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Breeders` Cup: Life At Ten Case Drawing to a Close

At Ten saga will enter its final stage June 28 when a hearing begins into whether senior Kentucky horse racing steward John Veitch violated any state racing rules in his handling of the situation during last year's Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic at Churchill Downs in Louisville.The public hearing, scheduled for June 28-30 at the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) offices near Lexington, is a result of action by the racing commission in March in which

Tominator surges to victory in Northumberland Plate

Tominator sprang a surprise for veteran trainer Reg Hollinshead and apprentice Paul Pickard in the John Smith's Northumberland Plate at Newcastle. Last year's winner Overturn made another brave attempt to make all the running but was swallowed up by the field in the last couple of furlongs. Totally unexposed at the trip, it was 25-1 shot Tominator who surged home at the end of the two-mile stamina test. Montaff (18-1) was beaten by a length and three-quar

Queen`s Carlton House goes for Irish Derby success

Carlton House, owned by the Queen, aims to make up for the disappointment of failing to win the Epsom Derby by landing Sunday's Irish version. The colt, trained by Sir Michael Stoute, has reportedly recovered well and is expected to head the betting. Carlton House was third in the English Classic behind the fast-finishing French-trained winner Pour Moi. Epsom runner-up Treasure Beach is in the field along with Memphis Tennessee (fourth) and Native Khan (f

Breeders` Cup Winner Unrivaled Belle Retired After Breaking Withers

Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic winner Unrivaled Belle, who broke her withers after flipping over backwards in the paddock while waiting to be saddled for the June 18 Ogden Phipps Handicap at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., has been retired from racing. She exits with 13 top three finishes from 14 starts and earnings of $1,854,706 for breeder/owners Gary Seidler and Peter Vegso.

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Banksters Bonus wins Ulster Derby at Down Royal

A well-timed challenge saw Banksters Bonus win the Ulster Derby at Down Royal on Saturday. The winner, trained by Jessica Harrington and ridden by Shane Foley, was the only three-year-old in the nine-strong field in the feature. Banksters Bonus, sent-off at 9-2, got up to beat the Dermot Weld-trained Force of Habit with Denny Crane in third place. Kildare trainer Harrington had won the race in 2008 with Fantoche.

The Ulster Oaks was won by 100-

Horse Power: Injured Paul Hanagan experiences the downs of racing

THE ups and downs of life in the saddle were again put into sharp focus yesterday when ECHO columnist Paul Hanagan was ruled out of the final day of Royal Ascot with a neck injury. The champion jockey has been on the crest of a wave for some time, winning the title last year and setting the pace this as well as some landmark triumphs. But he experienced the downside this week, drawing a blank in his bid to add to his two previous Royal Ascot winners. Aft

Kentucky Derby Winner Injured, Will Take Time Off

Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands winner Animal Kingdom has suffered an injury to his left hind leg, Team Valor International president Barry Irwin confirmed June 16. Dean Richardson, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, head of surgery at the George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center, examined a nuclear scan June 15 that indicated that something was amiss with the colt's left hock. On June 16 both Richardson and

Royal Ascot: Immortal Verse storms to win in Coronation Stakes

Immortal Verse won the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot as a French family affair spoiled home hopes. Gerald Mosse brought his mount from last to first to land the Group One contest for trainer Robert Collet, whose son Rod trained the runner-up Nova Hawk. The 8-1 chance Immortal Verse swooped round the outside of the field to win by two-and-a-quarter lengths from the 9-2 shot Nova Hawk.

Barefoot Lady (16-1) was best of the domestic runners, half

Paul Hanagan: I`m heading back north after a painful Royal Ascot

After four days at Royal Ascot, champion jockey and ECHO racing columnist Paul Hanagan heads to Scotland tomorrow in pursuit of winners. IT'S been a torrid week at Royal Ascot I have to admit. It just brings home how difficult a meeting it is at which to have winners, and I had plenty of frustrations over the first three days. I also woke yesterday at 5am with a spasm in my neck, and had physio before riding on Thursday afternoon. I'm not sure how the inju

Royal Ascot: Michael Owen`s tears of joy at winner

One had shed tears. The other sported jet-black wraparound shades which cast a cloak over his innermost thoughts. But both footballer Michael Owen and trainer Aidan O'Brien proved leading men on Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot. Manchester United striker Owen showed the emotion - clearly choked at the success of Brown Panther, a horse he bred and owns, in Thursday's last race, the King George V Stakes.

