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The rating systemcurrently has had its day. Yes we want to retain horses in NZ but it just not a sensible ratings system when you have horses that have won 10 to 15 races able to fun against horses who have won one race! When you also have such a variance of classes e.g. 35 to 50 stands, it is just not reasonable. High time it was changed to no. Of wins or stake money earnt. -
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By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk Chanelle Dickie is in for a busy week. Well-known in Canterbury equestrian and re-homing circles, as well as being a HERO Educator and Ambassador, “The Pink Lady” is driving to the Horse of the Year (HOY) at Hastings with three Standardbreds ahead of their competition next Thursday. “We’ll be all done in one day – it’s full on.” HOY is by far the country’s biggest and most prestigious equestrian event spanning six days of competition and featuring around 1400 riders in a variety of different disciplines. Dickie’s trio – Eagles Nest, You Can Fly Arden and Does It On His Ear – will all be in the Inhand Standardbred category, with Eagles Nest and You Can Fly Arden also in the Ridden. Eagles Nest is the reigning Inhand Standardbred of the Year, having won the title for Julie DeFilippi and her family at HOY last year. “The DeFilippis very generously gave me “Louie”, as we call him, six weeks ago and I’ve been flat out trying to re-educate him to saddle.” “He had only been ridden a handful of times before I got him.” “He’s a work in progress, he’s very green and is learning the ropes. He’s not a winning chance but he won’t embarrass himself.” “And he could go back to back in the Inhand.” In the Inhand last year Dickie’s own horse, HERO graduate and Ambassador, You Can Fly Arden was second to Eagles Nest. “Fly is great, she’s the team captain.” Dickie is confident of her chances in both sections although she’s wary of another Canterbury HERO Educator and visitor, Taylah Dolan, and her horse Michelangelo in the Ridden. “My money would be on her,” says Dickie. Does It On His Ear meanwhile will only be in the Inhand. “He’s no good at cantering,” says Dickie, “but he could go very well.” Dickie expects around 10 standardbreds in both categories. Her last success was with Bronze Jay in the ridden standardbred section of HOY in 2016. She then took a break away from the sport, until last year. She’s also been successful in barrel racing on the rodeo circuit. Wearing her trademark pink outfits at most events- she’s hard to miss. She runs her own equestrian facility which offers horse grazing, full agistment and arena hire at Selwyn, just outside Christchurch. Last year she was a joint winner of the Care and Welfare Award at the first ever Entain Industry Excellence Awards. The award recognised in part the role she’s had in re-homing horses. She has re-educated and re-homed dozens of standardbreds and is a crucial part of HRNZ’s HERO programme (HERO stands for Harness Education and Rehoming Opportunities). While HOY promises to be a “crazy” time Dickie will get home only to head off again with another truckload of horses to a rodeo in Fairlie in South Canterbury. “Why do I do it to myself?” View the full article -
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The Jockeys' Guild on Friday issued a statement defending jockey Luan Machado one day after news broke that the 10-year veteran rider was being sued in a Kentucky court by the owner and breeder of a horse he rode at Churchill Downs in November who lost by a neck but likely would have won if Machado hadn't prematurely geared him down with a 2 1/2-length lead inside the eighth pole. The Guild's press release Feb. 28 stated that the allegations asserted against Machado “are utterly baseless.” The Guild's statement continued: “They are also dangerous. The Kentucky legislature has entrusted the stewards of the Kentucky Horse Racing & Gaming Corporation with responsibility for determining if there has been a violation of the racing rules. The stewards made such a determination here and imposed a fine and suspension on Mr. Machado, which he paid and has served. There is absolutely no basis for private parties to try to undermine the stewards' statutorily-entrusted decision by supplanting it with their own judgment as to what the appropriate penalty should be.” As reported Feb. 27 by Ray Paulick of the Paulick Report, “A complaint filed in Jefferson Circuit Court by Gray V Train Racing and Westbrook Stables, the respective owner and breeder of Hold My Bourbon (Anchor Down), alleges Machado breached his contract and showed negligence as a licensed professional jockey by failing to ride Hold My Bourbon to the finish line 'with full effort' in the Nov. 28 allowance race.” Shortly after the incident, Churchill Downs stewards suspended Machado four days and fined him $1,000 for “easing up on his mount approaching the finish without adequate cause.” The gaffe stood at the time because just six weeks earlier, Machado had been suspended for three days and fined $2,500 for easing up at the alternate sixteenth-pole finish wire at Keeneland Race Course, costing his mount, who had been clear by open lengths in that Oct. 16 race, a near-certain victory. The Paulick Report story stated that the plaintiffs (Angela Lewis, the registered agent for Gray V Train Racing, and Todd and Angela Lewis, the registered agents for Westbrook Stables) are alleging “professional negligence” because Machado purportedly “failed to perform according to the expectations of his profession.” According to the Paulick Report, “The plaintiffs say Machado's actions cost them $47,560 in lost purse money and $3,000 in Kentucky Thoroughbred Breeders Incentive Funds,” using the difference between first- and second-place purse winnings as the basis. The Paulick Report stated that the plaintiffs are further alleging that they have “suffered unliquidated damages” and other “consequential damages.” Efforts to reach Machado for comment prior to deadline for this story were not successful. The post Jockeys’ Guild Issues Statement Defending Machado in ‘Baseless’ Lawsuit appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
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Horse Racing Nation and writer Ron Flatter is reporting that GI Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike (Keen Ice) has been sold to a group that includes, among others, former trainer Eric Reed. Reed and former owner Rick Dawson had a falling out over the rights to a movie about Rich Strike, Reed and his father. Dawson fired Reed and gave the horse to Bill Mott, who was unable to get him back to the races. “I'm happy,” Reed told Horse Racing Nation. “I had to write off ever even putting my eyes on him, really. We might not have him for running, but if he turns out to be a good enough sire, we'll always be proud of him.” According to the report, the group is led by owner Ken Tyson, who plans to move Rich Strike out of Pennsylvania and stand him in New York. A farm was not named in the Horse Racing Nation report, but a stud fee of $6,500 was. “Going to New York, I don't think he could compete with the Kentucky (sires) right off the bat,” Tyson told Flatter. “He could have two years ago when he finished the Derby. With the delay, too many big guys have come in since then, so I think New York is the best place to go right now.” The post Report: Rich Strike Sold to Ownership Group that Includes Former Trainer Reed appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
'TDN Rising Star' Ferocious (Flatter), second in both the GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity and the GI Hopeful Stakes last year, reportedly has a muscle tear and has been removed from consideration for the May 3 GI Kentucky Derby. Trainer Gustavo Delgado's son, Gustavo Delgado, Jr., told the Daily Racing Form that while the injury was minor, it would require time to heal. Owned by JR Ranch, Marquee Bloodstock, High Step Racing, and OGMA Investments, LLC, Ferocious has made one start in 2025, resulting in a fourth Feb. 1 in the GIII Holy Bull Stakes won by Burnham Square (Liam's Map). A $1.3-million OBS 2-year-old, Ferocious had reportedly been targeting the Mar. 29 GI Florida Derby. The post MGISP Ferocious Off Derby Trail appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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