A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit alleging that American Pharoah’s owner, Ahmed Zayat, reneged on a $1.65 million debt, citing the statute of limitations and the plaintiff’s difficulty in proving his allegations, according to court records.
William Martini, a judge for the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, granted a motion requested by Zayat to have the case dismissed on Thursday, according to court documents. The motion states that the action should be considered closed.
CYPRESS, Calif. – Belmont Stakes Week of 2014 was a media whirlwind for a California man who least expected such events in his life.
Art Sherman, the trainer of California Chrome, has spent his life in racing, but until that spring, and especially that week, he had never been at the center of attention in the sport.
“I did a lot of TV,” Sherman recalled recently at his base at Los Alamitos. “I was on ‘Good Morning America.’ I went to Brooklyn, where I was born. I was always going to all kinds of parties. It was fun.”
ELMONT, N.Y. – For the better part of the last two decades, Bob Baffert and Todd Pletcher have been the dominant trainers in horse racing. Baffert, the best in the West, and Pletcher, the beast of the East, have participated in – and won – virtually all of the biggest races the sport has to offer.
Over the previous 36 Triple Crown seasons, 13 horses have won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness but have been unable to close the deal in the Belmont. One of those, I’ll Have Another in 2012, never made it to the starting gate; the others were derailed by fate, circumstance, or just a better horse on that day. Each day leading up to this year's Belmont, we will take a look at one of the 13 failed attempts at capturing Thoroughbred racing’s most-elusive prize. Today: California Chrome.
2014 California Chrome
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The Ontario Racing Commission has approved a directive ordering that all horses selected to provide a blood sample as defined by the Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency also will be tested for cobalt. Once the CPMA has completed the official testing, the ORC will subject the samples to enhanced testing for the presence of cobalt beginning Aug. 15.
Any sample in which cobalt is detected at a level of 50 nanograms per milliliter or more will be deemed to be in violation of the rules of racing.
ELMONT, N.Y. – It wasn’t long after the horses passed the wire in the Kentucky Derby on May 2 that trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, having watched his colt Frosted finish fourth, knew what he wanted to do regarding the rest of the Triple Crown.
“We’ve been pointing to the Belmont since May 3,” McLaughlin said here at Belmont Park.
A proposal to alter U.S. federal tax laws in favor of horseplayers still has several more hurdles to overcome before the rules could go into effect, an official with the racing organization that has organized support for the changes said Wednesday.
The New York Racing Association and NBC Sports Group have extended a deal giving the network exclusive broadcast rights to the Belmont Stakes, the two groups said on Wednesday.
Though terms were not disclosed, an NBC official said the extension will give the network the broadcast rights “through at least 2020.” NBC has held the broadcast rights to the Belmont since 2011, taking over at that time from ESPN, which held the rights from 2006-10. NBC had the broadcast rights from 2001-05.
ELMONT, N.Y. – There will be no shortage of wagering opportunities Friday and Saturday – Belmont Stakes Day – at Belmont Park, including multiple two-day daily-double bets.
There is a daily double linking Friday’s True North (race 8) with Saturday’s Metropolitan Handicap that will have a guaranteed pool of $150,000. Last year, the pool on that wager was $656,728.
Also, there is a daily double linking Friday’s Belmont Gold Cup (race 10) with Saturday’s Belmont Stakes that will have a guaranteed pool of $300,000. Last year, the handle on that wager was $650,442.
