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Anthrax And Equines: A Deadly Combination

Though anthrax may be more familiar to people for its use as a biological weapon, the bacteria should also be a concern to equine owners for the potential harm, including death, it can cause to their animals.

Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax, can lie dormant in soil for years; it is particularly hardy in alkaline soil. If anthrax spores are inhaled or ingested, or if they encounter a wound, horses can develop and anthrax infection. Ingestion is the most common way for horses to get an anthrax infection. Ingestion often occurs after a heavy rain, when anthrax spores are pushed to the surface of grass; it can also occur during drought conditions when grasses are eaten down to the soil.

Once anthrax enters the body, it becomes active and multiplies rapidly, causing toxins that spread throughout the body. The septicemia anthrax causes progresses rapidly; killing many affected animals within two to four days.

Horses with anthrax will have trouble breathing; they will also have a high fever, and swelling on the neck and chest. Affected horses may colic, have bloody diarrhea or have seizures. The disease can be spread to humans, so an anthrax infection must be reported to the state's veterinarian.

Anthrax is not endemic to all parts of the United States, so the vaccine is recommended only for horses that live in areas that are known to have anthrax spores. It is a live vaccine, so reactions to the injection site may occur. Antimicrobials may interfere with the vaccine response, so they should not be administered at the same time.

Read the AAEP's anthrax guidelines here.

Power’s Laws of Indices In Railway Shock

Capping a memorable evening’s racing at The Curragh for Ken Condon, the 66-1 outsider Laws of Indices (Ire) (Power {GB}) brought up a rare group 2 double for the stable in Saturday’s G2 GAIN Railway S. Anchored in last early by Chris Hayes, the June 23 Navan maiden winner travelled strongly through the pack to lead with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining before seeing off the determined challenge of Lucky Vega (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) to win by half a length, with Arctician (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) 2 3/4 lengths behind in third. “I was almost expecting it with Romanised, but it just goes to show the quality of every maiden in Ireland, they can all be strong races,” Condon said. “He’s a horse that always struck us as nice and he’s well entered-up which we don’t do lightly. He gave us the impression he would get better with every run and we’ve not been searching for anything in his fast work at home.”

Laws of Indices had been 80-1 when around six-lengths ninth to Lucky Vega on debut at Naas June 8 and had already made a significant leap forward when accounting for seven rivals including the subsequent Leopardstown winner Vafortino (Ire) (New Bay {GB}) in his auction maiden over five furlongs and 164 yards at Navan. There was no fluke about this display, with the style of his move between runners catching the eye before his rallying effort as the Jessie Harrington runner loomed on his outer in the closing stages. “He’s come in here on the improve,” Condon added. “At Naas he was in the gates quite a bit, was slowly away and maybe didn’t handle the ridges. He took a lot from it and gained a bit of experience. Then he went on to Navan on soft ground and a furlong out you’d say he would be fourth, but he hit the line very well there. Chris gave him a lovely ride today and he’ll get seven furlongs, so that might have been the winning of it. Nine times out of 10, that move that Shane [Foley] made [on Lucky Vega] would win the race but I’d told Chris he’d stay well and he was able to react when that horse came to him. I suppose we’ll think about the [G1] Phoenix, but that dead ground here helped and the six of the Phoenix might be a different test. We’ll see how he comes out of it, but he’d need to be running before the [G1] National S.”

Another bargain buy, Law of Indices is out of the speedy Sampers (Ire) (Exceed and Excel (Aus) who was just below black-type level. She is a granddaughter of the G2 Prix de Malleret winner Privity (Private Account), a full-sister to the G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud runner-up Zindari from the family of the G1 Irish St Leger hero and sire Leading Counsel. This is also the family of the dual G3 John O’Gaunt S. winner and G1 July Cup runner-up Main Aim (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) and the triple group-winning Weightless (GB) (In The Wings {GB}).

Saturday, Curragh, Ireland
GAIN RAILWAY S.-G2, €80,000, Curragh, 7-18, 2yo, 6fT, 1:14.49, yl.
1–LAWS OF INDICES (IRE), 131, c, 2, by Power (GB)
1st Dam: Sampers (Ire), by Exceed and Excel (Aus)
2nd Dam: Gujarat, by Distant View
3rd Dam: Privity, by Private Account
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (€8,000 Ylg ’19 GOAUTY). O-Miss C R Holmes; B-N Hartery (IRE); T-Ken Condon; J-Chris Hayes. €48,000. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $71,065. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Lucky Vega (Ire), 131, c, 2, Lope de Vega (Ire)–Queen of Carthage, by Cape Cross (Ire). (€110,000 Wlg ’18 GOFNOV; €175,000 Ylg ’19 GOFOR). O-Zhang Yuesheng; B-Kilcarn Stud (IRE); T-Jessica Harrington. €16,000.
3–Arctician (Ire), 131, c, 2, Dark Angel (Ire)–Atlantic Drift (GB), by Oasis Dream (GB). (£70,000 Ylg ’19 GOFFPR). O/B-Newsells Park Stud Ltd (IRE); T-Paddy Twomey. €8,000.
Margins: HF, 2 3/4, HD. Odds: 66.00, 3.00, 8.50.
Also Ran: Merchants Quay (Fr), To Glory (GB), Eastern Voice (Ire), Forest of Dreams (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Distorted Humor Colt Runs Away to ‘Rising Star’ Performance at the Spa

Momos (c, 2, Distorted Humor-Inspeight of Us, by Speightstown) kicked off Saturday’s card at the Spa with a ‘TDN Rising Star’ performance.