Top Irish trainer O'Brien had savoured victory

Royal Ascot: Frankie Dettori handed nine-day ban

Frankie Dettori has been handed a nine-day riding ban for using his whip with excessive frequency when winning on Rewilding at Royal Ascot. Dettori, who is due to start a separate 10-day ban on Friday, struck his mount 24 times during the final two furlongs of the Prince of Wales's Stakes. Rewilding came from behind to beat the favourite So You Think at the meeting.

Dettori was set to miss the last two days of Ascot after his ban for failing to

White Paper on Racing Surfaces Released

The Racing Surfaces Committee formed at the inaugural Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit in 2006 has published a 34-page "Racing Surfaces White Paper" that details the current state of knowledge pertaining to training and racing surfaces. The document, drafted as a collection of published scientific papers and data, was co-authored by Mick Peterson, MS, PhD (University of Maine); C. Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, FRCVS, PhD, Dipl. ACVS, Dipl. ECVS (Colora

Frankie Dettori wins Royal Ascot showpiece

Frankie Dettori on ''Rewilding'' (R) beats Ryan Moore on ''So You Think'' to win The Prince of Wales' Stakes on the second day of the Royal Ascot race meeting in southern England June 15, 2011. Rewilding, ridden by Frankie Dettori, upset hot favorite So You Think to win the Prince Of Wales's Stakes, the feature race on the second day of Royal Ascot on Wednesday.

So You Think, a Group One winner and top middle-distance performer in Australia befo

Royal Ascot: Hayley Turner relishes Ladies` Day

As Royal Ascot prepares for Ladies' Day, one lady is hoping she can beat the men to claim her first winner at the meeting. Hayley Turner is a rarity in sport. A woman competing against the opposite sex at the highest level on equal terms. The 28-year-old has broken new ground in riding more than 100 winners in a year. A pioneer who has helped inspire a new generation of female riders.

But what the Nottingham-born jockey craves is a winner on the

Royal Ascot: Kieren Fallon returns to Royal Ascot

Six-time champion jockey Kieren Fallon intends to return to action on Wednesday after missing the first day of Royal Ascot with a jarred neck. Eddie Ahern piloted Veiled to Ascot Stakes victory for Nicky Henderson in Fallon's absence on Tuesday. Fallon missed the first day of the meeting to undergo physiotherapy.

The 46-year-old is without a mount in the day's feature race, the Prince of Wales's Stakes, but has three other rides on Wednesday's R

Royal Ascot: So You Think heads Wednesday`s action

So You Think heads a field of seven for the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot on Wednesday. The former Australian-trained horse, now with Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien, has won six Group One races in his career. A dual Cox Plate winner down under, he was third when favourite for the Melbourne Cup in November.

Stablemate Jan Vermeer, Twice Over, and Planteur are among his rivals on day two at Ascot. Mohammed Al Zarooni runs Debussy and Rewild

Royal Ascot: Frankel celebrates magnificent seven

Frankel may not have produced the sort of unhindered procession which the Queen enjoys but in his own way, the colt demonstrated his enormous ability when winning at Royal Ascot. "Put it this way, if the race was run in another half hour, he would have been ridden completely differently," said trainer Sir Henry Cecil after victory on the meeting's opening day. The 10-times champion trainer let out a puff of his cheeks and raised his eyes towards the brim

Race Day Medication Summit Digs Into Salix

Anyone hoping to learn the intricacies of Salix use, research, and regulation at the June 13 International Summit on Race Day Medication, EIPH (exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhaging) and the Racehorse held at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., didn't walk away disappointed. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), the American Association of Equine Practitioners, and the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium put the summit together in response

Jockey Ryan Moore rides 687-1 York five-timer

Former champion jockey Ryan Moore rode five winners out of the six races he was eligible for in Saturday's Macmillan Charity Day at York. His 687-1 five-timer included the last four races on the seven-race card. Moore now leads the race to become York's top jockey for the year, his winners tally having shot up to eight.

"It's a marvellous day for Ryan, everyone knows he's an exceptionally talented rider," said York's head of marketing James Br

Isabel Tompsett continues to progress in her recovery from a terrible fall at Fakenham last month.

Isabel Tompsett parted company with Leopold in the Aylsham Show-Bank Holiday 29th August Lady Amateur Riders' Handicap Hurdle. She was initially taken to Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, but subsequently moved to Addenbrooke's in Cambridge and her family are now hoping she will soon be moved to a specialist unit in Swansea.

John Llewellyn, the rider's boyfriend, said: "I and Isabel's family would like to thank the racing industry for their continua

Belmont Stakes Contender Nehro to Undergo Surgery

Nehro, the fourth place finisher in the June 11 Belmont Stakes, will undergo surgery for a nonlife-threatening injury likely sustained during the final jewel of the Triple Crown. The 3-year-old colt is scheduled to undergo surgery at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital, in Lexington, Ky., to remove a bone chip from his right front fetlock.

