March, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Carberry Wins Ireland’s Dancing With The Stars

Former amateur jockey Nina Carberry won Ireland's Dancing With The Stars competition on Sunday night. A winner of the Irish Grand National with Organisedconfusion (Ire) (Laveron {GB}) in 2011, Carberry partnered with Pasquale La Rocca, who was winning the RTE programme for a second consecutive season. She scored a perfect 10 from all three judges for her Viennese waltz.

“I can't sum it up,” Carberry told RTE. “This is an incredible show and I was delighted just to be part of it.”

La Rocca told Carberry after the dance, “You are a dream woman and I was honoured and privileged to dance with you.”

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Baffert In Britain? Racing Authority Defers Question Of Trainer’s Participation

Monday's The Front Runner published at racingpost.com posed an interesting question to the British Horseracing Authority. Following his success in Saturday's Dubai World Cup with Country Grammer, and considering his pending 90-day suspension and subsequent court battle, should “controversial” trainer Bob Baffert be allowed to have runners in Britain, should he so desire?

“The BHA are signatories to the IFHA International Agreement,” a spokesperson told The Front Runner, “and in that respect apply the reciprocation framework as set out within that agreement. Any case, whether it's Bob Baffert or anyone else, would be considered on its own set of circumstances within that reciprocation framework.

“If a sanction has or has not been imposed, is just one aspect of whether entries from a particular trainer or ownership group may be considered. There may be other factors, but that's relevant to the individual circumstances of the matter at hand.”

The answer, surmised the author of The Front Runner, appears to be: “we'll make that decision if we have to, when we have to, based on the circumstances that prevail at the time.”

TfRI Launches Student Exchange Programme With Lexington Sister Cities

Together for Racing International (TfRI) has joined up with the Lexington Sister Cities network to launch a foreign exchange programme between Lexington, Kentucky in the U.S.; Newmarket, UK; Kildare, Ireland; and Deauville, France. The programme will offer recent graduates of the respective racing schools of each Sister City to apply for placement abroad at one of the other Sister Cities. Students interested in taking part in the scheme will have the opportunity to apply via their “home” racing school. The ideal candidate must be aged between 18-25, be a Sister City racing school graduate, and someone keen to

further their experience abroad. Selected candidates will have the opportunity to develop their careers and gain international experience. The successful candidates will be announced on Tuesday, May 10. Their placement will commence over the summer months of July and August, later this year.

“Lexington's Sister Cities Program is unique in that it has a common bond with all its Sister Cities–the love of the

horse,” said Kay Sargent, Executive Director of the Lexington Sister Cities Commission. “We are so excited to collaborate with TfRI, BCTC Equine, and the racing schools in our Sister Cities to offer another great opportunity for students in Lexington and Lexington's Sister Cities.”

Added Anna Powell, Development Director of Together for Racing International, “We are delighted to launch our first pilot programme, which is core to the work that TfRI does helping to retain and develop talent within our racing industry globally. This exchange pilot will look to reach out to more countries like Australia and Japan going forward and we're very excited to get the first year off the ground in 2022.”

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No New Signs Of EHV At Parx, Quarantine Released

According to an update from the Equine Disease Communication Center, the quarantine at Parx Racing was released on March 26 after no new horses showed any signs of equine herpesvirus (EHV).

The track had closed its gates to shippers in and out in early March after one horse was euthanized and later tested for EHV. Several neighboring racetracks had also issued bans on horses that had been at Parx.

Two barns were quarantined at that time.

The EDCC update indicated that the index horse was removed from its barn quickly at the onset of symptoms and none of the quarantined horses have since shown any symptoms of the illness.

EHV is a highly contagious respiratory illness which can sometimes result in neurological symptoms. Neurological cases of EHV carry an increased risk of fatality.

Read more about what's known and what remains unknown about this illness in this 2016 reporting from the Paulick Report and from this AAEP fact sheet.

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