Tag: The Friday Show

Monday, March 27, is the anticipated date for the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority to take over from state racing commissions the regulatory oversight of Thoroughbred racing's medication rules, drug testing, and enforcement – pending the approval of the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC is designated by federal law to oversee HISA's activities.

If FTC approval comes on that date, as expected, the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit (a division of Drug Free Sport International, which manages drug testing for professional sports leagues) will begin administering the rules for HISA's Anti-Doping and Medication Control (ADMC) program.

Lisa Lazarus, the chief executive officer of HISA, joins Ray Paulick and bloodstock editor Joe Nevills in this week's edition of the Friday Show to preview what can be expected under the HISA/HIWU programs.

Lazarus indicates that there will be a shift toward more intelligence-based out-of-competition testing, and that uniform rules and harmonized laboratories will be a great benefit to trainers. Also of importance to horsepeople, Lazarus said, will be a first-of-its-kind “atypical findings policy” that will identify obvious contaminations and review them for possible dismissal before they reach the adjudication stage.

There are other changes, including implementation of a paperless collection system in the test barn and an adjudication process that she said will be swift and neutral compared to existing programs in most states.

Watch this week's episode of the Friday Show below:

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Trainer Ben Colebrook can be forgiven if he wasn't in the Aqueduct winner's circle following last week's Gotham Stakes victory by Andrew and Rania Warren's Raise Cain, a Violence colt who rallied from off the pace on a sloppy track to win by 7 1/2 lengths at 23-1 odds. With the win, Raise Cain earned 50 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby, virtually assuring him a spot in the starting gate on the first Saturday in May.

Colebrook, who saddled Raise Cain and gave jockey Jose Lezcano a leg up, watched the race in an Uber en route to nearby Kennedy International Airport for a flight to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport and a short drive to Turfway Park to saddle Scoobie Quando in another Derby prep that night, the John Battaglia Memorial.

Scoobie Quando, an Uncle Mo colt also owned by the Warrens, ran well over the Tapeta synthetic surface but could do no better than finish second to Congruent under jockey Luan Machado – earning eight points. To qualify for the Derby, he'll likely need to come back with a top three finish in the March 25 Jeff Ruby at Turfway, where the stakes will be much higher: 100 points to the winner, 40 to second, 30 to third, 20 to fourth and 10 to fifth.

Colebrook, a former Christophe Clement and Fred Seitz assistant who took out his trainer's license in 2012, is looking forward to his first Kentucky Derby starter – and maybe even two in the same year.

Colebrook joins Ray Paulick and bloodstock editor Joe Nevills on this week's Friday Show to talk about his big day at Aqueduct and Turfway, and what's down the road for both Raise Cain and Scoobie Quando.

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Like many involved in horse racing, either as fans or people who work in the industry, Jason Beem started going to the track with his father at a young age. That was at Longacres racetrack near Seattle, Wash.

Gary Henson was the track announcer and Beem started doing pretend race calls, mimicking the cadence and voice of Henson (son of longtime Hollywood Park and Del Mar's  gravelly-voiced announcer Harry Henson).

When Longacres was sold and developed and Beem went off to college, he lost interest in the game, but that was reignited when his father took ill. “When my dad got sick, I started going back to the races with him, and after he died I just kept going,” he said. In 2005, Beem heard Vic Stauffer's call of Cesario winning the American Oaks at Hollywood Park, and decided he'd found his calling.

“I remember the hair on my arms standing up hearing it and I thought  'I can do that,' so I went and got binoculars and started practicing the next day.”

Seventeen years  after calling his first race, Beem serves as track announcer at Tampa Bay Downs and Colonial Downs, in addition to hosting the Jason Beem Horse Racing Podcast. He may be best known as the creator of the Beemie Awards, a satirical online awards show that was wildly popular on social media but is now on hiatus.

Beem joins Ray Paulick and bloodstock editor Joe Nevills on this week's Friday Show to talk about his career and some of the unusual things he's witnessed from the announcer's booth, including last week's appearance on the Tampa Bay turf course of an alligator.

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Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen's unprecedented 10,000th career win, registered at Oaklawn on Feb. 20, came just a couple of weeks after LeBron James surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the National Basketball Association's all-time leading scorer. The latter record, 38,387 points, set by Abdul-Jabbar at the end of a 20-year career in 1989, was a mark that many sports fans thought could stand forever.

That's also true of Asmussen, who surpassed Dale Baird as North American Thoroughbred racing's all-time leading trainer by wins with his 9,446th victory at Saratoga on Aug. 7, 2021. With each win, Asmussen is putting more and more distance between himself and his closest pursuers in that category (Jerry Hollendorfer, also a member of the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame, is second among active trainers with 7,759 wins).

At 57 years old, Asmussen would appear to have many years ahead of him to further pad his lead.

In this week's Friday Show, Ray Paulick is joined by bloodstock editor Joe Nevills to discuss Asmussen's seemingly unbeatable record and those of some other well-known and not so known horses and people who figure to be in the record books forever.

Not all records are meant to be broken.

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