November, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Weekly Rulings: Nov. 22-28

Every week, the TDN publishes a round-up of key official rulings from the primary tracks within the four major racing jurisdictions of California, New York, Florida and Kentucky.

Here's a primer on how each of these jurisdictions adjudicates different offenses, what they make public (or not) and where.

With the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) having gone into effect on July 1, the TDN will also post a round-up of the relevant HISA-related rulings from the same week.

CALIFORNIA
Track: Del Mar
Date: 11/26/2022
Licensee: Abdul Alsagoor, jockey
Penalty: Three-day suspension
Violation: Careless riding
Explainer: Apprentice Jockey Abdul Alsagoor, who rode Mastermind in the third race at Del Mar Race Track on Friday, November 25, 2022, is suspended for 3 racing days (December 3, 4 and 9, 2022) for failure to maintain a straight course in the stretch and causing interference. This constitutes a violation of California Horse Racing Board rule #1699 (Riding Rules – Careless Riding).

Track: Del Mar
Date: 11/26/2022
Licensee: Hector Berrios, jockey
Penalty: Three-day suspension
Violation: Careless riding
Explainer: Jockey Hector Berrios who rode Sunshine Babe in the fifth race at Del Mar Race Track on November 25, 2022, is suspended for 3 racing days (December 3, 4 and 9, 2022) for failure to make the proper effort to maintain a straight course in the stretch, causing interference which resulted in the disqualification of his mount from first to second place. This constitutes a violation of California Horse Racing Board rule #1699 (Riding Rules – Careless Riding).

FLORIDA
Track: Gulfstream Park
Date: 11/22/2022
Licensee: Victor Barboza, trainer
Penalty: $500 fine and 15-day suspension
Violation: Medication violation
Explainer: Steward's Ruling Final Order # 2022-025402 – F.S. 550.2415 violation + 2-(hydroxyethyl) promazine sulfoxide. $500 Fine imposed and due to GSP/BOR by 12/7/22; Purse to be returned by Owners; and 15 day Susp to be served 12/15/22 through and including 12/29/22.

NEW YORK
Track: Aqueduct
Date: 11/26/2022
Licensee: Jalon Samuel, jockey
Penalty: Seven-day suspension
Violation: careless riding
Explainer: You are hereby suspended Seven (7) NYRA racing days for careless riding on November 18,2022 during the running of the 6th race at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Track: Aqueduct
Date: 11/26/2022
Licensee: Omar Hernandez Moreno, jockey
Penalty: Three-day suspension
Violation: Careless riding
Explainer: For having waived his right to appeal, Jockey Omar Hernandez Moreno is hereby suspended three (3) NYRA racing days, December 3,2022, December 4, 2022 and December 8, 2022 for careless riding on November 18, 2022 during the running of the 8th race at Aqueduct Racetrack.

NEW HISA STEWARDS RULINGS
The following rulings were reported on HISA's “rulings” portal, except for the voided claim rulings which were sent to the TDN directly.

Violations of Crop Rule
Golden Gate Fields
Kevin Radke–violation date November 25; $250 fine and one-day suspension, seven strikes; Appealed, stay granted

Remington Park
Weston Hamilton–violation date November 25; $250 fine and one-day suspension, eight strikes
Voided Claims
Hawthorne
Lord Dylan–ruling date November 20, 2022
Maystart–ruling date November 25, 2022

Parx Racing
Iconic Legacy–ruling date November 22, 2022
Emma and I–ruling date November 23, 2022

Penn National
Commissioner Biggs–ruling date November 23, 2022

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‘Small Trainer Trying To Make It In A Big World’: After Sale Of Prize Filly, Squires Hopes To Find Another Breeders’ Cup Contender

Through a training career that began in 2005, trainer Nathan Squires' best horse has been Cairo Consort, this year's third-place finisher in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. The 2-year-old daughter of Cairo Prince was a $95,000 purchase at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale, and ran out earnings of $266,149 through six starts in 2022.

