Veterinarian Brian Van Arem and Woodbine’s leading trainer, Norman McKnight, were sanctioned earlier this year by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario for violating rules that prohibit extracorporeal shock wave therapy within 96 hours of a race. Van Arem was fined $7,500 Sept. 18 and McKnight was hit with …
Roaring Lion has been revealed as the 2018 Cartier Horse Of The Year at the 28th annual Cartier Racing Awards, European horseracing’s equivalent of the Oscars. Owned by Qatar Racing Limited, the outstandingly talented and consistent 3-year-old colt becomes the fourth Cartier Horse Of The Year in the last five …
Federal Case, a 2-year-old son of Gemologist who won his career debut in October at Keeneland, sold for $650,000 to West Bloodstock, agent for Robert and Lawana Low, to be the most expensive horse of Tuesday’s ninth session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. Keeneland sold 244 horses on …
Kentucky Racing Acquisition, LLC (“KRA”), a new company co-founded by Ron Winchell and Marc Falcone, announced Tuesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase all the assets of Kentucky Downs from parent company Kentucky Downs Partners, LLC, the investment group that has owned the race track since …
With no perfect tickets in Monday’s Pick Six, Thursday’s eight-race program will have a Pick Six carryover of $45,215. There was just one winning favorite in the six-race sequence on the Veterans Day holiday program Monday. Buckstopper Kit and Kent Desormeaux started things off with a three-quarter-length win over odds-on …
Grade 1 winner I Want Revenge will stand at Indiana Stallion Station in Anderson, Ind., after selling to Jeff and Stacy Jeans for $10,000 on Monday at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. The sale brings one chapter of the horse’s roller-coaster career to a close, and opens up the …
The Bluegrass Sports Commission (BSC) will honor WinStar Farm at the eighth annual Bluegrass Sports Awards. WinStar Farm will receive the 2019 Jim Host Sports Business Award. Owner Kenny Troutt and WinStar Farm have a history of success inside its fences, most notably 2018 Triple Crown winner, Justify. WinStar also owns …
An 8-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway, Point Piper was claimed for $10,000 at Del Mar on Monday by trainer Jonathan Wong on behalf of Willow Tree Farm, and drf.com reports that the Grade 3 winner will be retired to stud in California. Willow Tree is owned by Butch and Lu Thomas, …
Peggy Hendershot, who since 2006 has served as President of the Thoroughbred breeding and racing industry’s most influential federal political action committee, Horse PAC®, will retire at the end of the year, the NTRA announced today. Hendershot’s lengthy tenure with Horse PAC® began in 2002 when the bi-partisan PAC was …
Beach Patrol, winner of the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes at three, and the G1 Arlington Million and G1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic at four, has been purchased from Al Shahania Stud (HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Thani) by LEX, Inc., Japan in a deal negotiated by Dr. Naoya Yoshida …
