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North American Trainer ISSUE 24 (TRIPLE CROWN 2012)

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GILES ANDERSON It’s the horse that’s at the heart of horseracing

HIS is a simple fact that is easy to understand by those involved with or who have a passing interest in racing. Yet to other people, the horse is simply a majestic animal that is raced. In the mainstream world, it’s easy to fall in love with equines. In fact, the stereotype is that children fall in love with horses or ponies, and with three young daughters, I can vouch for that!

And as they grow up, these children will never forget that horses were their first love.

But when the horse becomes part of sport and enters the mainstream media, racing gets put into the spotlight and those in the media who are paid to produce an opinion (not necessarily on their specialist subject) will go for the more sensationalistic angle. After all, that will always sell news. It’s all too simple to sensationalize headlines but far harder to factually correct stories once printed.

What racing needs more than anything is a united front, and this is where it is falling down. We need to have an industry pointing in the same direction, pushing through the changes that will make racing safer and better. A centrally licensed and funded organization that

regulates and enforces racing in every state will make it easier for us to produce a coherent message of how we are constantly evolving for the better – just look back at the positive steps over the last ten years. But this body needs to have the integrity and backbone to stand on its own and govern centralized regulation – with the mindset that it’s the horse at the heart of horseracing.

Our Triple Crown issue of North American Trainer is, as always, packed full of interesting profiles, opinions, and research. We’ve got everything from the return of racing in Libya to detailed results of studies in New Zealand on when is the best time to start racing. Michael Matz is in the hot seat as our cover trainer profile and we’ve brought together interviews with Ted Mudge, the legendary jockey agent Harry “the Hat” Hacek as well a look into the lives of Robbie and Jackie Davis.

On top of that, we cover how diet can affect behavior, study the statistics of the leading trainers, and Tom Tobin previews his new book, “World Rules for Equine Drug Testing & Therapeutic Medication Regulation.” And you can read the opinions of William Koester, Alan Balch, and our new back page columnist, Sid Fernando.

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WILL’S WAY The views of William Koester Our beleaguered sport I am honored to have the opportunity to speak on a subject that is important to me as a life-long enthusiast of Thoroughbreds and racing. I currently chair the Association of Racing Commissioners International (RCI), but the opinions and ideas expressed in this article are mine alone and do not necessarily represent either the RCI or the members themselves.

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rom the recent New York Times article “Death and Disarray” to an expose on prime television’s Inside Edition, our beloved sport is currently beleaguered by a rash of negative publicity. If the public wasn’t aware of drug abuses and breakdowns and other indignities in racing before, they surely know it now. Not quite America’s pastime, ours has the distinction of being the professional sport that 38% of the American public believes should be abolished immediately, according to a recent industry study. What is wrong with our beautiful sport?

Our rules are made to be broken. If a player on the Boston Red Sox fails a drug test and is suspended, he is not free to drive across the state line and start playing for the New York Yankees the following week. But in our sport, it is not uncommon. Though we test often for performance-enhancing drugs, the consequences are not serious enough to dissuade use. Cheaters are rampant in our beautiful sport.

Too many administrators have deprived us of administration. Approximately 30 states and Canada each have their own state-level regulations for drug use and other fundamental tenants of racing.

Each jurisdiction is run by a racing commission that often has very little experience or knowledge of the complicatedness of horseracing. No matter their good intentions, these commissions change every time a new

governor is elected, regardless of their contributions to the well-being of horseracing.

Self-interest is structured into the game, with no benefit to be found in cooperation. States rush to invite gaming in a race to the bottom as they see money seeping out of their borders. A niche in the gambling market exploits racing in the pursuit of gambling profit. Everyone is grabbing with arms as wide as they can reach without regard for the health of the sport itself.

Between the thirty-two racing commissions, groups representing horsemen, vets, jockeys, trainers, and more, our many stewards have only muddied the waters. We know our internal disagreements are fundamental. How can we bring everyone together?

We should stop trying. Instead of trying to bring everyone together, we should cleave the sport along its fault line.

I propose that we form a National Thoroughbred Racing League to consolidate and strengthen the core of our shrinking sport. We will define ourselves by values that are unassailable – values based firstly on the health and well-being of the horse – our partner who cannot speak for himself. We will establish rules that support drug-free racing and revise claiming for more responsibility. We will make a plan for the sustainability of our beautiful sport.

We won’t allow cheating. One set of regulations will order our sport and one central administration, run by one commissioner, will govern our sport. We will gain efficiencies and strengthen the core that is currently undermined

by our many factions of self-interest. The formation of a National Thoroughbred Racing League will promote collaborative, instead of destructive, actions between tracks.

It is critical that membership in the National Thoroughbred Racing League be voluntary. We must be united and secure in our core values.

Tracks who believe that drug-free racing benefits their competition, breeding stock, bottom line, moral code, or any other particular criteria can join The National Thoroughbred Racing League.

Tracks who believe that raceday drugs are therapeutic, that drugs benefit their competition, breeding stock, bottom line, moral code, or any other particular criteria will naturally not join.

All tracks will be welcome to join but not all will join. In the end, there might be less of us, but we will be stronger.