The :21 breezer at OBS March brought $180,000 from Ironhorse Racing Stable LLC and Secure Investments and was off at odds of 6-1 in this unveiling for Christophe Clement.

He sped through an opening quarter in :22.20 from his inside draw, was under cruise control as they hit the quarter pole and took off in the stretch to run his five rivals off their feet.

It was 6 1/2 lengths back to favored $500,000 OBS March graduate Mo Mischief (Into Mischief) in second. The final time for 5 1/2 furlongs was 1:04.50.

Momos was produced by a half-sister to GISWs Daddys Lil Darling (Scat Daddy) and Mongolian Saturday (Any Given Saturday). The winner’s dam, Inspeight of Us, is also represented by an Empire Maker filly of 2019 and she was most recently bred to Audible.

Inspeight of Us, a maiden of two career starts, was purchased by Tami Bobo’s Secure Investments for $115,000 as a KEESEP yearling.

1st-Saratoga, $72,000, Msw, 7-18, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 1:04.50, ft.
MOMOS, c, 2, by Distorted Humor
1st Dam: Inspeight of Us, by Speightstown
2nd Dam: Miss Hot Salsa, by Houston
3rd Dam: Miss High Blade, by Highland Blade
Sales history: $75,000 Ylg ’19 OBSWIN; $180,000 2yo ’20 OBSMAR. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $39,600. Click for the Equibase.com chart, VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton or free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
O-Ironhorse Racing Stable LLC & Secure Investments; B-Tami D. Bobo & Distorted Humor Syndicate (KY); T-Christophe Clement.

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‘Everything Was Good’: Tiz The Law Breezes In Advance of Runhappy Travers On Aug. 8

Sackatoga Stable's Grade 1 Belmont Stakes champ Tiz the Law, bred in New York by Twin Creeks Farm, breezed five furlongs in 59.63 seconds Saturday at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Spring, N.Y., in preparation for the Grade 1, $1 million Runhappy Travers, a 1 1/4-mile test for sophomores, on August 8.

Tiz the Law visited the main track at 8:45 a.m. under mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the high 70s. The Constitution bay, working solo under exercise rider Heather Smullen, breezed through splits of 24.40, 35.60 and galloped out three-quarters in 1:12.84 over a fast main track.

Trainer Barclay Tagg, on track to oversee the breeze, said he liked what he saw.

“I thought the work was good. He did it just right. The time was good. Everything was good,” Tagg said.

Tiz the Law will breeze twice more ahead of the Runhappy Travers, which offers 100-40-20-10 Kentucky Derby qualifying points to the top-four finishers.

“He came out nice and strong,” said Sackatoga Stables operations manager Jack Knowlton. “Obviously the new racetrack was no impediment for him, so it's just one more step. We've got three weeks from today. He'll have two more works and then we're ready to go. You can see how fit he is.”

A winner at first asking in August at Saratoga, Tiz the Law followed up with a four-length score in the Grade 1 Champagne in October at Belmont. He completed his juvenile campaign with a close third in the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club, contested on a sloppy strip at Churchill Downs.

Tiz the Law wintered at Palm Meadows Training Center in Boynton Beach, Fla., and opened his sophomore season at Gulfstream Park with a three-length score in the Grade 3 Holy Bull in February. He then dominated the nine-furlong Grade 1 Florida Derby by 4 1/4 lengths on March 28.

Last out, Tiz the Law captured the first leg of the revised Triple Crown when 3 ¾-lengths the best in the nine-furlong Grade 1 Belmont Stakes.

Tagg and Sackatoga Stable traveled the Triple Crown road in 2003 with New York-bred in Funny Cide. The Distorted Humor chestnut prevailed by 1 3/4-lengths in the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby under jockey Jose Santos. He followed up with a 9 3/4-length score in the Grade 1 Preakness, but finished third in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes after setting the early pace in his Triple Crown bid.

Knowlton said he relishes the opportunity to run Tiz the Law in the Runhappy Travers, especially since Funny Cide was scratched from the 2003 Travers.

“There's nothing like the Derby, but obviously we would like to win the race that Funny Cide didn't have a chance to run in,” Knowlton said. “Hopefully this will be a stepping stone to success in Kentucky. We're on a nice roll. We won a Classic, we won two other Grade 1s, and we won three out of three this year, so four out of four going into the Derby would be great.”

Tiz the Law, who leads all contenders with 272 Derby qualifying points, will contest a unique Triple Crown scenario that will continue with the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby, rescheduled from Saturday, May 2, to Saturday, September 5, as the second leg of the Classic series. The Grade 1 Preakness, originally slated for May 16, will close out the Triple Crown on October 3 at Pimlico Race Course.

The Runhappy Travers Day card is headlined by the “Mid-Summer Derby” for the country's most talented 3-year-olds and is one of three Grade 1s on the day, joining the $300,000 Ballerina for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up going seven furlongs in a “Win and You're In” qualifier for the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

The day will also see sophomore fillies compete in the prestigious Grade 1, $300,000 Longines Test at seven furlongs, with the card bolstered by the Grade 3, $200,000 Troy, a 5 1/2-furlong turf sprint for older males, and the Grade 3, $150,000 Waya , a 1 1/2-mile turf route for older fillies and mares.

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