Daily Racing Form will partner with Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course to raise funds for three equine aftercare organizations on Penn Mile Day, Saturday, June 1, at the track.
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New Vocations Racehorse Adoption is accepting résumés for its Olivia M. Saylor Internship, which gives college students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience working with former racehorses at New Vocations.
The internship is a five-month paid position at the New Vocations facility in Lexington, Ky. The individual must live in the local area, have extensive horse experience, and show good communication and computer skills, according to a New Vocations release.
Thistledown Racino near Cleveland, Ohio, recently awarded $17,255 in funds to the Communication Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses (CANTER) Ohio branch, which is based out of Mentor, Ohio.
The funds will enable the aftercare program to take in a greater number of horses from the track this year and transition them into new careers.
Oxbow’s upset win in the Preakness Stakes dominated the headlines over the weekend, as the bred-for-stamina Awesome Again colt set an easy pace and coasted to victory under Gary Stevens.
William H. Welch, retired Executive Director of the New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund, died May 14 at his home in Geneseo, N.Y. He was 72.
Welch, born in Rochester, N.Y., was instrumental in promoting New York’s original Thoroughbred Fund legislation while working for the Breeders Service Bureau of the State Racing Commission. Welch retired as Executive Director—formerly called “Executive Administrator”—of the New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund.
Authorized, Europe’s champion 3-year-old colt of 2007, will shuttle to Chile to stand at Haras Cordilliera, Racing Post reports.
The 9-year-old son of Montjeu stands the Northern Hemisphere season at Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, England, for an advertised fee of $10,646 (7,000 British pounds).
Authorized’s runners are led by Group 3 winners Sugar Boy and Rehn’s Nest and Turkish champion Toruk Macto. The deal to shuttle was brokered by McKeever Bloodstock.
While the Triple Crown hopes of Kentucky Derby winner Orb, who represents decades of involvement in the racing industry for the Phipps and Janney families, were dashed in the Preakness Stakes, another historic name landed in the winner's circle Saturday at Pimlico Race Course.
Oxbow’s upset victory in the Preakness Stakes was a triumph for a trio of established names in the racing industry—trainer D. Wayne Lukas, jockey Gary Stevens, and owner Calumet Farm—but it was also the first classic win for a fairly new entity, Richard Santulli’s Colts Neck Stables.
Multiple Grade 1 winner and freshman sire Einstein was represented by his first winner on Saturday when E Equalsmcsquared won a maiden claiming race at Lone Star Park.
The dark bay or brown filly, out of stakes-placed winning Conquistador Cielo mare Prairie Spring, drew away to win by 7 ¾ lengths, covering 4 1/2 furlongs in :53.51 seconds in her second career start.