Two days after her big performance at 19-1 in the World Championships, Cairo Consort went back through the sales ring at Fasig-Tipton. The filly sold for an impressive $875,000 to U.S.-based horsemen Mike Repole and Town & Country Racing, a boon for owner William B. Thompson, Jr., but a tough blow for Squires as the filly would not return to his Woodbine-based stable. Instead, Todd Pletcher will likely get that job.

“I'm a small trainer trying to make it in a big world and she's the best horse I've ever had,” Squires told the Toronto Sun. “Obviously when a horse like that leaves your barn, it's a bit hard. But you've got to remember that sometimes you just have to turn the page and move on. She's going to good connections and we will be rooting for her.

“We move on and hopefully we can find another one or two like Cairo Consort and go to the Breeders' Cup again.”

Squires has saddled the winners of 110 races from 987 starters over the course of his career, for earnings of $2,625,298.

Where Are They Now: Ninety One Assault

Lousiana-bred Ninety One Assault (Artie Schiller) was a bit of a hometown hero at Fair Grounds, where he scored seven of his eight lifetime victories, including three stakes wins for trainer Tom Morley. However, he was also a familiar face in New York as well, calling Belmont home for part of the year.

The hard-knocking gelding was a family favorite for Morley, his wife Maggie Wolfendale and their two daughters, Grace and Willow. So, when it came time for him to retire, there was no question that he would remain in the family, becoming Wolfendale's personal riding horse and top toddler babysitter.

“He was very special to both Tom and I because we owned most of him,” Wolfendale said while standing beside the now-9-year-old gelding just after a ride. “When he won his first Louisiana Champions Day Turf S., we were in England. Obviously, it was late there. We all stayed up and watched it, sitting around his dad, who struggled with Parkinson's disease. It was this big eruption of joy when he got up and won. He has truly been our family horse. He is a very special horse to us, so we always knew when it was time to call it quits on his racing career, that he would come home with us.”

The Morleys privately purchased Ninety One Assault in partnership with Paul Braverman after he broke his maiden in his 13th start at Belmont in March of 2017.

“We bought him because he was a Louisiana-bred and we were going down there,” Wolfendale said. “He became this horse that we all loved. He won several stakes at Fair Grounds and most of his other races, except his maiden score, which was at Belmont.”

Ninety One Assault, or Boo as he is affectionately referred to by Wolfendale, quickly became a barn favorite for the Morley team.

When asked if she galloped him in the mornings, Wolfendale said, “If I won the fight to gallop him! He was literally the horse that when you went in and looked at your set list and had him, everyone else went, 'Oh man, you got Ninety today!' Everybody wanted to ride him because he was such a lovely gallop. He was very easy. Everybody got along with him.”

Ninety One Assault thrived on his annual trips home to Louisiana. He won seven times during his five seasons in NOLA, including two editions of the Louisiana Champions Day Turf S. and the 2020 renewal of the Dixie Poker Ace S. The bay made his final start at Pimlico in April of 2021.

“He developed a little bit of a suspensory issue when he was coming back in 2021,” Wolfendale said. “He had already had ankle surgery at that point too. Tom decided that he wasn't going to push on him to get him back as a 9-year-old [in 2022], so that is when we decided to retire him.”

The lifelong horsewoman continued, “It is very expensive to keep horses in Long Island and we didn't live where we do now, which is 10 minutes from the farm. So at first, we sent him to Kentucky with Jamie Hernandez. She turned him out for six months to recover from the suspensory issue. She started him back in early March of this year and did a lot with him. She took him to shows and took him to lessons every week, so he got a nice, well-rounded start and education. I figured I could afford to keep him in Saratoga and, weirdly, have the time there because we had a split schedule with the [NYRA] T.V. [show]. Then we moved to the North Shore and Boo got to come with us.”

Ninety One Assault has been as much of a pleasure to handle in his new career as he was on the racetrack and has transitioned beautifully, according to Wolfendale.

