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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: One Year Later, Where The FBI Probe Stands

It's been one year since the FBI arrested over two dozen individuals, including trainers Jason Servis and Jorge Navarro, in a racehorse doping probe originating with the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. Three days after the arrests, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic, and the entire world seemingly ground to a halt.

In the ensuing 12 months – despite the challenges to the Justice Department brought about by COVID-19 – there have been two guilty pleas; this past week one of those individuals, Scott Robinson, accused ot selling performance enhancing substances that wound up in racehorses, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on one count of drug adulteration and misbranding conspiracy.

In this week's edition of the Friday Show, publisher Ray Paulick and Natalie Voss, the Paulick Report's three-time Eclipse Award winning editor in chief, discuss the federal case's developments and what we can expect in the months and even years going forward. Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills joins the show to talk about the Star of the Week and has a Toast to Vino Rosso, highlighting one of the foals from the first crop by the Breeders' Cup Classic-winning son of Curlin.

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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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The Friday Show Presented By Diamond B Farm’s Rowayton: Sam Houston Strong

Chris Griffin, track announcer at Sam Houston Race Park, joins Ray Paulick and Joe Nevills on this week's edition of The Friday Show in the wake of the historic deep freeze that wreaked havoc with the electrical grid and water supply in Houston and other Texas cities.

“It was a unique situation, a bit scary at times, but we got through it,” Griffin said. “Your immediate thought if you're involved with horse racing – and it should be – is how are the horses going to be handling the conditions and what we are going to go through.”

Fortunately, an emergency plan was in place, and the backstretch community rallied to make it work. “Last week was a very trying, difficult time where we all had to work together,” he said.

After four lost racing days, the action resumed this week, just in time for Saturday evening's Texas Preview Day, and Griffin provides some insights on the 12-race card featuring five stakes for Texas-breds.

Finally, bloodstock editor Joe Nevills gives a toast to Spendthrift Farm's Vino Rosso in our new segment spotlighting the stallion's first foals.

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