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Denali Stud Pledges $5K One-Day Match Donation to TAA Holiday Giving Campaign

As part of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA)'s month-long Holiday Giving Campaign, Denali Stud has pledged to match all donations up to $5,000 made to the TAA Dec. 1.

“Denali Stud proudly supports the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance,” said Denali Stud Owner, Craig Bandoroff. “TAA does the due diligence of accrediting aftercare farms and distributing grants to help care for the horses. It's our obligation, not an option, to fund Thoroughbred aftercare. Join Denali Stud and donate to the TAA's Holiday Giving Campaign today.”

TAA's Holiday Giving Campaign commenced Nov. 29 and is scheduled to conclude New Year's Eve. Those wishing to support the TAA, its 81 accredited organizations, and thousands of retired Thoroughbreds, can donate through the TAA's website or text DONATE to 56651. During the Holiday Giving Campaign, TAA is also offering donors the benefit of sending digital holiday cards to colleagues, friends, and loved ones. Throughout the end of the year, the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance will continue to host special one-day only donation matches with some of horse racing's biggest names.

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Generazio Dispersal Set for Keeneland January

A complete dispersal of horses owned by Patricia Generazio will be offered at the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale and will be consigned by Denali Stud. The sale is scheduled for Jan. 9-12.

Among the horses that will be sold are racing/broodmare prospects SW Mischievous Dream (Into Mischief), Pure Bode (Bodemeister), and Marquet Legacy (Gio Ponti), all from the families of some of the most popular graded winners developed by the Generazio operation. Among the horses campaigned by Generazio and her late husband, Frank, are GISWs Presious Passion (Royal Anthem) and Discreet Marq (Discreet Cat), as well as MGSWs Pure Sensation (Zensational) and Disco Partner (Disco Rico). The latter three were all homebreds. The Generazio operation has tallied over $32 million in earnings and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in the New York-bred program in 2020.

“We are grateful that Mrs. Generazio has entrusted us to handle this dispersal,” said Denali's Conrad Bandoroff. “For buyers, this is an incredibly exciting opportunity to tap into these black-type families that have never been offered at auction.”

Christophe Clement, who has trained for Generazio for the last decade, added: “The quality of their program is in the strength of their mares and their ability to produce high-caliber racehorses with limited opportunity in terms of the stallions that they were bred to. You can really see this with how many successful homebreds they have campaigned over the years. What they've accomplished is extraordinary.”

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TAA Launches Holiday Giving Campaign

The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Holiday Giving Campaign launches Tuesday and runs through Dec. 31. Those wishing to support accredited Thoroughbred aftercare can visit the TAA's website to make a donation and send digital holiday cards to colleagues, friends, and loved ones.

Throughout the year-end campaign, the TAA will host special one-day only donation matching with some of horse racing's biggest names, including Denali Stud, West Point Thoroughbreds, Bob and Jill Baffert, and more.

“While we gear up for the holidays, it is my hope that those of us in the Thoroughbred industry consider donating to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance during its Holiday Giving Campaign,” said TAA President, Jeffrey Bloom. “The horses give us so much, and every donation to the TAA helps support a network of 81 accredited organizations, 180 facilities, and over 4,000 Thoroughbreds. Keep holiday giving simple, donate to the TAA.”

To learn more about the TAA's Holiday Giving campaign, visit: ThoroughbredAftercare.org/HolidayCampaign.

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Letter to the Editor: Rules

As many people are aware, I have been a member of WHOA and a supporter of HISA from the beginning. I want what we all want. Uniform and sensible medication rules and testing that promotes the integrity of our sport while protecting the innocent and punishing the cheaters. So when I received a call advising me that a horse I help manage was disqualified for an acepromazine positive, I was surprised to say the least.

My initial reaction and explanation to the owner was the horse must have had the drug administered and it failed to clear his system in the expected time. Texting back and forth with his Hall of Fame trainer, I learned this was not the case. He was adamant no one in his barn administered the horse ace at anytime. So the $64,000 question: how did it get there? Contamination, nefariousness by some unknown person? And more importantly, what sense does any of this make? Here is a horse who ran his heart out beaten a nose in a graded stakes. So he certainly didn't perform like a horse with a tranquilizer in his system.

I have had it explained to me several times why we test to the minuscule levels that we do and how these levels can have an effect on a 1,200-pound race horse. But, honestly, the explanation still doesn't resonate with my layman brain. And although my desire and conviction is not diminished that we as an industry will benefit from uniform rules and testing, I am at a loss to understand how rulings like this serve this purpose. Forget the fact that a Hall of Fame trainer with a record of now two violations in his 43-year career is penalized. The real harm to our sport is an innocent owner loses the purse and no one has a good explanation of how the illegal (and minuscule) amount of the drug got in his horse's system. How does that keep an owner in the game or attract new ones? Now that HISA has hit the reset button, can't we please come up with sensible rules and testing so the innocent are protected and the guilty are punished? The system remains broken. There must be a better way.

Craig Bandoroff is the owner of Denali Stud in Paris, Kentucky.

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