“I've mainly had the war horses throughout my career,” she said. “It is so individual and depends on their personality as to whether the transition will be easy or not. He was an easy racehorse to handle and ride, so the transition was pretty easy for him. The things it sometimes takes a while for racehorses to get used to, like cross ties and mounting blocks, he took to with no problem.”

She continued, “As far as riding him, he is so smart and wants to please. He loves when you tell him he's a good boy. If you show him something once and he messes it up, he is not likely to mess it up again. He's just that kind of horse. Tom and I always joke that he may not come from much pedigree wise, but he is the star athlete, straight A student, prom king-type. Boo has a lot of class to him and he makes all of us happy. The girls can go out and graze him and stuff like that and he is very respectful to them too.”

As for what's next, Wolfendale hopes to take her trusty mount to the show ring, if she can find the time between assisting her husband with his racing stable and working as one of NYRA's on-air analysts.

“I've been taking lessons,” Wolfendale said. “He has been responding so well to that. I think we could get to the point where maybe next spring we could go to shows and be competitive in jumpers or eventing.”

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Thanksgiving Feast: Four-Stakes Haul Nets Joel Rosario Jockey Of The Week Title

Reigning Eclipse Award winner Joel Rosario made the most of closing weekend at Churchill Downs over the Thanksgiving holiday, winning three graded stakes including the prestigious Grade 1 Clark, and then travelled back to New York for a win in Sunday's stake race at Aqueduct.

Rosario's impressive four stakes haul earned Jockey of the Week honors for Nov. 21 through Nov. 27. The award, which is voted on by a panel of racing experts, honors jockeys for riding accomplishments and who are members of the Jockeys' Guild, the organization which represents more than 1050 active, retired and permanently disabled jockeys in the United States.

Trainer Phil Bauer gave a leg up to Rosario on Played Hard in the G3 Falls City, the traditional Thanksgiving Day feature for fillies and mares at Churchill Downs. Breaking from post four in the field of six, Played Hard lead all the way to post a one-length win in 1:49.39 as the odds-on favorite.

“She keeps getting better,” said Rosario. “She fought hard on the lead and didn't want to give it up.”

On Friday, Rosario was aboard Bubble Rock for reigning Eclipse Award trainer Brad Cox in the G2 Mrs. Revere for 3-year-old fillies on the Churchill Downs turf. Off as the favorite in the field of 10, Bubble Rock went wire-to-wire for a 1 1/4-length victory in 1:45.05 for 1 1/16 miles.

“The whole time, she was enjoying what she was doing,” said Rosario. “When I got to the front, I just wanted to let her be happy and hopefully she'd have a little kick for the end.”

Rosario's riding acumen was on full display aboard Proxy for trainer Mike Stidham in the prestigious G1 Clark, Friday's feature race. Off as the second favorite in the compact field of six, Proxy was kept close to the pace set by favorite West Will Power. Those two separated themselves from the others at the top of the stretch and raced in tandem until Proxy began to edge away in deep stretch to win by three-quarters of a length in 1:48.89 for the 1 1/8-mile dirt contest.

“I knew West Will Power was really the only horse that had early speed in the race so I didn't want to let him get away easily,” said Rosario. “He was very tough on the lead (West Will Power) and I had to work pretty hard to get by him.”

Rosario was back at Aqueduct for racing on Saturday and on Sunday. He was in the irons aboard Sweetlou'sgotaces for trainer Ray Handal in the Tepin Stakes, a one mile turf test for 2-year-old fillies.

Off as the 2-1 favorite in the field of 10, Sweetlou'sgotaces lead the field into the final turn for a four-length win in 1:38.49.

Rosario's competition for Jockey of the Week included Kendrick Carmouche with two graded stakes wins at Aqueduct, Flavien Prat with three graded stakes at Del Mar, Kevin Radke who posted his first graded stakes win at Golden Gate, and Luis Saez who captured his first Churchill Downs riding title and won six races on the Saturday card.

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