The mere existence alone of a League will define new boundaries and create new opportunities for those on both sides of the issue.

A voluntary league composed of like-minded tracks will allow for a depth of composition and relieve many of our tangles due to internal dissention. We will be free to pursue ideas not yet conceived to develop and market the sport.

The formation of a league may seem like a radical idea in a sport that never wants to change.

But as the slings and arrows keep coming and the fan base keeps shrinking, we must act boldly.

When our problems seem too many to handle, let’s focus again on our fundamental values. Let’s save our sport by redefining ourselves into a stronger, though perhaps smaller, formation. n

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2 Will’s Way The views of William Koester.

8 California Thoroughbred Trainers Alan Balch on long-term and short-term thinking; TV and radio racing celebrity Sam Spears.

14 TRM trainer of the quarter

Gennadi Dorochenko shocked the nation with his 109-1 Louisiana Derby winner Hero for Order.

16 Michael Matz The Kentucky Derby-winning trainer in profile, by Frances J. Karon

26 Racing in Libya Lissa Oliver visits this nation where the Eshaab brothers are at the forefront of a quest to improve their bloodlines.

32 Robbie and Jackie Davis The father-and-daughter teaming up to win races in New York, by Bill Heller.

36 Calming influence Catherine Dunnett looks at the effect of diet on horses’ behavior.

42 Ted Mudge Meet Ted Mudge, the man who has stepped in to save Maryland Racing, by K.T. Donovan.

48 Trainers statistics Bill Heller takes a look at the milestones and unsung statistics behind trainers.

54 Harry the Hat Gary West catches up with the flamboyant retired jock’s agent Harry Hacek.

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58 Dermot Weld The Irish trainer with the distinction of winning an American Classic as well as the “race that stops a nation” – twice – in Australia, as profiled by Lissa Oliver.

66 World rules on drug testing With increasingly sensitive tests for drugs, now more than ever we need a worldwide standard on what and when it is okay to treat racehorses, by Tom Tobin.

72 2yo starting racing survey A survey in New Zealand suggests that training and racing two-year-olds is in the horses’ best interest, by Celia Marr.

76 Product Focus 77 Stakes Schedules Forthcoming stakes races from North America and around the world.

88 Sid Fernando column Our new columnist looks at the reaction to a newspaper story on racehorse injuries.

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CONTRIBUTORS Publisher & Editorial Director Giles Anderson Editor Frances Karon Executive Assistant Alice Jefford Design/Production Neil Randon Advertising Sales Giles Anderson Photo Credits

Fiona Boyd, Dr Amad Eshaab, Hodges Photography, Horsephotos.com, Frances J. Karon, Walter Kobbe, Jim McCue, Caroline Norris, Shutterstock, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Vassar Photography

Cover Photograph Frances J. Karon

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Alan F. Balch was hired as Executive Director of California Thoroughbred Trainers in April 2010. His professional career in racing began at Santa Anita in 1971, where he advanced to the position of Sr. Vice PresidentMarketing and Assistant General Manager, and was in charge there of the Olympic Games Equestrian Events for Los Angeles in 1984. He retired in the early 90s to become volunteer president of the national equestrian federation of the USA, as well as of the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden. He remains volunteer president of USA Equestrian Trust, Inc. K. T. Donovan travels domestically and internationally to cover racing through writing, television, and video, and markets farms, stallions, and events, while regularly working sales to make sure she can still put her hands on the horse, the center of it all. As a freelancer, she has written for most of the major racing publications around the world, and contributed in various capacities to live shows and documentaries on several American television networks, as well as for Sky, and RTE (Irish television). She is based in Lexington, Kentucky.

Dr Catherine Dunnett BSc, PhD, R.Nutr. is an independent nutritionist registered with the British Nutrition Society. She has a background in equine research, in the field of nutrition and exercise physiology, with many years spent at The Animal Health Trust in Newmarket. Prior to setting up her own consultancy business, she worked in the equine feed industry on product development and technical marketing.

Sid Fernando (@sidfernando) is president of eMatings LLC and Werk Thoroughbred Consultants, Inc. He is the former bloodstock editor of Daily Racing Form and also blogs about racing and breeding.

Bill Heller, Eclipse-Award winner Bill Heller's 22nd book, "Above It All; The Turbulent Life of Jose Santos," was published in March, 2011. Heller, a member of the Harness Racing Hall of Fame Communicators Corner, is 58 and lives in Albany, New York, just 30 miles south of Saratoga Race Course, with his wife Anna and their 22-year-old son Benjamin, a senior honor student at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Frances J. Karon is from Puerto Rico and graduate of Maine’s Colby College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She operates Rough Shod LLC based in Lexington, Kentucky and specializes in sales, pedigree research and recommendations.

Professor Celia Marr is an equine clinician at Rossdales, Newmarket. She is a RCVS and European Specialist in Equine Medicine and Honorary Professor at the Glasgow University Veterinary School. She has previously worked at veterinary schools in Glasgow, Pennsylvania, Cambridge and London and in racehorse practice in Lambourn. She is Chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board’s Thoroughbred Research & Consultation Group and Editor-in-Chief of Equine Veterinary Journal.

