April, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Hallway Feed’s Steve Caddel Retires

Hallway Feeds Technical Services Team Member Steve Caddel announced his retirement after 30 years with the company. The Uvalde, Texas native, Caddel began working for Hallway Feeds in technical services and sales in April of 1991. While working at Hallway Feeds, Caddel served the Thoroughbred community, balancing science with real-world knowledge of horses to advise clients on feed choices.

“I was out on the farm seeing the horses,” Caddel said. “When we would try something new, I could see if it was working or not. That allowed me to bring useful information back to [Hallway Feeds]. It wasn't anything planned, that's just how it evolved.”

Caddel has been part of several of Hallway Feeds' initiatives, including the incorporation of body condition score data into growth management, a growth study with Kentucky Equine Research resulting from the collection of weight and height data of thousands of horses being fed the feeds, and the advent of using information gleaned from radiographs to pinpoint joint issues.

“Having weighed, measured and body condition scored more Thoroughbreds than any other individual worldwide, Steve has led Hallway Feeds in collecting the largest set of growth data on the breed in the world,” said Lee Hall, vice president of Hallway Feeds.

Caddell will conclude his tenure with Hallway following an upcoming collaboration between the company and KER's Dr. Joe Pagan. The seminar will center around the results of many years of growth data compared to health records, sales results, and performance records.

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Baffert Withdraws Motion For Preliminary Injunction In Case Against CDI

Trainer Bob Baffert, who began a 90-day suspension on April 4, has filed paperwork in federal court in Kentucky to withdraw his motion for preliminary injunction in his civil suit against Churchill Downs, Inc. Baffert had been seeking a preliminary injunction to stave off the racetrack's private ban on his participation in the 2022 Kentucky Derby while he pursued a civil case to invalidate the legality of the track's ban.

This week, Baffert began serving the suspension he was given by Kentucky stewards for the betamethasone overage from Medina Spirit following last year's Kentucky Derby. The California Horse Racing Board, which governs racing in the state where Baffert is based year-round, has reciprocated the Kentucky stewards' suspension. In accordance with California regulations requiring a trainer to disperse their stable while serving a suspension longer than 60 days, Baffert's signage has been removed from his barns in the state and his horses have been transferred to other trainers.

Baffert had tried to get a stay of suspension that would have allowed him to keep training while he appealed the Kentucky stewards' ruling. In an unusual (but not unprecedented) move, Kentucky commission staff denied his request, citing his lengthy recent history of therapeutic medication overages and his shifting stories about where the medication could have come from.

Since he has begun serving the suspension, any action by the federal court in Kentucky's Western District regarding his ability to saddle horses in the Derby would have been moot, since he's scheduled to be suspended by the state commission through early July regardless of his relationship with racetrack ownership entities.

Baffert is not withdrawing his broader action against CDI however, and appears to still be seeking a ruling from the court invalidating Churchill's ability to ban him from their entries, stabling, and from the 2023 Kentucky Derby.

CDI's move to bar him from the Derby and Oaks for two years was made by the track independently of the Kentucky commission and was announced well before the Kentucky stewards made their ruling in the case.

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Grand National: Fresh Fiddler the real deal for Aintree, Brendan Powell says

In the race's history, there is only one instance of a father and son both riding winners - Tommy Carberry, successful in 1975 on L'Escargot, and Paul who won in 1999 on Bobbyjo.

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Un Ojo Exits Arkansas Derby With ‘Legitimate Excuse,’ Connections Hopeful He’ll Make Trip To Louisville

Rebel Stakes winner Un Ojo finished a disappointing eighth in Sautrday's Grade 1, $1.25 million Arkansas Derby, but trainer Ricky Courville told bloodhorse.com that the 3-year-old gelding by Laoban had suffered multiple abrasions and scrapes during the “roughly run” contest. One cut, on Un Ojo's left shoulder, required several surgical staples to close the wound.

“He was sawed off and bounced off the fence twice. He's had some stiffness and we'll give him some time to get over it,” Courville told bloodhorse.com. “We're still going to the Kentucky Derby so far. He had a legitimate excuse Saturday. He and (runner-up Barber Road) were making their moves together so he might have been right there with a clean trip.”

The Equibase chart indicates that Un Ojo was checked sharply at the three-eighths pole and “did not recover.”

Courville explained that Un Ojo was pressed up against the inside rail in the far turn, and that jockey Ramon Vazquez had to check Un Ojo to avoid further injury.

“He kept hitting the rail and Ramon had to check him out of there and he said the horse panicked and tried to jump the fence,” Courville told bloodhorse.com. “It was pretty bad. I was surprised there was no inquiry. Guess no one saw it or cared about it. It was a roughly run race.”

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Un Ojo will walk the shed row to recover from his stiffness for about a week, Courville said. The Arkansas Derby was held five weeks ahead of the Kentucky Derby this year, so Courville hopes there is enough time for the gelding to recover before the first Saturday in May.