The New York Racing Association will offer a seminar for prospective new Thoroughbred owners on Sunday at Belmont Park.
Hosted by former jockey and current NYRA employee Richard Migliore, the all-day seminar provides a comprehensive overview of Thoroughbred ownership business to prospective new clients. Attendees will get to visit with trainers, jockeys and racing officials as well as participate in a winner’s circle trophy presentation.
Nehro, the 2011 Kentucky Derby runner-up, came out of his sixth in the June 16 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs with an ankle chip. It will be removed by Dr. Larry Bramlage by arthroscopic surgery this week.
The injury is not career-threatening, according to Ahmed Zayat, whose Zayat Stables owns the 4-year-old colt.
Nehro has been sent from the Churchill barn of trainer Steve Asmussen to WinStar Farm near Versailles, Ky., where it was expected the colt will be taken to the Rood and Riddle equine hospital sometime this week, said Zayat.
Desert Blanc, winner of the Grade 1 Manhattan Handicap at Belmont Park on June 9, has been retired from racing due to a tendon injury, his connections announced Sunday.
Trainer Chad Brown said he noticed some inflammation in the 4-year-old Desert Blanc’s tendon about a week after the Manhattan and an ultrasound “revealed what we were hoping not to hear,” Brown said. “That he has a large lesion in the center of his tendon.”
Brown said the prognosis was not good for Desert Blanc to return “to the level where he is now so we went ahead and retired him.”
Stewards at Delta Downs have issued six-month suspensions to two Quarter Horse trainers after their horses tested positive for the potent painkiller dermorphin and have referred the cases to the Louisiana Racing Commission “for further action,” according to a listing of online rulings.
A California-based horse owner has rankled the feathers of Calder Race Course in Florida by claiming two horses and shipping them to California, where they are eligible to enter races despite a rule at Calder prohibiting the practice.
Exchange betting could be launched on Los Alamitos races later this summer, if approved by the California Horse Racing Board at its monthly meeting on Thursday.
The racing board is scheduled to vote on 26 rules that will define the parameters for exchange betting in the state. Los Alamitos is the only racetrack asking for permission to conduct exchange betting.
Betfair-TVG and Twinspires.com are two account wagering providers that will ask the board for licenses to operate exchange betting.
The New Mexico Racing Commission on Thursday adopted a set of regulations that brings the state in line with most other major racing jurisdictions in regards to allowable levels of painkillers and penalty guidelines for repeat violators.
The regulations were adopted unanimously and will become effective on July 31. For the most part, the regulations dovetail with the model rules developed by the Association of Racing Commissioners International, an umbrella group for racing commissions.
The New York Assembly and Senate passed a bill just before adjourning Thursday night that will allow Catskill Off-Track Betting Corporation to operate 10 betting parlors in New York City, but it is unclear if Gov. Andrew Cuomo will allow the bill to become law.
If approved, the bill would re-open New York’s five boroughs to offtrack betting less than two years after the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation went bankrupt, taking 1,000 largely union jobs with it. The bankruptcy resulted in the shuttering of 55 locations in which bettors could place horse racing wagers.
A racetrack trade group representing nearly all of the major tracks in North America has endorsed the adoption of uniform medication guidelines and a ban on all raceday drugs with the exception of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide, the group, the Thoroughbred Racing Associations, announced Thursday.
