Robin Goodfellow’s racing tips: Best bets for Saturday, July 18
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow dishes out his tips for Saturday's meetings at York, Bath, Haydock and Newbury.
Month: July 2020
Limited Haskell Tickets Remain Available
A limited amount of picnic area general admission tickets and special packages for the Blu Grotto restaurant for Saturday’s TVG.com Haskell S. program remain available on a first-come, first-served basis both at Monmouth Park and online at www.monmouthpark.com. The tickets were among those released for sale this past Wednesday.
Picnic area general admission tickets are $100, which include admission, a Haskell hat, a program and parking. The Blu Grotto is offering a $150 package that includes admission and four-hour bar service.
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Lone Star To Resume Racing July 19, Adds Two Race Dates
Live racing at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Tx. will resume Sunday, July 19 with the first race at 3:05 p.m. The track has COVID-19 guidelines available on its website, including a mask requirement.
Lone Star began its COVID-19-delayed meet on May 22, but it was paused on July 5 when a racing operations employee tested positive for the virus.
Alongside Friday's resumption announcement, Lone Star has announced an 18 percent purse increase, effective Sunday, July 19. The track will also add two additional race days: Aug. 5 and Aug. 12. The races for those days will be previously cancelled races and brought-back book races.
Both divisions of the $100,000-estimated Texas Thoroughbred (Sales) Futurity have been rescheduled for Aug. 11. With the necessary changes to the race schedule, the time between running the first and second legs of the Texas Stallion Stakes Series is not feasible, so both divisions of the second leg have been cancelled. The Texas Thoroughbred Association hopes to run them in January at Sam Houston Race Park.
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CHRB Moves Forward On Lasix Phaseout, Walks Back Proposed Intra-Articular Injection Regulations
The California Horse Racing Board conducted a meeting by teleconference on Thursday, July 16. The public participated by dialing into the teleconference and/or listening through the audio webcast link on the CHRB website. Dr. Gregory Ferraro chaired the meeting, joined by Vice Chair Oscar Gonzales and Commissioners Dennis Alfieri, Damascus Castellanos, Wendy Mitchell, and Alex Solis.
The audio of this entire Board meeting is available on the CHRB Website (www.chrb.ca.gov) under the Webcast link. In brief:
- The Board approved two agenda items pertaining to funding the CHRB budget for the fiscal year 2020-21. The budget of $16,820,500 is $2.2 million higher than the previous fiscal year, largely due to $1.4 million in increases for drug testing and safety measures.
- The Board approved the license application for a meeting of the Sonoma County Fair (SCF) to be run at Golden Gate Fields, commencing July 31 through August 9, on condition that certain required documents must be submitted to the CHRB at least one week before the start of the meet.
- The Board approved the license application for a meeting of the Pacific Racing Association (PRA) at Golden Gate Fields from August 13 through October 4, on condition that certain required documents must be submitted to the CHRB at least one week before the start of the meet.
- The Board authorized the racing secretary for both the SCF and PRA meets to establish conditions for races, which will include limiting Lasix administrations to 250 mg, prohibiting any intra-articular medication within 14 days of a race, and extending that prohibition to 30 days for fetlock injections, both metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints.
- The Board approved for 45-day public notice a proposed regulatory amendment to allow for increased penalties when there are multiple medication violations. This is essentially the same language as the model rule approved by the Association of Racing Commissioners.
- The Board approved for 45-day public notice a proposed regulatory amendment to prohibit horses from racing within 14 days of being administered an intra-articular medication and from racing within 30 days of fetlock injections. The rule also prohibits a horse from training within 10 days of fetlock injections.
- The Board approved a rule requiring at least 12 hours of continuing education for renewal of licenses for trainer and assistant trainer. This rule is scheduled to go into effect on June 1, 2021. The CHRB already has numerous educational modules on its website pertaining to equine safety that will help meet this requirement, and more will be added.
- The Board approved regulatory amendments limiting Lasix administrations to 250 mg. (the same restriction that racing secretaries have been imposing as race conditions) and prohibiting Lasix administrations to horses that are 2 years old.
- The Board authorized Watch and Wager (harness racing at Cal Expo) to distribute $4,000 in race day charity proceeds to five beneficiaries.
- The Board authorized TVG to offer a handicapping contest that normally would be conducted onsite at Del Mar, but there are no spectators at the current meet.
- Public comments made during the meeting can be accessed through the meeting audio archive on the CHRB website
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