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Thursday at Fair Grounds
Headlines for Wednesday, December 27, 2000
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Track Condition Forces Fairmount Park to Cancel Remainder of Meet
Fairmount Park has cancelled the final four cards of its 2000 meet due to unsafe track conditions. The Collinsville, Ill., track decided Tuesday to cancel that night's card and the decision to cancel the final three nights of racing was made Wednesday, according to Joe Ruppert, the track's vice president.
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Conditional License Issued for EPM Vaccine
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that Fort Dodge Laboratories, Inc., has been issued a conditional license for a vaccine intended to aid in the prevention of equine protozoal myeloencephalitis, more commonly known as EPM.
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Pennsylvania Commission Resigns From RCI
The Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission is the second regulatory agency to leave the Association of Racing Commissioners International in a month.
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TVG Makes Lexington Cable Debut Thursday
The TV Games Network will make its long-awaited debut on Lexington cable television Thursday. As usual, racing from Aqueduct, Calder Race Course, Fair Grounds, and Turfway Park will be offered in the afternoon. TVG has been available on cable television in the Louisville, Ky., market for two years, and before that, its predecessor, On Demand Services, offered live racing on cable TV in that market. In Lexington, Insight Communications has slotted TVG as Channel 5
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Warning Dies of Heart Failure
English champion Warning, who started at stud at Khalid Abdullah's Banstead Manor Farm in England before being sold to the Japan Racing Association in 1996, died of acute heart failure at the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders' Association's Shizunai Stud.
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West Nile Virus Update
Researchers at the United States Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., recently discovered that West Nile virus can be passed from bird to bird in a laboratory setting without the bite of a mosquito.
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Proper Use of Twitch Can Control Unruly Horse
The twitch provides minimal restraint and it also is mildly aversive, directing the horse's attention away from veterinary or breeding shed activity.
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Last In, First Out
<i>By Bruce Smart</i> -- Articles describing the 2000 yearling sales have trumpeted the enormous prices being paid for fine physical horses by fashionable sires. But for the "little guy" breeder a darker aspect of today's market hits harder -- the financial disaster represented by the prices for the many race-worthy yearlings that lack a stylish pedigree and fall short of physical perfection.
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Yesterday's Heroes
<i>By Ray Paulick</i> -- In much the same way that yesterday's news is pushed aside to make way for today's big story, many of us in the Thoroughbred industry have a tendency to forget yesterday's heroes too quickly.
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