Robin Goodfellow’s racing tips: Best bets for Tuesday, June 7
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Tuesday's meetings at Brighton, Salisbury, Chelmsford City and Wetherby.
Month: June 2022
Two Racing Quarter Horses Positive For Equine Infectious Anemia In California, Tied To Unsanctioned Racing
The following statement was released to media June 6 by California Horse Racing Board executive director Scott Chaney and CHRB chief official veterinarian Dr. Timotny Grande:
Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) has recently been detected in California's racing Quarter Horse population. On May 2 and May 26 respectively, two Quarter Horses were confirmed positive for EIA when tested for entry into a racetrack. In addition, on May 20, 24 cases were confirmed EIA positive amongst exposed horses.
A previous investigation conducted by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) identified a high-risk population of Quarter Horses participating in unsanctioned racing. Risky practices are believed to have contributed to transmission of this disease, such as the sharing of needles and other medical equipment or the use of illegally obtained, contaminated foreign blood products. Based on the increase in detection, the CDFA recommends increased surveillance in the high-risk population of racing Quarter Horses and requiring proof of a recent negative Coggins test for new horses entering a facility.
Effective immediately, any Quarter Horse not continuously housed at a CHRB inclosure must have a negative Coggins (EIA test) within the previous 90 days of the arrival date to be allowed to enter a CHRB inclosure. This includes both interstate and intrastate shippers.
Furthermore, any Quarter Horse that originates from a property in Tulare County must have a negative Coggins within the previous 30 days of the arrival date to be allowed to enter a CHRB inclosure.
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Feds Having Trouble Designating Prison for Jordan Fishman
Jordan Fishman, the convicted Massachusetts-based drug formulator who made illicit substances that were later injected into racehorses, got sentenced to 15 months back on Feb. 8 after pleading guilty in the wide-ranging international horse doping conspiracy.
But nearly four months later, Fishman still hasn't been incarcerated because the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has twice lagged in telling him to which federal facility he's supposed to surrender.
On Monday, for the second time within the past six weeks, his attorney wrote a letter to the judge handling the case to inform him that it's now three days before the date Fishman is supposed to turn himself in, but he still hasn't heard anything from the BOP.
Patrick Joyce, Fishman's lawyer, had articulated essentially the same concern back on Apr. 25 in United States District Court (Southern District of New York). Fishman's original reporting date had been May 9, but the judge pushed the surrender date back one month because of the lack of assignment.
In general, prisoners who are scheduled for self-reporting get at least several weeks of lead time about where they're supposed to serve their sentences so they can make any necessary arrangements about getting there or inform the prison about medical needs.
“It is most important that Mr. Fishman be permitted to contact the facility to which he is designated prior to his incarceration,” Joyce wrote. “We are hoping to supply the facility with a list of foods to which Mr. Fishman is allergic. Mr. Fishman has a significant reaction to most fruits, and anything containing gluten. His exposure to these things causes a variety of serious health issues. (Severe GI issues, headaches, and anaphylactic reaction).
“For these reasons, Defendant respectfully requests that the Court adjourn Jordan's surrender date until August 9, 2022, before 2 PM, or until 14 days after he has been notified of his designation, whichever date occurs later,” Joyce wrote.
Back in October, Fishman, 64, had pleaded guilty to one count of adulterating and misbranding purportedly performance-enhancing drugs.
Jordan Fishman is unrelated to-but had a professional working relationship with-Seth Fishman, the convicted veterinarian who is awaiting his own sentencing from the same series of arrests and faces 20 years in prison for his role in the horse-doping conspiracy.
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How Dave Johnson’s Famous ‘And Down The Stretch They Come’ Race Call Continues To Serve The Industry
Announcer Dave Johnson's signature “…and down the stretch they come” call as a field enters the final straightaway is practically as synonymous with horse racing as the “Call to Post.” As Amanda Duckworth writes in Thoroughbred Racing Commentary, those words continue to support various facets of the horse racing industry long after Johnson left the announcer's booth.
In the early 2010s, Johnson trademarked the phrase “and down the stretch they come,” after seeing companies as large as Amazon make money off merchandise with the saying Johnson coined, without his permission.
Though he has brought in more than a quarter of a million dollars off the rights to that phrase over the past decade, Johnson has donated the proceedings to a wide variety of charities within the racing sphere, between both the Thoroughbred and Standardbred realms.
Beneficiaries of Johnson's donations based off the phrase's rights have included New York's Backstretch Employee Service Team (BEST), Churchill Downs' Backside Learning Center, and various scholarships including the University of Arizona's Racetrack Industry Program.
“It wasn't to make money, and I have not kept a nickel from it,” Johnson told Thoroughbred Racing Commentary. “I did it because so many people were using it however they wanted, and they weren't even asking permission. It was just to stop them from doing that. The important thing is that if the phrase is being used, it's then helping those in the game that can really use it.”
Read more at Thoroughbred Racing Commentary.
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