Lissa Oliver lives in Co Kildare,Ireland and is a regular contributor to The Irish Field and the Australian magazine, Racetrack. Lissa is also the author of several collections of short stories and two novels.

Thomas Tobin is a veterinarian, [Dublin, 1964],PhD in Pharmacology, U. of Toronto, 1970, and a Board-Certified Toxicologist, [1980]. He has been in Kentucky since 1975, where he is a Prof. of Veterinary Science and also a Prof. in the Graduate Center for Toxicology, gary west is a sports columnist with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a former president of the National Turf Writers Association.

Gary has written about horse racing for more than 25 years.

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Present vs. Future

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N my academic and theoretical years, which were many, I was always fascinated by the tensions between short-term and long-term thinking and acting, as well as by the contradictions between words and deeds. It seemed to me then (and still does) that when things don’t make sense in the real/practical world, the root causes could often be found in those tensions and contradictions.

And so it was that I ran into Professor Edward Banfield, who had written the landmark book The Unheavenly City (1970), about all the contradictions, successes, and failures in urban planning and government assistance programs. He had found that class distinctions in society were largely based not on race, as has been argued perpetually, but on “orientation.” The so-called “lower classes” (regardless of race) shared an orientation toward the here and now, toward instant gratification, toward the present. They would gladly sacrifice investment and saving for short-term gratification.

The “upper classes,” on the other hand (regardless of race) believed in and acted with a future orientation, that is to say leaning toward short-term sacrifices in the service of investment in a long-range goal.

These two perspectives or orientations are not mutually exclusive, mind you. And to fully appreciate the ironies of considering both, everyone reading this should stop and think for a moment or two about their own behaviors – particularly at the racetrack.

Horsemanship itself, and particularly horsemanship as applied to the racehorse, is nothing if not fundamentally a contest between short and longer-term interests. It always has been. So too is betting on the races. And managing race tracks. (Or any other business.)

I am one of those who decries the increasing concentration on short-term gratification at the expense of investment for the longer term. But it seems as though we’re living in a short-term world, and not just in horsemanship and racing. Will it ever change now that it’s gone as far as it has? And what will happen if it doesn’t?

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By Alan F. Balch CTT Executive Director

“Exotic wagering on the races has proliferated to the point where an enormous share of the wagered dollar on the races is risked in increasingly un-winnable bets” When Professor Banfield wrote about “present orientation,” one of the examples he used was gaming. All gaming has historically relied on the “lower classes,” regardless of race – the grocery money, not to mention a college education, might well be sacrificed for a chance bet on a quick score. Lotteries, as we all know, are a disproportionate tax on the less affluent, less educated, and most present-oriented classes. In contemporary history, betting at the racetrack preceded the resurgence of state lotteries (which were theretofore largely illegal) by several decades. Lawmakers justified the legality and regulation of racing because of the economic stimulus – especially agriculture and agricultural employment – that racing provides in comparison to other forms of gaming.

As a tidal wave of other gaming opportunities nationally and internationally has swept over racing and all its historic markets in the last 25 years or so, the short-term orientation of those publics seems also to have taken over the management of horses and racing themselves.

True horsemanship, as my generation was taught, starting with a necessary study of potential pairings to breed a better horse, is inherently “upper class,” which is to say future-

oriented. It is a real investment in every way.

The object is (or was) to breed a stronger horse as well as a faster horse, for the classics. And the classics did not really begin until three-yearolds faced older horses. That was the test of breeding: the mile and a half of the Belmont Stakes followed by the open races at the end of the year, and particularly in the years following.

But the gambler’s mentality – I need a big score now! – has overtaken everything in its path. Exotic wagering on the races (with accordingly high takeouts) has proliferated to the point where an enormous share of the wagered dollar on the races is risked in increasingly un-winnable bets. Worse, we see the same mentality in charge almost everywhere we look: from breeding for the commercial quick score, to racing at sprint distances (or shorter, if that’s possible, but you know what I mean) for 7 out of 10 races at times, to emphasizing two-year-old racing only as preparation for the three-and-final-year-old races that are now the ultimate goal. And then off to the breeding shed to try for even more quick scores.

Ultimately – meaning now – this is all selfdefeating. We sense it. We even know it. But we can’t seem to talk about it because nobody, least of all me, knows what to do about it. The bell has been rung.

We hear that bell echoing when we read that governments are asking what sense it makes to fund purses from slots when so few people are betting the races and so many are engaging in pushing a button (I was remembering the onearmed bandits but they don’t really exist anymore, as such, but the name was true) to try for that quick score. “Betting the races is too much work.” Everyone who loves New York racing (I said RACING) needs to contemplate the downside risks of the mega-purses they are starting to see, and just how long they will last.

Real horsemanship is hard work, too. And the opposite of present-orientation. But breeding or training a horse to go long…and to last in other, more important ways…seem to have become lost arts.

What else should we expect? In a world of earnings-per-share-this-quarter, “financial instruments” that are nothing other than megaexotic bets without rules or meaningful supervision, and betting on the races through companies and exchanges prospering to the detriment of both tracks and horsemen, our plight is apparently routine and irreversible.

