“Barbaro: A Nation’s Horse,” which was pre-empted April 29 by an overtime hockey game on NBC, will be presented Friday, May 4, at 9 p.m. ET and again at midnight on cable network CNBC. In addition, NBC is scrambling to see if it can find a timeslot
Trainer Richard Mandella and owner B. Wayne Hughes have been named as defendants in a lawsuit brought by a Thoroughbred owner in Arizona for allegedly failing to disclose that a surgical procedure had been performed on a horse claimed from Hughe
One week before this year’s Run for the Roses, NBC Sports will present a one-hour documentary on Barbaro, who took last year’s Kentucky Derby in dramatic fashion.
The two 5-2 co-favorites in the Emirates Airline Breeders’ Cup Distaff (gr. I) both broke down during the running of the race and failed to finish. Phipps Stable’s Pine Island suffered a dislocation of the left front fetlock and was euthanatized
HorseRacing TV (HRTV), a subsidiary of Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Insight Communications for carriage of HRTV on Insight systems beginning in time for the Breeders’ Cup World
Lost in the Fog, last year’s Eclipse Award-winning sprinter, was euthanatized Sunday, Sept. 17, three weeks after doctors found three cancerous tumors in his spleen and along his back.
The charismatic champion began his career with 10
In a lawsuit that is believed to be unprecedented, the owner of a horse disqualified for a drug positive is suing his trainer for the redistributed purse money.
Los Angeles-based attorney Alan Klein, whose Ellenay Racing owned Dyna Da
Doctors at the University of California-Davis veterinary school will run extensive tests on Lost in the Fog Friday in order to determine whether they will perform surgery to remove what is believed to be a cancerous mass from his spleen. If the
Doctors at the University of California-Davis veterinary school, through a stomach sonogram, have found a mass in Lost in the Fog’s spleen that they suspect is a lymphoma, according to Greg Gilchrist, who trains last year’s Eclipse Award-winning
Last year’s Elicpse Award-winning sprinter Lost in the Fog is being treated for “a slight case” of colic at the University of California-Davis veterinary school, according to his trainer, Greg Gilchrist, who accompanied his stable star to
Classic winner Barbaro has developed “acute, severe” laminitis in his uninjured left hind foot, and his prognosis for recovery is “poor,” according to Dr. Dean Richardson, chief of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center
Three weeks after telling the world about the condition of Barbaro directly after the horse’s breakdown at the Preakness Stakes, Larry Bramlage, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS, of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., was relaxing on the
The millions and millions of dollars on the table for successful stallions make it imperative that the training they receive for their second careers be exact, coordinated to give the young stallion the right environment and encouragement to ply his new trade.
From The Blood-Horse year in review, featured in the Dec. 20, 2003 issue.
It was the story nobody wanted to believe, yet no one could disprove. It was the biggest news item of 2003 in the Thoroughbred industry, and coming on the heels of 2002’s Ultra Pick Six scandal, made it two years in a row where our most enduring story was a negative one. The only hope now
Mineshaft, the leading handicap horse in the country, was retired Friday due to what trainer Neil Howard said was a small chip in his right front ankle.
“This morning Dr. Foster Northrop, Mineshaft’s vet, his owner, Mr. William Farish, and I had a discussion and made the decision to retire Mineshaft due to a minor problem in his ankle that we have been managing,” said Howard. “A
Horses in Zimbabwe are facing injury and slaughter due to a government land grab.
According to reports from racing officials in South Africa, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has instituted a program whereby all white farmers must
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