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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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Toast To Vino Rosso: Colt Out Of War Relic Brings ‘A Lot Of Leg, A Lot Of Quality’

Throughout the breeding season, the Paulick Report will be sharing photos of foals from the first crop of Spendthrift Farm's Breeders' Cup Classic winner Vino Rosso in the “Toast to Vino Rosso” series.

Over the past few weeks, we've seen just how well Vino Rosso has stamped his first foals, and we've got another fine example here.

This time around, we visit a colt out of the winning Pulpit mare War Relic, bred in Kentucky by Elm Tree Farm.

The dam is a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Rush Bay, and the extended family features names including Grade 2 winner Itsaknockout and Grade 3 winner Chorwon.

Jody Huckabay of Elm Tree Farm said his operation has bought in to Vino Rosso with both fists.

“We are extremely excited about him,” Huckabay said. “We've got two of them on the ground and I've got three more coming. We just couldn't be any more pleased with what we've got so far. We've bought a couple more seasons in the horse due to what we've seen. I just think he's got a real big shot, as far as what we're seeing on the ground here so far; a lot of leg, a lot of quality. Just a lot of positive things.”

While the cross worked well on paper, Huckabay said it was the physical matchup between Vino Rosso and War Relic that sold him on the mating.

“Anymore, you certainly have to have some stretch,” he said. “You have to have some leg on these horses to get the leg in the commercial arena, and he certainly is throwing that. More than that, he's just throwing a lot of quality in these foals, in their head and their eye. The two that we have are very intelligent. They're just smart foals, which we also like.”

Vino Rosso, a 6-year-old son of Curlin, stands at Spendthrift Farm for an advertised fee of $25,000.

Vino Rosso won won six of 15 starts and earned $4,803,125 on the racetrack. In addition to his signature Breeders' Cup Classic score, the stallion picked up victories in the Grade 1 Gold Cup at Santa Anita Stakes, and the G2 Wood Memorial Stakes.

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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.

Click below to watch this week's Friday Show.

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