Under these circumstances, it seems to me that the strength and appeal racing still has are all the more remarkable. But just imagine for a moment what it could have been if we had managed, innovated, and invested in it for the long term all along. n

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AM Spear likes the chances of Daddy Nose Best in the Kentucky Derby this year, prized information to his legions of followers who think Spear knows best in Northern California.

A San Francisco television and radio horseracing celebrity and personality dubbed “The Great Sam Spear” by the head of one of his stations, Sam has speared winners and enlightened his audience about the sport around the calendar for more than three decades.

This being Derby season, Spear recently admitted that he became a sentimental fan of Daddy Nose Best in February when he won the El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate Fields by a nose over Lucky Chappy.

“I was rooting for him when he came back to win the Sunland Derby to help establish our race,” said Spear after Daddy Nose Best rallied to win the $800,000 race in New Mexico on March 25 and sew up a berth in the Kentucky Derby.

“He still has to prove himself in Kentucky, but he looks like he could be one of our better ones,” said Spear after the colt validated his El Camino Real score by winning at Sunland Park in near-track-record time. “He’s certainly a game horse.”

Spear has experienced plenty of thrills cheering for Northern California connections in the Triple Crown during his tenure. None rank higher for true proximity than Casual Lies and Cavonnier, who both won the El Camino Real and finished second in the Kentucky Derby during the 1990s.

It seems hard to believe that 20 years have passed since Casual Lies strutted to national prominence in 1992. “Shelley Riley pinhooked Casual Lies, didn’t like what was offered at the sale and kept him,” recalled Spear of the rags-to-riches tale.

Casual Lies became a touching Cinderella story: local owner-trainer Riley from Pleasanton and her overachieving colt. After winning at Golden Gate and finishing third in

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Media celebrity Sam Spear knows best the Santa Anita Derby, Casual Lies ran lights out at Churchill Downs under Gary Stevens at 30-1 odds to finish one length behind winner Lil E. Tee. Casual Lies’ runner-up finish was almost as big a story as Lil E. Tee’s victory. The dream of every “little guy” in the sport, Casual Lies outgamed royally-bred Arazi – the 9-10 favorite, who sputtered home eighth.

Casual Lies finished third in the Preakness Stakes and was in contention for a bonus then offered for the best showing in the Triple

Crown when he was entered in the Belmont Stakes. “I still remember Shelley and (legendary trainer) Woody Stephens sitting in a buggy in Central Park on national television before the Belmont,” recalled Spear.

Cavonnier came even closer in 1996. “He had the lead 100 yards from the finish line and was going to become the first Cal-bred to win since 1962 and the first gelding to win since 1929,” said Spear with a sigh.

Agonizingly, it was not to be. Grindstone rallied on the far outside to win by a nose,

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Daddy Nose Best has won both the El Camino Real Derby and Sunland Derby prior to a bid to win the Kentucky Derby

depriving owner-breeders Robert and Barbara Walter of the thrill of a lifetime.

“The Walters lived in Sebastopol and Cavonnier broke his maiden at Santa Rosa,” said Spear of the strong Northern California ties by the California-bred gelding.

“It was also [Bob] Baffert’s first Kentucky Derby appearance,” noted Spear of the whitehaired trainer who would win the race in three subsequent tries and later enter the Racing Hall of Fame.

“The El Camino Real Derby has a tremendous history,” said Spear of the stake that began in 1982 serving as a barometer of Triple Crown excellence. The only Kentucky Derby winner to come out of the race was one who did not win it.

In 1999, Charismatic finished second to Cliquot in the El Camino Real Derby, but as a 32-1 longshot, he captured racing’s most coveted prize at Churchill Downs for Southern California owners Bob and Beverly Lewis.

Charismatic flirted with the Triple Crown, adding a win in the Preakness before breaking down at the wire in the Belmont and finishing third, but he did enough to earn Horse of the Year honors.

While the El Camino Real Derby has become a meaningful stepping stone to Louisville, it has proven extraordinary for Baltimore. Five Preakness winners have come out of the race.

Charismatic was joined in the winner’s circle at Pimlico by three El Camino Real Derby

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“He still has to prove himself in Kentucky, but he looks like he could be one of our better ones” Spear on Daddy Nose Best winners – Tank’s Prospect in 1985, Snow Chief in 1986, and Tabasco Cat in 1994, as well as El Camino runner-up Gate Dancer in 1984.

Tabasco Cat also won the Belmont.

Spear, who has also earned the distinction as the historian of Northern California racing, painstakingly researched all racing in Northern California since William Kyne helped legalize parimutuel wagering in the state in 1934 and pointed out the path taken in 1954 by Determine.

“Determine won the Bay Meadows Derby with Ray York on April 17,” said Spear of the colt who would repeat that performance two weeks later in the Kentucky Derby.

“On the same day as the Kentucky Derby, Imbros with John Longden won the Kyne Handicap, the first $100,000 race at Bay Meadows,” said Spear of an unforgettable day for the trainer and owner. “Determine and Imbros were both trained by Bill Molter and owned by Andy Crevolin.”

