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Donna Barton Brothers interviews Victor Espinoza on horseback after 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah won the Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland. Photo courtesy Donna Brothers Donna Barton Brothers — the accomplished jockey who has become even more prominent as an award-winning racing analyst for NBC Sports, advocate for responsible equine welfare [...]
Thoroughbred Charities of America announced today that the planning and preparations for the 30th Annual Stallion Season Auction are underway. The auction, held Wednesday, January 8 – Sunday, January 12, 2020, is the largest annual fundraiser for the nonprofit organization. “2020 marks the 30th anniversary of TCA and our Stallion Season Auction,” said Erin Crady, executive [...]
Leitone (Photo by Coglianese Photos/Lauren King) Ara Aprahamian’s Leitone made an already great day even better for trainer Jason Servis Saturday while scoring a convincing 2 ½ -length triumph in the $200,000 Jewel at Gulfstream Park. The Jewel, a 1 1/8-mile stakes for horses that have started for a claiming price of [...]
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 [...]