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    • Four-time group 1 winner Zaaki has been retired from racing after a 48-start career and amassing more than AUS$11 million in prize money.View the full article
    • The New York State Supreme Court issued a ruling Friday which says that the disqualification of Forte from the 2022 Hopeful Stakes and the 10-day suspension given to trainer Todd Pletcher must remain at the Supreme Court level, and not be transferred to the appelate division. Judge Michael Cuevas wrote that the court found procedural and legal issues in the process that must be addressed by this court. The ruling was in response to a motion filed by the Gaming Commission seeking to move the appeal of the Forte disqualification and his suspension to the appellate division. That motion was in response to Pletcher's request for a review of the New York Gaming Commission's order disqualifying the horse and suspending him. Forte was disqualified from the Hopeful after post-race tests turned up the presence of meloxicam. Meloxicam is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, widely prescribed to treat osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, and is sold under the brand name Mobic. It is not one of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatories that is approved in the United States for the treatment of racehorses in training. Pletcher's petition argued several points; first, that he was found to have violated a rule that doesn't exist; that he was found liable based upon a standard outside of the Commission's rules; that the text of the rule is impermissibly vague; and that an attorney for the second-place horse, Gulfport, owned by William Heiligbrodt, was allowed to intervene in the hearing, and co-prosecute Pletcher, despite not being a duly licensed attorney in the State of New York. That attorney was Clark Brewster. “This Court can only conclude that Petitioner has demonstrated a reasonable likelihood of success on the alleged due process violations and the alleged misinterpretation of existing rules or application of a non-existent rule,” the judge wrote. “We are very pleased that the Supreme Court has decided to allow us to litigate what we believe are serious due process issues in this case,” said Pletcher's attorney, Drew Mollica. “We are also elated that the Supreme Court has taken the position that they will review the alleged zero-tolerance standard by which the Gaming Commission saw fit to unjustly disqualify Forte and sanction Mr. Petcher. While it's early, the issues raised, including the participation of an unlicensed attorney to assist in prosecuting this matter, is something we look forward to litigating, and must be addressed.” “Judge Cuevas has flagged these procedural legal issues before any appellate review,” Mollica continued. “The procedural and legal issues will prove that not only should Forte not have been disqualified, but that any sanction of Mr. Pletcher is a miscarriage of justice.” This story will be updated. The post Pletcher Wins Round in Supreme Court Over Forte DQ appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
    • DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — RRR Racing's Clapton (Brethren) may be one of the rank outsiders in international markets for Saturday's G1 Dubai World Cup, but trainer Chad Summers, who won the G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen with Mind Your Biscuits (Posse) in 2017 and 2018, is embracing the underdog role against the likes of Ushba Tesoro (Jpn) (Orfevre {Jpn}) and Kabirkhan (California Chrome). “We're not here for the accommodations. We're not here for the badges and the passes and the parties,” Summers said. “We're here because we want to have a chance to hold that trophy up and put our name in the lore of the horses that have won it in the past. “We're 60-1 and everyone says we have no shot. And we like being there. We like being the one that everybody counts out. It's a comfortable place for us and we're used to it.” Clapton, last year's GII Lukas Classic winner, made a pair of starts during the Dubai Racing Carnival, finishing third to Kabirkhan in the G1 Al Maktoum Challenge in January and again to Military Law (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) in the G2 Al Maktoum Challenge on Super Saturday, Mar. 2 After some internal debate, Clapton–whose owner also campaigns defending G2 Godolphin Mile champion Isolate (Mark Valeski) with trainer Chief Stipe Watson–has been green-lighted for the World Cup and he'll leave from gate seven with Dylan Davis taking the ride. Summers and team have made some subtle tweaks and he believes he has the chestnut ready for the test. “We have some working theories now as to what happened,” he explained. “For the last two months, he'd come out of the stall at 4 a.m. and we're waking him up at 2:30. He's not used to that. By the time he goes back in the stall at 7 a.m. he's been out of the stall for three hours. That's a lot of walking.” It's a four-mile round trip from the barn to the Meydan main track. “We're only taking him to this track three days a week instead of six days a week now,” Summers continued. “He seems like a fresher, happier horse. They have other tracks in the back and he seems just more like the old Clapton that we needed to see, because to be honest with you, we have too much respect for this race to run just to run.” It's a bit of a full-circle moment for Summers this weekend, as Mind Your Biscuits is ironically the sire of one of Clapton's main World Cup foes in the form of G2 UAE Derby winner and GI Breeders' Cup Classic runner-up Derma Sotogake (Jpn). “To watch him pop out of the gate and go on with it and just utterly dominate and then go on to the Kentucky Derby and the Breeders' Cup was amazing,” Summers said of Derma Sotogake's run in last year's UAE Derby. But the gloves come off this weekend, make no mistake. “Hopefully Biscuits can look down on me one more time and tell Christophe Lemaire to ride him like he rode him in the UAE Derby, go to the lead and battle Laurel River (Into Mischief) and go fast enough to help set things up for Clapton. The post Clapton Returns Summers To Scene of His Finest Hours appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
    • The Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association of Ontario recently announced the appointment of Steven Lym as executive director.View the full article
    • With A$500,000 on offer, you’d expect a keen finish, and that was certainly the case in the Good Friday Country Discovery at Yarra Valley with Savannah Cloud (NZ) (Savabeel) prevailing in thriller. As many as seven horses had winning chance inside the final 100m, but it was the Phillip Stokes-trained six-year-old at $12 who withstood the final charge by a short half head from General Beau (Brazen Beau) ($17), with topweight Pounding (Exceed and Excel) ($41) a half-head away third. So close was the finish, the first six horses home had less than a length between them and just three lengths covered the entire 12-horse field. For Stokes, every win from Savannah Cloud is celebrated as he’s had a long history in his Pakenham stable. “He’s been here from when I first came here and set up at Pakenham… he’s a real favourite,” Stokes said. The trainer has hatched a plan to add significantly to the horse’s current prizemoney total of A$920,000 by eyeing a A$1 million race in Adelaide in May. “He’s getting up to about $1 million now and about 100 rating, so we are looking probably at something like the Goodwood.” Thomas Stockdale continued his great form with his centimetre-perfect ride. “He didn’t have the best drag-up in the race,” he explained to Racing.com. “He had to make the run all on his own but he’s a tough horse. “A big thank you to the team and the ownership group as it’s a big thrill for me to have my parents here today to witness it, so a very special day.” View the full article
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