Month: April 2023

$1.45-Million Arrogate Colt Tops OBS Spring Sale’s Opening Session

Hip No. 253, a colt by Arrogate consigned by Hartley / DeRenzo Thoroughbreds LLC, Agent, went to Donato Lanni, Agent, for $1.45 million to top the first session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2023 Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training.

The bay colt, who breezed an eighth in :10 flat at Monday's Under Tack session, is a half brother to stakes placed Sunset Promise out of Destine, by War Front from the family of champion Smoke Glacken.

– Hip No. 215, a daughter of Bolt d'Oro consigned by de Meric Sales, Agent, was sold to Lael Stable for $850,000. The dark bay or brown filly, who turned in an Under Tack eighth in :10 flat on Monday, is out of Creative Contessa, by Creative Cause, a half-sister to stakes winner Amiable Grace.

– Hip No. 192, a son of Twirling Candy consigned by S G V Thoroughbreds LLC (Steven Venosa), Agent, went to Oliver St. Lawrence Bloodstock for $800,000. The dark bay or brown colt, whose eighth on Monday in :9 4/5 was the day's co-fastest at the distance, is out of graded stakes placed Conquest Babayaga, by Uncle Mo, from the family of Grade 1-winning OBS graduate Negligee.

– Hip No. 229, a daughter of Uncle Mo consigned by Hartley / DeRenzo Thoroughbreds LLC, Agent, was purchased by D. J. Stable LLC / Gary Barber for $675,000. The dark bay or brown filly, who breezed an eighth on Monday in :10 1/5, is out of graded stakes winner Customer Base, by Lemon Drop Kid.

– Hip No. 19, a son of Constitution consigned by de Meric Sales, Agent, was purchased by Cherie De Vaux, Agent for Belladonna Racing V for $500,000. The chestnut colt, who breezed an eighth in :10 1/5 on Sunday, is a half-brother to stakes winner Workaholic out of graded stakes placed Allez Marie.

– Hip No. 103 a son of Violence consigned by Richardson Bloodstock, Agent, was sold to MyRacehorse and Edge Racing for $400,000. The gray or roan colt, who breezed an eighth on Sunday in :10 flat, is out of Blues Corner, by Bluegrass Cat, a half-sister to graded stakes winner San Pablo.

– Hip No. 299, a son of Justify consigned by Navas Equine was sold to Jay Em Ess Stable for $400,000. The chestnut colt, whose eighth in :9 4/5 was Monday's co-fastest at the distance, is a half-brother to Grade 1 winner Lady Aurelia out of graded stakes winner D' Wildcat Speed, by OBS graduate Forest Wildcat.

For the session, 161 horses brought a total of $22,003,000 compared with 180 selling for a total of $22,793,000 at last year's opening session. The average price was $136,665, up 7.9 percent compared to $126,628 in 2022 while the median price was $75,000, up 20 percent compared with $62,500 a year ago. The buyback percentage was 21.8 percent; it was 15.1 percent last year.

The Spring Sale continues Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Hip No.'s 307 – 612 will be offered for sale.

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HISA Said To Be Delaying Launch Of Anti-Doping And Medication Control Program Until May 22

Already delayed one month by a court order, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's Anti-Doping and Medication Control program will not launch until May 22, according to information provided on Tuesday to the Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission by Tom Chuckas, the regulatory agency's Thoroughbred bureau director.

Chuckas told commissioners during a regularly scheduled meeting that the program is being delayed from May 1 in part because of the Triple Crown, which gets under way on May 6 with the Kentucky Derby and continues with the Preakness Stakes on May 20. The third leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, is run on June 10.

Chuckas said he was notified of the delay by an individual associated with the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit, a newly formed division of Drug Free Sport International contracted by HISA to administer its regulations and enforcement rules. The comment was made as part of Chuckas' update to the Pennsylvania commission on HISA and HIWU activities.

HISA's communication office did not respond to a request from Paulick Report seeking confirmation of the new startup date.

