Clean-up efforts were underway at Ellis Park yesterday (Nov. 9) to reopen the storm-battered track for simulcasting operations tentatively on Nov. 16.
Structural engineers from Louisville construction firm Luckett & Farley certified the track’s clubhouse, main grandstand, the Sky Theatre and the lower level of the jockeys’ quarters as structurally safe late Tuesday afternoon.
Only 57 premises remain under quarantine for vesicular stomatitis (VS) in the United States today (Nov. 10), signaling that the disease continues to decline. Nearly 440 ranches and farms have reported outbreaks of the disease since April. Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming have reported new VS premises since the end of October. Nebraska released the last of three previously quarantined VS premise
No call at 2 a.m. is good. Rodney Leibring, DVM, received one of those calls on Nov. 6. Leibring, a Thoroughbred racetrack practitioner, was asked by the male caller if he was at Ellis Park yet. Leibring, confused because he wasn’t expected ther
Many of Dr. Allison Barca’s clients were in some way affected by Hurricane Katrina. Since the storm, she says she’s been living a sort of hell, seeing clients each day who have lost family, horses, and homes to the hurricane, and identifying dead horses so their owners can have closure.
Cash is King Stable’s Afleet Alex, tabbed by the senior writer at Sports Illustrated to be the magazine’s “Sportsman of the Year” for 2005, won’t race again until next year, trainer Tim Ritchey announced Nov. 5.
Afleet Alex, winner of this year’s Preakness Stakes (gr. I) and Belmont Stakes (gr. I), hasn’t fully recovered from an injury to his left front ankle, Ritchey told th
Insurance adjusters were at Ellis Park Nov. 7 assessing the damage wrought by a tornado that struck the western Kentucky racetrack early in the morning the previous day.
Three horses were killed and several others were injured, according to reports from track owner Churchill Downs Inc. and the Kentucky Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association (HBPA). There was no loss of human
Drive more efficiently. Keep your vehicle properly tuned. Plan and combine trips. Choose a more efficient vehicle.
You’ve probably heard these fuel conservation tips frequently repeated in the media recently. Why are these ideas being belabored? Because there’s a national push for Americans to reduce their fuel consumption. In addition, these travel tips can help horse owners save
According to an Associated Press article on bloodhorse.com, a tornado that tore through Ellis Park racetrack in Henderson, Ky., early yesterday morning (Nov. 6) killed
A loose horse that wandered onto a roadway near Woodland, Calif., last week was killed by one vehicle and its body was hit by a second automobile, according to the Woodland Daily Democrat (
Two horses ended up dead during an annual fireworks season in England. One died as a result of a barn fire; the other died when frightened by fireworks and becoming entangled in a chain.
The sight is devastating. Charred posts and jagged pieces of tin are jutting into the air from the blackened remains of what was a 40-stall horse barn on the peaceful rolling hills of the Fair Hill Training Center.
Just to the left of on
More than 100 people gathered on Oct. 16 at the Holiday Inn in West Chester, Pa., for Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines’ Fifth Annual Benefit Auction. The farm’s largest fundraiser, which is put on by the Ryerss Farm Auxiliary, was an even greater
More than 100 Kentucky-based breeders have come out in support of new equine medication and related penalties proposed by the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority.
Arthur Hancock III of Stone Farm near Paris, Ky., sent breeders copies of a
Companion legislation to the Equine Equity Act, which grants financial concessions to the horse industry, has been introduced in the United States House of Representatives.
U.S. Rep. Ron Lewis of Kentucky introduced the bill Oct. 27. Sen
Programs that use no rotation involve the continued use of one effective drug until it no longer reduces small strongyle numbers as indicated by fecal egg counts.
Equine dentistry started centuries ago with filing horses? teeth, but it was not until the past decade that motorized dental instrumentation coupled with research allowed vast improvements. These advances have helped all horses, but performance
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