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Month: February 2022
Champion Enable Delivers First Foal
Enable, a two-time European Horse of the Year, delivered her first foal on Feb. 11, a colt by Kingman.
A release from owner and breeder Juddmonte Farms stated that Enable has taken to her maternal duties “extremely well.”
An 8-year-old daughter of Nathaniel, Enable was a standard-bearer for Juddmonte's homebred program for five seasons, earning honors as European Horse of the Year in 2017 and 2019, along with continental honors as champion 3-year-old filly in 2017 and champion older female in 2018 and 2019.
Enable won 15 of 19 starts and earned $14,062,824, highlighted by three wins in the G1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, two victories in the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, and Grade/Group 1 wins in the Breeders' Cup Turf, Epsom Oaks, Irish Oaks, and Yorkshire Oaks.
Kingman is a Juddmonte homebred by Invincible Spirit who earned Europe's Horse of the Year honors in 2014. He stands at Banstead Manor Stud in Suffolk, England.
His runners of note include European champion Palace Pier and multiple Grade 1 winner Domestic Spending.
Enable is scheduled to be bred to global powerhouse Dubawi for her 2022 mating.
Juddmonte are delighted to announce that Enable has given birth to a strikingly-marked colt foal by Kingman at 3.54pm on Friday 11th February, the day before her own birthday. Enable has taken to her maternal duties extremely well.
Special moments are worth the wait! pic.twitter.com/MJx1CBEpYC— Juddmonte (@JuddmonteFarms) February 11, 2022
‘I’m Trying To Help Make It Better’: Adrienne Hall Speaks Out After Testifying At Fishman Trial, Losing USTA Membership
Embattled harness-racing owner Adrienne Hall spoke to Harness Racing Update this week to give her side of the story. The owner testified on Jan. 28 in the federal trial of Dr. Seth Fishman (who was later found guilty), admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs on her horses, and subsequently had her membership in the United States Trotting Association revoked.
New Jersey's Meadowlands Racetrack owner Jeff Gural issued a press release on Feb. 3 stating that Hall's horses would continue to be allowed to race at his track: “We disagree with the USTA decision, and we applaud Ms. Hall for coming forward. To penalize those who testify for the prosecution will only serve to further the already existing notion that 'saying something will only lead to problems for yourself.'”
Hall told HRN that she was not forced to testify, but instead volunteered in order to help “clean up the business.” She explained that Fishman provided her with free samples which were not properly labeled or were just color-coded, and told her the medications would help the horses. During the month Hall said she used Fishman's products, one of her horses posted a victory at Pompano Park (he had also dropped in class and was the second choice in the field).
“The whole thing made me uncomfortable,” Hall told HRN. “I didn't think it was dangerous. I knew it was against the rules. I wasn't supposed to be administering anything like that to my horses and I broke the rules.”
The New Jersey Racing Commission is investigating Hall, according to HRN, and that investigation will determine her ability to continue to race in the state.
Hall has struggled with the social media response to her testimony.
“This whole thing has been absolutely brutal on me, when in reality, I'm trying to help make it better,” Hall told HRN. “These guys can say whatever they want about me, I don't care. I had more balls than any of them to do what I did.”
Read more at Harness Racing Update.
Mahoning Valley Cancels Saturday Card
Live racing for Saturday, Feb. 12 at Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Valley Race Course has been cancelled due to the lingering effects of winter storm Landon. Live racing is scheduled to resume Monday, Feb. 14 with a first race post time of 12:45pm. The simulcast theater will remain open.
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