To all trainers, horse owners and farm owners/managers: On Monday, we need to light up the phone lines to Congress. We must rally our forces to make sure that Congress re-instates the Returning Worker Exemption that allows our temporary migrant work force to be in the U.S. legally for 10 months a year, return [...]
Mahoning Valley track superintendent R. J. Moore with his track crew (Photo courtesy Mahoning Valley) Innovative Equine Marketing, which provides manufacturer discounts to the horse world through its Equine Equipment program, is launching America’s first internships for college students interested in the field of racetrack maintenance and getting on course to being a [...]
Daddy's Boo (Photo by Reed Palmer Photography) From Kentucky Downs news release Posted: 12/2/16 Kentucky will be well-represented among the 118 horses entered in Saturday’s nine Claiming Crown races at Gulfstream Park, including the impressive winners of Kentucky Downs’ pair of $75,000 automatic-qualifier preps in Cammack and Daddy’s Boo. The $1.1 million Claiming [...]
Kentucky HPBA President Rick Hiles (left) and Churchill Downs Incorporated Executive Director of Racing Mike Ziegler present the donation to TAA representative Ashton Moynihan. (Photo by Coady Photography) From Churchill Downs news release Posted: 11/25/16 Churchill Downs Racetrack and its horsemen presented checks totaling $55,000 to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (“TAA”) between races [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cammack (Photo by Reed Palmer Photography) From Kentucky Downs news release Posted: 9/11/16 From the time that owner-breeder David Block saw that Kentucky Downs was having a starter-allowance race with a purse of $75,000 as an automatic qualifier for the Claiming Crown, Sunday’s race was on the dance card for Cammack. The Claiming [...]