"We didn't see it until the next morning," said attending veterinarian James Hunt, DVM. "That's generally the way

Royal Ascot: Frankel jockey Tom Queally on racing`s new star

Racing has a rich history of so-called talking horses. The sport is continually looking for the next big thing, often with ill-founded hype followed by disappointment. This year has been different as one talking horse - Frankel - has done his talking on the track. Winning the first Classic of the season by six lengths was proof enough that this colt was special, but the way he had the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket sewn up by halfway marked it out as exception

Royal Ascot: Frankel primed for glory for Sir Henry Cecil

Brilliant 2,000 Guineas winner Frankel will head a field of nine runners in the St James's Palace Stakes on the opening day of Royal Ascot on Tuesday. The unbeaten colt, trained by newly-knighted Sir Henry Cecil, is the leading equine attraction as the racecourse celebrates its 300th year. Jockey Tom Queally told BBC Sport: "You never know what will happen in racing, but I'm quietly hopeful there won't be any change in his form."

Kieren Fallon w

Longshot Ruler On Ice Steals the Belmont Stakes

A sealed, speed-favoring sloppy track and bad racing luck endured by the favorite combined to allow 24-1 longshot Ruler On Ice to claim a stunning victory in the 143rd running of the Belmont Stakes June 11.
Ruler On Ice is a gelded son of Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms’ Roman Ruler out of Champagne Glow (by Saratoga Six). He was bred in Kentucky by Liberation Farm and Brandywine Farm and is owned by George and Lori Hall, who purchased Ruler On Ice for $100,000 as a

Henry Cecil: Racing trainer honoured with knighthood

Ten champion-trainer titles, 72 Royal Ascot wins and four victories in the Derby at Epsom tell only a small part of the Cecil story. The 68-year-old slumped from training king to also-ran, and bounced back again. During a terrible few years he went through a divorce from his second wife, the death of his alcoholic twin brother David and a fall from the top of the training perch. He failed to land a Group One race between 2001 and 2005, and plummeted to 94t

KHRC Rejects Request From Trainer Dutrow`s Attorney

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) on June 8 unanimously rejected a request from trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. to withdraw his application for a license to race in the state in 2011. Dutrow, who is facing disciplinary action in New York, had his license application rejected by the KHRC's license review committee on April 13 after a one-hour hearing in which Dutrow was questioned about the lengthy list of violations on his record--including numerous equi

Nicky Henderson set to face BHA inquiry

Trainer Nicky Henderson will face a British Horseracing Authority hearing after his runner Heather Royal tested positive for a banned substance in February. A urine sample revealed the presence of dexamethasone after the horse was unplaced in a bumper race at Huntingdon. Henderson won the Cheltenham Gold Cup for the first time with Long Run in March.

The BHA has indicated a fine is normally most likely if a rule has been breached in similar case

Trainer Runs Horse to Exhaustion, Has License Revoked

Stewards at Prairie Meadows Racetrack in Altoona, Iowa, have revoked the license of Thoroughbred racehorse trainer Joseph Louis Nealon, saying the action is necessary to "protect the public's health, safety, and welfare and to protect the public from a person who should not hold a trainer's license." The stewards' ruling came after the Nealon-trained horse Boty's Banana was eased at the three-eighths pole and vanned off during the first race at the Iowa tr

Uncle Mo to Begin Light Training Next Week

Uncle Mo, the champion 2-year-old male of 2010, continues to exhibit positive signs of improving health and is on target to resume light training in about 10 days, WinStar Farm president and racing manager Elliott Walden said June 7. Owned by Mike Repole and trained by Todd Pletcher, Uncle Mo has been at WinStar Farm near Versailles, Ky., since May 9 when he was shipped from Churchill Downs after being scratched from the Kentucky Derby. The week of May 29,

Jockey Club boosts turnover and racing prize money

The Jockey Club, horse racing's largest commercial organisation, saw turnover rise by 8% in 2010 to £138m. The organisation provided £13m in prize money in 2010, and says it will increase this by £2.7m to a record £15.7m this year. The Jockey Club's assets include the leading group of racecourses in the UK, as well as the famous estates of Newmarket, Lambourn and Epsom Downs.

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Whip Regulations to be Relaxed

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Horse Website - Whip Regulations to be Relaxed - New changes to controversial whip rules for jockeys and a revised penalty structure have been approved by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA).

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