ARCADIA, Calif .- Paul Eddery, the former British-based jockey who has worked as an exercise rider in Southern California recently, was taken into custody by immigration officials in El Paso, Texas, on March 23 following a trip to Sunland Park for the Sunland Park Derby.

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The simulcast dispute between the Mid-Atlantic Cooperative of racetracks and the Monarch Content Management Company, which is owned by the Stronach Group and controls the simulcast signals from Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita among others, was resolved late Friday afternoon.

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania filed criminal charges Thursday in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg against four veterinarians for allegedly administering drugs to horses at Penn National within 24 hours of the horse being scheduled to race.

The alleged activity took place between 1986 and August 2014. The defendants allegedly conspired with horse trainers, whose identities are “known to the United States,” to administer the drugs in violation of the laws, rules, and regulations governing Thoroughbred racing.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – In the days when Dubai World Cup cards were run on Nad al Sheba dirt, one thing was nearly certain: An American-based horse would win the Golden Shaheen, the six-furlong dirt stakes. The 10 editions of the race between 2000 and 2009 produced seven American-based winners, but even that doesn’t tell the tale. In four of those years, Americans swept the exacta. In 2003 and 2004, American-based horses ran 1-2-3-4. And in 2006, Americans took down the first five placings in the race.

International Star
Fusaichi Pegasus – Parlez, by French Deputy
(Bred in New York by Katharine M. Voss and Robert T. Manfuso; $85,000 purchase by Patrice Miller, agent, for Ken and Sarah Ramsey, at 2013 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale)

Tim Snyder, the down-and-out upstate New York horseman who purchased Lisa’s Booby Trap for $4,500 in 2010 and won $182,000 with her, has died at age 59, according to an obituary in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and a Facebook post by Snyder’s daughter Sierra Chidester on the fan page of Lisa’s Booby Trap.

A cause of death was not given.

Sylvester Carmouche III, a rider with a spotty race record over the past several years, was arrested on Wednesday by West Virginia police and charged with attempted murder, arson, and cruelty to animals after allegedly setting fire to his girlfriend’s house when she and her children were inside.

No one was injured in the late-night Tuesday incident, which was set in the house’s basement. According to local police, the woman, her three children, and their dog were displaced by the fire.

Jockey David Flores has been given a one-year suspension in Singapore for failing to “obtain the best possible placing” in a race Feb. 22, a decision that the rider has the option of appealing.

In a ruling issued Wednesday by Singapore racing officials, Flores was suspended until March 24, 2016, for his ride on Kiss Me. Flores was cited for failing “to improve his position when it was reasonable and permissible to do so” from the three-eighths pole to the quarter pole, and for failing “to ride with sufficient vigor and determination” in the final quarter-mile.