Unreal Zeal dead at age 26
Marcus Hersh, Daily Racing Form
Posted: 10/9/06

The successful stallion Unreal Zeal died last month at Fairberry Farm near Waterloo, Ill., euthanized because of old age at 26. »more

Lane's End Keeps A.P. Indy's Fee at $300,000
Blood-Horse
Date Posted: 10/10/2006 3:52:15 PM Last Updated: 10/10/2006 3:52:15 PM

A.P. Indy, the year's leading sire by progeny earnings and sire of leading 3-year-old Bernardini, will stand for the same $300,000 fee in 2007 that he stood for in 2006 at William S. Farish's Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Ky.»more

Gross Increases in OBS Fall Sale's Opening Session; Average Drops
Blood-Horse
Date Posted: 10/9/2006 7:00:48 PM Last Updated: 10/9/2006 7:00:48 PM

Behaving, an 11-year-old winning daughter of Rubiano, brought $165,000 Monday to top the first of three consignor-preferred sessions during Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s five-day fall mixed sale in Central Florida. Whisper Hill Farm purchased Behaving, who is in foal to Forest Danger, from Becky Boyd's Peacock Ridge, agent. »more

Keeneland - Speed not doing well on Polytrack
Marty McGee, Daily Racing Form
Posted: 10/10/06

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Polytrack was supposed to put an end to the track biases that long existed at Keeneland, but the small sampling of 22 Polytrack races that opened the fall meet last weekend suggests that early speed might not be very effective over the new surface. »more

Noble Stella retired with injury
Bill Tallon, Daily Racing Form
Posted: 10/9/06

Noble Stella has been retired after suffering an injury during a workout over Woodbine's Polytrack surface last Saturday morning. »more

Melhor Ainda is retired
David Grening, Daily Racing Form
Posted: 10/9/06 Melhor Ainda,

a graded-stakes-winning daughter of Pulpit, has been retired from racing because of chronic ankle problems, trainer Bobby Frankel said Monday. »more

Beem named Portland Meadows announcer
Thoroughbred Times
Posted: 10/6/2006 9:10:51 PM

Jason Beem has been named the announcer at Portland Meadows, which will conduct a 73-day meet that runs from Sunday to May 5. »more

Mallory named Kentucky farm manager of year
Myra Lewyn, Thoroughbred Times
Posted: 10/6/06

The Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Club chose late Central Kentucky-based consignor and Thoroughbred breeder Dan Mallory as its 2006 farm manager of the year during the club's meeting on Thursday in Lexington. »more

Barbaro gets new cast
Matt Hegarty, Daily Racing Form

Posted: 10/10/06 Barbaro, the 3-year-old Kentucky Derby winner who broke his right hind leg during the running of the Preakness Stakes, was fitted with a new cast on the broken limb Monday, according to a release issued by his doctors on Tuesday at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center veterinary clinic. »more

Thoroughbred Club of America to honor Farish
Thoroughbred Times

Posted: 10/6/06 William S. Farish, owner of Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, has been named honor guest of the Thoroughbred Club of America's 75th annual Testimonial Dinner. »more

Double-digit increases, riding record highlight Turfway fall meet
Thoroughbred Times
Posted: 10/6/06

Turfway Park closed its 22-day fall meet on Thursday with double-digit increases in off-track and all-sources mutuel handle and a record-setting performance by jockey Julien Leparoux. »more

Valenzuela hires veteran agent Pegram
Thoroughbred Times
Posted: 10/10/06

Jockey Patrick Valenzuela on Tuesday hired Southern California-based veteran agent Jim Pegram to represent him exclusively, replacing Tom Knust, who also represents Corey Nakatani. »more

Keeneland Sets Fall Meet Attendance Record
Tom LaMarra, Blood-Horse
Date Posted: 10/7/2006 7:08:19 PM Last Updated: 10/9/2006 9:32:48 AM

