The California Horse Racing Board announced Friday that it is continuing to review cases of sudden deaths that have occurred in Thoroughbreds in Southern California racehorses in recent years.
In a two-paragraph statement, the racing board did not state when the review might be completed.
Namesake horse makes Father's Day a memorable one
I am a partner, with my father and brother, in the Terranova Racing Stable. We are family-owned, and exist solely to race (and occasionally win). People may know of Meese Rocks, the best who has passed through the stable. The horse I am writing about, however, is an otherwise nondescript low-level claimer.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The claims of 19 horses at three California tracks from May 16 through June 16 were voided following the implementation of a rule that requires claims to be rescinded on horses who die or are placed on the veterinarian's list after the race from which they are claimed, the California Horse Racing Board was told on Thursday.
“The track bugler raised his horn to his lips, but didn’t blow the traditional call to post. Instead, he blared out ‘My Diane,’ and the walls of male invincibility on American Thoroughbred tracks came tumbling down.”
− United Press International (Feb. 7, 1969)
“If you could describe yourself in a couple of words, what might they be?”
A contemplative pause ensued at the end of the long-distance phone line, punctuated by what sounded like a sigh. When the response finally came, it was almost in the form of a question: “Ordinary . . . maybe? Average?”
The Esquire Network, a television network set to launch in September, plans to broadcast a program tracking handicappers as they seek spots in the 2014 National Handicapping Championship, the administrator of the tournament announced on Thursday.
Christopher Kay, the new chief executive of the New York Racing Association, will not be traveling to Lexington, Ky., to meet racing officials on Thursday, NYRA officials acknowledged on Wednesday, but he plans to make a trip to Lexington in the future.
Kay and NYRA board members had said on Tuesday that Kay would travel to Lexington on Thursday in advance of starting his new job on July 1 to learn more about the racing industry. The NYRA job, one of the most prominent positions in U.S. racing, is Kay’s first position in the racing industry.
A deal reached between New York state legislators and Gov. Andrew Cuomo late Tuesday night would give two Long Island offtrack betting companies the right to operate slot machines and cap the amount of money from gambling that is directed to purses at New York’s three biggest tracks.
NEW YORK – As a teenager, he visited Cahokia Downs in Alorton, Ill. As an attorney, he represented stables in South Carolina and Kentucky and once declined an offer to be a minority horse owner.
As far as racing experience goes, that’s about it for Christopher Kay.
But his background as an attorney and business executive dealing in complex issues such as land privatization was enough to convince the New York Racing Association board of directors to hire Kay, 60, as the company’s new president and CEO effective July 1.
Itsmyluckyday was taken to the Mid-Atlantic Equine Medical Center in Ringoes, N.J., shortly before noon on Monday, where he will undergo further tests to determine the extent of any possible injury that compelled jockey Mike Smith to pull him up shortly after completing a half-mile of Sunday’s Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park.
