Trainer Patrick Biancone has sued Thoroughbred owner-breeder George Strawbridge for defamation, claiming that remarks Strawbridge made during a speech in late October slandered his reputation, according to court papers.

The suit cites an Oct. 31, 2011, speech that Strawbridge made to the Thoroughbred Club of America in Lexington in which Strawbridge said that “we all know the story of a trainer caught with enough snake venom to poison a small country, and he is still training in the U.S. By the way, this trainer is banned in the rest of the world.”

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Myra Solomon, who worked for decades as a mutuel clerk at Churchill Downs, Gulfstream Park, and elsewhere while traveling from track to track with her husband, Mickey, died Friday in Louisville, Ky., following a lengthy illness. She was 72.

A memorial service was held Tuesday. Mickey Solomon died in April 2006 after working for more than three decades as a clocker for Daily Racing Form and Equibase.
 

A U.S. District Attorney in West Virginia has accused a former bookkeeper at Mountaineer Casino and Racetrack of allegedly embezzling $1.2 million in money from the track's horsemen's account, according to an indictment released on Monday.

The Association of Racing Commissioners International has approved model rules that would limit raceday furosemide administrations to regulatory vets and prohibit the administration of any other medication on race day, the RCI said on Tuesday.

A trainer hides a horse off a two-year layoff and puts him over at 12-1. A trio of degenerates gets a hustler to bankroll an $864 pick six ticket and takes down the whole pool. A high-level mob associate gets out of the clink and instructs his aide de camp to check up on his colicky, $2 million horse, whose true ownership is hidden. A longshot breaks down and is euthanized on the track while comforted by his bug-boy jock. And a gruff old trainer mutters to his promising new charge that the horse’s “daddy” was killed.

And that was just the first hour.