Month: June 2022

Second Stride Launches ‘Broodmare & Bloodstock’ Program To Serve Thoroughbreds Of All Ages

Broodmare & Bloodstock, a new program at Second Stride Thoroughbred retirement facility in Prospect, Ky., serves broodmares and non-racing bloodstock in need of new careers and new homes.

If a Thoroughbred of any age needs a first, second, or third career, Second Stride can help! Second Stride launched Broodmare & Bloodstock in 2022 to offer a safe, caring option to Thoroughbred owners and breeders who wish to transition their horses to new homes. Second Stride will assess your horses' capabilities and temperament and place them with a carefully vetted adopter in a permanent home.

Seed funding for Broodmare & Bloodstock has been provided by The Right Horse Initiative, a program of the ASPCA whose goal is to massively increase horse adoption in the United States. Second Stride thanks The Right Horse Initiative for investing in this important industry need!

Ten horses have already been served through Broodmare & Bloodstock, including horses from Claiborne Farm, Denali Stud, and Upson Downs Farm.

Second Stride's ambition is to provide any Thoroughbred owner or breeder in Kentucky or beyond with immediate access to the safe, responsible facilities of Second Stride while we work to place your horse in a permanent home. This may take weeks or it may take months, but we're there for your horse for the long haul!

Spaces are currently available! To donate your broodmare, Thoroughbred yearling, or other unable-to-race bloodstock, please review Second Stride's donation process and complete the donation form.

Second Stride is a 501(c)(3) non-profit which provides rehabilitation and retraining for retired Thoroughbred racehorses. For more information, check out secondstride.org.

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CHRB Rulings: Miller Assistant Alvarado Suspended For Program Trainer Violation

The trainer's license of Ruben Alvarado, who until last November was assistant to trainer Peter Miller, has been suspended 14 days by the California Horse Racing Board for violating program trainer rules between Dec. 23, 2021, and March 24, 2022, at the San Luis Rey training center.

Alvarado took over Miller's Southern California stable when Miller announced that he was taking a self-imposed hiatus from training last November, citing personal reasons.

Complaints against Alvarado and Miller were filed May 23, with stewards alleging that Miller continued to engage in “behavior consistent with the duties of a trainer at the San Luis Rey training center with horses in the barn of trainer Ruben Alvarado. This has included entering horses, conducting endoscopy exams, giving instruction to riders, examining horses, assigning jockeys, and creating training charts.”

The complaint further stated that Alvarado did not set up his own stable bank account independent of Miller, which was required by the stewards.

Miller, who was licensed as an owner and stable agent, received a seven-day suspension and $10,000 fine. His suspension ran June 6-12.

Alvarado's suspension is scheduled to run July 1-14.

Miller has started five horses in his own name since late May: three at Churchill Downs and two last weekend at Los Alamitos. He recently announced that he will resume training full-time in Southern California .

Miller Fined For Vulgarity Toward Regulatory Veterinarian
In a separate ruling dated June 24, Miller was fined $5,000 for violating CHRB disorderly conduct rules on Feb. 14 at San Luis Rey. According to the complaint, Miller uttered a vulgarity multiple times while upset that Dr. Barrie Grant would not remove the horse Gates of Heaven from the vet's list following a workout. Grant requested the complaint be filed. Miller has been sanctioned previously for disorderly conduct incidents involving a former employee, racing officials, security personnel, and a regulatory veterinarian.

Financial Complaint Leads To Randal Gindi License Suspension
On June 25, CHRB stewards also suspended the owner's license of Randal Gindi of Monster Racing Stables for failure to appear before the board of stewards on June 24 to answer a financial responsibility complaint. The complaint was filed by Bob Hubbard Horse Transportation, alleging Gindi's stable owed $1,402.35 for transporting the horse The Critical Way on Oct. 29, 2021. Gindi's suspension, pending a hearing before the stewards, is to begin July 2.

Gindi's stable is currently based at Monmouth Park, where The Critical Way recently ran fourth in the Select Stakes. The Critical Way was pre-entered in last year's Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar but did not start.

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Old Friends: Pensioned Shadwell Stallion Mustanfar Passes At Age 21

Two-time G3 winner Mustanfar was humanely euthanized Monday at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital. He was 21.

A full necropsy is currently pending.

Bred and owned by Shadwell Farm, Mustanfar, along with five other retired stallions, was recently relocated to Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement in Georgetown, KY. as part of an operations downsizing that followed the death of Shadwell owner, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum in 2021.

Old Friends President Michael Blowen made the announcement of Mustanfar's passing on Monday.

The son of Unbridled out of the Lyphard mare Manwah, Mustanfar certainly lived up to his prestigious pedigree on the track. He raced from age two to six, making 27 career starts, and won or placed in nine graded stakes contests on both dirt and turf.

Owned by Sheikh Hamdan's Shadwell and conditioned by trainer Kieran McLaughlin, Mustanfar jump started his career with a win at Aqueduct at two in just his second start.

The following year, he captured the G3 Lexington Stakes at Belmont Park, and went on to earn the G3 Sycamore Breeder's Cup Turf at Keeneland, both on the turf.

Proving his versatility, he finished second in the G3 Tampa Bay Derby on the dirt and ran third in the G3 Ben Ali Stakes on synthetic.

Mustanfar retired to stud in 2007 with five wins from 27 starts and career earnings of $625,010. He stood at both The Indiana Stallion Station and Shadwell's Nashwan Stud.

Mustanfar is the sire of winners on both dirt and turf.

“He was the youngest of the Shadwell stallions and he became an instant favorite,” said Blowen. “We're very sorry that more of his fans weren't able to appreciate him for much, much longer.”

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