CYPRESS, Calif. - Dortmund, the winner of the 2015 Santa Anita Derby, recently resumed training after being announced as retired in early April.
Trainer Art Sherman said Thursday that Dortmund has been at his stable at Los Alamitos since the start of July.
“He’s jogging a few miles a day,” Sherman said. “He’ll jog for 30 days. We’ll see what happens.”
The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved an agriculture bill that will restore funding for inspections at horse-slaughter facilities, with the budget bill now on its way to the full U.S. House of Representatives.
An amendment to the bill that would have maintained the ban on inspections at horse-slaughter facilities was defeated narrowly, 27-25, during the committee meeting. The ban on funding has been in place since 2007, leading to the closure of the few horse-slaughter facilities that existed in the U.S. prior to the ban.
Diane Nelson, a former jockey whose career was cut short by back problems, died on July 5. Details regarding her death were not readily available. She was 51.
A private family service was held Monday on Long Island at the Moloney Funeral home in Suffolk County in New York.
Nelson rode 1,095 winners -- the sixth female jockey to reach that milestone -- in a 21-year career that ended in early 2007 after Nelson could not overcome back issues. She underwent back surgery for a herniated disc in Dec. 2005 and would need several more operations before retiring in 2007.
Paul Lo Duca, the former Major League Baseball All-Star who has worked as a racing analyst on TVG for eight years, will join the New York Racing Association as an analyst on its “Saratoga Live” show beginning July 21, it was announced Monday.
Lo Duca replaces Richard Migliore, who announced his departure from the NYRA earlier this summer and did his final show last Saturday. Lo Duca joins a lineup that will include host Greg Wolf and analysts Andy Serling, Maggie Wolfendale, Gabby Gaudet, and Tom Amoss.
The hard-knocking Ben’s Cat is recovering from colic surgery performed late last week in Kentucky.
The 11-year-old gelding, who arrived in Kentucky during the final week of June after his retirement was announced, is at the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute under the care of internal medicine specialist Dr. Rana Bozorgmanesh. Ben’s Cat had surgery last Thursday to repair an epiploic foramen entrapment – the displacement of a segment of the small intestine through a small hole.
Jockey Lindey Wade reached a milestone of 1,000 Thoroughbred wins in North America on Sunday when he guided Firepit Queen to a 2 1/4-length win in the seventh race at Lone Star Park near Dallas.
The race went with three horses following the late scratch of Mischievous Misty.
Firepit Queen ($3.20) won her third straight race at the meet in the conditioned allowance sprint, with all of the wins coming under Wade. He was aboard for Richard and Karen Boyer and trainer Joyce Salisbury.
ELMONT, N.Y. - The New York Gaming Commission fined trainer Aidan O’Brien $1,500 for having three sealed bottles of an injectable form of electrolytes in his assistant trainer’s care at Belmont Park.
According to a Gaming Commission ruling issued Sunday, O’Brien was fined for having “three sealed bottles of Duphaylyte Solution for injection.” The ruling said the solution contains “vitamins, amino acids, electrolytes and glucose.”
Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer won the second-richest race of the Delaware Park meeting Saturday when It Tiz Well outfought Proud and Fearless and Actress by a half-length in the Grade 3, $300,000 Delaware Oaks.
It Tiz Well paid $3.60, which might not sound like much, but it is a much bigger price than Songbird will be this Saturday when Hollendorfer tries to complete a sweep in the $750,000 Delaware Handicap.
Bonapaw, a Grade 1-winning sprinter, was euthanized Friday at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky., due to complications caused by equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), a neurological disease. He was 21.
The gelded son of Sabona had resided at Old Friends since March 2009.
Bred in Kentucky by Dr. William Reed, Bonapaw sold to owner James Richard Sr. for $6,500 at the 1997 Keeneland September yearling sale. He was put in the barn of trainer Donald Hecker and won his maiden in Louisiana in his fourth start as a juvenile.
