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Weekly Stewards and Commissions Rulings, Aug. 29 – Sept. 4

Every week, the TDN publishes a roundup of key official rulings from the primary tracks within the four major racing jurisdictions of California, New York, Florida and Kentucky.

Here's a primer on how each of these jurisdictions adjudicates different offenses, what they make public (or not) and where.

With the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) having gone into effect on July 1, the TDN will also post a roundup of the relevant HISA-related rulings from the same week.

California

Track: Del Mar
Date: 09/02/2022
Licensee: Keron Thomas, owner
Penalty: Suspended license
Violation: Failure to appear for hearing
Explainer: Owner Keron Thomas, having failed to respond to written notice to appear before the Board of Stewards at Del Mar Race Track on September 1, 2022, is suspended for violation of California Horse Racing Board rule #1547 (Failure to Appear) pending an appearance at a hearing before the Board of Stewards to answer to charges alleging violation of CHRB rule #1876 (Financial Responsibility- $1,252.93 to Southern California Equine Hospital). Suspension to commence on September 9, 2022. During the term of this suspension, all licenses and license privileges of Keron Thomas are suspended and pursuit to California Horse Racing Board rule #1528 (Jurisdiction of Stewards), subject is denied access to all premises in this jurisdiction.

Track: Del Mar
Date: 09/05/2022
Licensee: Juan Hernandez, jockey
Penalty: Three-day suspension
Violation: Careless riding
Explainer: Jockey Juan Hernandez, who rode Fun to Dream in the tenth race at Del Mar Race Track on Sunday, September 4, 2022, is suspended for 3 racing days (September 16, 17 and 18, 2022) for failure to maintain a straight course out of the starting gate and causing interference which resulted in the disqualification of his mount from second to ninth place. This constitutes a violation of California Horse Racing Board rule #1699 (Riding Rules – Careless Riding). Pursuant to California Horse Racing Board rule #1766 (Designated Races), the term of suspension shall not prohibit participation in designated races.

Track: Del Mar
Date: 09/05/2022
Licensee: Mario Gutierrez, jockey
Penalty: Three-day suspension
Violation: Careless riding
Explainer: Jockey Mario Gutierrez who rode Awake at Midnyte in the tenth race at Del Mar Race Track on Sunday, September 4, 2022 is suspended for 3 racing days (September 16,17 & 18, 2022) for altering course without sufficient clearance shortly after the start and causing interference. This constitutes a violation of California Horse Racing Board rule #1699 (Riding Rules-Careless Riding). Pursuant to California Horse Racing Board rule #1766 (Designated Races), the term of suspension shall not prohibit participation in designated races.

NEW HISA STEWARDS RULINGS

Note: While HISA has shared these rulings over the past week, some of them originate from prior weeks.

Violations of Crop Rule

Albuquerque Downs
Rigo Sarmiento – ruling date August 31, 2022

Arapahoe
Adrian Ramos – ruling date August 29, 2022
David Martin – ruling date August 30, 2022

Colonial Downs
Angel Arroyo – ruling date August 30, 2022
Matildie Barahona – ruling date August 30, 2022

Delaware Park
John Hiraldo – ruling date September 1, 2022

Del Mar
Juan Lopez – ruling date September 2, 2022
Victor Espinoza – ruling date September 3, 2022

Evangeline Downs
Jose Luis Rodriguez – ruling date August 27, 2022

Finger Lakes
Dean Joseph Frates – ruling date August 29, 2022
Emanuel De Diego – ruling date September 1, 2022
Emanuel De Diego – ruling date September 1, 2022

Golden Gate Fields
Rachel Goodgame – ruling date August 28, 2022

Parx Racing
Abel Mariano Ramos – ruling date August 4, 2022

Presque Isle Downs
Alberto Burgos – ruling date August 30, 2022

Remington Park
Iram Diego – ruling date August 31, 2022
David Cabrera – ruling date August 31, 2022

Saratoga
Junior Alvardo – ruling date August 27, 2022
Dylan Scott Davis – ruling date August 28, 2022
Talbert Howell – ruling date September 1, 2022
Kendrick Carmouche – ruling date September 1, 2022