Determine punctuated a remarkable year by winning the Golden Gate Handicap. “He

became the first three-year-old to win the Golden Gate Handicap, and it was his tenth stakes win of the year,” pointed out Spear of the grand season finale.

Although there have been several other starters in the El Camino Real or California Derby to place in a Triple Crown race, one who never made it still torments Spear.

“Event of the Year won the El Camino Real Derby in 1998 and was going to be favored in the Kentucky Derby,” said Spear of the colt trained by long-time kingpin Jerry Hollendorfer for Golden Eagle Farm.

“He got hurt in Kentucky eight days before the race,” said Spear of the devastating injury. “We had a promotion going with him at the track, ABC had flown out, and every paper in the area was going to have a big story on him that Sunday. It was very unfortunate.”

One of the most fortunate decisions of Spear’s life was joining the publicity department at Golden Gate Fields in 1977 to help out with radio and television and jumpstart his career.

One year later, on Labor Day, 1978, Spear launched his own television show and has been going strong ever since. The Nightly Race Report from Golden Gate and the summer fair circuit can be seen from Thursday through Sunday every week on KTSF, a local independent channel that reaches nearly three million homes.

Spear hosts and produces the telecast that is primarily replays of the races that day and an

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Casual Lies finishes second at odds of 30-1 behind Lil. E. Tee in the 1992 Kentucky Derby

overview of the card. In 1991, he added a weekly radio show, At The Track, which can be heard for an hour each Sunday morning on KNBR, 680 on the AM dial.

The dual role enabled Spear to develop into a media maven, who has soared to such popularity in Northern California horseracing as Hall of Famers Russell Baze and Hollendorfer.

Spear’s job has enabled him to interview and meet such famous celebrities as Mickey Rooney, Telly Savalas, Jack Klugman, and John Forsythe and Hall of Fame jockeys Longden, Steve Cauthen, and Bill Shoemaker.

Spear pointed out that Shoemaker broke his maiden at Golden Gate on April 20, 1949 on a horse named Shafter V and won at Bay Meadows in January, 1990, on one of the final stops on his retirement tour.

“Shoe was supposed to ride two horses that day, but had been having trouble with his legs,” recalled Spear of the promotion. “After he won the first race, Shoe said, ‘Sam, do I have to ride the second one?’

“We took him off his second mount,” said Spear, who relayed the message to management, which honored the legend’s request. “The fans wanted to see him go out on a winner. It was like the crowd coming to see Babe Ruth hit a home run. How are you going to top that?”

Shoemaker was always expected to top his own feats. After all, he had just visited Golden Gate Fields in his farewell tour the previous

“Shoe was supposed to ride two horses that day, but had been having trouble with his legs.

After he won the first race, Shoe said, ‘Sam, do I have to ride the second one?’” year. Remember his maiden win there on Shafter V? Exactly 40 years to the day from his first career triumph, he notched his 999th stakes winner in his final Golden Gate riding appearance, winning there again on Charlie's Notes on April 20, 1989. The two winning photos appearing in the papers the next day showed an almost identical finish.

Spear also saw perennial Northern California riding leader Baze break the career record of wins by a jockey held by Laffit Pincay, Jr., who had wrested the top spot on the leader board from Shoemaker.

“There had been a build-up for a few days at Bay Meadows, and the record was broken on December 1, 2000, when Baze won on Butterfly Belle for his 9,531st win,” said Spear.

“The crowd went crazy. There was a lot of jubilation. Afterward, Pincay gave a speech,

and then Baze gave one.”

Baze, still in top form, has gone on to add a couple thousand more wins.

Spear was also on hand to see the celebration of Bay Meadows’ 50th anniversary on November 3, 1984. “Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Gunderson, the daughter of William Kyne, re-enacted the ribbon-cutting that actor Wallace Beery and Kyne’s wife performed 50 years earlier,” said Spear.

Historian Spear can also tell you about the feats of such equine stars as Seabiscuit, Citation, and Native Diver from research and John Henry, Soviet Problem, and Lost in the Fog from up close and personal. He was able to travel to Florida and Saratoga to see local hero Lost in the Fog race en route to an Eclipse Award as champion sprinter in 2005.

Spear recognizes the sport is changing, and not always for the better. “We truly miss Bay Meadows,” said Spear. “It was unfortunate it had to close.”

Spear admires the spirit of Baze and Hollendorfer. “Both are similar in the sense that they seem to thrive on winning and enjoy competition,” said Spear. “They never dwell too long on today’s accomplishments and are always looking forward to the next day.”

The 63-year-old Spear, a native of Alameda who lives in Danville, models his outlook after the pair. “I have no plans to retire,” said Spear, hoping to remain in the elite company of his contemporaries. n

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Hero of Order wins the Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds. Inset: Dorochenko with jockey Eddie Martin

TRM Trainer of the Quarter

GENNADI DOROCHENKO The TRM Trainer of the Quarter award has been won

by Gennadi Dorochenko. Dorochenko and his team will receive a selection of products from the internationallyacclaimed range of TRM supplements, as well as a bottle of fine Irish whiskey.

