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2 months ago | 
bloodhorse.com | Pete Denk |Frank Angst |Jay Hovdey
Equibase aims to cast a wide net as it crafts a ratings system that will serve as an option for racing secretaries in setting future racing conditions while perhaps providing an alternative to claiming races. With an eye toward simplifying some current race conditions while providing new race options to fit a track's horse population, Equibase is moving toward creating a ratings system similar to those used overseas.
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2 months ago | 
bloodhorse.com | Byron King |Jay Hovdey |J. Keeler Johnson |Bob Ehalt
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2 months ago | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Tom Pedulla |Jay Hovdey
Tom Pedulla canvasses opinion amid recent suggestions that racing’s days might be numbered at Florida’s premier venueWhen a statue of the mythical winged horse Pegasus battling a fire-breathing dragon was erected to lord over Gulfstream Park in 2014, racegoers were not quite sure what to make of it.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Jay Hovdey
Our popular series continues with the ex-Argentine performer whose star flashed briefly in the US firmament during a brilliant three-race unbeaten spell – in the process leaving an indelible mark on at least one writer and his familyCandy Ride was a shooting star, seen briefly streaking across the Southern California sky in just three public appearances, ending a slim, unbeaten career that came and went before you knew it.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
bloodhorse.com | Jay Hovdey
The Earth spins on its axis at a speed of about a thousand miles an hour. Sometimes, for us mere mortals, it seems even faster. On the afternoon of Jan. 5, the filly Look Forward stepped up to win the Santa Ynez Stakes and promptly put herself in the thick of the West Coast 3-year-old division. She was ridden by Mario Gutierrez, a two-time winner of the Kentucky Derby (G1) who had not won a graded race in more than a year. Then Jan. 7 his house burned down.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Jay Hovdey
Our series continues with a warm-hearted character-driven racetrack comedy out of step with the times in which it arrivedLet It Ride (1989)
directed by Joe Pytka; starring Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Jennifer Tilly, David JohansenThe director had never before shot a feature film. The screenwriter hid her credit behind a pseudonym. The studio had no idea how to market a good-natured, character-driven comedy when the movie public was being bombarded by Indiana Jones, Batman, and a little mermaid.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Jay Hovdey
Jay Hovdey’s unmissable series listing his personal favorites continues with the popular champion filly who found her true metier on turfLike a princess born to a life of royal duties, her fate seemed sealed. Both her sire and damsire were champions who never touched the green stuff, save for the occasional graze. She was quick on her feet and handy, blessed with the kind of whiplash speed that turns dirt races into gold. If she had been able to read – and who is to say she couldn’t have learned?
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Jay Hovdey
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Two days after the habitually suspended Paco Lopez was caught on video nailing a horse twice about the head and neck after a maiden special weight Dec. 3 at Parx Racing , the International Equestrian Federation suspended three-time Olympic gold medalist Charlotte Dujardin for one year because she was caught on video during a coaching session at a private facility repeatedly striking a horse with a whip.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
bloodhorse.com | Jay Hovdey
Two days after the habitually suspended Paco Lopez was caught on video nailing a horse twice about the head and neck after a maiden special weight Dec. 3 at Parx Racing, the International Equestrian Federation suspended three-time Olympic gold medalist Charlotte Dujardin for one year because she was caught on video during a coaching session at a private facility repeatedly striking a horse with a whip.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
bloodhorse.com | Jay Hovdey
Jonathan Thomas was making his way from the saddling ring to the grandstand tunnel when a man in a tweed cap and quilted gray jacket came alongside with an outstretched hand. Still aglow from winning the Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes (G2T) a half hour earlier with Augustin Stables' , Thomas was only too happy to accept another kudos. "I'm Dick Mandella," the man said, which, at a California racetrack, is kind of like John Lennon introducing himself in downtown London.
