Additional EHV-1 Cases at Illinois Horse Racetrack
Jack Shinar
October 27, 2012
Two additional horses at Hawthorne Race Course in Cicero, Ill., were moved to an isolation barn area Oct. 26
Two additional horses at Hawthorne Race Course in Cicero, Ill., were moved to an isolation barn area Oct. 26
The CHRB handed down the suspension after a horse in O’Neill’s care was found to have an elevated TCO2 level.
Union Rags closed late to nip Paynter near the finish line to win the 2012 Belmont Stakes.
I’ll Have Another will attempt to become the 12th Triple Crown winner Saturday in the 2012 Belmont Stakes.
The drug, possibly being misused for its anabolic steroid properties, will be severely restricted next year.
O’Neill was penalized under a rule than holds the trainer to be the absolute insurer of his horses’ condition.
The colt will try to become the first Triple Crown winner since 1978 with a win in the June 9 Belmont Stakes.
He could face a suspension and fine stemming from a 2010 in which horse in his care had elevated TCO2 levels.
The show faced criticism after the first two horses died in racing accidents during season one filming.
2010 Belmont Stakes winner Drosselmeyer and jockey Mike Smith won the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Classic.
Thoroughbred racehorse trainer Jeff Mullins, expected to begin a 70-day suspension June 1 in connection with a
The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) took a swing at a number of equine safety measures during its April 28 meeting at Hollywood Park, including another try at a rule to void the claim of a horse that suffers a fatality during the race.
The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) is planning to expand its well-regarded equine postmortem examination program into part of a new racetrack injury prevention plan in conjunction with the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). During a
Lower thresholds for the common pain reliever phenylbutazone (Bute) in post-race tests of horses could be on the way in California in spite of objections from horsemen. At its meeting Feb. 17 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) approved a 45-day comment period for a rule change that would reduce the permitted level of phenylbutazone from five micrograms
There has been one racing fatality following a breakdown in the first eight days of competition on Santa Anita Park’s new dirt track, according to the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) equine medical director Rick Arthur, DVM. Another death was attributable to a training accident.
Undefeated Zenyatta heads to Churchill Downs to defend her Breeders’ Cup Classic crown riding a 19-race streak of perfection. For the third time in her career, she three-peated in a major grade I race when she used her patented late charge to score a half-length triumph over Switch in Oak Tree’s $250,000 Lady’s Secret Stakes before 25,837 fans at Hollywood Park Oct. 2.
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