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HE only person not shocked by Hero of Order’s half-length victory at odds of 109-1 in the $1-million Grade 2 Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds on April 1 was the man who trains and owns him, Gennadi Dorochenko. “I know this horse can

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get around the distance,” Dorochenko said nine days later. “The jockey did exactly what I tell him. When he gets the lead in the stretch, 99 percent I knew he was going to win.”

When he did, holding off favored Mark Valeski, Hero of Order gave his 46-year-old rider Eddie Martin, who had won just about every other stakes race at Fair Grounds, his first victory in the track’s marquee event despite drawing the 12 post.

But even that feel-good story doesn’t come close to Dorochenko’s, who bought Hero of Order for a whopping $3,000 at the 2010 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. “Nobody buys horse for $3,000 and wins million dollar race,” the 53-year-old Russian said. “I know what I’m doing. If I have horses, I win a lot of races.”

That he’s even in racing 20 years after a rocky introduction to America is remarkable. He was a rider and trainer in Russia, where his grandfather was a blacksmith and where he first got on a horse at the age of three. “In Russia, you can be trainer and jockey, no problem,” Dorochenko said.

He came to the United States in 1993, landing in Los Angeles with $500 and unable

to speak more than a few words of English, though he did speak Russian, Polish, and a little German. He had no green card and no agent, yet tried breaking into American racing at Santa Anita. He told Marcus Hersch in a 2011 story in the Daily Racing Form that it was his biggest mistake: “In Russia, it’s different.

People come from a different country, jockey, trainer, they try to help them. Here, ‘Oh, you’re Russian.’ Because you’re Russian, a lot of people don’t know they even have racetracks.”

Things got so bad that he spent a few months sleeping anyplace he could find.

He survived by galloping horses. Through 2001, he rode just 13 winners. In 2002, he tried riding and training in Delaware. He eventually turned to training full-time with minimal success in Northern California and Washington, but he didn’t have a single winner in 2007. He didn’t have a starter in 2008 or 2009 and in 2010 went zero-for-six.

By then, though, he had learned the art of buying and selling horses, purchasing high numbers of cheap yearlings at Keeneland, mostly for himself, racing under the name of Raut LLC, and for Vladimir Kazakov. Enough of them made it to the races to revive his

training career. He had a solid meet at Arlington Park in 2011, where he finished 12th in the trainer standings with 18 victories, including his first American stakes, the $60,000 Hatoof Stakes on Arlington Million Day with 30-1 longshot Santina Dond, a threeyear-old filly he’d bought at Keeneland. Hero of Order was just his second stakes winner.

His stable has now grown to 84 horses.

“Fifty-eight, I own myself,” he said. “I will race at Arlington Park and Churchill Downs.”

Larry Jones, who trains Mark Valeski, calls Dorochenko, “a little bit different. He’s a throwback to the old school,” Jones said. “He runs his horses.”

But he doesn’t train them hard. “Each horse is like people, different personality,” Dorochenko said. “I don’t believe work every six, seven days. Train him right; don’t overtrain him. That’s my opinion. I don’t know if it’s right. Of course, I train for 36 years.”

He’s never enjoyed it more. “I enjoy because I know horses my whole life,” he said.

And if Hero of Order’s Louisiana Derby score attracts more owners, Dorochenko will be happy to oblige: “If people are interested, I’ll be glad to train for them.” n

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ICHAEL Matz arrives at his barn at Palm Meadows Training Center in Boynton Beach, Florida, at 5:30 AM, under the cover of darkness, clutching a shiny metal briefcase that looks like it came off the Deal or No Deal set. The trainer makes a beeline for his office, where he puts the case down on one of two desks and opens it to reveal condition books, two-year-old in training sales catalogues, and some papers.

He sits for a moment but doesn’t linger, going for a spin around the shedrow, checking feed tubs hanging across the aisle, diving into a stall to run his hands down Grade 1 Champagne Stakes winner Union Rags’ legs.

Somewhat tensely, Matz makes a circle around the barn, stopping occasionally to peer in at a horse standing awkwardly or to talk to one of the grooms: “This filly doesn’t have enough bedding,” or “Does she eat all her lunch all the time?” He checks in with Joss Saville, one of his two assistants. At this hour, there’s no time for small talk.

Assistant Peter Brette is also in the shedrow, where one of the fillies out for a walk spies him, perks up her ears, and freezes. “She can hear the rattle of the mint!” Brette says. He tears open the wrapper and feeds her. “Here you go.”

Awaiting the opening of the track at 6:15, Matz returns to his office, ritualistically wiping barn dirt from his shoes on the doormat before entering. The room is uncluttered and sparsely decorated, with an antique wooden Vintage Farm tack trunk, a calendar and a red Christmas ornament on the wall, a fax machine and lots of papers on Brette’s desk, and a pencil

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The man who was a champion showjumper and Olympic medalist, turned his hand to training racehorses, resulting in a Kentucky Derby triumph with the brilliant, but illfated, Barbaro. Michael Matz now has Union Rags, who he hopes will take him to Classic success.

