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Matt Schera’s John Jones cruised to the lead around the far turn, took command at the top of the stretch and, with one light tap from the whip of jockey Luis Garcia, powered down the stretch to his fourth consecutive victory in Sunday’s $60,000 Jewel on Claiming Crown Preview Day at Laurel Park. The 1 [...]
Mark Casse speaks with European media at the Breeders’ Cup Tuesday morning (Photo by Jennie Rees) Trainer Mark Casse has his finest assembly of horses for the Breeders’ Cup this year, even if you didn’t count his champion mare Tepin, the international star who Saturday at Santa Anita Park shoots to repeat [...]
Photo by Coady Photography From Churchill Downs news release Posted: 10/31/ 16 Churchill Downs Racing Club’s Warrior’s Club gave his 200 members a thrill they’ll cherish forever when the 2-year-old son of Warrior’s Reward took the lead shortly after the break and never looked back in winning the inaugural $300,000 Spendthrift [...]
Nyquist, shown winning the 2016 Kentucky Derby, will miss the Breeders' Cup with a 'puffy ankle.' Credit: Coady Photography By Jennie Rees Reigning Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist has been declared out of next Saturday’s $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita Park after coming out of his last workout with what trainer [...]
From RTIP news release Posted: 10/27/16 The University of Arizona’s Race Track Industry Program today released the agenda for the 2016 Global Symposium on Racing & Gaming to be held December 5 – 7, 2016 at Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Arizona. Scheduled topics focus on racing’s core products and include: Racing’s Identity Crisis: Who [...]
Kentucky Downs, Ellis Park, the Kentucky HBPA and JockeyTalk360.com are partnering to provide media coverage of the Breeders’ Cup Nov. 4-5 at Santa Anita, with an emphasis on Kentucky-based horses and horsemen competing in racing’s championship weekend. Jennie Rees, the award-winning journalist who was turf writer for The (Louisville) Courier-Journal for 32 years, will write [...]
L-R: Olga Aguilar, Jaime Roth, Larry Roth, Nanci Roth, and Flavien Prat. From OwnerView news release Posted: 10/27/16 OwnerView announced today that the Long Island-based LNJ Foxwoods stable owned by Larry, Nanci, and Jaime Roth has been chosen as the 2016 New Owner of the Year, which honors a new Thoroughbred owner who [...]
Brererton Jones From KEEP news release Posted: 10/13/16 The Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP) has announced former governor and founding KEEP member, Brereton Jones, and Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm as recipients of the inaugural Industry Vision Award during the KEEP Equine Industry Conference on October 18 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in [...]
From left to right: Volunteers Carolyn, Elizabeth, and Stephanie, Carolyn Drover, Catherine Flowers, Volunteer Kristen, Sarah Matl, and Erin Anuzis. (Photo by Susanna Thomas) From MMSC news release Posted: 10/8/16 Maker’s Mark Secretariat Center (MMSC), a premier non-profit re-schooling facility for adoptable Thoroughbreds located at the Kentucky Horse Park, hosted a movie night [...]
The 2016 Thoroughbred Industry Employee Award winners were announced Oct. 7. From left to right: Jill Byrne, Victor Espinoza, Izzy Vega, Melissa Cohen, D. Wayne Lukas, James Sebastian, and Vinny Castaneda. (Photo by Coady Photography) Sponsored by Godolphin, the inaugural edition of The Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards was just concluded this afternoon with [...]