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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The fourth annual HRWA Conference, held this year in Lexington, KY, Wednesday October 8 and Thursday October 9, will feature a welcome reception, keynote address by Molly Fletcher, featured afternoon speaker, three panel discussions, and a special presentation of the Jane Goldstein Award. FanDuel TV's Andie Biancone, a racing reporter and analyst, will serve as the emcee for the event. Hailed as one of the first female sports agents, Fletcher negotiated over $500 million in contracts and represented over 300 of sports' biggest names in her almost two-decade career. A World's Top 50 Keynote Speaker, she is also an author and founder/host of a successful podcast, Game Changers with Molly Fletcher. “I'm honored to join this incredible community of game-changing women who are shaping the future of the industry,” said Fletcher. The featured speaker of the afternoon will be Lindsay Czarniak. An EMMY-Award-winning sportscaster, host, speaker, and storyteller, Czarniak is an accomplished media personality with more than two decades of experience in sports journalism. In addition to the featured speakers, attendees of this year's HRWA Conference will have the opportunity to sit in on a unique trio of panel discussions hosted by a talented array of panelists that come from all corners of the Thoroughbred industry. Panel 1 – Roadblocks to Relationships: Building Networks That Change the Game. Moderated by Jessica Paquette, Track Announcer at Parx Racing Panelists include Caton Bredar, Analyst, Writer and Handicapper for FanDuel TV; Kate Galvin, Sales and Communications Manager of Godolphin USA; Lesley Howard, CEO of Stonestreet Farm; and Sheri Holmes Sterling, Vice President of Administration at Gulfstream Park. Panel 2 – Fueling the Fire Without Burning Out. Moderated by Shannon Kelly, Executive Director of The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation. Panelists include Melanie Case, Director of Women's Ministry at the Kentucky Race Track Chaplaincy; Erin Halliwell, Executive Director of the Thoroughbred Charities of America; Brittany Middlebrooks, a Fertility Vet at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute; and Kelley Stobie, Co-Founder of Caribbean Thoroughbred Aftercare. Panel 3 – Horse Racing Ecosystems: Markets, Models, and Money. Moderated by Alison Zeitlin, Equine Law Lawyer at Stites & Harbison. Panelists include Anna Seitz Ciannello, Director of Client Relations at Fasig-Tipton; Kelly Kraeszig, Senior Vice President of Business Operations & Administration at Equibase; Maggi Moss, an Attorney, Racehorse Owner and Advocate; and Katy Ross, Senior Director of Gaming Operations of Exacta Systems, LLC. “We are thrilled to bring the [HRWA] Conference to Kentucky for the first time, following three inspiring years in California,” said Jodie Vella-Gregory, HRWA Head of Logistics. “This event offers a unique and welcoming opportunity for everyone in the horse racing industry, from seasoned professionals and established leaders to emerging voices, to connect, share insights, and empower one another. It's a space where attendees are encouraged to invest in themselves and in the future of the sport.” Tickets are now on sale for this year's conference in Lexington, the featured event on the 2025 HRWA calendar. For early bird pricing, valid until September 7, individual tickets can be purchased for $395 (non-HRWA members) or $350 (HRWA members). After September 7, individual tickets can be purchased for $495 (non-HRWA members) or $450 (HRWA members). For groups planning to attend, limited tables of eight are available to purchase until September 7 for $2,900. To purchase tickets to the 2025 HRWA Conference, click here. The post Sports Agent Molly Fletcher Named Keynote Speaker For Horse Racing Women’s Association 2025 Conference 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 former Australian champion jockey Darren Beadman will join the Chris Waller Racing team from August 1, the start of the new racing season. He has been employed in a senior role by Godolphin for the last decade. A statement released by Waller on Tuesday noted that Beadman will “assist with race day operations, track work and trials, and serve as a mentor for our emerging talent”. Beadman, 59, was inducted into the Australian racing Hall of Fame in 2007 following a career in which he won the Sydney jockeys' premiership seven times. He also won the Melbourne Cup twice for Bart Cummings aboard Kingston Rule and Saintly among a host of top-level victories. Waller, whose main base is in Sydney, will also be strengthening his Melbourne operation with a move to Flemington's Carbine Lodge, which has room for 50 horses. The historic stable will be vacated by current Godolphin trainer James Cummings on his departure to Hong Kong, where he will train from 2026. The post Darren Beadman Joins Chris Waller Racing 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 National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame continues to mark their 75th anniversary with several special Hall of Fame-themed events coinciding with the annual