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Prosecutors in the federal drug adulteration and misbranding case filed their sentencing recommendations for veterinarian Dr. Kristian Rhein late last week, and the documents revealed a couple of new details about the case they would have mounted against him. Rhein has entered a plea of guilty to a charge of drug adulteration and misbranding for […]

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Sammy Mendez, the leading Quarter Horse jockey at Indiana Grand in 2020 and '21, is facing a 20-year suspension and $10,000 fine after admitting he both possessed and used a prohibited electrical device during training and racing at the Shelbyville, Ind., track. The penalty was recommended by Indiana Horse Racing Commission executive director Deena Pitman […]

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Having won more races at a single Championship Meet than any jockey in history, Irad Ortiz Jr. returns to Gulfstream Park for the 2021-2022 season with his sights set on a fourth straight riding title. Already, the 29-year-old Ortiz is in elite company as one of just four riders to lead the country's premiere winter […]

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Gentry Farms' Eldon's Prince is scheduled to seek his third-straight stakes victory on Friday's opening day program of the 2021-2022 Championship Meet at Gulfstream Park, where the son of Cairo Prince figures as the horse to beat in the $75,000 Pulpit Stakes. The Pulpit, a mile turf race for 2-year-olds which drew a field of […]

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Klimt, a Grade 1 winner and freshman sire, has been purchased by the Turkish Jockey Club, and he will relocate to that country for the 2022 breeding season, the Turkish publication Yaris Dergisi reports. The 7-year-old son of Quality Road previously stood at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he entered stud in 2018. […]

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Tuesday began the British Horseracing Authority's hearing into the jockey's room bullying case brought by female national hunt jockey Bryony Frost against male rider Robbie Dunne. Frost's attorney Louis Weston made his opening statement, reports The Guardian, telling the three-member panel that Dunne had used foul, sexually abusive and misogynistic language” toward Frost as well as […]

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Finnick The Fierce, the one-eyed chestnut gelding who captured many fans' imaginations ahead of last year's Kentucky Derby, has retired from racing and found a new home. Jackie Barr, a long time fan of Finnick The Fierce, is the fan favorite's new owner and will be guiding his transition from the racing life to his […]

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D. J. Stable LLC's Lemieux and Palmach will both seek to a make successful transition from Tapeta to turf in Friday's $75,000 Wait a While at Gulfstream Park for a Hall of Fame trainer who knows a thing or two about surface switches. Trained by Mark Casse, Lemieux and Palmach will both try to duplicate […]

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Multiple graded stakes-winning trainer Morris Nicks passed away on Nov. 25 after a battle with leukemia, reports bloodhorse.com. The veteran Southwest-based trainer was 74 years old. Nicks passed the majority of his career between Louisiana Downs and Oaklawn Park. Since records began being tracked in 1976, Nicks saddled 819 Thoroughbred winners including Run Johnny in […]

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Climax Stallions LLC has announced that Gun Runner's full brother, Fortune Ticket, will stand his first season at stud in 2022 at Anchor & Hope Farm in Port Deposit, Md. Gun Runner recently broke the first-crop progeny earnings record set by Uncle Mo in 2015, who broke Tapit's 2008 record. Fortune Ticket was initially raced […]

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