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Ellis Park, which is across the Ohio River from Evansville, Indiana, has been forced to close and will not open for the season on Friday, July 4. Racetrack owner Ron Geary made the announcement in a press release Wednesday night.
A pair of "Win and You're In" Breeders' Cup preview races that guarantee the winners automatic entry into the World Championships are on tap Saturday at Monmouth Park.
A judge is putting more distance between Horse of the Year Curlin and two minority owners accused of fraud.
Big Brown returned to work Wednesday morning.
Talking to one of the other writers at The Sport Network after it was announced that Santa Anita Handicap winner Heatseeker had been retired, he expressed disappointment in the likely field for this year's Breeders' Cup Classic.
Heatseeker, the leading handicap horse on the West Coast, has been retired from racing. The announcement was made Monday three days after the five-year-old was discovered to have a swollen left front ankle.
Lightly regarded Mast Track went wire-to- wire in winning Saturday's $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park. Ridden by Tyler Baze the four-year-old covered the 1 1/4 mile race in 2:01.37.
Jockey Jeremy Rose, the former rider for Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner Afleet Alex, has been handed down a six- month suspension for hitting a mount in the eye with the whip by the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission.
Now that Santa Anita Handicap winner Heatseeker has been scratched from Saturday's $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park, Go Between has been made the 5-2 morning-line favorite for the 1 1/4 mile race.
Big Brown trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. has taken responsibility for a positive drug test on another horse he trains, but is still appealing his 15-day suspension.
Morning-line favorite Heatseeker has been scratched from Saturday's running of the $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup. The five-year-old exhibited swelling in the left front ankle on Friday morning.
Rick Dutrow is in trouble again. The outspoken trainer of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown is facing a 15-day suspension by Kentucky racing officials after another horse he trains exceeded the allowable limit for a drug that enables horses to breathe easier while exercising.
Kentucky Derby winning trainer Rick Dutrow, Jr. has been suspended due to a horse that he trains tested positive for twice the allowable level of Clenbuterol.
Santa Anita Handicap winner Heatseeker has been made the 7-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday's $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park. The 1 1/4 mile race, which will be run on the track's all-weather surface, has attracted a field of 10 older horses.
Seth Hancock, managing partner of Claiborne Farm, has stepped down from the Churchill Downs Inc. board of directors after 35 years.
Big Brown's owner doesn't want to wait for the federal government to come in and clean up horse racing.
Student Council, winner of this year's Pimlico Special, has been confirmed as a starter for this Saturday's $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup. Owner Millennium Farms made the announcement Monday in a press release.
The co-owner of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown says his stable will be drug-free by the end of the year, and is encouraging other horse owners to follow suit.
IEAH Stables, the majority owner of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown, has announced that effective October 1 of this year Lasix will be the only medication its racehorses will be given.
