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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-bred horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Wednesday's Observations features several high-priced auction purchases. 2.52 Nottingham, Mdn, £6,899, 2yo, f, 5f 8yT ZELAINA (GB) (Mehmas {Ire}) debuts for Wathnan Racing and Karl Burke in this maiden the stable has won for the last two years with the subsequent G2 Queen Mary Stakes third Beautiful Diamond and with Leovanni, who captured that Royal Ascot prize 12 months ago. At £650,000 the top-priced filly at the Goffs UK Breeze Up, the half-sister to the G2 Railway Stakes-placed Arctician faces the Coolmore-owned and Simon and Ed Crisford-trained filly Novelette (Ire) (Sioux Nation) who at £410,000 was second only to her among her sex at that auction. Godolphin's newcomer, the Charlie Appleby-trained Secret Oath (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), was also a big-money purchase with the daughter of the GII Nassau Stakes and G3 Albany Stakes runner-up Bletchley costing €550,000 at Goffs Orby Book 1. The post Mehmas’s Goffs UK Breeze-Up Star Zelaina Debuts In Key Maiden 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
The 2025 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival–held for the second straight year at Saratoga Race Course while the transformation of the new Belmont Park continues–begins with a 10-race program saluting New York-breds on Wednesday. 'New York Showcase Day' will feature six $200,000 stakes races exclusively for New York-breds–the Bouwerie S., Commentator S., Critical Eye S., Kingston S., Mike Lee S. and Mount Vernon S. Morning-line favorites for the six stakes races are as follows: Kay Cup (Instagrand) (Bouwerie) (9-5); Bank Frenzy (Central Banker) (Commentator) (7-5); Sterling Silver (Cupid) (Critical Eye) (1-1); Hush of a Storm (Creative Cause) (Kingston) (2-1); Mo Plex (Complexity) (Mike Lee) (2-1); and Silver Skillet (Liam's Map) (Mount Vernon) (3-1). “Kicking off this year's Belmont Stakes Racing Festival with New York Showcase Day is a great opportunity for fans and our program participants to experience the quality and talent of New York's breeding and racing industry,” New York Thoroughbred Breeders Executive Director Najja Thompson said. Admission gates open at 11 a.m. with first post scheduled for 12:40 p.m for the GI Beverly R. Steinman Hurdle H. over the fences. The first 10,000 fans to enter with paid admission will receive a free, white baseball cap featuring the NYTB and 2025 Belmont Stakes logos. The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival–featuring 27 stakes races with purses totaling $11.275 million, led by the 157th renewal of the GI Belmont Stakes–will take place from Wednesday, June 4 through Sunday, June 8. Graded action gets underway on Thursday's 10-race program with the grassy GII Intercontinental S. and GIII Poker S. The Intercontinental includes the GIII Giant's Causeway S. re-opposing one-two-three, led by 2024 Intercontinental winner Future Is Now (Great Notion). America's Day at the Races will present daily coverage and analysis of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival on the networks of FOX Sports. Future Is Now (middle) winning the 2024 Intercontinental in a wild finish | Sarah Andrew The post Belmont Stakes Racing Festival Kicks Off With New York Showcase Day 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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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
A Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse trainer's argument with a New Mexico state steward in 2021 over a licensing dispute that got escalated all the way up that state's Supreme Court has resulted in a ruling issued Monday establishing that New Mexico's governmental organizations can be immune from liability in civil rights lawsuits if they are carrying out administrative actions that are judicial in nature. According to an opinion issued June 2 by the Supreme Court of New Mexico in a case involving Bradley Bolen vs. the New Mexico Racing Commission (NMRC), the state's Civil Rights Act (CRA) “expressly preserves judicial immunity as a defense. Judicial immunity is justified by public policies supporting independent decision-making and ensuring the integrity of a judicial or quasi-judicial process. These policies apply to both individuals and governmental entities performing judicial functions.” However, just because the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that judicial immunity can, in theory, be used as a defense by the racing commission, it didn't rule as to whether that immunity actually applied to the NMRC in this specific instance. In that respect, the court sent the case back to a district court to decide “whether and to what extent NMRC is immune using the framework set forth in this opinion.” The case began in July 2021, when Bolen got into an argument over the telephone with a NMRC state steward after learning that an assistant trainer whom Bolen wished to employ would not have his license reinstated after a lengthy period of suspension. The Supreme Court's opinion stated that “the parties do not dispute that Bolen criticized the steward during the phone call.” The NMRC then asserted that Bolen's phone manners had transgressed regulations prohibiting “conduct or reputation [which] may adversely reflect on the honesty and integrity of horse racing or interfere with the orderly conduct of a race meeting.” A panel of three stewards presided over an evidentiary hearing on the alleged infraction and found that Bolen violated the conduct rule. They fined him $500, but stipulated that the fine would be waived so long as Bolen had no additional violations within one year. “Bolen appealed the ruling under regulations that entitle him to a de novo hearing before an independent administrative hearing officer,” the Supreme Court opinion stated. “Bolen also sued NMRC in the district court, asserting a claim under the CRA for a violation of his rights to free speech and due process under Article II, Sections 17 and 18 of the New Mexico Constitution. “Bolen alleged that NMRC pursued the disciplinary proceeding in retaliation for his protected speech with the steward and for a previous, unrelated lawsuit he had filed against NMRC's Executive Director. Bolen ultimately withdrew his administrative appeal, choosing only to pursue litigation in the district court,” the opinion stated. The NMRC countered with a claim that its “quasi-judicial administrative actions” in pursuing the disciplinary proceeding entitled it to absolute immunity from Bolen's CRA claim. The district court refused to extend that quasi-judicial immunity to the commission. The NMRC appealed, and a state appeals court eventually concluded that the district court had erred because the “plain language” of the law confirmed that judicial immunity is available to a public body in defense of a CRA claim. So after the appeals court reversed the district court, Bolen petitioned the state's Supreme Court, which then issued the June 2 opinion, nearly four years after the original dispute over the phone. “We answer: Yes, a public body may raise judicial immunity as an affirmative defense to claims brought pursuant to the CRA,” the Supreme Court opinion stated. “We explain that judicial immunity, which applies to judges, advocates, and witnesses, may be consistently applied under the CRA to preserve the role of the judiciary in protecting a person's constitutional rights,” the opinion stated. “We also articulate a framework for determining when that defense applies to quasi-judicial adjudicatory proceedings in the executive branch,” the opinion stated. “However, as the record and arguments presented here are insufficient to resolve the question of NMRC's entitlement to immunity, we reverse the Court of Appeals to the extent it held that NMRC is immune from Bolen's CRA claim. We remand to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion,” the Supreme Court opinion stated. “We also emphasize that judicial immunity should extend no further than necessary to achieve the policy goals of protecting independent decision-making and ensuring the integrity of an established adjudicatory process,” the opinion stated. “A court considering a public body's entitlement to judicial immunity should, therefore, carefully parse the challenged conduct to determine whether and to what extent that conduct consists of a judicial function. Judicial immunity will protect a public body from liability only when the nature of the proceeding and the nature of the challenged conduct merit absolute protection from suit,” the Supreme Court opinion stated. The post Trainer-VS.-Steward Spat Yields New Mexico Supreme Court Opinion on Immunity in Certain Civil Rights Suits 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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