Here at the Paulick Report, we cover a lot of regulatory topics, and what usually grinds our gears is inaction – rules that should be in place, but aren't, and their consequences.
On this week's episode of The Friday Show, we're going in the opposite direction, and looking at some rules that are in place, or about to be in place, that just don't work.
Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills is joined by editor-in-chief Natalie Voss and News Editor Chelsea Hackbarth to discuss some rules in horse racing that miss the mark.
Watch this week's episode of The Friday Show below:
Foal Patrol, an initiative of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, partnered with the Paulick Report in Season 5 to bring you closer to featured mares and foals and to ask farm staff your questions about their care and management over the course of the season.
In this episode with Traveling Tiger and her 2022 Audible filly at Safari North at Pauls Mill Farm in Versailles, Ky., we ask Safari North's Deborah Ward, “Why is night turnout important for foals?”
The Foal Patrol Season 5 Education Site provides a platform to respond to viewers' questions, share information about horse care and management from breeding through retirement, and spotlight efforts across the industry to provide the best possible care for Thoroughbreds before, during, and after their racing careers. In partnership with industry collaborators, we will add new content to the Foal Patrol Education Site for viewers of all ages from now through June at foalpatrol.com/education.
Your Stories gives viewers the chance to share photos of their own mares and foals, selfies with Foal Patrol's mascot, Smokey, and stories about what Foal Patrol means to them. Send your photos and stories to foalpatrol@racingmuseum.net for a chance to be featured on foalpatrol.com/education/your-stories.
Since its first season in 2018, people all over the world have engaged with Foal Patrol's live webcam series for a behind-the-scenes look at what daily life is like for in-foal mares and foals. Learn more about this season's lineup at foalpatrol.com and watch “Recent Updates” for Foal Patrol announcements, posts about featured Season 5 mares and foals, and updates on mares and foals from prior seasons.
Foal Patrol Season 5 has reached more people and a broader audience than any prior season. We thank you for tuning in this year, for engaging, and for making Season 5 our most watched Foal Patrol season.
Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher has run 62 horses in the Kentucky Derby, but only four of those runners have competed two weeks later in the Triple Crown's second leg, the Preakness Stakes, which will be conducted at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., for the 147th time on Saturday. Two of those who competed in both races were Kentucky Derby winners Super Saver and Always Dreaming.
Only three of the 20 starters in this year's Derby will contest the Preakness, and most notable of the absentees is Rich Strike, who won the roses in an 80-1 upset but will bypass the second leg of the Triple Crown to train up to the Belmont Stakes on June 11.
With so few horses in this era running in all of the Triple Crown races, rivalries like Affirmed and Alydar, Sunday Silence and Easy Goer, and Real Quiet and Victory Gallop are unlikely to materialize. Rivalries in sports are a good thing.
In this week's edition of the Friday Show, publisher Ray Paulick and bloodstock editor Joe Nevills debate the pluses and minuses of making changes to the current scheduling of the three classic races over a five-week period when so many trainers are spacing races a month or more apart.
Is it time to change the Triple Crown schedule?
Watch this week's episode of The Friday Show below:
Foal Patrol, an initiative of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, partnered with the Paulick Report in Season 5 to bring you closer to featured mares and foals and to ask farm staff your questions about their care and management over the course of the season.
In this episode with Elate and her Speightstown colt foaled on March 11 at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., Claiborne's Mary Ormsby addresses the question, “How does the colt compare to his mother and his older sister?”
The Foal Patrol Season 5 Education Site provides a platform to respond to viewers' questions, share information about horse care and management from breeding through retirement, and spotlight efforts across the industry to provide the best possible care for Thoroughbreds before, during, and after their racing careers. In partnership with industry collaborators, we will add new content to the Foal Patrol Education Site for viewers of all ages from now through June at foalpatrol.com/education.
Your Stories gives viewers the chance to share photos of their own mares and foals, selfies with Foal Patrol's mascot, Smokey, and stories about what Foal Patrol means to them. Send your photos and stories to foalpatrol@racingmuseum.net for a chance to be featured on foalpatrol.com/education/your-stories.
Since its first season in 2018, people all over the world have engaged with Foal Patrol's live webcam series for a behind-the-scenes look at what daily life is like for in-foal mares and foals. Learn more about this season's lineup at foalpatrol.com and watch “Recent Updates” for Foal Patrol announcements, posts about featured Season 5 mares and foals, and updates on mares and foals from prior seasons.
Foal Patrol Season 5 has reached more people and a broader audience than any prior season. We thank you for tuning in this year, for engaging, and for making Season 5 our most watched Foal Patrol season.
