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Kentucky stewards have issued a three-day suspension for “careless riding” to jockey Flavian Prat after he was involved in an incident that unseated Tyler Gaffalione and caused a fatal injury to a horse at Keeneland on Wednesday, reports the Daily Racing Form.

Prat was aboard Foreign Relations in the sixth race, and swerved into Gaffalione's mount Master of the Ring in mid-stretch en route to crossing the wire in front. Master of the Ring fell to the turf and had to be euthanized as a result of his injuries; Gaffalione walked away and rode his mount in the next race on the card. Foreign Relations was disqualified from first to last.

Prat will not appeal the penalty, and will serve his days Wednesday through Friday next week.

Read more at the Daily Racing Form.

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Stewards in Kentucky suspended the license of exercise rider/stable employee Brandie Hart, also known as Brandie Wood in a ruling April 1, pending a criminal case in Kenton County.

Hart was charged with nine counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals in the second degree on Jan. 5, 2023.

According to the criminal citation filed by the Florence Police Department, the charges were the result of a months-long investigation by law enforcement into complaints that horses belonging to Hart wren't being properly cared for. On Dec. 22, 2022, police brought a search warrant to a property in Kenton County where Hart was keeping her horses. Officers observed no food in stalls or pasture for the horses, though two bales of hay were outside the barn, out of reach of the animals.

Some of the horses were in deep mud, and none of the pastures had any windbreak, according to the citation. Temperatures were expected to sink to -30 around the time of the officers' visit, and they reported the stalls had no bedding.

Veterinarian Dr. Tony Wolfe was brought to the scene to help evaluate the horses. He scored horses between 1 and 4 on a scale of 1 to 10 for health. All of them were removed from the property as a result. FOX56 reported that six went to Kenton County Animal Services and three were kept in protective custody for the remainder of the case.

“The horses were experiencing varying degrees of malnourishment, skin disease, lack of dental care, and lack of regular upkeep,” the citation read. “Dr. Wolfe noted in his evaluation that 'it seems especially cruel to allow [the horses] to suffer hunger pains with food just out of reach as their body conditions worsen, slowly, due to inadequate caloric intake.'”

The citation indicated that law enforcement had monitored the situation for some time but “nothing seemed to improve.”

The stewards' ruling indicated that Hart was arrested on site at Turfway Park in January and subsequently barred from the property.

One of the conditions of Hart's bail was that she was not permitted to possess or purchase horses while the case was pending.

A change of plea hearing is scheduled for May 8 in Kenton District Court.

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Keeneland's popular Library Lecture Series resumes in May with the first of four public events that celebrate recently published works about Thoroughbred racing whose authors conducted research at Keeneland Library.

Tickets are $20 per event and will go on sale at 9 a.m., Friday, April 21 at Keeneland.com/library. Proceeds from these ticketed events will benefit the Keeneland Library Foundation, which funds Library preservation, education, outreach and access efforts.

The first two installments of the Library Lecture Series will feature books related to the Library's current exhibit, The Heart of the Turf: Racing's Black Pioneers:

· May 11 – Katherine Mooney will discuss Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey.

· June 22 – Mark Shrager will talk about The First Kentucky Derby: Thirteen Black Jockeys, One Shady Owner, and the Little Red Horse That Wasn't Supposed to Win.

The Heart of the Turf: Racing's Black Pioneers offers a deep exploration into the lives of African Americans in racing and their contributions to the Thoroughbred industry. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, runs through August.

The Library Lecture Series continues with two events in late August and September:

· Aug. 24 – Jennifer Kelly will discuss The Foxes of Belair: Gallant Fox, Omaha, and the Quest for the Triple Crown.

· Sept. 28 – Patricia McQueen will review Secretariat's Legacy: The Sons, Daughters and Descendants Who Keep His Legacy Alive.

All programs will be held at the Library from 6:30-8:30 p.m. ET.

The author's presentation will be followed by a reception and book signing. A limited number of copies of featured books will be available for purchase.

Founded in 1939, Keeneland Library is one of the world's largest repositories of information related to Thoroughbred racing, housing nearly 30,000 books, more than 1 million photographic negatives and prints, and thousands of newspaper and magazine articles about all aspects of the equine industry. At the globally renowned public research institution, Library staff has assisted thousands of journalists, writers, academics, historians, racing fans and others with research.

The Library is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. To reach the Library, enter Keeneland at Gate 1 (Man o' War Blvd.) on Keeneland Blvd. and take the first right on Entertainment Ct. The Library is to the left of the Keene Barn and Entertainment Center.

For more information, visit Keeneland.com/library.

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The Florida Senate's Finance and Tax Committee has advanced a tax cut proposal to the full Senate which would provide the state's racetracks with credits based on HISA assessments, but a similar bill in the Florida House does not include those tax breaks, reports the Thoroughbred Daily News.

The Senate bill proposes tax credits granted to Gulfstream Park and Tampa Bay Downs which would be equal to the amount each track paid in the prior state fiscal year to the federal HISA Authority.

In its proposed budget for 2023, HISA assessed $5.2 million to Gulfstream and $1.2 million to Tampa Bay Downs (though those budgets assumed the implementation of the anti-doping program which has since been delayed by the courts).

“We want to make sure that the equestrian community thrives and continues to be an economic boom for the state,” said Senate tax committee Chairman Blaise Ingoglia.

Read more at the Thoroughbred Daily News.

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