The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Tuesday approved a September race meet at Churchill Downs in 2013 as part of an overhaul of the state’s racing calendar that also included a dramatic reduction in winter dates at Turfway Park.
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Alternation, who won five races this year including the Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap and Grade 3 Pimlico Special, is being freshened at the Pin Oak Stable facilities of his owner, Josephine Abercrombie, in Kentucky and will return to racing next year at 5, the farm announced Tuesday. He is to return to the care of his trainer, Donnie Von Hemel, who winters at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark.
Tue, 10/23/2012 - 14:15
Jay Hovdey of Daily Racing Form and the late Whitney Tower have been chosen as the National Museum of Racing’s Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor recipients for 2012. The award was instituted in 2010 in memory of Hirsch, a distinguished turf writer who had died the previous year.
The New York Court of Appeals has rejected Richard Dutrow Jr.’s appeal of a 10-year suspension handed down by the New York State Racing and Wagering Board, but the trainer will continue to be allowed to enter horses until his options to appeal the case are exhausted.
Mon, 10/22/2012 - 17:21
Belmont Park
Sunny, 55
Main track fast
Training track fast
Turf yielding
ELMONT, N.Y. – Monday morning was the Bill Mott and Chad Brown show at Belmont Park with eight of the nine prospective Breeders’ Cup starters to work coming from those two barns. The only other Breeders’ Cup worker was none other than the Shug McGaughey-trained Point of Entry, the leading U.S. contender for the Breeders’ Cup Turf.
Mon, 10/22/2012 - 15:40
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has upheld a circuit court decision that James M. Lauffer, onetime co-owner of 2009 Horse of the year Rachel Alexandra, should pay Thoro-Graph owner Jerry Brown $25,000 for providing information that contributed to Lauffer’s decision to buy a half-interest in Rachel Alexandra in 2008.
Paynter, Ahmed Zayat’s Haskell winner who is recovering from colitis and early-stage laminitis, appears to be improving, according to tweets from his connections.
Justin Zayat, racing and bloodstock manager for his father’s Zayat Stables, tweeted that Paynter could undergo hyperbaric chamber therapy and might be turned out in a small pen within 10 days at the Fair Hill Equine Therapy Center, where he has been recuperating since Oct. 15.
Belmont Park: Sunny
Temperature 53
Main track fast, training track fast.
ELMONT, N.Y. - The rain was long gone and the main track had dried out nicely and was very fast but the majority of activity from potential Breeders’ Cup starters still came over the training track on a cool but beautiful Sunday morning at Belmont Park.
Sun, 10/21/2012 - 15:04
ELMONT, N.Y. - One undefeated champion and three unbeaten Eclipse Award contenders highlighted the work tab Sunday morning at Belmont Park as horses continued preparation for the upcoming Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita.
Awesome Feather, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2010 who is undefeated in 10 career starts, worked six furlongs in 1:12.22 over Belmont’s main track. She is preparing for a meeting with champions Royal Delta and My Miss Aurelia in the $2 million Ladies’ Classic on Nov. 2.
Sun, 10/21/2012 - 14:31
ARCADIA, Calif. – Led by Game On Dude, the ante-post favorite for the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 3, trainer Bob Baffert worked a number of his Breeders’ Cup prospects on Sunday morning at Santa Anita, including the unbeaten filly Executiveprivilege, and his three candidates for the Sprint.
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