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Richard Dutrow, the onetime leading trainer who was banned for a decade by New York regulators in 2011, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, claiming liabilities of $1.76 million, according to a court filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York.

The bankruptcy filing, first reported by the Thoroughbred Daily News, claims that Dutrow has $50 in cash and access to $12.50 in a joint checking account with his ex-wife. It also lists a house in East Norwich, N.Y., as an asset, valued at $1 million, though the mortgage debt on the house is $1.3 million.

The Maryland Jockey Club will again offer a $100,000 trainers' bonus competition on Preakness weekend, May 19-20.

Trainers who start at least five horses in stakes at Pimlico on Preakness weekend will earn points on a 10-7-5-3 scale if their horses finish first through fourth. Horses who finish fifth or lower will earn one point.

The six trainers with the most points will split up $100,000, with $50,000 going to first, $25,000 to second, $12,000 to third, $7,000, to fourth, $4,000 to fifth, and $2,000 to sixth.

The morning after Nyquist won the Kentucky Derby last year, giving Doug O’Neill his second Derby win in the last five runnings, the trainer was informed that he had just equaled the likes of Woody Stephens and Charlie Whittingham with two Derby wins each.

“Wow. That’s crazy,” O’Neill said.

The Stronach Group will contribute $4 million to next year’s Pegasus World Cup to boost the race’s purse to a world-record $16 million and dramatically raise the minimum amount each starter earns from the purse regardless of finish position, company officials said Wednesday, in a move designed to bolster what was expected to be lackluster demand for the 12 slots for the race.

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ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Multiple Sovereign Award-winning owner and breeder Eugene Melnyk headlines the list of five Thoroughbred-racing inductees into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2017.

Two riders and a track security guard were sent to the hospital as the result of a nasty looking two-horse spill in the eighth race at Laurel Park on Sunday. But as bad as the accident was, it could have been a lot worse.

Victor Carrasco was aboard even-money favorite Stalk in the $16,000 maiden-claiming sprint. They took the lead entering the stretch and appeared to be headed to victory when Stalk broke down. Unclenedwhodrank, ridden by Guillermo Rodriguez, was behind Stalk and fell over him, apparently nicking Carrasco.

Mind Your Biscuits punctuated a campaign as one of North America’s top sprinters last year by being named the New York-bred Horse of the Year by the New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc.

The 4-year-old son of Posse won four of nine starts during his sophomore campaign for earnings of $740,400.

Miss Temple City, the three-time Grade 1-winning turf mare, had a setback in her training and won’t make a race at the Keeneland spring meet.

Trainer Graham Motion said Sunday that Miss Temple City had gotten loose one morning about three weeks ago at the Palm Meadows training center and as a result had some filling in a leg that required Motion to back off on the mare’s training.