Category: Industry News

Drawing Away Stable secures owner’s title                                                                                                  …
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Events related to the spread of COVID-19 have upended all of our lives at quantum speed. The juvenile sales season is disrupted, racing at NYRA is on hiatus and you are doing your best to navigate a breeding season unlike any you have experienced before. This month, I will use this space to pass along…
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Bill Heller, who has been covering New York racing since the Ice Age – actually since 1974 – is ranking the top ten moments in New York-bred history from the last 46 years. The ranking is completely subjective – just one person’s Top Ten. They’ll be presented here in David Letterman’s Top Ten style, beginning…
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Trainer Rudy Rodriguez sent out 12 the morning of March 28. By BloodHorse Staff Courtesy BloodHorse.com Although racing in New York is at a standstill because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Belmont Park‘s dirt training track has been busy with 314 horses on the work tab March 28. Trainer Rudy Rodriguez sent out 12, including multiple stakes…
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Even with Aqueduct closed, trainers need workers to care for their horses. By Bob Ehalt Courtesy BloodHorse.com It’s a daunting challenge to find good news these days, but for trainer Ed Barker, the realization that horse racing in New York will be suspended until April 24 at the earliest has a small silver lining. “My…
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Aqueduct winter and spring meets canceled OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced that live racing at Aqueduct Racetrack is canceled for the remainder of the winter and spring meets with the building now set to serve as a temporary hospital site during the fight against the Coronavirus (COVID-19)…
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Watch the Florida Derby live on FS1 ELMONT, N.Y. – New York-bred Tiz the Law, winner of the Grade 1 Champagne at Belmont Park, is the 6-5 morning-line favorite in Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Florida Derby and New York Racing Association Inc., (NYRA) analyst Andy Serling offers a closer look at the field ahead of…
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OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced that live racing at Aqueduct Racetrack will be suspended through at least April 5 due to the continued impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in New York. As a result, the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial presented by Resorts World Casino, previously…
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By Bill Heller New York breeders, like everyone else in the world, are dealing with the new reality of the Coronavirus pandemic and its ripple-down economic effects as best they can, even as that reality seems to change every single day. “You’ve got to adjust and do what you can,” Joe McMahon of McMahon of…
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By Karen M. Johnson OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) will prohibit the use of Furosemide (Lasix) within 48 hours of racing for all 2-year-olds with the start of juvenile racing in April at Aqueduct Racetrack, ushering in a new era in medication reform. Last April, NYRA joined a coalition…
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