Hronis’s racing operation – which includes his brother Pete – has become a perennial leader on the Southern California circuit.
They are in the midst of a week at Del Mar that may provide their greatest yield yet.
Three Quarter Horse trainers, including two on the breed’s top 10 list by wins this year, have been charged with Class 1 drug violations in Texas after horses they trained tested positive for a banned antidepressant.
Ben’s Cat, a popular runner in the Mid-Atlantic region and four-time Grade 3 winner, was euthanized Tuesday afternoon due to post-operative complications following colic surgery.
The 11-year-old gelding underwent surgery on July 6 at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Ky., to repair an epiploic foramen entrapment – the displacement of a segment of small intestine through a small hole.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – For 31 summers, from 1976 through 2006, only seven individuals wore the crown as Saratoga’s leading jockey. Over the last 10 years, seven different riders have won the Saratoga riding title.
The winners of the last three Saratoga riding titles – Jose Ortiz, Irad Ortiz Jr., and Javier Castellano – are the leading candidates to win the title at this year’s meet, which begins Friday. But at least one jockey’s agent thinks it could be even more wide open than that.
Leaping Plum, an eight-time winner of the Grasmick Handicap at Fonner Park, died Sunday night in his pasture in Grand Island, Neb. He was 26.
The gelded son of Lightning Leap was bred in Kentucky by Marty Takacs, and sold to owner Clyde Woods for $11,000 at the 1992 Keeneland September yearling sale. He was co-owned by Woods and Paul Miskimins, and trained by Joseph Moss for all of his 66 career starts from ages 2 to 13.
