Jan. 28: Golden Gate - Albany S. - $50,000 Added
Jan. 28: Oaklawn Park - King Cotton S. - $50,000
Jan. 28: Sam Houston - John B. Connally Turf Cup S. - G3,
$200,000 Jan. 28: Santa Anita - Santa Ysabel S. - G3, $100,000,
Sensational Star S. - $100,000, Crystal Water S. - $100,000,
Valentine Dancer S. - $100,000, Santa Monica S. - G1, $300,000
Jan. 28: Turf Paradise - Swift S. - $35,000, Marathon
Series S. - $15,000, Glendale H. - $35,000 Jan. 29: Santa Anita - Wishing Well S. - $70,000 Added Jan. 29: Sunland Park - SPRC Claiming Series I S. -
$20,000, SPRC Claiming Series I S. - $20,000 Added
Trainers Scott Willoughby and Paul Jones talk about their top
runners racing in the
Los Alamitos Winter Derby QH trials tonight,
Friday, January 28.
Louisiana State Senate Commerce Committee Hands
Louisiana Horsemen Victory in Striking Down Emergency Rule
- Lexington, KY, Jan. 27, 2012 – On Friday, January 20, the
Louisiana State Senate Commerce Committee voted to strike down an
emergency rule passed by the Louisiana Racing Commission (LRC) in
November of 2011 that would have lowered the state’s threshold level
for phenylbutazone from 5.0 micrograms to 2.0 micrograms. The vote
was a victory for Louisiana horsemen, who opposed the LRC’s use of
the emergency rule process in a non-emergency situation because the
process does not allow input from affected parties.
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12 Stakes worth $1.3M highlight 2012 Lone Star
Park Thoroughbred meeting - New Bonus
Series, Global Gaming Triple, Links Stakes at Lone Star and
Remington - GRAND PRAIRIE, TX - Jan. 27, 2012 - Lone Star
Park at Grand Prairie announced the track’s 2012 Spring Thoroughbred
Season features 12 stakes, down from 19 in 2011, including two
graded stakes, with purses totaling $1.3 million.
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Mr T Perry Surges
For Montgomery Win; Eyeontheline
took control of the Marathon
Stakes
- BOSSIER CITY, LA - Jan. 21,
2012 - Ana Alvidrez’s Mr T
Perry, who was winning for a
$10,000 claiming tag in
November, raced to his
third-straight win in the
$40,000 Billy Montgomery Stakes
for Louisiana-bred
three-year-olds at Louisiana
Downs on Saturday afternoon.
MR. BOWLING ROLLS TO VICTORY IN LECOMTE
- NEW ORLEANS - Jan. 21, 2012 –
Giving trainer Larry Jones his second victory in Saturday’s
two stakes restricted to sophomores, Brereton Jones’s Mr.
Bowling rallied from just behind the early leaders to gain
the advantage in upper stretch and then withstood a late bid
by Zayat Stables’ Z Dager and capture the 68th running of
Fair Grounds’ Grade III Lecomte Stakes by a head on the New
Orleans oval’s Road to the Derby Kickoff Day.
RTCA announces new recognitions and benefits for
supporters - Jan. 26, 2012 - The Race Track Chaplaincy of
America will recognize a new category of supporters in 2012 by
establishing the 40th Anniversary Society. Currently, for gifts of
$5,000 and above, donors are recognized members of the White Horse
Fellowship, a name it shares with the award RTCA presents annually
to backstretch workers.
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2011
Connally Turf Cup Champion Schramsberg Retired -
Jan. 26, 2012 - Schramsberg, the 2011 winner of the Grade 3,
Connally Turf Cup, has been retired and will stand at stud at Bar
None Ranches, Dewinton, Alberta, Canada.
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Average up at Barretts - Jan. 25, 2012
- Barretts sold 162 for $982,500, an average of $6,065.That average
rose 14.2% from last year, when 256 grossed $1,359,400 and averaged
$5,310. A total of 81 did not sell for a buy-back rate of 33%.
