Equine veterinarian and health care entrepreneur Dr. Steven Allday has been elected to the board of Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement group based out of Georgetown, Ky.
“Dr. Allday has already been a valuable contributor to the health and welfare of our horses, and I know he will be a tremendous asset to the board,” said Michael Blowen, who founded Old Friends in 2002. The organization now cares for more than 120 horses, with farms in Georgetown, Ky., and Greenfield Center, N.Y.
Coolmore’s Grade/Group 1 winner St Nicholas Abbey, recovering from both colic surgery and surgery to fuse a fractured pastern, has begun eating some grass, the Irish-based breeding operation reported Tuesday.
In a pair of tweets Tuesday morning, Coolmore said: “St Nicholas Abbey remains in a comfortable condition at Fethard Equine Hospital. The surgeons and veterinary team are happy with his progress. He is in good form after another good night and along with receiving intravenous nutrition he is eating small amounts of freshly cut grass.”
The 3-year-old male division existed in a state of uncertainty during the nearly two-month span between Palace Malice’s upset win in the Belmont Stakes and last weekend’s top-level stakes at Saratoga Race Course and Monmouth Park.
Coolmore stallion Scat Daddy will not stand the Southern Hemisphere season after suffering from a bout of dehydration during the first leg of his journey to Argentina, where he was due to stand the Southern Hemisphere breeding season at Haras La Quebrada in Buenos Aires.
Grade 1 winner Take Charge Indy has been retired after suffering a left-front condylar fracture during the Grade 2 Monmouth Cup Stakes on Sunday at Monmouth Park, and will stand the 2014 breeding season at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky.
Don Myers Sr., founder of prominent Indiana Thoroughbred operation Swifty Farms, died on June 25 at the age of 92.
A native of Seymour, Ind., Myers founded Swifty Oil Company in 1963, and expanded from an initial base of seven gas stations to 181 stations and convenience stores in several different states.
The list of candidates for the title of best American racehorse never to earn a championship can be as long as one’s racing memory.
The author’s personal list will always start with Gallant Man, who split eight meetings with 1957 Horse of the Year Bold Ruler and beat 1958 Horse of the Year Round Table in their only three meetings but never won the right race to nail down a championship against that epochal crop of racehorses.
Multiple Grade/Group 1 winner St Nicholas Abbey showed positive signs in his initial stages of recovery on Saturday following emergency colic surgery the day before at Fethard Equine Hospital in Ireland, according to information released by Coolmore Stud via Twitter.
Duane and Wayne Murty, brothers who were at the center of an animal neglect investigation earlier this month involving the former Hopewell Farm in Woodford County, Ky., have been arrested and charged with second-degree cruelty to animals, according to the Woodford County Detention Center’s inmate listing.
The arrests, which were first reported by local television station WLEX, took place on Thursday. The men have a July 29 court date in Versailles, Ky., and each is being held on $7,000 bond.
