The National Thoroughbred Racing Association and the Jockey Club on Friday unveiled the first in a series of videos that the organizations hope to use to promote racing on social networks.
The first video, which runs for approximately one minute, promotes a fake energy drink called the “Derby” sold at the “Hoof Locker.” The video is available on Youtube and uses the Twitter hashtag #theothermadness.
The exercise rider for Havre de Grace, the 2011 Horse of the Year, who is scheduled to make her first start of 2012 in the New Orleans Ladies Stakes at Fair Grounds on March 17. Brasser was interviewed recently at Fair Grounds.
Birthdate: Nov. 4, 1983, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Family: Single
From the 1973 American Racing Manual:
Secretariat was 1972’s most exceptional and exciting performer and was the Horse of the Year by popular acclaim.
Uniquely, he is the first 2-year-old to be awarded this title in balloting that involved Daily Racing Form since this publication inaugurated the annual polls in 1936.
As the smashing chestnut entered winter quarters, the Chenery estate heirs who own him hoped he would become the first horse since Citation, 25 years ago, to win the American Triple Crown, as an encore.
The Indiana Horse Racing Commission has issued a four-year suspension to a veterinarian who gave an illegal drug to a Standardbred trainer and has also issued its first-ever penalties under the commission’s out-of-competition testing program.
The veterinarian who was suspended, Jerrilee Cave, provided a Standardbred trainer at Hoosier Park with a syringe loaded with an anti-hemorrhaging drug marketed as Clotol, the commission said in a release. The horse who was administered the drug died immediately after it was administered, the commission said.
A sampling of the late Charles Hatton's colorful takes on the icons of racing:
On Tom Fool, 1952
“At a glance, Tom Fool is a medium sized, full bodied dark bay colt with a white near hind pastern, and exceptional development across the hips and about the stifle and quarters. His coat is thin, and when seen in the summer sun it has the color and patina of fine old walnut.”
On Romanita's Monmouth Oaks, 1957
“The time? What does it matter? The prize? It is only money. Today, Romanita stands alone.”
After renowned Morning Telegraph and Daily Racing Form writer Charles Hatton died in March 1975, his wife, Gail, passed on two of his most cherished possessions upon his request. His battered Royal typewriter went to Joe Flaherty, the Village Voice newspaperman and novelist who was a great admirer of Hatton’s work. His copy of Walter S. Vosburgh’s seminal book “Racing in America, 1866-1921,” which Vosburgh wrote for the Jockey Club in 1922, went to Bill Nack. The worn pages were crammed with decades of Hatton’s annotations.
From the 1974 American Racing Manual:
“Weave for the mighty chestnut
A tributary crown
Of autumn flowers, the brightest then
When autumn leaves are brown
Hang up his bridle on the wall,
His saddle on the tree,
Til time shall bring some racing king
Worthy to wear as he!”
Secretariat, first 2-year-old Horse of the Year, won the honors again at 3, when he became the first Triple Crown winner in a quarter-century and set a season’s earnings record of $860,404.
With his victory in the Grade 3 El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate on Feb. 18, Daddy Nose Best became the first 3-year-old male in 2012 to win a graded stakes at nine furlongs on the main track.
Of course, the El Camino Real Derby was contested over a Tapeta racing surface, a far cry from Churchill Downs dirt. Daddy Nose Best has yet to win from two dirt starts, but those losses occurred sprinting as a juvenile and Daddy Nose Best improved greatly after trainer Steve Asmussen opted to stretch out over a distance of ground.[bc_video_id:244559:]
Santa Anita will restore the signal from Oaklawn Park in Arkansas this week after officials of the two tracks and regulators in both states concluded an investigation into the cancellation of a $100,000 show bet on the first division of the Feb. 20 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn, finding no intentional manipulation of the pools.
Legislation that would permit sports betting in California at racetracks and simulcast locations has been introduced in the California Senate, but faces formidable obstacles at the state and federal levels.
There is currently a federal ban on sports betting in states other than Delaware, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon. The federal bill is being challenged in some states.
