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BY JOE DRAPE \ NEW YORK TIMES \ 2ND JUNE 2021 The colt, trained by Bob Baffert, stands to become the second horse in the history of the race to be disqualified for a positive drug test. Medina Spirit’s positive drug test after the Kentucky Derby has been confirmed, setting the stage for the colt… Continue reading Positive drug test confirmed for Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit
Mick Ruis announced on July 24, 2020, that he has reached an agreement in principle with the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) regarding a settlement of pending litigation in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The preliminary agreement is intended to resolve claims against the CHRB for failure to hold a purse disqualification hearing related to… Continue reading CHRB agree to investigate Justify scopolamine issue to settle lawsuit
Cross-posted from the New York Times Horses’ Deaths at Aqueduct Prompt New Rules BY JOE DRAPE Update — Drape tweeted: Deadly to horses - now 13 in 22 days; loses money $23 million last year. Why is Aqueduct still open? It was Shewreckstheplace’s 36th start, and second in seven days, and she had yet to… Continue reading Death of 12 Horses at Aqueduct prompts new rules
Cross-posted from The Atlantic BY ANDREW COHEN There are essentially three types of people in horse racing. There are the crooks who dangerously drug or otherwise abuse their horses, or who countenance such conduct from their agents, and who then dare the industry to come catch them. Then there are the dupes who labor under… Continue reading Cohen: The ugly truth about horse racing
WRITTEN BY JOE DRAPE Cross-posted from the New York Times ARCADIA, Calif. (Oct. 30, 2012) -- Call it uncharted territory, as some horse trainers here have, or the new facts of life, as many breeders and drug reformers prefer, but for the first time in the history of the event, 2-year-old horses at this weekend’s… Continue reading Ban on drug at Breeders’ Cup keeps some away
Steven Crist writing for the Daily Racing Form takes on Joe Drape of the New York Times regarding a column Drape wrote today, calling it a "dishonest diatribe." Hold your horses; let's take a close look at this. Crist states: Since March, the Times has pulled out all the stops in depicting American racing as… Continue reading Crist takes on Drape re racehorse doping, cruelties and death
More Disclosure Ahead of the Travers Stakes by JOE DRAPE Selected excerpts cross-posted from New York Times editorial Handicappers and bettors have had an unexpected new factor to work into their predictions for the elite Travers Stakes Saturday at the racetrack in Saratoga Springs: the disclosure, on the Web, of each medication dose given to… Continue reading Joe Drape Editorial: Run to Death at Racetracks
Cross-posted from the New York Times by JOE DRAPE The 144th running of the Belmont Stakes may or may not produce horse racing’s 12th Triple Crown champion, but New York racing officials are taking measures to ensure that I’ll Have Another’s bid to sweep the series is contested on a level playing field and without… Continue reading Thanks to O’Neill Joe Drape reports horse security tightened by New York Board
Ray Paulick of the Paulick Report asks the $15,000 question: How does a horse get an elevated carbon dioxide level without being administered a “milkshake,” a procedure that involves tubing a mixture of baking soda, water, and possibly other substances into a horse’s stomach four to six hours before a race? The question is in… Continue reading Ray Paulick asks when is a ‘milkshake’ not a milkshake. In horse racing.
Written by JANE ALLIN News of this year’s Kentucky Derby winner, I’ll Have Another, undergoing extracorporeal (outside the body) shock wave therapy (ESWT) on his back shortly before the race drew some speculation as to the objective of this strategy. Apparently there was nothing wrong with the horse, at least according to his owner, Paul… Continue reading I’ll Have Another . . . shock wave therapy treatment please
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