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full results
Fred Hutton named Thoroughbred racing secretary at
Prairie Meadows - Altoona, IA - Jan. 25, 2012 - Fred
Hutton has been hired as the new Thoroughbred racing secretary at
Prairie Meadows Racetrack in Altoona, Iowa, replacing Dan Doocy, who
stepped down last fall.
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Horse racing efforts
abandoned - Jan. 25, 2012 - The Western Montana Turf Club
has abandoned efforts to produce a horse-racing meet at the 2012
Western Montana Fair in Missoula. In a letter addressed Monday to
fairgrounds director Steve Earle and the Missoula County Commission,
the turf club said it was withdrawing a proposal to run a two-day
race meet in 2012. read
more
APHA announces 2011 Running
Champions - FORT WORTH, TX - Jan. 25, 2012 - PF Chief
Runnin Bear and Flashthechicks were named the American Paint Horse
Association’s Running World Champions for 2011. The Regular Registry
and Solid Paint-Bred world champions respectively, and 16 other
Running Champions were announced January 21 at the Heritage Place
Sale in Oklahoma City.
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Enrique Portillo Gomez pilots 4 winners takes over
lead in standings - Sunland Park, NM - Jan. 25, 2012 -
Enrique Portillo Gomez shot to the top of the Sunland Park jockey
standings on Tuesday by piloting four winners on the card.
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more
Breathtaking Caracortado,
surging Teddy's Promise take center stage on
Sunshine Millions Day Card
- Caracortado, who recently
staged one of the most stunning stretch runs
in track history, and swiftly developing
Grade I winner Teddy’s Promise will be in
action Saturday when Santa Anita presents
its10-race Sunshine Millions Day that
includes five stakes races and starts at 12
noon.
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32 To compete in trials to
G1 Los Alamitos Winter Derby -
The battle for early supremacy in the
sophomore division at Los Alamitos Race
Course kicks off on Saturday night when 32
high caliber 3-year-olds compete in the
trials to the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter
Derby at 400 yards. Four trials will be
contested on the night beginning with the
fifth race on the card. A total of 10 races
are on tap with first post set for the now
usual starting time of 5 p.m.
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Bucktown gets edge in FG
feature Saturday - Ed Wright
Cattle Co. and Miles Childers’ Bucktown, an
accredited Louisiana-bred sophomore who had
the misfortune of facing Brittlyn Stable’s
highly-regarded Beanwah’smachine in his last
three starts, finds an easier spot this
weekend and has been pegged as the tepid 7-2
choice in Saturday’s featured six-furlong
allowance sprint at Fair Grounds.
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Field set for G3, $200,000 Connally Turf Cup
at Sam Houston Race Park;
Rosie Napravnik to Make Her Sam Houston
Debut
- Sam Houston Race Park will
host the Grade III, $200,000
Connally Turf Cup
on Saturday, January 28. The
mile-and-one-eighth turf contest was awarded
Grade III status in 2006, the first
Thoroughbred graded stakes since Sam Houston
Race Park opened in 1994. The Connally Turf
Cup is the richest race of the 2012
Thoroughbred meet.
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River Bear Ready to
Roar in King Cotton - With
13 career wins and more than a half-million
dollars banked, River Bear has done a great
job at making his own good luck throughout
his racing career. Yet, the Dana Waier
Thoroughbred’s veteran gelding is showing
some auspicious signs that the best
performance of his career could still come Saturday when he tackles the $50,000
King Cotton Stakes.
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Three great champions
headline Winter Championship trials
- CYPRESS, CA - Jan 26, 2012 - AQHA
Champions Jess You And I, Noconi and Little
Bit Of Baja, a trio of venerable Grade 1
winners with a combined record of 36 wins
from 88 starts and earnings of $3,934,414,
will headline the trials to the Grade 1 Los
Alamitos Winter Championship to be held on
Sunday night. Ramon Sanchez has the pleasure
of riding these three historic horses. First
post time is 5 p.m.
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