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Runaway Ghost Retired To Double LL Farms In New Mexico

Grade 3 winner Runaway Ghost (Ghostzapper x Rose's Desert by Desert God) has been retired from racing and will stand for the 2021 breeding season at Double LL Farms in Bosque, N.M.

With lifetime earnings of $783,509, he won a total of six stakes races, from six furlongs to a mile and an eighth, by a combined 27 1/4 lengths. His Grade 3 Sunland Derby win earned him the right to enter the 2018 Kentucky Derby, but he was forced to scratch prior to the Derby after suffering a training injury while at Sunland Park Racetrack in New Mexico.

Runaway Ghost came back as a 4-year-old and won three stakes races at Sunland Park before shipping to Kentucky for the G3 Commonwealth Stakes at Keeneland, where he unfortunately suffered an ankle injury after twice clipping heels in the race.

A third-generation homebred for Joe Peacock of San Antonio, Texas, Runaway Ghost retires sound and will continue to be owned by the Peacock family as he starts his second career.

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New York Commission Revokes Groom License For Life After He Let Horse Out Of Stall

At a regularly scheduled meeting Oct. 20, the New York State Gaming Commission unanimously voted to permanently revoke licensing privileges of former racetrack groom Ramzan Antooa of Elmont, N.Y. Antooa was arrested on criminal charges this summer after Belmont Park security personnel witnessed Antooa letting 2-year-old filly Pasta out of her stall at the track, after which she ran loose and fell, sustaining catastrophic injuries.

Antooa was charged earlier this year with burglary and reckless endangerment of property. He faces arraignment in Nassau County Court on Oct. 22.

A hearing officer determined Antooa “lacked the general character and fitness to hold a racing license.”

Also at the Oct. 20 meeting, the commission suspended harness driver Kevin Cummings for an incident on July 18 after which Cummings was charged with “engaging in an indiscriminate, unnecessary, brutal, and excessive use of the whip” while driving Keystone Keen in the tenth race at Buffalo Raceway, resulting in visible welts on the horse.

The commission handed Cummings a six-month suspension with credit for time served and a fine of $2,500 — both increases from the hearing officer's recommendations of a 60-day suspension with credit and a $500 fine.

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ThoroughbredAuctions.Com November Mixed Sale Begins Monday

Bidding opens Monday, Oct. 26 and closes Monday, Nov. 2 for the November Mixed Internet Auction of Thoroughbreds by ThoroughbredAuctions.com.

The auction has nearly 70 entries and include large consignments from Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana and Arizona as well as Kentucky. The auction is offering broodmares by sires such as Medaglia d'Oro, War Front, City Zip, Street Cry, Wildcat Heir, Awesome Again, Indian Charlie, Kantharos and Union Rags, among others.

Also selling are 2019 and 2020 accredited Oklahoma Breds by such sires as Liaison, Mshawish, Diabolical, and I Spent It. The sale also includes Accredited New Mexico Bred yearlings by King Bull and Latigo Shore.

A majority of the entries are being sold with no reserve.

“2020 has been a challenging year for breeders, particularly regional breeders, to find viable venues to market their broodmares and young stock,” said Tim Jennings of ThoroughbredAuctions.com. “Many live auctions have been canceled, or rescheduled. Our company offers a safe, cost-effective alternative for selling Thoroughbreds. We reach a wider range of buyers, and horses can be sold without leaving their stalls, and without buyers and sellers leaving the comfort of their homes.”

Prospective buyers will need to go to the auction website, and create an account if they have never participated in the auctions. They will then need to request a bidder's number in order to bid. Please visit the website at ThoroughbredAuctions.com for more information or email info@thoroughbredauctions.com.

The ThoroughbredAuctions.com team of Tim and Cathy Jennings have pioneered Internet Horse Auctions, beginning in 2012 with Sport Horse and Quarter Horse Auctions. Venturing into Thoroughbred Internet Auctions in 2019, they have been the most successful Internet Thoroughbred Auction company in North America, cataloging 428 horses, and selling 337 of those cataloged. That represents 79 percent of horses sold from those offered, producing gross sales of $3,041,300.

Tim and Cathy are the industry's most experienced show horse auction managers. Their team managed more than 380 live horse auctions selling over 80,000 horses since 1978. Tim's previous firm, Professional Auction Services, was the largest show horse auction company in the world, by number of horses sold for 15 years.

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Thoroughbred Makeover Diary: A Look Back and a Love Story

Maintaining Magoo’s eligibility for the 2021 Thoroughbred Makeover through the fall is turning out to be a little harder than I had expected — we cannot go over 15 retraining rides prior to Dec. 1. With him feeling his best again, he continually reminds me how trainable he is, and I am getting extremely excited to get him started on the path to his second career. Thankfully, fall in the Central Kentucky Thoroughbred industry is busy. While at the sales, I have been having fun keeping an eye on Magoo’s former competition. A Look Back