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Poplar Creek in Ohio to Hold Open House

Poplar Creek Horse Center in Ohio has scheduled its stallion open house Jan. 26.

 Monday, January 21, 2013

TIP Approves 375 Horse Shows

The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program has approved more than 375 shows from the 268 applications that it received.

 Monday, January 21, 2013
Kentucky Horseman Henry White Dies

Kentucky Horseman Henry White Dies

Henry D. White, a prominent Central Kentucky horseman, died Jan. 20 of heart failure at 85.

 Sunday, January 20, 2013

Wrote Half Sister Heads Tattersalls February

Diara Angel, a half sister to 2011 Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. I) winner Wrote, heads a large catalog for the 2013 Tattersalls February Sale Feb. 7.

 Sunday, January 20, 2013
Ortiz Duo Wins First 7 Races on Aqueduct Card

Ortiz Duo Wins First 7 Races on Aqueduct Card

Apprentice jockey Jose Ortiz won the first three races and brother Irad Ortiz Jr. took races 4 through 7 to give them a sweep of the first seven races Jan. 20 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

 Sunday, January 20, 2013

Dominguez Showing Improvement

Three-time Eclipse Award-winning jockey Ramon Dominguez, diagnosed with a displaced skull fracture as a result of a spill Jan. 18 at Aqueduct Racetrack, is improving as he remains in intensive care.

 Sunday, January 20, 2013
Shanghai Bobby Posts Final Holy Bull Breeze

Shanghai Bobby Posts Final Holy Bull Breeze

The morning after capturing an Eclipse Award, undefeated Shanghai Bobby worked five furlongs in 1:00 4/5 Jan. 20 in his final tune-up for the upcoming Holy Bull Stakes (gr. III) at Gulfstream Park.

 Sunday, January 20, 2013
Eclipse Award Overview; Winners, Votes

Eclipse Award Overview; Winners, Votes

A voting overview of the 2012 Eclipse Award winners and other candidates, along with number of first-place votes for each category is listed in this story.

 Sunday, January 20, 2013

Don't Cross Me to At Liberty Farms

New York winner Don't Cross Me has been retired from racing to stand the 2013 season at At Liberty Farms near Fort Salonga, N.Y.

 Sunday, January 20, 2013

Krigger OK After Spill at Santa Anita

Jockey Kevin Krigger is expected to be back in action for his mount in the Smarty Jones Stakes Jan. 21 after being involved in a spill at Santa Anita Park Jan. 18.

 Saturday, January 19, 2013

Blind Luck Delivers First Foal by Bernardini

At one minute past the stroke of midnight on Jan. 19, 2010 3-year-old champion filly Blind Luck delivered her first foal, a filly by Bernardini, at Hill 'n' Dale Farm in Lexington, Ky.

 Saturday, January 19, 2013
Doctors Expect Full Recovery for Dominguez

Doctors Expect Full Recovery for Dominguez

The agent for jockey Ramon Dominguez says doctors are optimistic the nation's leading rider will fully recover from a fractured skull.

 Saturday, January 19, 2013

K One King to Margaux Farm

The grade I-winning son of Apalachee moves from Louisiana to Kentucky for 2013 breeding season.

 Saturday, January 19, 2013
Dominguez Fractures Skull in Spill

Dominguez Fractures Skull in Spill

The agent for jockey Ramon Dominguez says the nation's leading rider has suffered a fractured skull after being involved in a spill during the seventh race at Aqueduct Racetrack Jan. 18.

 Friday, January 18, 2013
CHRB Chairman Leaving for Stronach Group

CHRB Chairman Leaving for Stronach Group

Keith Brackpool, chairman of the California Horse Racing Board for the past three years, announced Jan. 18 that he had notified Gov. Jerry Brown's office that he is resigning to become part of The Stronach Group.

 Friday, January 18, 2013

First Dude's First Foal a Filly

The newborn foal is out of 5-year-old Hennessy mare Wall St Widow. Wall St Widow's dam, Love Or Money (Coronado's Quest), is a half sister to multiple graded stakes winner and sire Broken Vow (Unbridled).

