November, 2021 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Breeders’ Cup Players’ Show To Air Live On TVG Friday And Saturday

TVG, America's horse racing network and leading ADW platform, will bring live coverage of the Breeders' Cup World Championships into the homes of horse racing fans across the country on Friday, Nov. 5 and Saturday, Nov. 6 with “The Breeders' Cup Players' Show”, a wagering-focused telecast featuring expert analysis, exclusive interviews and handicapping selections. Fans can also stream the Players' Show on the WatchTVG app alongside exclusive content as part of the Breeders' Cup Multicast.

The coverage will begin on Friday, Nov. 5 at 11:25 a.m. PT/2:25 p.m. ET featuring the complete undercard from Del Mar as well all five Breeders' Cup races on “Future Stars Friday” culminating in the $2 million TVG Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1). On Saturday, the day gets underway at 9:45 a.m. PT/ 12:45 p.m. ET and the coverage will featuring the full undercard and live airing of eight Breeders' Cup races through the $4 million Longines Turf (G1). Fans can tune in on TVG, TVG2 and the Watch TVG app which is available on Amazon Fire, Roku and connected Apple TV devices.

The Breeders' Cup Players' Show will feature a lineup of TVG experts including Todd Schrupp, Simon Bray, Scott Hazelton, Mike Joyce, Christina Blacker, Caton Bredar, Joaquin Jaime, Acacia Courtney, Michelle Yu, and renowned European racing analyst Rishi Persad. The Players' Show will also be simulcast at tracks, simulcast centers and off-track betting venues around the world.

There will also be exclusive content available on the Watch TVG app throughout the day on Nov. 5-6 including on-demand video content featuring live, dedicated cameras following each of the Breeders' Cup contenders from the paddock through the running of the championship races as well as jockey-cameras which allow viewers to watch each race through the eyes of some of the best jockeys in the world.

There will also be a drone camera allowing fans to watch the race unfold from a birds' eye perspective and multiple camera angles utilized throughout each race.

As part of its commitment to give back to the racing industry and to help raise awareness for key industry charities, for the second year in a row, the FanDuel Group is including two of its major charitable partners into its naming rights sponsorships for this year's event – the FanDuel Breeders' Cup Mile (G1) presented by PDJF and the TVG Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance. Representatives from both charities will be on hand for the trophy presentation following each race.

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Ninth Thoroughbred Owner Conference Panel Focused On Breeding To Win

The ninth panel in the online Thoroughbred Owner Conference series held Tuesday, Nov. 2, featured a panel devoted to breeding Thoroughbreds who discussed the research and factors they consider when making breeding decisions. The conference series is hosted by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and presented by Bessemer Trust, Dean Dorton Equine, Stoll Keenon Ogden, and Stonestreet Farm.

Moderated by Carolyn Conley, “Breeding to Win” featured owners/breeders Madeline Auerbach, chairperson of CARMA (California Retirement Management Account) and a member of The Jockey Club, and David O'Farrell, manager of Ocala Stud and vice chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association. Also on the panel was Dr. Barbara Murphy, head of Equine Science at University College Dublin, who specializes in equine reproduction and developed the Equilume Light Mask, which has become a useful breeding tool within the Thoroughbred industry. The session was sponsored by Centennial Farms and Equilume.

To start the discussion, Murphy explained the thought and science behind the Equilume Light Mask and how light, specifically blue wavelengths, affects reproductive and growth hormones.

“If you provide lighting to the pregnant mare early in the year, you also have an improvement on her breeding efficiency in that she will cycle back sooner after she foals and she will foal closer to her due date,” Murphy said. “By giving the mare light, she turns on growth hormones, which stimulates the foal to develop at the normal pace.”

Auerbach and O'Farrell spoke about the differences in breeding to race and breeding to sell, the importance of selecting your breeding stock, and ensuring your horses are in the right hands.

“It's the most wonderful thing in the world to see a horse you bred win a race,” Auerbach. “But be careful, make sure you know what you are doing, and, once again, get as much advice as you can, but remember it's your decision and the buck stops with you and starts with you.”

“It's easier to breed to race than it is to breed to sell because racing you can breed to horses and get runners, but they might get ugly horses,” O'Farrell said. “You can't sell ugly horses.”

When discussing conformation, O'Farrell stated that it is very important but is not everything.

“For the most part, I think we just have to understand what physical qualities your mare has and what they are lacking and what the stallions may have and what they are lacking and try to be sensible about it,” he said. “You can't be too nitpicky. You have to consider all things including conformation, but I don't think it's everything.”

Talking about the importance of choosing a stallion, Auerbach noted: “It is just as important to study your mares, study her origins, and then start thinking about stallions. Don't put all of your eggs in one basket.”

“I would agree with that,” O'Farrell said. “Put a lot of effort into understanding your mare and what she's capable of.”

Before the Q&A session, the panel touched on the importance of aftercare.

“Everybody in the supply line, the people that buy them, the people that race them, everyone as a hand in making sure that they contribute to aftercare,” Auerbach said. “Everyone has a hand in pitching in and being responsible so that these horses, when they get out of racing, that there is a place for them, that there is somewhere that they can go and live out their lives.”

The next and final session of the series will focus on aftercare and is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 2 p.m. ET. It is sponsored by Canterbury Park and Gainesway Farm.

All sessions will be recorded and made available to registered guests. There is no registration fee for the live or recorded virtual conference series, but registration is required. Registration information and schedules are available at ownerview.com/event/conference or by contacting Gary Falter at gfalter@jockeyclub.com.

