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When multiple graded stakes winner Papa Clem became available for stud duty in late January, Pete Parrella and several other prominent California breeders immediately leapt into action. They were determined not to let this one slip away to Kentucky or elsewhere. Conferencing during the Barretts winter mixed sale, Parrella, Tom Bachman, Madeline ...

Trade Zone: AAEP 2009 The Latest on Lameness Treatments - Click Here to Download PDF If there’s one thing Thoroughbred owners encounter at some point, it’s a lameness scenario. Something’s not right with your horse’s gait, and you and your veterinarian tirelessly work to figure out the cause of the lameness. Once armed with a diagnosis, your ...

Joe Barbazon admits to having had a bad case of butterflies in his stomach just prior to the $3-million Emirates Airline Breeders’ Cup Turf (gr. IT) last November at Santa Anita Park. The nerves were understandable because Presious Passion, a then 6-year-old gelding he bred with his wife, Helen, was moments away from running the biggest race in ...

Saturdays for high school students usually mean sleeping late, goofing off with friends, or perhaps attending a sporting event, depending on the season. Not for Joe Carter. A native of Tulsa, Carter spent his weekends on ranches in the Oklahoma panhandle region, doctoring cattle and working feed lots. Having known since the age of 10 that he ...

One of Mike Jester’s most vivid memories of an afternoon spent at the racetrack occurred April 14, 1977, a day he decided to visit Garden State Park in Cherry Hill, N.J. In mid-afternoon, after being invited into the second-story jockeys’ room by a friend, Jester noticed a haze in the air and the acrid smell of smoke. He alerted a security ...