Debbie Arrington

Debbie Arrington is a northern California correspondent for The Blood-Horse/I>.

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California Adopts Steroid Testing Levels

The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) took a major step towards banning supplemental anabolic steroids with the adoption of testing levels for four major substances during its meeting Feb. 28 in Arcadia.


“It’s the first step in

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Bay Meadows Granted Waiver, Will Race in 2008

After months of uncertainty, Bay Meadows will race in 2008.


Giving the 73-year-old Northern California landmark a brief reprieve, the California Horse Racing Board approved a one-year conditional waiver from the state mandate for

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CHRB Decides Not to Enforce Toe Grab Rule

A long-running controversy over toe grabs before the California Horse Racing Board could turn into a referendum on trainer authority.


Responding to some conditioner complaints, a majority of the CHRB voted against enforcing a regulation

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EHV-1 Update: Northern Cal Horsemen Await Test Results

The equine herpesvirus quarantine continued at three Bay Area tracks Dec. 31 as Northern California horsemen await test results that won’t be known until after the New Year’s weekend.


All 40 horses in Lloyd Mason’s barn have been tested

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Lost in the Fog’s Cancer Extensive, Necropsy Reveals

The deceased champion sprinter Lost in the Fog’s cancer was much more extensive than originally believed and most likely had been growing for many months.

Results of the necropsy, released Oct. 18, showed a gigantic tumor that compromised

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Cloned Mules to Square Off in California

Idaho Gem, the world’s first cloned equine, is about to make his racing debut along with his duplicate copy–Idaho Star, another clone created from the same genetic material.


Born in 2003, the identical 3-year-old “miracle

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Santa Anita Milkshake Testing to Begin Dec. 26

Track to test every horse in every race 

Santa Anita Park isn’t waiting for a statewide ban to make its stand against “milkshakes.” At the meet that begins Dec. 26, the Arcadia, Calif., racetrack will test every horse in every race for excess bicarbonate in its blood. “Nothing is more important for us than maintaining the highest standards of integrity for California

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Champion Thoroughbred Fosters Orphaned Foal

Maybe it was an overwhelming maternal instinct. Or maybe it was that headstrong, competitive spirit. Brown Bess wanted another baby. Retired from life as a broodmare, the 22-year-old champion had the roam of a grassy pasture with other pensioned

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