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In 2009, Breeders’ Cup Ltd. tapped a $5.9 million line of credit at a time when the value of its investment portfolio had plunged 31 percent and its nominations revenue was expected to plummet because of the recession. The run to the bank was a troubling signal. Members were critical of the organization’s financial management and its hasty decision – quickly reversed – to drop a $5 million program providing purse supplements to stakes races.
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BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - The Kentucky Derby favorite worked on Thursday. Not just any favorite but one trained by a two time Kentucky Derby winner. But something was definitely missing.
A crowd.
Larry Collmus, the Monmouth Park and Gulfstream Park race caller, has never called a 20-horse field in his life. He has 10 days to master the art.
Collmus, 44, was announced by NBC Sports on Wednesday as the new race caller for the notoriously challenging Kentucky Derby and the two other races in the Triple Crown, replacing Tom Durkin, the longtime New York race caller who elected to step aside from the Triple Crown broadcasts as of this year.
Silver Medallion, who finished fourth in the Lexington Stakes at Keeneland on Saturday, is not under consideration for the May 7 Kentucky Derby, a decision that affects the graded stakes earnings list and moves Anthony's Cross into the bubble at number 21.
Three days before last year’s Kentucky Derby, track announcer Tom Durkin found himself on a couch in a Louisville psychiatrist’s office getting hypnotized. Though he had called the world’s most famous horse race 13 previous times – nine for NBC Sports – Durkin was feeling stressed out.
“It’s always been stressful,” said Durkin, who was prescribed Inderal, a beta blocker, to deal with the anxiety.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Thoroughbred owner Paul Saylor has designated that funds raised for the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation in his late daughter’s honor will go to horses with special needs, the foundation announced Tuesday.
According to the retirement foundation, the funds will be put toward caring for “specific horses requiring special or geriatric care,” including some removed from two of the foundation’s satellite farms in Oklahoma that critics alleged had neglected horses.