November, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Del Mar’s Ninth ‘Bing Crosby Season’ Off And Running This Friday

What first started in 2014 continues forward this year when Del Mar's ninth fall racing meet – the “Bing Crosby Season” in honor of the track's iconic founder – begins its four-week run Friday and goes through to Sunday, December 4.

Racing will be conducted over 13 days primarily on a Friday, Saturday, Sunday basis each week with a first post daily of 12:30 p.m. The lone exception to the routine is Thanksgiving Thursday, November 24, when racing will be held starting at 11 a.m. and finish around 3 p.m., allowing plenty of time for turkey dinner with the works.

Del Mar is coming off the heels of its most successful meeting ever, a 31-day summer stand that saw it establish a record daily average handle of $18.6 million and a remarkable average field size number of 9.1 horses per race, best among all major tracks in the nation.

The opening weekend will feature a trio of stakes, starting Friday with the $75,000 Let It Ride overnight stakes for 3-year-olds at a mile on the turf.

The track will offer its usual complement of betting options, starting with win, place and show wagers and going on through to a series of “exotic,' or multiple bets, including Pick 3s, Pick 4s, Pick 5s and the highly popular 'Rainbow Pick Six.' The last-named bet only costs 20¢ and can lead to five-, six- or even seven-figure payouts. It requires a bettor to be the lone ticket holder to capture the entire pool, but it will have one “mandatory payout” day on closing day when the entire jackpot will be distributed to those with the most winners.

The fall session's full stakes schedule – 13 major stakes and two overnight over the 13 days – is the most lucrative ever offer at a total of $2,450,000. The slate is highlighted by a pair of $400,000 Grade I headliners on closing weekend – the Hollywood Derby for 3-year-olds at nine furlongs on turf and the Matriarch Stakes for older fillies and mares at a mile on the lawn.

The final two weeks of the stand feature eight graded stakes on grass worth more than $1.4 million, a “turf meet' inside the regular meet that has proven to be a substantial lure to good turf runners from across the country.

Del Mar will offer a variety of special events on track over the course of the meet. There will be a Veterans Day salute on opening day, an “Uncorked: Derby Days Wine Festival” on Saturday, November 12, a unique “Brunch & Brews” happening on Saturday, November 19, College Day (with free admission for college students), also on November 19, and a Taste of the Turf Club program each Sunday. Seniors receive free admission, a program and a seat each Friday throughout the fall.

After opening week when Del Mar's solid back-up announcer John Lies will be at the mic, Triple Crown/Breeders' Cup announcer Larry Collmus will be in the stand once again for the balance of the session.

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Veterinary ‘Work-Life Balance’ Debate: Is Burnout A New Phenomenon?

Though many veterinarians around the country blame burnout and stress on increasing caseloads and overbearing clients, one veterinary practice manager questions whether these feelings are actually new.

Bash Halow, LVT, CVPM, suggested that a veterinarian's work-life balance has always been perilous, but that today's vets are expressing their dissatisfaction more.

Halow suggested that several factors may be impacting veterinarians' perceptions, including a constant stream of negative news which may be exacerbating the feeling that the sky is constantly falling.

“Quiet quitting” first came to light in 2021, when Chinese factory workers protested their employment in unstimulating jobs by doing the bare minimum to get by. In the United States, Halow argues, quiet quitting isn't caused by burnout, but because of organizational issues: workplace leaders have failed to keep the employees engaged.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to all workplaces, including veterinary medicine. Staff shortages, new modes of workflow, client and employee angst, and health issues among clinic employees caused managers and employees to check out, often citing a lack of work-life balance as the leading cause.

Halow insisted that the work-life balance debate is mistaken in assuming that more life makes one happier. Instead, he suggested the work must cause employees to feel fulfilled and that they are part of a worthwhile venture.

“The road to happiness is mostly paved inside the borders of vocation, not vacation,” Halow noted.

Halow reiterates that though veterinary medicine can be difficult and emotional, it should not be overwhelming and unfulfilling. If a vet isn't getting the support, organization, and teamwork necessary to find fulfillment in work, it may be time to find access to it elsewhere.

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‘We’re Supposed To Be Protecting The Horse’: Tyler’s Tribe Trainer Bemoans Lack Of Lasix, Targets Kentucky Derby

Trainer Tim Martin told Horse Racing Nation this week that the bleeding episode suffered by 2-year-old Tyler's Tribe in the Breeders' Cup was the gelding's first instance of EIPH, or exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage.

The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint was also the first start Tyler's Tribe made without Lasix; the World Championships ban race-day medications. The diuretic is allowed at the Tyler's Tribe's home track, Prairie Meadows in Altoona, Ia., as well as the race-day use of the NSAID bute. At Prairie Meadows, Tyler's Tribe was undefeated through five starts by a combined 59 3/4 lengths.

At Keeneland, jockey Kylee Jordan made the lead out of the starting gate, but quickly noticed something wasn't right with Tyler's Tribe and eased the gelding under the wire behind the rest of the field. He was vanned off the course.

“What are we doing? Do we care about the horse?” Martin told HRN. “I just don't understand it. If the horse needs Lasix, why not give him Lasix?

“We're supposed to be protecting the horse. We're protecting nothing. Lasix ain't hurt nothing. It just helps the horse.”

Tyler's Tribe offered one of the most moving stories of Breeders' Cup week: co-owner Tom Lepic named Tyler's Tribe after his 8-year-old grandson Tyler Juhl, who was diagnosed with leukemia and treated for over two years at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital.

Lepic purchased Tyler's Tribe for $34,000 as a yearling in the fall of 2021 from the ITBOA Fall Mixed Sale. He named the son of Sharp Azteca after his grandson in an effort to boost the young man's spirits. Tyler Juhl is now cancer-free.

After the bleeding episode in the Breeders' Cup, Tyler's Tribe was sent to a training center in Arkansas for a break.

Martin believes Tyler's Tribe could successfully stretch out in distance in 2023 (the gelding has yet to race beyond six furlongs). The trainer plans to point Tyler's Tribe toward the Road to the Kentucky Derby, with a first stop planned for the one-mile Smarty Jones Stakes at Oaklawn Park on Jan. 1.

The 2021 Kentucky Derby marked the first year the Run for the Roses was contested without the permitted use of furosemide (often referred to by the brand name, Lasix). Points will only be awarded to horses who compete on race day without Lasix in Road to the Kentucky Derby races; any points earned by horses with Lasix on race day will be vacated.

According to Oaklawn's condition book, “pursuant to Arkansas Racing Commission Rule 1232(5), the use of furosemide is prohibited in any horses participating in races that award points toward eligibility in the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks.”