June, 2020 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Heart Attack Claims Manduro at 18

Highweight Manduro (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}-Mandellicht {Ire}, by Be My Guest), sustained a fatal heart attack at Haras du Logis on Saturday, Darley announced. The five-time highweight was 18 and stood for €7,000 at Haras du Logis this year. Bred by Rolf Brunner, the half-brother to SW, G1 German Oaks third, and Group 1 producer Mandela (Ger) (Acatenango {Ger}) brought €130,000 at the 2003 Baden-Baden September Yearling Sale and would race his entire career in the colours of Baron Georg von Ullmann.

Two-for-two in his juvenile season and named Germany’s champion 2-year-old colt after a win in the 2004 G3 Preis des Winterfavoriten, Manduro won two of his three appearances at three, including the G3 Preis der Deutschen Einheit. Transferred from Peter Schiergen to Andre Fabre prior to his 4-year-old bow, the French highweighted older horse that year saluted in the 2006 G2 Prix d’Harcourt and was never worse than third in seven more starts in 2006, five in Group 1 company.

At five, Manduro was the finished article and swept all before him in a five-for-five campaign before injury derailed his Arc bid. Starting off with a win in the G3 Earl of Sefton S., Manduro earned his first Group 1 tally in the G1 Prix d’Ispahan, and claimed the G1 Prince of Wales’s S. and G1 Prix Jacques le Marois in succession. His final victory was back at ParisLongchamp in the G2 Prix Foy before injury forced his retirement with a record of 18-10-3-4 with $1,990,563 in earnings. He was named the French highweighted older horse from 7-9 1/2f and 9 1/2f-11f, as well as the highweighted older horse in England from 9 1/2-11f.

Retired initially to Kildangan Stud in 2008, he stood at Dalham Hall Stud in 2009, before serving three more years in Ireland. The dark bay has been based in France since 2013.

Manduro is credited with three champions, and 35 black-type winners–20 of them at group level. Leading his progeny is three-time Group 1 winner Vazirabad (Fr), with Ribbons (GB), Charity Line (Ire), Mandaean (GB), Ultra (Ire), and Braco Forte (Brz) other top-shelf winners. The last-named is a two-time Group 1 winner in Brazil from Manduro’s single Southern Hemisphere crop during the 2012/13 season. As a broodmare sire, Manduro has seven black-type winners, three group winners and one Group 1 heroine-G1 English 1000 Guineas winner Billesdon Brook (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}).

Sam Bullard, Darley Director of Stallions, said, “Manduro has been a wonderful servant and will be greatly missed by the team. He has been a reliable source of winners and stakes performers for breeders.”

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Antibiotics And Equine Gut Health

Antibiotics can be hard on the digestive and immune systems of horses, but there are some natural approaches that can assist in restoring the equine body back to a normal state after a course of antibiotics has been finished.

Horses, just like humans, have bacteria and microbes that live in their intestinal tract; antibiotics damage the microbiota and inflame the gut wall, creating a “leaky gut” that allows compounds that are normally blocked to pass into the body. Damage to the microbiome also damages the immune system. In the case of chronic infections like Lyme disease, for which a horse may be on repeated rounds of antibiotics, the immune system and gut may never fully recover.

Helping a horse repair his gut is essential after the course of antibiotics is completed. Quality feed, prebiotics and probiotics can assist in repairing the gut wall and the immune system. Horses that eat mainly hay and forage are generally healthier than horses fed lots of grain.

Prebiotics are short-chain fibers that microbiota grown on; common forms are inulin and beta-glucans, among others. Horses can get additional amounts of prebiotics by including items in their diets that contain them (like chicory, oats and barley) or by using a commercially available supplement. Herbs like marshmallow, aloe, dandelion and ginger can all help heal the gut wall and can be planted in pastures or gardens to be fed to horses.

Probiotics fed to the horse while he is taking antibiotics can help do some damage control, but they will assist even more once the course of antibiotics has finished. Other nutrients like glutamine and colostrum can help heal the gut wall and repair the immune system. It will take a minimum of three months for the horse's gut to heal after a short course of antibiotics and much longer for repeated antibiotic use for chronic disease.

Diversity in Racing: Eric Gustavson

As many people in the United States and around the world question their personal views on diversity and racial inclusion, we decided to look inwardly on our industry, and we found it wanting. So we asked a tough question to several industry members: How do we make racing at its highest level more diverse?

