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In 2016 I wrote a story for BloodHorse documenting how 16 horses that registered clenbuterol positives following 18 starts in Florida in 2012-13 when trained by Kirk Ziadie enjoyed success they never registered again. The positives led to a six-year-suspension recommendation for Ziadie, who had watched those horses earn $154,275 in purse money in ...

With the Kentucky Derby moved to Sept. 5, we’ll have to be creative with the Derby Dozen, although as of now the major preps will still be run, including all three grade 1 preps -- the Curlin Florida Derby, Santa Anita Derby, and Arkansas Derby. Whether the Belmont Stakes (G1) will remain on schedule and serve as the target race, it is too ...

COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, is for real. So, for a minute, let's deal with it. Local and state governments are trying their best to ''flatten the curve'' by stopping all gatherings of more than a few hundred people. The president just declared a national emergency. That means all major, and most minor, sporting events ...

It was an odd road to the 2002 Kentucky Derby (G1) for the two Derby Dominators, Bob Baffert and Wayne Lukas. Baffert and Lukas had seen one Derby hopeful after another fall by the wayside. It seemed apparent the two trainers who had paved so many new routes to Churchill Downs were heading smack into a dead end. Each day, they would ask each ...

It wasn’t the coronavirus scare—Meydan’s “Super Saturday” program March 7 was run without patrons—or the cratering of global financial markets that rocked the world of Thoroughbred racing the morning of March 9. Instead, it was word that trainers Jorge Navarro and Jason Servis were among those listed in a 44-page indictment on doping-related ...

1 Tiz the Law Barclay Tagg Constitution—Tizfiz, by Tiznow He’s still hanging on to the top spot despite two months between races and battling a minor bruised foot. No one has matched his effort in the Holy Bull Stakes (G3) or his speed ratings, so someone will have to step up big in the Curlin Florida Derby (G3). Layoff is of no concern ...

Aside from the few thousand that traveled to Saudi Arabia last week for the inaugural Saudi Cup races, the racing world watched the activities on TVG and Fox Sports 1 with great interest. After all, Thoroughbred races worth $20 million don’t come around very often. From our vantage point—in front of the television—it looked like a grand spectacle ...

On a wall of my living room, hanging next to his halter, is a picture I took of A.P. Indy in the mid-1990s at Lane’s End Farm. He is full of himself, ears straight up, chin resting on the top rail of his paddock fence, nose placed just above his nameplate. He looks toward the camera out of the left corner of his eye, mugging for it. On a fence ...

1 Tiz the Law Barclay Tagg Constitution—Tizfiz, by Tiznow Is waiting two months between races the right way to go? He had a monster Thoro-Graph leap to run a career-high negative number; his Brisnet numbers show an equally huge leap; he will have five career starts; and has a strong 2-year-old foundation. It seems like the way to go. ...

Selling Thoroughbreds at public auction has never been for the faint of heart and has seemingly gotten a lot tougher in recent years. The focus has become laser sharp on the best-perceived horses while the middle and lower ends of the spectrum have become the loss leader of the commercial market. The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter sale, which ran ...