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After the first three races were run without incident over a track labeled sloppy, Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races has canceled the remainder of its June 14 card as a result of lingering thunderstorms and heavy rain. View the full article

By Mike Love  The New Zealand Amateur Drivers championship will conclude today at Addington raceway with two final heats.  Currently there are three leaders in the series locked up on seven points in Bruce Hadley, Cheree Wigg and Frank Phelan, while each driver has a mathematical chance to take out the series with only seven points separating all of the drivers. At the opposite end of the table on zero points is Craig Sharpe. However, Sharpe will drive the two warm favourites – the Matt Purvis trained Almighty Clever in Race 1, the Beauty Barry NZ Amateur Driver Champs (Heat 3) Mobile Pace over 1980m while in Race 3, the Braxton Farriers NZ Amateur Driver Champs (Heat 4) Mobile Pace over 1980m he links links up with Stephs Boy for trainer Bob Butt.  Sharpe will be looking to finish off the series with a strong late burst having landed these two significant drives. ““They’re both in-form and are both live chances. I haven’t had a lot of luck so far in the series – so it’s good to be lucky enough to land these drives today,” said Sharpe. “They’ve both got good form, but have just got niggly draws.” Almighty Clever was a strong winner in the second heat at Addington on Friday night. Sharpe and Almighty Clever have drawn somewhat awkwardly in five today, though there is some confidence. “I followed it in the run the other night, so he went good to win from where it came from.” Other chances in the event include Gliding High for driver Michael House, and Kowhai Nugget for Colleen Negus.  Stephs Boy in the final heat (2.35pm) comes into the race second up after winning at Addington last week.  Sharpe and Stephs Boy have drawn the outside of the gate, and will therefore need to work at some stage in the race. “They led pretty easily last week, but I don’t think it’ll come that easy this time.  I’ll just have to see what instructions they give me.”  Race one gets underway at 1.24pm. View the full article

I guess hanging around Addington on a cold Sunday is more appealing than driving home from Richmond, in the dark, I think if Nelson want a couple more dates, and it seems they do then maybe some other time when it's warmer, probably the Addington Friday Sunday is the way to go.

Nice sunny day I believe but will the sun dissappear behind the hill before the last race?

The two stakes races on the grass on Haskell Preview Day at Monmouth Park belonged to trainer Chad Brown. View the full article

Barn 28 on the Belmont Park backstretch has been placed under a precautionary 14-day quarantine by the New York Racing Association (NYRA) and New York State Gaming Commission (NYSGC) until further notice due to a positive case of strangles in the barn. NYRA, the New York State Department of Agriculture and the NYSCG remain in contact should the need arise for further precautionary measures. Barn 28 houses horses trained by George Weaver, Todd Pletcher and Rudy Rodrigruez and the quarantine is effective immediately. The Weaver-conditioned 2-year-old gelding Mo Curls was referred to the Mid-Atlantic Equine Medical Center on Friday, where he was tested for a number of potential ailments, and a positive strangles result was returned on Saturday afternoon. The horse began immediate treatment at the Medical Center. Following confirmation of a positive strangles test, NYRA and the NYSGC implemented standard infectious disease protocols including restricting access to the horses in the quarantined barn, establishing a 24-hour security watch, mandating regular temperature checks for the horses in that barn and enacting biosecurity measures for all individuals requiring access to Barn 28. During the initial period of quarantine, these horses stabled in Barn 28 will be restricted from entering races and from training with the general horse population. Afebrile/asymptomatic horses stabled in Barn 28 will have isolated training hours on the Belmont Park dirt training track following the close of training for the general horse population at 10:30 a.m. As of Saturday afternoon, no additional febrile horses have been identified. Strangles is a contagious bacterial infection that generally affects a horse's respiratory system and causes symptoms similar to those of strep throat in humans. When properly diagnosed and treated, strangles is not considered a life-threatening infection and horses recover fully. The post Belmont Barn Under Quarantine Due To Strangles Positive appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

that was a strange one wasn't it. the horse to gus's inside moved out,which seemed a reasonable move,then gus lugged in a little but still it looked like mcmullen just carried on letting it roll forward and contacted the cart inside him.I thought it appeared more mcmullens fault. I happened to flick onto the racing channel when race 1 was on,and the mcmullen drive in that i thought was very odd. It looked like he was scared to come off the inside in case he contacted the horse outside him who was 1 length behind him and struggling.It seemed a simple move but mcmullenn just sat there and let the horse he could have followed drop him by 6 lengths. And in that same race you had n dawson driving the other favorite,leading,but seemingly angry with the horse as he was regularly jerking its head from side to side. I'm not saying they weren't trying,i've seen them enough to realise they most likely would have been,but to the casual punter both those drives seemed a bit strange.Do things like that help get punters to bet on the queensland product?

Personally I think the whole thing has been way over the top.

Yes but ball is in his court and it is a step in the right direction for Nigel so onwards and upwards.