induction weekend celebration Aug. 1-2. Kicking off the festivities will be the traditional Hall of Fame induction ceremony held Friday, Aug. 1. The inductions will take place at Fasig-Tipton with doors open to the public at 9:30 a.m. and the ceremony starting at 10:30 a.m. The event is free to attend, but seating is limited. The 2025 Hall of Fame class is comprised of racehorses Smarty Jones, Decathlon, and Hermis; trainer George H. Conway; and Pillars of the Turf Edward L. Bowen, Arthur Hancock III, and Richard Ten Broeck. Tom Durkin will serve as the master of ceremonies and the event will be broadcast live on the Museum website. The GII National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Stakes will highlight the Friday card at Saratoga Race Course and there will be a special winner's circle presentation with Hall of Fame members following the race. Additionally, racing fans will have the opportunity to meet and greet numerous Hall of Fame members on Saturday, Aug. 2 during the Saturday Morning Social program at the Museum from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Admission is free and there will be coffee and doughnuts courtesy of Stewart's Shops and complimentary Saratoga Spring Water. More than 30 Hall of Fame members are expected to be in attendance for a commemorative 75th anniversary Hall of Fame poster signing at Saratoga Race Course from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in front of the Jockey Silks Room. Hall of Fame members expected to participate (subject to change) include Steve Asmussen, Roger Attfield, Braulio Baeza, Bob Baffert, Jerry Bailey, Bill Boland, Mark Casse, Javier Castellano, Steve Cauthen, Angel Cordero, Jr., Pat Day, Ramon Dominguez, Janet Elliot, Victor Espinoza, Earlie Fires, Jack Fisher, Sandy Hawley, Julie Krone, King Leatherbury, Eddie Maple, Chris McCarron, Shug McGaughey, Bill Mott, Carl Nafzger, Corey Nakatani, Laffit Pincay, Jr., Todd Pletcher, Edgar Prado, Joel Rosario, Jose Santos, John Velazquez, Jorge Velasquez, and Nick Zito. Posters are complimentary while supplies last with a suggested donation to benefit the Museum. The post Hall Of Fame To Mark 75th Anniversary With Weekend Of Special Events 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
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Howard Read chuckled as he recalled the instructions he gave trainer Jeremiah Englehart, who was shopping for a New York-bred at the 2024 OBS April Sale. “To get somebody we could get on the track last summer and actually win,” Read said, “rather than buying a horse and then letting him work out for a few months and then maybe get him on the track in September, or something like that, which happens all too often. I said, 'Let's get us one that's ready to go.' And this is the one he selected.” With his first purchase for Read and his partners in R and H Stable, Englehart followed the guidance he received from his clients of six months. The colt he bought for $45,000, subsequently named Mo Plex (Complexity), promptly won his two starts at Saratoga Race Course, his ownership group's home track. Both victories came in stakes, the GIII Sanford and the restricted Funny Cide, and Mo Plex will try for a third Saturday in the GII Jim Dandy Stakes. Englehart and the owners decided to try the Jim Dandy following Mo Plex's two-length victory in the GIII Ohio Derby on June 21, his first venture around two turns. Legion Bloodstock touted Englehart on Mo Plex, a member of Complexity's (Maclean's Music) first crop and out of Mo Joy, an unraced Uncle Mo mare. The colt was bred by Everything's Cricket Racing and was being offered at OBS April by consigner Jesse Hoppel. Mo Plex has never been worse than third in eight career starts (5-1-2) and has earned $745,000 for R and H Stable of Read and Rick Higgins and their minority partner Geoff Cannon. All three are attorneys that live in the Capital Region of New York around Saratoga. Read and Higgins met through mutual friends. Cannon was Higgins' attorney when he was in real estate. While having a Saratoga starter is a goal for many owners, it's a really big deal for local owners like the R and H Stable partners. “That's what we point to every year for all of our horses. It doesn't always work out,” said Higgins as he and Read both laughed. Read, 81, said he has owned horses since 1987 and that he and his partners, in the small stables of New York-breds he has managed, have had Saratoga starters and winners through the years. However, Mo Plex was their first Spa winner since Evaluator (Overanalyze) in 2020. Mo Plex is by far the most successful horse that Read and partners have raced and have exceeded whatever hopes they had for the bay colt Englehart acquired in Florida. “I think everybody's expectations,” Read said. “Not just ours.” Punctuating the comment, Read and Higgins, 73, laughed in unison. “We've been in the game long enough to know that we don't have very high expectations,” Higgins said. “It's a tough game.” Mo Plex proved he was ready to run for R and H with a 10-length victory in his maiden debut at Aqueduct on June 20. He won the historic Sanford on July 13 and improved to 3-0 in the Funny Cide on Aug. 25 as the