Natalie Voss | Horse Racing Free Tips

The Friday Show Presented By Uptowncharlybrown Stud: The Lowdown On Betamethasone

Dr. Kate Papp is an equine veterinarian in Pennsylvania who, in 2012, told a Congressional hearing that “the overuse and abuse of medication is rampant at our Thoroughbred racetracks and training centers.”

Her testimony was prescient. One year later, the FBI arrested a number of trainers, veterinarians and racing officials in a federal probe into doping and corruption at Penn National race course in Grantville, Pa.

Dr. Papp, who operates Hillcrest Meadow Equine and devotes considerable time and resources to the paracehorse.org rehoming, rehabilitation and rescue aftercare program, joins Paulick Report publisher Ray Paulick and editor-in-chief Natalie Voss to discuss the topic of the week – betamethasone, the drug found in the post-race sample of Medina Spirit after his first-place finish in the May 1 Kentucky Derby.

Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills drops by for his weekly Toast to Vino Rosso, a look at one of the first-crop foals by Spendthrift Farm's Breeders' Cup Classic-winning son of Curlin.

Watch this week's show, presented by Uptowncharlybrown Stud, below:

The post The Friday Show Presented By Uptowncharlybrown Stud: The Lowdown On Betamethasone appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

The Friday Show: AAEP’s 30 Years Of On Call Service To The Derby

It's been 30 years since the American Association of Equine Practitioners first began providing veterinary expertise to nationally televised horse races in the event of injury to a participant or the need to have questions answered relative to a horse's well being.

In this week's edition of The Friday Show, equine surgeon Dr. Alan Ruggles, who will be the AAEP's On Call veterinarian for this year's Kentucky Derby telecast on NBC Sports, provides some perspective on the program and the On Call vet's role in communicating important information to both the television audience and to reporters from around the world who are at Churchill Downs to cover this year's extravaganza. A partner at the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., Ruggles also outlines some of the things going on behind the scenes to make racing as safe as possible for equine and human athletes alike. Please join publisher Ray Paulick and editor-in-chief Natalie Voss for the discussion.

Following our weekly Toast to Vino Rosso and a look at one of the Spendthrift Farm stallion's first-crop foals, news editor Chelsea Hackbarth and bloodstock editor Joe Nevills join Ray for some Derby picks and trash talk.

The post The Friday Show: AAEP’s 30 Years Of On Call Service To The Derby appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

The Friday Show: Adding An Asterisk To An Arkansas Derby Winner

It's been almost a year since Bob Baffert-trained Gamine and Charlatan won races at Oaklawn – Gamine in an allowance race and Charlatan in a division of the Grade 1, $1-million Arkansas Derby – and then subsequently were disqualified when post-race drug tests detected the prohibited drug lidocaine.

Those disqualifications were appealed, as was a 15-day suspension given Baffert by the Oaklawn board of stewards. Earlier this week after a two-day hearing, the Arkansas Racing Commission voted unanimously to restore the horses' wins, eliminate Baffert's suspension and instead fine him $5,000 for each positive.

Paulick Report editor-in-chief Natalie Voss, who viewed the 15-hour proceedings online and reported on the commissioners' vote, joins Ray Paulick in this week's Friday Show to discuss the case and the challenges made by the Hall of Fame trainer and his attorneys to the drug testing process and stewards' rulings.

Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills then joins Ray to highlight our Star of the Week as well as make his Toast to Vino Rosso and one of the first-crop foals sired by the Breeders' Cup Classic-winning son of Curlin.

The post The Friday Show: Adding An Asterisk To An Arkansas Derby Winner appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

The Friday Show Presented By Diamond B Farm’s Rowayton: Ponying Up

Trainers Mike Maker and Wesley Ward aren't the only horsemen who have encountered Thoroughbred owners who have been slow to pay their bills. In their cases, the two trainers filed suit against owners Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey alleging nearly $1 million was owned to each of them for past due training bills and purse earnings. Ken Ramsey has said he'll make good on both cases and that the lawsuits will be dropped.

In the case of Ahmed Zayat and his family's Zayat Stables – now going through bankruptcy – a host of trainers and other businesses are owed a significant amount of money.

It begs the question of how many other trainers have had to “carry” owners for extended periods of time, negotiate fees after the fact or put liens on bloodstock in order to get paid.

Watch this week's Friday Show for a discussion on this subject with Ray Paulick and Paulick Report editor in chief Natalie Voss. Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills joins the show for a retrospective on the late Sheikh Hamdan of Shadwell Stables, a Toast to Vino Rosso and some news about a new product coming next week that covers the auction front.

The post The Friday Show Presented By Diamond B Farm’s Rowayton: Ponying Up appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post