Thistledown
Luis Gonzalez – ruling date September 1, 2022

Voided Claims

Parx Racing
Kenai Cool – ruling date August 29, 2022
Prince Filip – ruling date August 30, 2022
Big Al's Gal – ruling date August 30, 2022
Ms Canela – ruling date August 30, 2022
Back Channel – ruling date August 31, 2022
Princess Kaira – ruling date August 31, 2022

Monmouth Park
Leo and Luca – ruling date August 29, 2022
Distorted Limits – ruling date August 29, 2022

Violations Involving Forfeiture of Purse

Colonial Downs
Matildie Barahona – rulings date August 30, 2022, owner of horse ridden by Angel Arroyo, 10 strikes, purse redistribution

Saratoga
Luis Rodriguez Castro – ruling date August 27, 2022, ten strikes; $500 fine, 3-day suspension, 5 points, purse redistribution

Appeal Request Updates

Evangeline Downs
Paulina Ramirez
Crop rule violation
Ruling date August 19, 2022
Appeal filed August 19, 2022
No stay requested

Saratoga
Thomas O'Keefe, William Nichols, Truls Engebretsen, Kevin Hilbert (owners of Drafted, horse ridden by jockey Luis Rodriguez Castro)
Crop rule violation resulting in purse redistribution
Ruling date August 27, 2022
Appeal filed September 2, 2022
Stay requested

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Report: Geroux Heading to Del Mar This Summer

Florent Geroux, who currently sits seventh in the national earnings rankings for jockeys in 2022, will ride in California full-time for the first time this summer at Del Mar, according to a report in Blood-Horse. Geroux, perennially one of the leading rider in Kentucky in the spring and fall, used to spend summers in Saratoga, but had moved his tack to Ellis the past few years.

Geroux's agent, Doug Bredar, told Blood-Horse his client will ride for “almost everybody at the top of the standings” at Del Mar and that the move could serve as a trial run for Geroux to move to California for the long run.

“This is short-term for the moment,” Bredar said. “We just wanted to test the waters. We've had a lot of people, a lot of horsemen out there have asked us to go in the past. We feel that now is the right time.”

The California jockey standings, dominated by Flavien Prat for the better part of the past six years, suddenly have an opening at the top after Prat decided to move his tack to New York full-time in a quest to win his first Eclipse Award. The move has paid off for Prat, who is winning at 21% at the Belmont Park meet and has surged to second nationally in earnings, behind only Irad Ortiz, Jr. The current leading rider in California, Juan Hernandez, is 10th in the country in earnings.

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Weekly Rulings: Mar. 15 – 21

Every week, the TDN publishes a roundup of key official rulings from the primary tracks within the four major racing jurisdictions of California, New York, Florida and Kentucky.

Here's a primer on how each of these jurisdictions adjudicates different offenses, what they make public (or not) and where.

CALIFORNIA

Track: Santa Anita
Date: 03/17/2022
Licensee: Flavien Prat, jockey
Penalty: $500 fine
Violation: Excessive use of the whip
Explainer: Jockey Flavien Prat is fined $500.00 for violation of California Horse Racing Board rule #1688(b)(8)(d) (Use of Riding Crop–more than six times) during the sixth race at Santa Anita Park on Mar. 13, 2022.

Track: Santa Anita
Date: Two steward hearings on 03/18/2022 and 03/19/2022
Licensee: Richard Baltas, trainer
Penalty: $1,000 fine and assessed 1/2 point.
Also, disqualification and purse redistribution
Violation: Medication violation
Explainer: Trainer Richard Baltas, who worked the horse Lookin at Sweetie for removal from the Veterinarian's List on Jan. 3, 2022, at Santa Anita Park, is fined $1,000 and assessed one half (1/2) point in accordance with California Horse Racing Board Rule #1843.4 (Multiple Medication Violations, expires Mar. 18, 2023) pursuant to California Horse Racing Board Rules #1887 (Trainer or Owner to Insure Condition of Horse) for violation of California Horse Racing Board Rule #1866(h) (Veterinarian's List), #1843(a)(b)(d) (Medication, Drugs and Other Substances) and Rule #1843.1 (Prohibited Drug Substances–Methocarbamol [Class 4] – second offense in the last 365 days).
Pursuant to a formal hearing held Mar. 18, 2022, it is hereby ordered that Lookin at Sweetie, who finished first in the third race at Santa Anita on Jan. 21, 2022, be disqualified and deemed unplaced in accordance with CHRB rule #1592 (Ineligible Horse to be Disqualified). It is further ordered that the purse money awarded to owners George and Martha Schwary and earned by trainer Richard Baltas ($1,440.00) and Apprentice Jockey Diego Herrera ($1,280.00) be distributed in accordance with the revised order of finish, by the Paymaster of Purses at Santa Anita Park.