This would mark the fourth delay of the Anti-Doping and Medication Control program, which was originally expected to launch  alongside HISA's racetrack safety program on July 1, 2022, based on the federal law creating the Authority. That date proved unrealistic because of the volume of regulations that needed to be proposed to and adopted by the Federal Trade Commission, which oversees the Authority.

A second projected launch date of Jan. 1, 2023, was delayed by the FTC, which did not approve HISA regulations because of legal uncertainties after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found the enabling legislation unconstitutional. After a second court of appeals, the Sixth Circuit, ruled in favor of HISA's constitutionality based on an amendment passed by Congress in late December 2022, the FTC eventually approved the regulations and the ADMC program went into effect March 27. That only last four days when a federal judge ordered a 30-day delay, until May 1, because the FTC failed to follow certain administrative procedures.

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Kentucky Strangles: Keeneland Barn Released From Quarantine

The Kentucky Department of Agriculture is continuing to monitor an outbreak of strangles which began with a 3-year-old Thoroughbred filly at the Thoroughbred Training Center in Fayette County, Ky., according to an update posted to the Equine Disease Communication Center's website on Tuesday afternoon.

Last week, an epidemiologic investigation indicated the potential for strangles to reach a total of three facilities: the Thoroughbred Training Center, Keeneland Race Course, and Triple Diamonds Training Center on Russell Cave Road. One unnamed trainer housed horses at all three facilities.

Today's update indicates that the previously-imposed quarantine of a barn at Keeneland Race Course is now able to be released.

The full update from the Kentucky Department of Agriculture is as follows:

“Premises 2: The fifteen (15) horses under the care of the two (2) individual trainers remaining in the barn at Keeneland were all sampled yesterday, March 24th. Results of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests have been released, with each animal found and reported to be negative.

“Based on the following facts:

  • The population of horses stabled in this barn have all now tested negative on two separate occasions.
  • Through investigation we identified no direct exposure to the horses under the care of the single trainer with positive horses on any of the three premises .
  • Our earlier testing provided evidence that the disease-causing organism was not circulating in the Keeneland barn at time the horses under the care of the single trainer were moved offsite.
  • The group of remaining horses have been under close health monitoring and scrutiny the past 8 days with no fevers or other signs of illness detected.
  • Each individual horse was evaluated earlier today with no abnormal findings.

“The information and findings described above does provide us the evidence needed to confidently release the previously imposed quarantine barn at Keeneland this evening and allow the trainers in Barn seven (7) to resume their normal daily operations effective immediately. Horses residing in Barn seven (7) are no longer under regulatory restriction and will resume their normal training activity tomorrow morning at Keeneland. We will continue to closely monitor the health of these horses daily, requiring daily reports be made to Keeneland's Vice President of Equine Safety, Dr. Stuart Brown, and Rusty Ford, Equine Operations Consultant with the Department of Agriculture's Office State Veterinarian.

“Additional Information:

“Premises One (1): The population of horses residing in the affected barn at The Thoroughbred Center were all sampled yesterday with negative results returned. Following our protocol established for handling horses under the care of a single trainer, and identified as having potential direct exposure, these horses will be resampled a third time, with the test including examination and flushing of the guttural pouches. The horses under the care of the second trainer in this same barn will also be sampled a third time.

“Premises Three (3): The population of horses residing in the affected barn at Triple Diamonds Training Center (aka Three Diamonds) were collected earlier today, with results pending.

“Private Quarantine: All horses moved from the single trainer's affected barns on Premises one (1), two (2) and three (3), do remain under quarantine on a private facility. Prior to releasing these horses, each horse will be sampled on three separate occasions with all horses in the group reported negative. Testing of the horses under the care of the single trainer will include endoscopic examination and flushing of the guttural pouches.”

The upper respiratory disease commonly referred to as strangles is caused by Streptococcus equi subsp equi. Strangles is spread from horse to horse through direct contact. Horses can also contract the disease by coming into contact with contaminated surfaces. The disease is highly infectious.

For more information go to: https://www.equinediseasecc.org/strangles.

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