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OwnerView Conference Moved to Ky, Breeders’ Cup Week

OwnerView’s seventh Thoroughbred Owner Conference, originally scheduled to be held July 19-22 in Saratoga Springs, NY, has been rescheduled and will be held in Lexington, Ky., from Nov. 2-5, to coincide with the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The Breeders’ Cup will be held Nov. 6-7 at Keeneland.

“While we were disappointed that we were unable to host this year’s Thoroughbred Owner Conference in Saratoga Springs, we are delighted to be able to bring the owner conference back to Lexington, the ‘Horse Capital of the World,’ during the week of the Breeders’ Cup,” said Gary Falter, project manager for OwnerView.” We are thankful for the support and flexibility of the New York Racing Association and the Breeders’ Cup.”

The rescheduled owner conference will be held at the Embassy Suites on Newtown Pike in Lexington. The conference agenda includes nine panels on topics, including the economics of racehorse ownership, syndicates, safety reforms, aftercare, and diversity. The conference will open Monday, Nov. 2, with an evening reception at The Kentucky Castle. Other social events include a conference dinner at the Fasig-Tipton sales grounds and tours of the region’s stallion farms.

This year’s owner conference will offer a new registration option for virtual attendance, which will allow registrants access to all panels and the ability to participate in question and answer sessions for those panels.

For guests who attend the owner conference in person, social-distancing protocols will be in place, including limiting the number of guests seated at tables and increased spacing of tables. OwnerView will continually monitor the status of COVID-19 and if an in-person conference is deemed unsafe, in-person registrations will be refunded or converted to a virtual registration.

For more information about the owner conference, including the full schedule of events and registration, please visit www.ownerview.com/event/conference.

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Fans are coming back to sport – but how will the pilots work?

Cricket, snooker, horse racing: fans are being allowed back to pilot events from this weekend - but how will they work?

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Cryopreservation Of Equine Stem Cells For Cartilage Repair

Cryopreservation is the next exciting stage of research in stem cell therapy. Dr. Thomas Koch and his team are working to preserve cartilage chips for long-term storage, which would enable off-the-shelf use to treat localized cartilage defects. Defects that very often shorten or end horses' athletic careers.

Cryopreservation (or vitrification) is the formation of a solid from an aqueous solution without the formation of ice crystals. Using cartilage chips created from equine umbilical cord blood, this next stage in research has the potential to change the way cartilage defects are treated.

If cryopreserved, stored cells can be used; treatment would be very efficient, with no need to harvest stem cells from the patient. This means fewer visits, less waiting and faster treatment.

Listen to the following video where Dr. Koch discusses the future of this ground-breaking research, targeting a common issue (cartilage defects) across disciplines and even species (horse/human).

An injection of funding from Ontario Equestrian allowed for a preliminary study to find out if they were able to vitrify equine cartilage stem cells well from cadavers. “We are very excited to have received this support,” says Koch. “The preliminary study will allow for future funding sources from both equine specific and human medicine.”

The Ontario Veterinary College is currently working in collaboration with a world-renown cartilage vitrification specialist, Dr. Jomha Nadr, and his team at the University of Alberta, Edmonton to establish a robust vitrification protocol for eCB-MSC-derived neocartilage. The work will generate pivotal data to support the clinical evaluation of cryopreserved allogenic eCBMSC cartilage chips to repair focal cartilage defects in research horses. Fully implemented, this therapy would provide a safe, efficacious, and technically simple treatment for horses as well as provide an opportunity for a Canadian biotechnology business to bank and distribute vitrified cartilage tissue in unlimited quantities to the world market.

The future of regenerative therapies are exciting, and the potential applications are wide ranging, from treating cartilage defects to potentially delaying the onset of osteo-arthritic changes to treating bacterial infections and inflammation. “We believe this work has the long-term potential to benefit both horses and humans through the development of novel off-the-shelf cell-based therapies for damaged joint cartilage,” says Koch.

CTHS Canadian Premier Yearling Sale Catalog Now Online

The catalog for the 2020 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Ontario Division) Canadian Premier Yearling Sale is now online, featuring 230 horses on offer.

This year's sale will be held Wednesday, Sept. 2 at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, beginning at noon Eastern.

Graduates of the Canadian Premier Yearling Sale are eligible for a quartet of stakes races at Woodbine, with two each for colts and fillies. Male graduates will be eligible for the $250,000 Simcoe Stakes at two and the $135,000 Elgin Stakes at three, while the fillies will be offered the $250,000 Muskoka Stakes at two and the $135,000 Algoma Stakes at three.

The horses will also be eligible for CTHS Canadian Sales Stakes Series races in British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba with some additional nominating fees.

Stallions whose first crops of yearlings are represented in the catalog include Connect, Gormley, Passion for Action, Perfect Timber, and War Correspondent.

To view the online catalog, click here.

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