Revised order of finish is as follows:
1st–Cayton Kid
2nd–Elana My Princess
3rd–Life in Paradise
4th–Mongolian Dream
5th–Cat Lady Blues

Track: Santa Anita
Date: 03/20/2022
Licensee: Juan Hernandez, jockey
Penalty: $500
Violation: Excessive use of the whip
Explainer: Jockey Juan Hernandez is fined $500.00 for violation of California Horse Racing Board rule #1688(b)(8)(d) (Use of Riding Crop–more than six times) during the first race at Santa Anita Park on Mar. 19, 2022.

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Eda Returns a Winner in Santa Ysabel

Baoma Corporation's Eda (Munnings), making her first start since winning the GI Starlet S. last December, went wire-to-wire to win the GIII Santa Ysabel S. by a half-length over her late-closing stablemate Under the Stars (Pioneerof the Nile) at Santa Anita Sunday. Sent off at 3-1, Eda stepped right out to the early lead as even-money favorite Under the Stars sat just off her flank while racing three wide down the backstretch with Ain't Easy (Into Mischief) to her inside. Jockey Juan Hernandez asked Eda for more approaching the quarter-pole as Under the Stars and Ain't Easy started their rallies on either side of the pacesetter. She began inching away and had a two-length advantage with a furlong to run, but Under the Stars was closing late only to run out of real estate on the wire. With trainer Bob Baffert still banned from starting horses at Churchill Downs, neither the winner nor the runner-up were early nominations to the GI Kentucky Oaks and neither were able to earn the Santa Ysabel's qualifying Oaks points.

Eda, second in the GII Sorrento S. while still a maiden, was fifth after attending a hot pace in the Sept. 5 GI Del Mar Debutante, but came back to graduate with a front-running tally in the Oct. 24 Anoakia S. She added a win in the Nov. 13 Desi Arnaz S. before stretching out to 1 1/16 miles to win the Starlet in her juvenile finale.

Pedigree Notes:

Breeder Nate McCauley purchased Show Me, a half-sister to graded winner Aegean (Northern Afleet), for $24,000 at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton February sale and sent her to Coolmore's Munnings. The mare's first foal is Eda and she also has a yearling filly by Karakontie (Jpn). She sold to Camas Park Stud while in foal to Munnings for $535,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton November sale.

Eddie Woods's Quarter Pole Enterprises purchased Eda for $240,000 at the 2020 Keeneland September sale and resold her to the $550,000 bid of bloodstock agent Donato Lanni at the 2021 OBS March sale.

Sunday, Santa Anita
SANTA YSABEL S.-GIII, $101,500, Santa Anita, 3-6, 3yo, f,
1 1/16m, 1:44.31, ft.
1–EDA, 124, f, 3, by Munnings
                1st Dam: Show Me, by Lemon Drop Kid
                2nd Dam: Apt to Star, by Aptitude
                3rd Dam: Sweeping, by End Sweep
($240,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP; $550,000 2yo '21 OBSMAR).
O-Baoma Corporation; B-Nathan McCauley (KY); T-Bob Baffert;
J-Juan J. Hernandez. $60,000. Lifetime Record: GISW, 7-5-1-0,
$430,000. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus* Click for the
   eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Under the Stars, 120, f, 3, Pioneerof the Nile–Untouched
Talent, by Storm Cat. O-Mrs. John Magnier, Michael B. Tabor,
and Derrick Smith; B-Eaton (KY); T-Bob Baffert. $20,000.
3–Ain't Easy, 124, f, 3, Into Mischief–Ameristralia (Aus), by
Fastnet Rock (Aus). ($400,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP). O-Old Bones
Racing Stable, LLC, Michael V. Lombardi, and Joey Platts;
B-Spendthrift Farm, LLC (KY); T-Philip D'Amato. $12,000.
Margins: HF, 3 3/4, 1. Odds: 3.30, 1.00, 3.30.
Also Ran: Desert Dawn, Fortunata Tensio, Miss Everything, Cairo Memories, Classical Romance. Scratched: Micro Share.
Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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