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Twitter Roundup: Industry Reacts To Breeders’ Cup Screw-Up

Modern Games' victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf was met with loud boos and social media derision, a circumstance that had little to do with the horse or his racing connections (Godolphin, Charlie Appleby, and William Buick).

The issue was that the 2-year-old colt was running as a non-wagering interest, for purse money only, since he had been prematurely scratched by the Breeders' Cup veterinary team due to a starting gate incident.

More details on that scratch and the California Horse Racing Board's reasoning is available here.

Some of the best Twitter reactions to the incident and Modern Games' subsequent victory are below:

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‘Ending Of A Wonderful Chapter’: Trainer Will VanMeter Disbanding Stable

Trainer Will VanMeter, 37, is stepping away from training Thoroughbreds after six years with his license, according to a post he made on Twitter.

“The hammer falling after the sale of Edgemont Road also signified the ending of a wonderful chapter in myself and Kristin's lives,” Vanmeter wrote, referred to his wife. “We sadly will be removing our shingle from Barn 62 on Rice Road after eight rewarding years conditioning Thoroughbreds.”

Stakes-placed Edgemont Road sold at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale on Nov. 17, hammering for $275,000 to Eddie Kenneally, agent for William Werner.

VanMeter, the son of well-known consignor and former practicing veterinarian Tom VanMeter, saddled a total of 64 winners from 527 starters with earnings of more than $3.3 million.

“Thank you to all the men and women that have woken 365 days a year before the sunrise to work in our shed,” VanMeter wrote. “In particular: Kristin VanMeter, Headley VanMeter, and Sarah Hamilton for being the bedrock of our stable. They helped build an atmosphere of professionalism and attention to detail that has been a pleasure to work within.”

VanMeter also thanked mentors D. Wayne Lukas, Sebastian Nicholl, and Tom Voss, as well as John Ed and Isabel Anthony, and owners Dr. Thomas VanMeter, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Ligon, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fletcher, Mr. Dennis Park, Mr. and Mrs. John Mayer, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Allor, Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay LaRoche.

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Did Broberg’s Tweets Cost Him Stalls At Remington Park?

Karl Broberg is convinced his Twitter account is to blame for him not being able to stable at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Okla.

“They have exercised their private property rights to deny me stalls and they really won't give me a straight answer as to why,” Broberg said of Remington Park management. “It's because of my social media nonsense when I spoke horribly of the way it was managed. I never said anything on there that was that offensive and I sure didn't say anything that wasn't true.”

Broberg took to Twitter to express his frustration when Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, shut down in July after a racing office employee tested positive for COVID-19 and there was little communication between track management and horsemen about when racing might resume.


Both Lone Star Park and Remington Park are owned by the Chickasaw Nation's Global Gaming Solutions.

Broberg has also criticized the horsemen's organization at Remington Park, the Thoroughbred Racing Association of Oklahoma, that he referred to as “the whiniest bunch of (deleted) in the world.”

“I'm a little outspoken,” said Broberg, a former advertising executive who has been the leading North American trainer by wins from 2014-'19 and indirectly oversees several strings from his Dallas-area home. “I'm seldom there. My crew is good and quiet. We try to do it the right way. To the best of my knowledge I'm the only guy who's ever been ruled off who has never been suspended. I'm coming up on 4,000 career wins without one suspension.”

Remington had excluded Broberg in 2013 after The Jockey Club suspended his privileges for having three medication violations in 2011 and one additional violation in 2012. When he fought the Remington ban in court, the judge's ruling in favor of the racetrack exclusion said the Texas Racing Commission had previously caught a vet going into a stall in Broberg's barn carrying four loaded syringes. The vet was charged but Broberg was not.

Broberg is allowed to enter horses at Remington and he said he is taking 18 horses to a training center 15 miles from the track.

“I'm allowed to haul in to the receiving barn,” he said. “But the way we run our program – school in the paddock, stand in the gate – it becomes a logistical nightmare.”

Last year, Broberg won 57 races from 289 starters at the Oklahoma City track.

“Remington has always been such an integral part of my life, even before I started training,” said Broberg, who took out his trainer's license in 2009. “It sucks. It's so unfortunate. This is costing them money, a lot of starts. The first two days they had full entries,but the next two days were horrible.”

With about 150 horses in training, Broberg maintains strings in Louisiana at Louisiana Downs and at Evangeline Downs, where he won six races from six starters on Aug. 19. Those Evangeline Downs horses will go to Delta Downs when the meet ends on Saturday. He also has horses at Canterbury Park in Minnesota and Prairie Meadows in Iowa.

So far in 2020, he's won 236 races from 1,187 starts, a 20% winning percentage.