 Friday, January 18, 2013

Darley Plans Online Stallion Season Auction

Darley in America will hold a series of online stallion season auctions to Medaglia d'Oro, Hard Spun, and Lonhro for the 2013 breeding season.

 Friday, January 18, 2013
Fort Larned Returns to Work at Palm Meadows

Fort Larned Returns to Work at Palm Meadows

Horse of the Year finalist Fort Larned breezed a half-mile in 48 2/5 on the morning of Jan. 18 at Palm Meadows Training Center, his first recorded workout since his victory in last fall's Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I).

 Friday, January 18, 2013
Believe You Can Registers Bullet Work

Believe You Can Registers Bullet Work

Believe You Can took a step toward her 4-year-old racing debut on Jan. 18 when she breezed five furlongs in a minute flat on a fast track at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, earning the bullet for the distance.

 Friday, January 18, 2013

Hermitage to Continue as Thoroughbred Farm

Louisville entrepreneurs and philanthropists Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson have announced that historic Hermitage Farm will remain a Thoroughbred operation, with plans to make the farm a tourist destination.

 Friday, January 18, 2013

The Cliff's Edge to Fair Winds in Ohio

Grade I winner The Cliff's Edge has been relocated to Kim and Lori Williams' Fair Winds Farm near Waynesville, Ohio, where he will stand in 2013 for $2,500 live foal.

 Friday, January 18, 2013
NYRA Registers Strong Handle Growth for Year

NYRA Registers Strong Handle Growth for Year

In its first full year receiving added money for purses from the Resorts World Casino New York City at Aqueduct Racetrack, the New York Racing Association registered strong pari-mutuel handle in 2012.

 Friday, January 18, 2013

Canterbury Park Names Track Superintendent

Canterbury Park has hired Javier Barajas as track superintendent for the 2013 racing season. Barajas has held similar positions at Arlington Park, Golden Gate Fields, Fair Grounds, and Retama Park.

 Friday, January 18, 2013
Scheduling Tool Targets Simulcast Overlap

Scheduling Tool Targets Simulcast Overlap

InCompass Solutions, a subsidiary of The Jockey Club, announced Jan. 18 that it has completed development of an analytic scheduling tool designed to maximize handle for its customer racetracks.

 Friday, January 18, 2013

Grade I Winner Sidney's Candy Gets First Foal

The first reported foal by grade I winner Sidney's Candy is a colt born Jan. 17 at Kenny Troutt's WinStar Farm near Versailles, Ky.

 Thursday, January 17, 2013
Champion Eye of the Leopard to Calumet

Champion Eye of the Leopard to Calumet

Eye of the Leopard, a Canadian champion and classic-winning son of A.P. Indy, has been retired from racing and will enter stud for $10,000 at Calumet Farm near Lexington.

 Thursday, January 17, 2013

NYRA to Consider Synthetic for Aqueduct

Installing a synthetic surface for the inner track at Aqueduct Racetrack for the 2013-14 winter season is among the changes to NYRA policies and operations that will be considered by the board at its Jan. 25 meeting.

 Thursday, January 17, 2013

Forestry to Shuttle to Peru

Forestry, sire of 2012 Eclipse Award finalist Shackleford, will shuttle to Claudio Pizarro's Haras El Catorce in Peru.

 Thursday, January 17, 2013
Keeneland Spring Stakes to Offer $3.625M

Keeneland Spring Stakes to Offer $3.625M

Keeneland will offer 16 stakes worth $3.625 million at its 2013 spring race meeting, headlined by the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I) and Central Bank Ashland Stakes (gr. I).

 Thursday, January 17, 2013
Paynter's Recovery Is 'Moment of the Year'

Paynter's Recovery Is 'Moment of the Year'

Paynter's recovery from life-threatening battles with laminitis and colitis after his victory in the 2012 Haskell Invitational Stakes (gr. I) at Monmouth Park was voted by fans the 2012 NTRA Moment of the Year.

 Thursday, January 17, 2013

College Student Wins Eclipse Awards Contest

Megean O'Dell, a student in the Race Track Industry Program at the University of Arizona, has won the Eclipse Awards Sweepstakes sponsored by Starlight Racing, Michael Tabor, Susan Magnier, and Derrick Smith.

