Month: January 2021

Grade 3 Winner Bobby’s Wicked One Retired To Acadiana Equine At Copper Crowne In Louisiana

Graded stakes winner Bobby's Wicked One, by red-hot Speightstown, the leading sire of Grade 1 winners in 2020, has retired to Acadiana Equine at Copper Crowne.

Bobby's Wicked One defeated Mitole winning his racing debut at two at the Fair Grounds by over five lengths. The winner of Keeneland's Grade 3 Commonwealth Stakes and second in the G1 Churchill Downs Stakes, Bobby's Wicked One defeated the winners of over $29 million, including 19 graded stakes winners, earned multiple triple digit Beyer Speed Figures and retired with earnings of $547,673.

Out of the Ghostzapper mare Wicked Charm, a winning half-sister to champion turf sire of 2020 English Channel, his third dam is multiple champion Committed.

Bobby's Wicked One will stand for $3,500 live foal as the property of a syndicate.

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2021 Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Accreditation Application Now Available

The 2021 application for accreditation by the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance is now available on OpenWater, a grant application and review platform, and can be accessed by clicking here.

Thoroughbred aftercare nonprofits interested in applying must complete the application by the closing date of April 1 at 6 p.m. EST. Since TAA accreditation is only granted for a specific period of time, organizations with accreditation status ending in 2021 that want to remain accredited need to re-apply.

Accreditation status is determined after a complete review of five areas of an aftercare organization: operations, education, horse health care management, facility standards and services, and adoption policies and protocols. Organizations passing the application review will be subject to site inspections of all facilities housing Thoroughbreds.

Organizations that receive accreditation are eligible to receive financial grants from the TAA, but prior grants awarded are no indication of potential future awards. In 2020 the TAA awarded $3.5 million to accredited organizations as grants earmarked specifically for equine care, totaling more than $20.7 million awarded since 2012.

Any organization interested in applying for TAA accreditation must fulfill the following five minimum requirements:

  1. Organization must have a current status as a 501(c)(3) federal not-for-profit (U.S.) or must be a registered charity within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada).
  2. Organization must have been in operation for at least three years. The TAA will confirm operation information, including with the secretary of state or provincial business registry.
  3.  At time of application, organization must either (1) currently exclusively own and provide care for a minimum of five (5) registered Thoroughbreds, or (2) currently exclusively own and provide care for at least 3-4 registered Thoroughbreds AND must have exclusively owned and provided care for at least 10 registered Thoroughbreds over the previous 12 months. Registered Thoroughbreds leased by the organization or owned by third parties at the same facility should not be included.
  4. Organization must have a written euthanasia policy consistent with the American Association of Equine Practitioners.
  5. Organization, or a principal of the organization or individual directly related to the organization, shall not have any current legal proceedings pending against them which adversely impact the aftercare operations, the organization's standards of care, or the 501(c)(3) status of the organization.

For more information on the TAA accreditation process, please visit ThoroughbredAftercare.org.

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Colm O’Donoghue Acquitted

Group 1-winning jockey Colm O’Donoghue won his trial on Monday, the Racing Post reported. O’Donoghue was acquitted on two counts of physical assault on his ex-partner Jill Macken in 2018. Carrick-on-Suir district court heard the case, where Judge Finn ruled O’Donoghue was innocent of the charges. The incidents were alleged to have occurred in O’Donoghue’s home in County Tipperary in October of 2018 and at the Pillo hotel in November of that year prior to the couple’s break up. Macken did not report the incidents to the authorities until February of 2019 after the two separated. In the first instance, O’Donoghue was not in Ireland after riding in Newmarket that day and in the second instance, the court found issue with Ms. Macken’s claims. A WhatsApp message displayed to the court from Macken to O’Donoghue stated, “Now to ruin ur life.”

Only 40, O’Donoghue had ceased riding in late 2019 and is once again based at Ballydoyle after riding for Jessica Harrington in the past, as well as the Aidan O’Brien outfit earlier in his career.

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