even-money favorite. Next came a third in the GI Champagne. Englehart feels he made a tactical error in that race. “It was kind of like we were looking at trying to stalk, and probably just took him out of his game,” Englehart said. “It seems like he'll run all day long at a really high cruising speed and just kind of let him do his thing.” Three weeks later in his final start of the year, Mo Plex was second in the Sleepy Hollow for state-breds. Englehart gave him the winter off in South Carolina at the farm operated by Travis Durr, a partner in Legion Bloodstock. “He came down to get a break, which Jeremiah does with a lot of his horses. I started him back up here, and he really grew and changed and matured,” Durr said. “The four or five breezes I did with him, he did it the way good horses really do it.” Mo Plex bobbled at the start of his comeback race, the Gander for New York-breds on March 8, and ended up third by a half-length. On April 19 he won the open-company seven-furlong Bay Shore by a head. The original plan was to run next in another seven-furlong stake for New York-breds, the Mike Lee on June 4 at Saratoga. He was however unable to be entered because Englehart's barn was in quarantine after another horse nearby was found to have a case of strangles. Mo Plex continued to train, and his connections decided to send the speedy colt to the 1 1/8 miles Ohio Derby on June 21. “I was optimistic, but you never know until you do it,” Englehart said. “There was enough skepticism about it, where you're always going to have questions. But that's life as a trainer. They'll make a liar out of you all the time.” Read and Higgins understood it was tough assignment for Mo Plex. “That was a big step, a giant step,” Read said. In addition to the two turns and nine furlongs, Higgins noted that Mo Plex was shipping for a race at a new track with a new rider, Joseph Ramos. Howard Read, Rick Higgins, and Jeremiah Englehart | Sarah Andrew “There were many question marks,” Higgins said. After breaking to his right from the outside post, putting him last and wide early, Mo Plex accelerated to get into contention. He pressed pacesetter Clever Again (American Pharoah) through the backstretch, surged to the lead on the turn and repulsed the late challenge of Chunk of Gold (Preservationist). The R and H Stable crew was not at Thistledown for their colt's most important victory. Read and his wife Susan and Higgins and his girlfriend Jane Sanzen were all in England for the Royal Ascot meet. Higgins said that at 11:25 p.m., they were able to watch the race live. “NYRA Bets works fine, so we watched it on my phone,” Higgins said. “That's all we could do.” Naturally, the Mo Plex quartet cheered loudly in their hotel bar during and after the $500,000 race. “Probably more than the proprietor of the place wanted,” Read said. “He came out and said, 'what's going on here?' Basically.” Read and Higgins laughed again as they described the situation. “He asked us to cool it, like we were a couple of teenagers,” Higgins said. The Ohio Derby score forced the Mo Plex connections to decide whether their colt was capable of competing at the highest levels of the 3-year-old male division, the GI Haskell or the Jim Dandy, the Saratoga stepping stone to the GI Travers. They had to choose between facing GI Santa Anita Derby and GI Preakness winner Journalism (Curlin) in the Haskell or GI Kentucky Derby and GI Belmont Stakes winner Sovereignty (Into Mischief) in the Jim Dandy. They settled on staying home and running in the Jim Dandy, but said they might have gone to Monmouth Park if Journalism had not entered the race. Journalism came from off the pace with a determined run through the stretch Saturday to win the Haskell. “The horse was here and we prefer to race here,” Read said. Englehart said that Mo Plex is ready for the Jim Dandy. Manny Franco and Mo Plex will leave from Post 3 in the field of five. “I've always kind of felt that he could be this type of horse,” Englehart said, “especially if he proved that he can handle two turns and longer distances, and kind of use his natural speed, because he just keeps going and going and going. Now is, obviously, going to be the biggest test he'll have to date. Hopefully, he gives a good showing, like I think he will.” Read, Higgins and Cannon will be part of a group of dozen or more relatives and friends who will be at the Jim Dandy, cheering for a colt that a year ago they were hoping could simply compete and perhaps snag a win at the Spa. The situation is much different this summer for R and H Stable as it approaches its biggest race to date. “I think we know one thing about our horse is that he's going to run and he will give it everything he has,” Higgins said. “And, you know what? You can't ask for more. One deal you can't train into a horse is heart, and he's got heart. The only thing I know is he's going to run. He's going to run as hard as he can.” The post Mo Plex: More Than A Fun Saratoga Summer Horse For R & H Stable appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Nowornever · Posted
Yes I think I will go with Methven, Banks Peninsular and Ashburton.
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