“I intend on sending some horses to Kentucky and I want to send a few to Belmont,” Broberg added. “I'm going to try to establish myself at Hawthorne and use that as the replacement for Remington Park.”

 

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Broberg Says Remington Won’t Give Him Stalls and He Can’t Understand Why

Karl Broberg got off to a quick start at Remington Park, winning the opening night feature, the $75,000 Governor’s Cup S., with Hunka Burning Love (Into Mischief). But Broberg is resigned to the fact that there won’t be many more winners for his stable at the Oklahoma track. A mainstay at Remington throughout his career, Broberg was denied stalls at the meet which opened Friday, and he says he’s yet to get a reasonable explanation as to why.

“I really wish I knew the answer,” Broberg said. “It was what I deem a very bizarre decision on their part and I have had multiple meetings now trying to get a straight answer as to why.”

Broberg is allowed to race at Remington, but said that without stalls he has cut back drastically on his division in Oklahoma and has 16 horses there at a nearby training center when he normally has about 80 based at the track. He is planning on moving most of the horses that would have raced at Remington to Hawthorne.

Broberg made 289 starts last year at Remington and finished second in the standings behind Steve Asmussen with 57 winners. He had hoped to do as well, if not better, this year until he was told he would not be getting stalls. He said the decision was made by Remington Vice President of Operations Matt Vance. At deadline for this story, Vance had not returned a phone call seeking comment.

Broberg said Vance has said little about the decision to deny him stalls, which has left him to guess what the reasons might be. He said one issue is likely comments he has made on social media about Remington and Lone Star Park, tracks owned by the same company, Global Gaming Solutions. Broberg admits he hasn’t mastered the art of political correctness and that his outspoken nature can get him into trouble.

On Aug. 19, he tweeted: “My best friend was wrong when he predicted Twitter would end my career quickly because I lack a filter. So far it has only resulted in losing stalls at a track near and dear to my heart while allowing me to share wisdom, humor, nonsense, and disgustingly self promote.”

On Twitter, he has complained a number of times about Remington’s decision to do away with main track-only entries in turf races, calling it the “Steve Asmussen rule.”

“I confirmed this morning that the no MTO entry rule change is still in place,” he tweeted. “However, I would prefer to reference it as the Steve Asmussen rule since I am focused on being positive about every venue I have the privilege of partaking in.”

He said he will try to be careful when it comes to what he posts on social media platforms.

“I will just worry about running my own barn in the future instead of trying to make the world a better place,” he said of his social media posts.

Another factor, Broberg said, could be his criticism of the local horsemen’s group, the Thoroughbred Racing Association of Oklahoma.

“They have created a culture there at Remington Park where they constantly cave to the horsemen’s organization,” he said. “It’s just strange the way that track is run. They’ve created a culture where the inmates are running the asylum. They have tendency to bow down to the trainers that have an Oklahoma driver’s license.”

Broberg, who led the nation in wins every year from 2014 through 2019, has had his problems at Remington in the past. In 2013 he was banned outright for an entire meet after The Jockey Club denied him the privileges of the American Stud Book, the result of having three or more medication violations over the course of a 365-day period. In 2017, he was fined $20,000 after his stable mixed up the identity of two horses, both of whom raced under the wrong name.

“I’ve made more than my fair share of mistakes in racing,” he said.

After being fined in 2017, Broberg was allowed to stable and race at Remington in 2018 and 2019 and he said he has done nothing since then to warrant losing his stalls.

“I am in a spot where I am the villain and I don’t get it,” he said. “My help is respectful and quiet. We keep to ourselves and do everything right. There’s always been this dark cloud that hangs over us in Oklahoma City and I don’t have that anywhere else that I run.”

Broberg said he is confident the Remington ruling has nothing to do with any medication violations.

“It’s not like we’re (Jorge) Navarro or (Jason) Servis and winning at some phenomenal rate and doing incredible things that you can’t figure out when you look at the Racing Form to see how this horse is running in such a matter,” he said.

While losing stalls at Remington has been a setback for his operation, losing them at Lone Star would hurt even more. Broberg lives in the Dallas area and stabling at Lone Star affords him more time with his children.

“I have been told there won’t be a problem at Lone Star, but I know if I cry about what’s going on at Remington too much, it will be uncertain where this could go,” he said. “To not have stalls at Lone Star would really pain me because that is home to me. It’s my chance to do what I love while being able to stay home with my kids.”

Broberg, who is second in the nation in wins this year behind Asmussen, still has plenty of outlets for his horses. That’s not a problem. He is also currently racing at Louisiana Downs, Canterbury Park, Evangeline Downs and Prairie Meadows. He said he is ready to move on and accept the Remington decision, even if he doesn’t understand it.

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