OwnerView is a joint effort spearheaded by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to encourage ownership of Thoroughbreds and provide accurate information on aspects of ownership such as trainers, public racing syndicates, the process of purchasing and owning a Thoroughbred, racehorse retirement, and owner licensing.

The need for a central resource to encourage Thoroughbred ownership was identified in the comprehensive economic study of the sport that was commissioned by The Jockey Club and conducted by McKinsey & Company in 2011. The OwnerView site was launched in May 2012.

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Clarkland’s Nancy Mitchell Dies at 83

Nancy Mitchell of Clarkland Farm died peacefully Nov. 3 at the Kentucky homestead that has been in her family since 1774. She was 83.

Blood-Horse first reported Mitchell's passing. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested donations in Mitchell's honor to the Alzheimer's Association or Central Kentucky Riding for Hope.

Running Clarkland for nearly a half-century alongside her husband, Fred, and daughter, Marty Buckner, Nancy and the team have been major consignors at Kentucky sales for decades.

Clarkland has bred, raised and sold many top-class runners, including the two-time champion sprinter Housebuster, the champion older mare North Sider, and the English champion 2-year old Wind and Wuthering.

But it was the 2006 buy of a mare called Leslie's Lady for $100,000 who was carrying a foal by Orientate at the Keeneland November sale that turned out to be Clarkland's most memorable bloodstock move during the Mitchells' tenure.

“She is the best mare we will probably ever have,” Fred Mitchell told TDN in 2018. “Nancy picked her out.”

Although Leslie's Lady's top accomplishment on the racetrack was winning a stakes at Hoosier Park and none of her four foals were standouts at the time, the colt she produced in 2005, the year before Clarkland purchased her, turned into the Grade I winner and now-prolific stallion Into Mischief.

Leslie's Lady in 2010 produced four-time Eclipse Award winner and three-time Breeders' Cup heroine Beholder. In 2015, she foaled Mendelssohn, who topped the 2016 Keeneland September sale at $3 million and later won the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf and G2 UAE Derby.

Leslie's Lady's last foal to be offered at auction, America's Joy, set a new price record for a filly when she hammered for $8.2 million at the 2019 KEESEP sale. Unraced, the 3-year-old was euthanized in August 2021 after suffering a career-ending injury in a workout.

Now 25, Leslie's Lady was retired from breeding this past spring. Her penultimate foal, Marr Time (Not This Time), was retained to race by Clarkland, and upon winning her debut at Keeneland Oct. 28, she was named a 'TDN Rising Star'.

Marr Time was named with a nod to Nancy Mitchell's ancestor, John Wesley Marr.

“He was an old guy that never changed his clocks,” Fred Mitchell told TDN back in June. “He stayed on Central Standard Time year-round. He would say, 'When the sun changes and my horses and I know that the time changed, I'll change. But not 'til then.'”

Nancy Mitchell grew up at Clarkland. The 400-acre farm northeast of Lexington had been granted to her ancestor, Lt. James Clark, for his service in the mid-18th Century French and Indian War. The present ownership of Clarkland is descended from James Clark to Nancy Mitchell and two sisters.

In addition to success as breeders and sales consignors, Clarkland has prided itself in being good stewards of the land, being among the Kentucky Thoroughbred farms that have joined in the Development Rights Program that preserves Bluegrass farmland.

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Scientists Confirm Horseback Riding A Viable Mobility Treatment For Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy (CP) affects around two out of every 1000 children born worldwide. Physical therapy is the foremost way of improving movement, balance and posture in children with CP. Research has shown that hippotherapy, a form of physical therapy involving horseback riding, is effective for treating CP. But how exactly does it help? In a recent study, researchers from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in South Korea explored this question and provided insightful answers as well as a baseline for future research.

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a common disability among children, characterized by abnormal gait patterns and the inability to maintain posture and balance. While the condition is incurable, physical therapy treatments can go a long way in improving movement and balance. One such treatment approach is hippotherapy (HPOT), which uses horseback riding to improve functional mobility in children with CP. Although supported by scientific studies as an effective treatment approach for (CP), there is, unfortunately, little data concerning how HPOT results in improvement.

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Recently, a team of researchers from Korea and the United States addressed this question, investigating physical interaction metrics between horses and children with CP during HPOT. “My original research interests lie in the rehabilitation of people with neurological impairment, specifically gait and balance. However, I did not know about hippotherapy until 2016. After realizing how effective it is in treating children with CP, I was motivated to explore it further,” explains Dr. Pilwon Hur, who headed the study. This paper was made available online on September 6, 2021, and was published in Volume 18 Issue 132 of the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.

The research team studied four children with CP over the course of eight physical therapy sessions. They placed sensors on the horses and children to record their movements and track their acceleration and angular velocity. They found that the data from the horses and children began to resemble each other as time progressed, indicating a synchronization between the horse and the rider. They also gave the children mobility tests after each session and observed improvement in their motor skills at the end of the experiment.

“We found that physical interaction between the children with CP and the horses, characterized by the children adapting to the horse's movement and vice versa, is extremely important for the rehabilitation to be effective,” says Dr. Hur.

Excited by these findings, the team hopes their work will provide a baseline for further research on HPOT. “To the best of my knowledge, ours is the first study to quantify these interactions and relate them to effectiveness,” says Dr. Hur. “Such an understanding would help us optimize physical therapy programs, improving the quality of life for children with CP.”

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