WORDS: FRANCES J. KARON PHOTOS: FRANCES J. KARON, HORSEPHOTOS.COM

drawing of Barbaro’s head propped against one of two windows. Matz opens a hand-addressed card on his desk. Does he still, five years after the death of his popular 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, receive Barbaro fan mail? He chuckles a little. “No.” Barbaro. If ever something epitomized “bittersweet,” it is Barbaro.

The highest of the highs: saddling his undefeated colt to win the Kentucky Derby.

“This is what a trainer dreams of, having a horse like that.”

The lowest of the lows: watching the horse

“I would go over every day and take him out, let him graze, and he really enjoyed that. Kids would come by in the school bus and yell Barbaro’s name out the window”

‘every trainer dreams of’ breaking down in the Preakness. “You want to say it was just a coincidence but on the other hand you want to say, maybe, what did I do wrong that made this happen? I…I think with Barbaro, I think it was just one of those things.”

The hope for survival: eight months of upsand-downs as Barbaro fought, unsuccessfully, for his life. “I would go over [to New Bolton Center in Pennsylvania] every day and take him out, let him graze, and he really enjoyed that. Kids would come by in the school bus and yell Barbaro’s name out the window.”

The final blow: getting fired, without explanation, by Roy and Gretchen Jackson’s Lael Stables in the summer of 2011. “It was really upsetting. And I guess I shouldn’t have taken it as personally as I did. But I guess when you don’t know what you did wrong and you get fired, you try to make logic out of things that happen. I try to make it so there’s not surprises like that, because usually when you have horses for somebody and it’s not going well you have an idea. I just didn’t know what I did – still, to this day. I wish they just would have said, ‘I just don’t have confidence in you,’ ‘We don’t like what you’re doing,’ ‘You’re too

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hard on the horses.’ They just said it was a ‘business decision.’ Because I really liked them and that sort of hurt.”

The new hope: Union Rags. “As my wife said, ‘One minute one door closes, and another door opens,’ and I got Union Rags, and [owner] Phyllis [Wyeth] is a wonderful lady.”

It’s a week and a half before the Florida Derby, and Union Rags looms large, literally – all 17 hands of him – as the big favorite. “I was lucky enough to have Barbaro one time and hopefully…” Matz trails off. “You never, ever think that you’ll have the chance to go back and do it again, or you’d probably say you’ll get a chance, but to go back with a horse who’s a serious contender…”

Matz’ father was a plumber in Pennsylvania.

Although he worked for his dad every summer when he was a kid, following in his footsteps was never really an option. Instead, on a weekend job at a farm, he was asked to ride horses. “I saw it sort of like a challenge,” he says. The rest, as they say, is history.

A six-time United States national show jumping champion, Matz earned team and individual medals competing in the Olympics (one team silver, in Atlanta in 1996 on on the Selle Français Rhum IV, from three games), World Championships (including a team gold), Pan American Games (four team gold and four individual bronze medals), and other major international competitions.

His best horse, and the only one in the Show Jumping Hall of Fame with Matz, was Jet Run, who was started out by Matz’ one-time

employer Bernie Traurig before being sold to Fernando Senderos. Senderos rode the bay gelding to an individual gold and helped Mexico win team silver (to the U.S. team’s gold – Matz was a member of that squad, and earned individual bronze aboard Grande) at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City.

Eugene “Fitz” Dixon purchased Jet Run following the 1976 Olympics, and among the many prizes for Matz on Jet Run were individual and team golds at the 1979 Pan American Games in Puerto Rico and 1981 World Cup in England.

A Virginia-bred foal of 1968, 16.3-hand Jet Run was an off-track Thoroughbred, unplaced in seven starts. He was by Jet Traffic (a son of Johns Joy) out of Helianthemum, by Heliodorus, with the full brothers and influential sires Bull Dog and Sir Gallahad III 3x5 in his pedigree.

Matz’ wife Dorothy “D.D.” (née Alexander) is also an accomplished equestrian, from the King Ranch family. She has a team bronze medal from the 1991 Pan American Games, hosted in Cuba, and both contributed to the U.S. team bronze at the 1995 Pan Am Games in Argentina (where Matz won individual gold).

The Matzes were members of the last U.S. team to win the prestigious Aga Khan Trophy, in 1993.

In 1996, during his final years on the show jumping circuit, Matz began to train a small stable of racehorses. Why the transition? “You know, I really enjoyed the riding career, being competitive, and I still thought I was riding

Matz’ assistant, Englishman Peter Brette

well enough but I just didn’t want to be around and have people say, “Well, he used to ride well.’”

Unlike many other successful trainers, he had no previous racetrack experience whatsoever. “It wasn’t like I was a spring chicken to start working under somebody for a couple of years so…I just had to start that way.”

Matz takes a long pause. “But it worked out.

What are you going to do,” which he phrases not so much as a question but as a statement of fact.

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PROFILE “I think any kind of experience you have with a horse, one way or another,” he goes on, “can relate to show horses, racehorses, or any horses. The biggest thing in this business, and in life also, is to use your common sense. I’m sure I probably made a lot of mistakes when I came over from show jumping.”

