Articles posted July 13, 2005

Ellis Park Opens With Success Despite Rain

• July 13, 2005
• Thoroughbred Racing

Wet weather didn't keep fans from coming out on opening day at Ellis Park Wednesday to begin the track's 82nd meet. An attendance mark under its current owner was established.

Naughty New Yorker Sets Sights on 'Triple'

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• July 13, 2005
• Thoroughbred Racing

Naughty New Yorker, winner of the first leg of the "Big Apple Triple" last month, heads a field of 12 entered for the $150,000-added New York Derby Saturday at Finger Lakes.

Virginia Derby Missing Prado, Scrappy T

• By Nick Hahn
• July 13, 2005
• Thoroughbred Racing

Jockey Edgar Prado, who has won the Virginia Derby (gr. IIIT) three consecutive years, won't have a chance to go down swinging for his own "Grand Slam." Prado had opportunities to ride in the $750,000 grass test for 3-year-olds but kept his commitment to ride other horses.

Kentucky Can't Pinpoint Origin of Strangles Cases

• By Tom LaMarra
• July 13, 2005

Kentucky legislators received assurances July 13 the state is well equipped to handle future equine disease outbreaks, but they got no answers to questions about the origin of the strangles cases earlier this spring at the Churchill Downs Trackside Training Center.

Expansion of Critical Kentucky Lab About to Begin

• By Tom LaMarra
• July 13, 2005

The long-awaited expansion of the University of Kentucky Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center, made possible through an $8.5-million appropriation from the Kentucky General Assembly this spring, is about to begin and could be completed in about two years, officials said.

Conscience Clear Sires First Winner

• July 13, 2005
• Thoroughbred Breeding

Stakes-placed Conscience Clear sired his first winner from his first starter when his son Individual King won July 12

Seven Try Rich in Spirit in the Virginia Oaks

• July 13, 2005
• Thoroughbred Racing

Glen Hill Farm's Rich in Spirit figures to be heavily favored in Saturday's $200,000 Virginia Oaks at Colonial Downs. The 1 1/8-mile turf race kicks off an all-stakes Pick 3 that also consists of the Mede Cahaba All Along Breeders' Cup Stakes (gr, IIIT) and Virginia Derby (gr. IIIT).

Three Handicapping Contest Berths at Stake

• July 13, 2005

Fans may now register for the 2005 Claiming Crown Handicapping Contest keyed to the July 16 Claiming Crown at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minn. The online contest challenges handicappers to pick one horse in each of the 11 live races run that day.

Rising Star Egg Head Euthanized

• By Pete Spanos
• July 13, 2005
• Thoroughbred Racing

Egg Head, a rising star on the sprint division scene, was euthanized Monday after succumbing to a case of founder.

Jo Anne Normile Wins Dogwood Dominion Award

• July 13, 2005

Jo Anne Normile, founder of the innovative Michigan-based horse rescue operation CANTER (Communication Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex Racehorses) which saves low-level claimers from slaughter, has been awarded the 2005 Dogwood Dominion Award.

Shapiro is Keynote Speaker at Round Table Conference

• July 13, 2005

Mark Shapiro, executive vice president who oversees programming and production for ESPN networks and ABC Sports, will deliver the keynote address at The Jockey Club's 53rd annual Round Table Conference in Saratoga Springs Aug. 21.

Wife of Joe Spadaro dead at 61

• July 13, 2005

Norine Spadaro, wife of Joe Spadaro, deputy executive director of the New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund, died Monday morning following a long illness. She was 61.

Study Documents Demographics of New York Breeding Program

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• July 13, 2005
• Thoroughbred Breeding

The typical New York Thoroughbred breeding farm is family owned and operated, less than 100 acres in size and reliant upon awards from the New York breeding program and other non-farm income to operate, according to a survey released Wednesday by the New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. and Friends of New York Racing, Inc.

Field of 14 Going in All Along at Colonial Downs

• July 13, 2005
• Thoroughbred Racing

Briviesca leads a talented field of 14 fillies and mares pointed toward Saturday's $200,000 All Along Breeders' Cup Stakes (gr. IIIT), going 1 1/8 miles at Colonial Downs.

You and I, Golden Gear, D's Bertrando Moved

• July 13, 2005
• Thoroughbred Breeding

Grade I winner You and I, sire of millionaire filly You, and other stallions Golden Gear and D's Bertrando will be relocated to Sue Hubbard and Associates near Creston, Calif.