 Thursday, January 17, 2013

Smith Honored as Top South Carolina Breeder

South Carolina Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association honored its 2012 award recipients at its annual awards banquet in Camden on Saturday, Jan. 12.

 Thursday, January 17, 2013
Tale of the Cat Yearling Tops OBS Finale

Tale of the Cat Yearling Tops OBS Finale

A yearling filly by Tale of the Cat was sold to Bill Fleming for $57,000 Jan. 16 to top the open session of Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s 2013 winter mixed sale.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013

KEEP Adds Five to Its Board

The Board of Directors of the Kentucky Equine Education Project has added five new members.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013

State City to Caines in Oklahoma

State City, a Dubai champion sprinter and a group I winner, will stand in 2013 at Caines Stallion Station near Wynnewood, Okla.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Tales of the Wild to Pendergraft in Oklahoma

Tales of the Wild, a full brother to stakes winner Wild Tale, will stand in 2013 at Pendergraft Farm in Oklahoma.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013

BRIS Launches Online American Produce Records

Bloodstock Research Information Services has launched an online version of its 40-year-old American Produce Records.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Millions Distaff: Successful Song's Final Run

Millions Distaff: Successful Song's Final Run

Successful Song was supposed to retire after the Dec. 30 Ocala Stakes, a one-mile dirt event run at Gulfstream Park. But when she won, her connections decided to run back in the $300,000 Sunshine Millions Distaff.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Ballena Vista, Wygod Buy Mares for Calimonco

Donald Cohn and Martin Wygod purchased 10 distaffers at the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale to be bred.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Grade II Winner Wilburn Sires First Foal

Grade II Winner Wilburn Sires First Foal

Wilburn's first reported foal is a filly born Jan. 9 at Justice Farm in Ohio.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Jack Disney to be Honored at Santa Anita

Jack Disney, longtime sportswriter for the defunct Los Angeles Herald Examiner and publicist at two major Southern California racetracks, will be honored Jan. 27 at Santa Anita Park.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Borel, Agent Both on the Mend

Borel, Agent Both on the Mend

Both jockey Calvin Borel and his longtime agent Jerry Hissam are recovering--one from injury and one from illness--as the three-time Kentucky Derby winner sits one away from 5,000 career victories.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Trappe Shot Sires First Foal

The first reported foal by grade II winner Trappe Shot is a colt born Jan. 15 at Blackstone Farm near Pine Grove, Pa.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013
More Than Ready, Congrats Move to WinStar

More Than Ready, Congrats Move to WinStar

Major sires More Than Ready and Congrats head a group of five stallions that have been relocated to Kenny Troutt's WinStar Farm near Versailles, Ky.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Giant Oak's First Foal Out of Stakes Winner

Bred by Mike Abraham, the filly is out of the Ghazi mare Silent Emotion, a stakes winner of $209,993 and dam of grade 1-placed multiple stakes winner Unspoken Word.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Two Fair Grounds Turf Stakes Moved to Jan. 26

Two Fair Grounds Turf Stakes Moved to Jan. 26

Two Fair Grounds turf stakes scheduled for Jan. 19--the Col. E.R. Bradley Handicap (gr. IIIT) and the Marie G. Krantz Memorial Stakes-- have been moved to Jan. 26 due to the likelihood there will be no turf racing Jan. 19.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Sagamore to Sponsor Native Dancer Stakes

Sagamore to Sponsor Native Dancer Stakes

Kevin Plank's Sagamore Racing announced it will sponsor the $125,000 Native Dancer Stakes Jan. 21 at Laurel Park.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013

First Foal by Paddy O'Prado is a Colt

Paddy O'Prado's first reported foal is a chestnut colt born Jan. 13 at B. Wayne Hughes' Spendthrift Farm near Lexington.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Oaklawn Continues Ban on Hawthorne Horses

Oaklawn Continues Ban on Hawthorne Horses

Despite the lifting an equine herpesvirus-related quarantine at Hawthorne Race Course, Oaklawn Park in Arkansas is still not permitting Hawthorne horses on its grounds.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013

European Champion Generous Dies

Generous, a multiple champion in Europe and a two-time classic winner, died Jan. 15.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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