Keeneland officials reported an all-time fall meet attendance record of 28,880 Saturday, the second day of the Lexington racetrack's meet. The figure topped the previous record of 27,788, set Oct. 14, 1989. The Oct. 7 program, which featured two grade I stakes and a grade III stake, was aided by clear skies and temperatures in the mid-60s. In addition, the University of Kentucky was playing a night game at home, and under such a scenario, the crowd at the track usually swells. »more

Kentucky Equine Drug Council Forms Testing Partnership with RMTC
Leslie Deckard, Blood-Horse
Date Posted: 10/9/2006 4:39:59 PM Last Updated: 10/9/2006 4:39:59 PM

The Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council has allotted $1.5 million over three years to partner with the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium on a research project to determine withdrawal guidelines and threshold levels of therapeutic medications. »more

Fight for Franchise Aids New York Political Races
Tom Precious, Thoroughbred Times
Date Posted: 10/9/2006 4:36:45 PM Last Updated: 10/9/2006 6:09:00 PM

With the future of the racing industry in New York up in the air, the most immediate beneficiaries appear to be state officials running for office this fall, thanks to a steady flow of money from individuals and companies tied in one way or another to the Thoroughbred franchise renewal process. »more

Pletcher Sets Earnings Mark on 'Super Saturday'
Richard Rosenblatt, The Associated Press Date
Posted: 10/8/2006 4:59:02 PM Last Updated: 10/9/2006 5:53:31 PM

Todd Pletcher is having a year to remember, and there are still three months to go. »more

Pat Day Sculpture to be Unveiled at Churchill
CDI Edited press release, Blood-Horse
Date Posted: 9/19/2006 2:40:57 PM Last Updated: 9/19/2006 2:47:22 PM

A life-size bronze sculpture of retired Kentucky Derby (gr. I)-winning jockey Pat Day is on schedule for a formal unveiling and dedication at Churchill Downs during the opening week of its Oct. 29-Nov. 25 fall meet. Day is the all-time leading rider at Churchill Downs and a member of Thoroughbred racing's Hall of Fame. »more

Texas Horseman Bill Hanna Dead
Blood-Horse
Date Posted: 9/19/2006 11:04:51 AM Last Updated: 9/19/2006 11:04:51 AM

Texas horseman Billy Hanna died Sept. 15 after a long battle with cancer. »more

Youbet.com Named Super Derby Presenting Sponsor
Blood-Horse
Date Posted: 9/19/2006 3:44:05 PM Last Updated: 9/19/2006 8:42:43 PM

Harrah's Louisiana Downs Casino & Racetrack has named Youbet.com as the presenting sponsor of the track's marquee race - Super Derby XXVII - to be held Sept. 23. »more

World Cup Winner Electrocutionist Dead
The Associated Press, Blood-Horse
Date Posted: 9/9/2006 3:30:05 PM Last Updated: 9/11/2006 7:46:57 AM

Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) winner Electrocutionist died of an apparent heart attack Saturday, several days after an abnormality was detected in the 5-year-old horse's heart. »more

California Implants Microchips in 500 Thoroughbreds
Blood-Horse
Date Posted: 9/11/2006 1:01:38 PM Last Updated: 9/11/2006 1:01:38 PM

Under a no-cost-to-the-owner, voluntary program approved by the California Horse Racing Board utilizing federal grants, microchips have been implanted in almost 500 Thoroughbreds at Southern California racetracks over the last two months for health, security, and inventory purposes, and there is sufficient funding for another 3,500 horses, or roughly a third of the Thoroughbreds that race in Southern California during any 12-month period. »more

Former Fair Grounds handicapper charged with second-degree murder
Myra Lewyn, Thoroughbred Times
Posted: 9/8/2006 4:59:29 PM

Vince Marinello, a longtime New Orleans television and radio personality who co-hosted Fair Grounds's simulcast handicapping show for 15 years, was in the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Greta, Louisiana, on Friday morning under suicide watch after he was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his wife. »more