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Maryland Jockey Club photo Shirley Lojeski's Forest Fire will bring stakes credentials into Saturday's $200,000 Claiming Crown Jewel, which will highlight the $1.1 million, nine-race event for horses that have raced for a claiming price of $35,000 or less. The Claiming Crown, which will be hosted by Gulfstream Park for the eighth consecutive [...]
We do not need to reinvent the wheel. How do we as an industry fight negatives cast against us when most are not true? There is no doubt we all wanted to celebrate a successful Breeders’ Cup and showcase everything that is magnificent about horse racing. But instead mainstream media highlights the fatality of [...]
Today we saw several of the nation's leading Thoroughbred racetracks and the Breeders' Cup announce the creation of an effort to unify the industry in enhancing existing protections and working together to develop new reforms to ensure the safety of the sport's equine and human athletes. We applaud the group, announced as the Thoroughbred Safety [...]
The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance announced today that $3,420,000 will be awarded as grants to 74 Thoroughbred aftercare organizations that currently hold TAA accreditation. Since inception in 2012, the TAA has now awarded more than $17.2 million in grants to accredited Thoroughbred aftercare organizations. “The TAA is pleased to be able to award more than $3 [...]
The Elite Program Inc., through its Groom Elite Education programs, is sponsoring Dr. C. Reid McLellan’s Owner/Trainer Racehorse Training Prep Class on November 21-24 at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky. This is an expanded version of McLellan’s Trainers' Exam Prep class that he has taught for over 20 years. Renamed “Racehorse Trainers Prep Class," this version [...]
The Florida Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association has tabbed veteran trainer and racing executive William 'Billy' Badgett to fill the group's vacant position of executive director. Badgett, 67, recently left his position as vice president of racing at Gulfstream Park after a five-year stint on the frontside following a long and distinguished career as a [...]
Eric Hamelback (Photo by Denis Blake/National HBPA) Eric Hamelback, the CEO of the National HBPA, has penned a commentary in Thoroughbred Daily News addressing the rights and representation of racehorse owners in the industry. "Unless racehorse owners are able to organize themselves and respond to challenges with one voice from their representative horsemen’s [...]
The Race Track Chaplaincy of America (RTCA), in partnership with the National HBPA and Equine Equipment, is pleased to announced a fundraising raffle to help the organization further its goal of serving the racing industry. The RTCA will be selling 200 raffle tickets at $50 each for a chance to win a commercial Toro or [...]
Registration is now open for the upcoming 2020 Track Superintendents Field Day at Remington Park. Please visit www.tracksupers.com to learn more or call 877-905-0004 to register. The event is open to all Track Superintendents and their staff. The Superintendents are an independent group that meets annually to discuss best practices related to track maintenance and [...]
Photo by John Engelhardt “Lasix has proven to be an effective and benign therapeutic remedy for bleeding and is more humane than taking away a horse's access to water. The current, well-regulated system of administration and disclosure works well for horses, horsemen and horseplayers alike. Criminalizing its use would be a huge [...]