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The Friday Show Presented By Diamond B Farm’s Rowayton: Feeling Preppy

The Kentucky Derby is less than one month away and this weekend's Big Three prep races – the G2 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, G2 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland and G1 Santa Anita Derby at Santa Anita – figure to sort out the leading contenders and help fill the Churchill Downs starting gate on May 1, as each race awards 100-40-20-10 qualifying points to the top four finishers.

Join Paulick Report publisher Ray Paulick, news editor Chelsea Hackbarth and bloodstock editor Joe Nevills for a lively discussion on these key races and their historical significance in terms of serving as a launch pad for Kentucky Derby winners. Two of the three races – the Wood and the Santa Anita Derby – are seen as wide open, while unbeaten Essential Quality, last year's 2-year-old champion, appears to tower over the field in the Blue Grass.

The Star of the Week is recognized for his influence in American classic races and in the two most recent Derby preps at Gulfstream and Turfway Parks, and Nevills makes his latest Toast to Vino Rosso taking a look at first-crop foals sired by the G1 Breeders' Cup Classic-winning stallion standing at Spendthrift Farm.

Watch this week's Friday Show, presented by Diamond B Farm's Rowayton.

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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.

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The Friday Show Presented By Diamond B Farm’s Rowayton: Whip Reform

Few subjects in racing are more divisive than whip use. In fact, we can't even agree on what to call it. Is it a riding crop or a whip? If it's the former, how do you describe a jockey's actions when he or she strikes the horse: cropping?

In this week's edition of the Friday Show, Ray Paulick and bloodstock editor Joe Nevills review a race from Oaklawn last weekend that saw jockey Ramon Vazquez striking his mount, Rated R Superstar, at least 30 times in the stretch run while finishing second in the Essex Handicap. Vazquez was fined $500 by stewards at the Arkansas track for “striking his horse excessively while not allowing a proper response time.” His cut of the purse was $10,000. Three years ago, the same jockey was fined $1,000 for striking a horse 48 times in the final 3 1/2 furlongs of a race at Prairie Meadows in Iowa.

Racing regulators in various states are beginning to adopt much stricter rules and penalties regarding use of the whip, and the devices themselves are now cushioned and much less likely to leave welts. While some horseplayers and horsemen feel that repeatedly striking a horse to get maximum effort is necessary, the ethics and optics are troubling to many others.

Watch this week's edition of the Friday Show that also includes our Star of the Week and a Toast to Vino Rosso that focuses on one of the 2019 Breeders' Cup Classic winner's first foals.

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The Friday Show Presented By Diamond B Farm’s Rowayton: What Just Happened?

Following a big weekend of racing that showcased Triple Crown prospects Greatest Honour in the Fountain of Youth and reigning 2-year-old champion Essential Quality in the Southwest Stakes, all hell broke loose with a series of stories that diminished racing's on-track activities in favor of unsavory events taking place off the track.

In this week's edition of the Friday Show sponsored by Rowayton – standing at Diamond B Farm in Pennsylvania – Paulick Reporter publisher Ray Paulick is joined by bloodstock editor Joe Nevills and news editor Chelsea Hackbarth to review a week that featured an on-camera jockey fight and an incident involving a trainer in the Ireland posing for pictures while sitting on a dead horse – all while animal rights protesters were trying to shut down racing at Golden Gate Fields in Northern California.

Some strong opinions on these matters are shared in this week's show.

Plus there is our Star of the Week and a Toast to Vino Rosso, taking a look at one of the early foals from the first crop by the Spendthrift Farm stallion.

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