The New York State Racing and Wagering Board at its final meeting on Thursday officially adopted several rules it had passed on an emergency basis last year, including a rule prohibiting the administration of the popular bronchial dilator clenbuterol within 14 days of a race.
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Frac Daddy entered the Holy Bull Stakes on Jan. 26 at Gulfstream Park as a promising 3-year-old colt who had finished second in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes in his last start at age 2. Horseplayers bet him to 5-1 in the Holy Bull, but his backers never even got a thrill: Frac Daddy finished a flat, distant sixth.
What happened?
It’s been a long time since Leah Gyarmati gave up doctoral studies for a life at the racetrack, but she admits there are still some things she misses about academia.
“I loved arguing,” she said this week from her home near Belmont Park. “I’m pretty opinionated.”
Although she rarely engages in philosophical discussion these days, Gyarmati, 48, has found that life on the racetrack offers plenty of opportunities for debate, perhaps most frequently with herself.
A professional horseplayer from the Chicago area, he won last week’s Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship in Las Vegas, earning a first prize of $750,000 for the 50-year-old single father of two daughters.
Shanghai Bobby, unbeaten at age 2 and the Eclipse Award-winning 2-year-old male of 2012, on Wednesday was given top weight of 126 pounds in the Experimental Free Handicap, a weight-based ranking of the previous year’s 2-year-olds put out annually by The Jockey Club.
The Experimental weights are based on a theoretical race at 1 1/16 miles on dirt, the exact conditions of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, which Shanghai Bobby won to complete a 5-for-5 season. He also won the Champagne and Hopeful.
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ARCADIA, Calif. - Ultimate Eagle will ship to Florida for a bigger purse and greater prestige than offered in California, while the 2013 debut of Breeders’ Cup Marathon winner Calidoscopio has been postponed.
Neither horse will run Sunday in the Grade 2, $200,000 San Antonio Stakes at Santa Anita, which early this week was shaping up as a virtual walkover for Game On Dude.
Robert Williams, the current director of the New York Lottery who is a former legal counsel for the New York State Racing and Wagering Board, has been appointed as acting director of a new agency combining regulation of all forms of gambling in New York, a racing official with knowledge of the appointment confirmed on Tuesday.
Charles Town called off its Saturday night live racing card due to sub-freezing temperatures in the forecast.
The West Virginia track also did not race on Friday night and cut short its Thursday program after just two races. Live racing is scheduled to resume on Tuesday with first post time 7:15 p.m. Eastern.
NEW YORK – The New York Racing Association Reorganization Board lived up to its name Friday, agreeing to apply for a shorter racing schedule at Aqueduct for the winter while accepting the resignation of current NYRA president Ellen McClain and announcing the formation of a committee to select her replacement.
All of this as well as some lively debate between board members Bobby Flay and Rick Violette regarding the quality of racing at Aqueduct took place during a 2 1/2-hour meeting of the NYRA board Friday afternoon in midtown Manhattan.
Eclipse for owner an unjust snub of vital outfit
I am dumbfounded by both the process and by the voters who voted Godolphin as Eclipse Award winner for leading owner of 2012.
What are the criteria to win this award? I looked at the statistics on Equibase, and Godolphin shouldn't have even been a finalist. In 2012, in North America, Godolphin won a grand total of 15 races for $3,749,075. So 15 wins makes for leading owner in North America?