December, 2020 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Keeneland December Sale Tuesday

Bidding on the Keeneland December Digital Sale begins online at 10 a.m. Tuesday and ends on the first offering at 2 p.m. Entries close every two minutes thereafter. The catalogue of roughly 70 head features weanlings, yearlings, broodmares and broodmare prospects, racing prospects and stallion prospects. Keeneland introduced its digital sale platform in June and the December sale is the company’s third solely on-line auction. To view the entire catalogue, click here.

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Minimum Horse Welfare Standards Published by IFHA

The IFHA Minimum Horse Welfare Standards were published by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities on Monday. The standards are in line with the IFHA’s terms of reference that include promoting best practice, harmonization and information exchange across racing nations. They also complement recent reforms that ensure traceability of horses from their foal stage through into retirement and beyond. Racing authorities should refer to this guidance to establish accepted horse welfare practices in their jurisdiction and to set minimum standards of participant behaviour, including behavioural change where necessary.

“The IFHA affirms the central role of the horse in racing, and accordingly, regards the health and welfare of racehorses, in all stages of life, to be fundamentally important to the viability and sustainability of the industry,” said IFHA Chairman Louis Romanet. “The Executive Council of the Federation endorses this IFHA Minimum Horse Welfare Standards document and I want to thank our Horse Welfare Committee Chairman Jamie Stier for leading the efforts to produce this useful and practical guide for racing authorities.”

The IFHA Horse Welfare Committee prepared the standards, in part, by basing them upon sections of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) “Thoroughbred Welfare Assessment Guidelines” (Oct. 2019) which were developed by NZTR with the assistance of Professor Emeritus David Mellor, Foundation Director of the Animal Welfare Science and Bioethics Centre at Massey University, New Zealand. A short video and podcast featuring the aforementioned RV Executive General Manager Integrity Services Jamie Stier, Mellor, and Dr. Lynn Hillyer, Chief Veterinary Officer and Head of Anti-Doping for the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board and moderated by Rishi Persad have also been produced in conjunction with the standards (click here to view). For more information, go to www.ifhaonline.org.

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Diamond B Farm Earns $250,000 Bonus For First Stakes Winner By Peace And Justice

When Like A Saltshaker crossed the wire in this year's Fitz Dixon, Jr. Memorial Juvenile Stakes at Presque Isle Downs, he made his breeders a quarter of a million dollars richer.

Diamond B Farm, owned by Glenn and Becky Brok, were recently awarded the $250,000 bonus as the breeders of the first stakes winner by Peace And Justice.

According to the stipulations, $250,000 was awarded to the first stakes winner of a non-restricted race from the first-crop of Peace And Justice.

Peace And Justice, the fastest son of sire of sires War Front standing in Pennsylvania, has three wins and five placings from the nine starters in his first-crop.

He will stand for $3,500 LFSN at Blackstone Farm in Pine Grove, Pa., in 2021 and will be available for inspection at the Blackstone Farm Stallion Show on Jan. 16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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New Mexico Horsemen: ‘Emergency And Life-Threatening Situation That Requires Immediate Action’

A group of horsemen in New Mexico have issued a written plea to the state's Racing Commission, Gaming Control Board and Sunland Park racetrack management to help resolve what they call an “emergency and life-threatening situation that requires immediate action.”

“There are 1,000 horses and 634 people under direct threat,” the Sunland Park Horsemen's Committee wrote in a two-page letter dated Dec. 10 in response to news that Sunland Park's race meet has been postponed from late December until Jan. 26, 2021.

Racing is currently under way at Penn National Gaming's Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., through Dec. 23. The track was reopened Dec. 2 after being shut down in mid-November by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham when a spike in COVID-19 positives hit the state. Racetrack casinos have been unable to open to generate revenue during the pandemic.

The stable area at Zia Park is scheduled to close on Dec. 31 and horsemen have not been told when Sunland Park on the New Mexico side of the Texas border near El Paso will open for training. Sunland claims horsemen owe the track for keeping the stable area open for training earlier in the year when the pandemic forced racing to be cancelled. Sunland Park is owned by My Way Holdings LLC, which received a PPP loan totaling $2.22 million after Congress passed emergency legislation.

“Horses will not have a place to live and train if Sunland Park is not open for training,” the horsemen wrote. “Owners of these horses cannot survive another shutdown. People are literally sacrificing care for themselves so that they can feed their horses.

“Training is essential for the safety and welfare of racehorses,” the letter continued. “It is inhumane to deny racehorses the ability to train and to train properly. Life-threatening injuries may result when racehorses cannot leave their stall or train in a safe manner. Stall injuries and episodes of spontaneous colic as well as self-inflicted fractures and lacerations occur when horses are not properly conditioned and exercised. …

“The New Mexico Racing Commission has blatantly failed to protect the welfare of the horse. They have disregarded their own mission statement which inclues 'to provide regulation in an equitable manner … which promotes a climate of economic prosperity for horsemen, horse owners, and racetrack management.'”

The Horsemen's Committee consists of Paul Jenson, DVM, MS, DACVS; Dick Cappellucci; Jarett Rogers; Bart Hone; Wes Giles; Gerald Marr; and Maurcenia Cross.

Read the full letter here.

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