ERIC GUSTAVSON, President of Spendthrift Farm

As we all know, diversity comes in many shapes and sizes. And the question, ‘how do we make racing at its highest level more diverse?’ is locked and loaded for controversy- which makes it a good question I guess.

Financial Diversity:

First of all, racing is known as “the sport of kings.” You don’t see too much financial diversity among kings. A skeptic might call it “the sport of rich white guys.” That would be pretty much spot on. Racing is, and has been, run BY rich white guys, FOR rich white guys, for a long, long time. Full disclosure: I happen to be a rich white guy, but I will try to be objective nonetheless.

The only way to make the actual racing experience more financially diverse at the highest level is to make racing more affordable to a broader group of people. Equine microshare companies like MyRacehorse do just that by offering affordable horse ownership, allowing the owner to buy into top level racehorses for often less than $100. This also has the diversification bonus of drawing more women and minorities into the game. Win-win-win. Full disclosure #2: This may come off as self-serving as Spendthrift is invested in MyRacehorse, but I think it’s true nonetheless.

Gender Diversity:

There are women participating at every level, and in every aspect of our sport, and that’s great. There are relatively few women owners at the highest level of racing. Maybe that’s because they, as a gender, are too smart and pragmatic to be willing to lose so much money (ha ha).

As for positions of leadership, maybe The Jockey Clubs and Breeders’ Cups, et. al. of the world should work to have women in leadership as more of a representation of the population, or closer to a 50-50 split. Maybe that means a certain number of seats HAVE to be filled by women. This old boys’ club stuff has got to go. Full disclosure #3: I’m an old boy, albeit never part of the club. I’m also a newly-elected member of the Breeders’ Cup Board, who may have lost out to a woman had the above been implemented. I’m okay with that.

Racial Diversity:

Ah, the hot button issue of the day. Of our time really. If you are like me, you are wondering how long can this be an issue of our time. Aren’t we supposed to be better than this by now? I mean seriously…what the hell? It’s exasperating. People go through tough times all the time-at every level of race, gender, and wealth. But dang, those times are sure easier if you are a man. And even easier if you are white. The system is rigged, and racing is just as guilty as every other subset of our society. If we can’t get our crap together enough to implement a centralized racing authority, to develop uniform drug rules, to better weed out drug cheaters, to increase sales transparency, to make more advances in aftercare, to etc., etc., etc….can we at least be part of the 21st century solution to diversity?

Mandate a certain number of the above referenced seats be allocated to minorities you say? Why not? Because it’s not democratic you say? Bullsh-t, I say. That attitude has gotten us where we are. Without the mandates it doesn’t happen. Look around. Last time I checked, our industry wasn’t booming. The excuses rich white men make to maintain the status quo don’t work anymore. Full disclosure one last time: I used to do that. I’m done with it.

Do you have an idea that you would be willing to share for this series? Email the TDN’s Katie Ritz at katieritz@tdn.com.

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Frank Alexander, 82, Trainer Of Champion Cherokee Run, Passes

Frank A. Alexander, whose training career spanned five decades, died on Friday in South Florida at the age of 82.

Mr. Alexander won 997 races from 1970 until his retirement in 2012, the biggest coming in the 1994 Breeders' Cup Sprint with Cherokee Run, who would be voted an Eclipse Award as the year's outstanding sprinter. Cherokee Run, who won five other stakes and finished second to Prairie Bayou in the 1993 Preakness, went on to a highly successful stud career at Darley at Jonabell in Lexington, Ky.

He trained 73 other stakes winners during his career, including Grade 1 winners K.J.'s Appeal, Wallenda, Nonsuch Bay and Lucky Roberto. Mr. Alexander enjoyed a longstanding relationship with the late Cot Campbell of Dogwood Stable, for whom he trained Wallenda, winner of the 1993 G1 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs. Other prominent owners Mr. Alexander trained for included Barry Schwartz, J. Mack Robinson and David Reynolds.

Born Oct. 18, 1937, in Glen Cove, Long Island, N.Y., Mr. Alexander was based in New York for most of his career, wintering in South Florida. He retired to Hollywood Beach, Fla., in 2012, telling Daily Racing Form's David Grening “I don't have any stock. It's getting harder and harder to get clients. You feel like a mom and pop operation between Lowe's and Home Depot.”

Mr. Alexander is survived by his wife, Linda. Additional information, including funeral arrangements, will be added to this article when it becomes available.

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