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A Finnish study has found that 83 percent of Standardbred racehorses and 90 percent of Finnhorse racehorses have tongue lesions caused by bits, reports The Horse. The study used 261 racehorses on four Finnish tracks and found that 84 percent of the horses had moderate to severe mouth lesions. However,…
Champion Essential Quality emerged in good order from his victory in the $750,000 Southwest Stakes (G3) for 3-year-olds Saturday at Oaklawn in Hot Springs, Ark., the unbeaten colt’s trainer, Brad Cox, said Sunday morning. Essential Quality received a preliminary Beyer Speed Figure of 96, a career high, for his 4…
Sam Houston Race Park hosted Texas Preview on Saturday evening, one week later than originally planned. The winter storm that rocked Texas with sub-freezing temperatures and icy road conditions forced the cancelation of the entire week of racing at the northwest Houston racetrack. However, a very exciting night of stakes action…
Albert Lynn Stone, who served as CEO and president of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., for 14 years from 1970-’84, passed away Monday in Lexington, Ky. He was 95. Stone joined Churchill Downs in 1961 as resident manager, and was named the ninth president in track history in 1970 when…
The 2020 Washington Annual Awards celebration was held via Zoom Saturday evening, February 27. Many industry members tuned in via their phones or other devices to be part of the ceremonies. Kristin Boice and Marylou Holden’s talented juvenile Bodenheimer was named horse of the year. This year the award honored…
Providing there is no Single Ticket winner on Sunday or Friday, Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., has announced there will be a mandatory payout in its popular 20 cent Single Ticket Rainbow Pick 6 Jackpot on Santa Anita Handicap day, next Saturday, March 6 ,and track officials project the…
He may be green as grass, but that’s where his promising future lies. Rock Your World, who stretched out off an impressive debut, rallied powerfully late and left no doubt about who was best in Saturday’s $100,000 Pasadena Stakes at Santa Anita, as he prevailed by a widening 2 ¼…
The 20-cent Rainbow 6 will have a guaranteed pool of $900,000 when racing resumes Sunday with a 12-race program at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. First race post is 12:10 p.m. The sequence features three turf stakes and will include the eighth race, a maiden special weight event at…
Jockey Jose Ortiz put Antoinette on the lead at the start, and the Godolphin homebred filly by Hard Spun was never headed, winning the Grade 3, $125,000 The Very One Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Saturday in Hallandale Beach, Fla. Trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott, Antoinette proved 2…
Eight and a half lengths behind the leader with five-sixteenths of a mile to run, Courtlandt Farms’ homebred Greatest Honour, closed with a rush under Jose Ortiz to win Saturday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. Trained by Shug McGaughey, the…
