Brother Derek Skips Santa Anita Handicap Due To Ankle Chip

Posted on Monday, February 26th, 2007

Brother Derek, winner of 2006 Santa Anita Derby (gr. I), will miss the Santa Anita Handicap (gr. I) at Santa Anita Park due to a chip in his left ankle. ???It???s a recurring problem that probably will require four months,??? trainer Dan Hendricks said Sunday morning.

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Louisiana Downs 2007 Racuing Season Sets $3.4 Million Purses

Posted on Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Louisiana Downs unveils its 2007 stakes races schedule with the Super Derby day worth $1.3 million, and a new Super Derby prelude day, Louisiana Downs champions day, and the richest prep race in the nation for the new Breeders??? Cup Juvenile Turf. This year’s race season is worth more than $3.4 million in purses.

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Fair Grounds Cancels Four Mardi Gras Races

Posted on Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Fair Grounds Race Course canceled the final four races of its Mardi Gras Day card Tuesday after a fire broke out in the men’s restroom on the east end of the second floor of the grandstand.

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Puerto Rican Jockey Trampled to Death

Posted on Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Puerto Rican jockey Manuel Caraballo has died after being trampled during a race, authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands said Monday. Caraballo, a jockey with more than 40 years experience who was semiretired, fell from his horse Emilin on Sunday in front of about 2,000 spectators in St. Croix.

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Pennsylvania Derby Returns With $1 Million Purse

Posted on Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

AP) — The Pennsylvania Derby will be worth $1 million when it returns to Philadelphia Park on Labor Day after a year off. The Sept. 3 race was canceled last year to allow conversion of some facilities to a slot machine casino. In 2005, it was run for a purse of $750,000.

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Woodbine boss bets cheating has hurt wagering business

Posted on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs in horse racing is not only a threat to the unsuspecting doped-up animals but to the industry itself.

That is the impassioned view of Woodbine Entertainment Group chairman David Willmot, a longtime crusader for cleaning up the sport.

“We talk to our bettors, (drug cheating) is a big issue,” Willmot, who runs the country’s largest racing operation, said yesterday in an interview. “We’ve seen double-digit declines in (wagering) the past 18 months and it’s not just because people wanted to stop betting.

“Something happened to make them stop, especially the big bettors. They are voting with their wallets.”

Willmot is adamant that trainers need to assist regulators in cleaning up their sport. Otherwise, free-falling wagering will threaten all involved.
“This is a horsemen-made problem,” said Willmot, who stressed that while harness racing is in the eye of the storm, thoroughbreds are not immune to the problem.

“The racetracks and the regulators are doing their very best to deal with it. But if the horsemen don’t become totally vigilant and do everything they can to minimize this, they might not have an industry. It is that threatening. (Toronto Sun)

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North Dakota OTB sues NYRA over settlement payout dispute

Posted on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

In a lawsuit filed in New York, a North Dakota off-track horse betting outlet accuses the New York Racing Association of failing to pay off winning bets by illegally including owed pari-mutuel payouts in its bankruptcy creditor list.

Lien Games Racing said NYRA violated New York law by not protecting pari-mutuel funds it owed the Fargo, North Dakota, company. Lien Games is suing NYRA for $1,634,303.97 for money owed on winning wagers on NYRA races placed at the outlet.

In its November filing in United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, NYRA lists a debt of $1,386,695 owed to Lien Games. Lien Games filed its lawsuit in the same court on February 6.

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