With few horses at the racetrack and still splitting his time between the track and his jumpers, things were slow starting out, but the Matz stable registered five wins in 1997 and in August of 1998, his wife’s homebred filly Camella became his first stakes winner. That mare provided him with three more black-type wins in 2000, the first year he devoted to training full time. He sent out Lady Dora to victory in the Grade 3 Pebbles Handicap at Belmont Park that season for Fitz Dixon,

“The biggest thing in this business, and in life also, is to use your common sense. I’m sure I probably made a lot of mistakes when I came over from show jumping” who had not only owned Jet Run but many of Matz’ other top show jumping mounts.

Brushwood Stable’s Kicken Kris elevated Matz to a Grade 1-winning trainer when taking the 2003 renewal of the Secretariat Stakes at Arlington Park. A year later, that Kris S. colt won the 2004 Grade 1 Arlington Million (via the disqualification of Powerscourt). Retired to stud in Japan, Kicken Kris was repatriated by Brushwood’s Betty Moran to the U.S. at the

close of 2010, and the now-gelding resides in Pennsylvania, where, Matz says, he’s been learning to jump fences.

Coincidentally, Matz’ next Grade 1 horse, Barbaro, was also a grandson of Roberto. And the son of Dynaformer’s resounding Derby win, on the heels of a win in the Grade 1 Florida Derby, has thus far been the highlight of Matz’ training career, as you would expect.

How does his collection of competition medals compare with a Kentucky Derby trophy? Michael Matz brushes off the question by saying they’re equal. He’s pressed harder: are they all in the same place? “No!” He laughs.

“No, they’re not.” The medals are in the office, the Derby and Arlington Million trophies in the dining room, so read into that what you will!

There’s the inevitable question, briefly – it is an angle that has been done to death and one that he would probably prefer left in the past – on whether the plane crash he and D.D. survived in 1989 changed him. “No, I don’t think so. I think I do things the same way,” he says before contradicting himself in his next sentence: “You realize how things can change so quickly in a second, and sometimes when I get angry at little things I say, ‘Is it really that important?’”

Around mid-morning, D.D. comes to the barn to watch two fillies stretch their legs over the track. One of them is her sister Caroline Forgason’s three-year-old Grade 3 winner Somali Lemonade, and the other is a two-yearold daughter of More Than Ready that D.D. bred and owns.

Matz accompanies the set on horseback, as he has throughout the morning, alternating between two stable ponies, the chestnut Messaging and the dark bay Encanto – both Thoroughbreds bred by members of his wife’s family. D.D. watches from a stand overlooking the track. She echoes her husband’s sentiment of fickle fortune. “I just hope he continues to have some nice horses and that things keep going well with Union Rags,” she says. “He

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seems like such a special horse but, you don’t know, that could all change in a second. We’ve enjoyed every minute of having him and his career. You really appreciate it because you realize how rare it is, and you recognize that and appreciate it for the moment. Obviously, there’s a plan looking forward but you have to enjoy every moment as it happens.”

Later, back at the barn, before D.D. leaves she stops the fillies as they take a turn around the shedrow cooling out. “Esperate un momentito,” she tells the hotwalker, unwrapping one of the handful of peppermints she has taken from her husband’s desk drawer.

Matz is affable and approachable, but with an underlying edge, too. Having competed at the top level in show jumping for over 20 years, he has high standards for how things should be done with the horses and around the barn. Often frustrated, he’s constantly correcting details – fixing the snap on a halter, or pulling down the board across the barn entrance that someone in their haste has left propped half up, half down. Some days, it seems like a losing battle. But the barn is tidy, and the horses are happy, healthy, and adept at finagling treats.

“When I go down the end of the day and look physically how they look, I feel happy we’re doing our best,” Matz says. “When one doesn’t look the way we’d like it to look, then we work on getting it the best way we can, because usually a horse that looks good outside is a horse that looks good inside. It makes me feel proud when a horse comes out and it looks good and it runs good, because then you know you’ve done your job right. And when they

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“It makes me feel proud when a horse comes out and it looks good and it runs good, because then you know you’ve done your job right” don’t run good then it makes you get a lot more gray hair.”

Surprisingly for a rider of his caliber, Matz never got on Barbaro and has yet to climb aboard Union Rags. “Maybe I’ll get on him once,” he says, “just to jog him. I guess I should do it just to say I sat on him. I’ll do it, sometime. It’s not on my immediate list. I’m happy enough watching.”

Instead, British-born Brette was the regular morning partner of Barbaro as he is for Union Rags, with whom he shares a birthday, March 3. Before coming to the U.S., Brette was a jockey in Dubai, where he won the Kahayla Classic, the only race for Arabians on the Dubai World Cup undercard, with the filly Alanudd in 1998 and 1999. If there are any doubts that the horses training under the Vintage Farm banner of Michael Matz are in good hands, catching Brette in the act of feeding yet another peppermint from the back of a handsome gray colt craning his neck around for the treat would dispel them.

Matz was the trainer of one of the most high

profile horses to suffer a breakdown in recent memory, and now horseracing has been assailed by a spate of breakdowns and bad press. “I think it’s the case where if we really knew how many college basketball players and college football players or soccer players get hurt, or how many people take a bad step on the stairs and break their leg…these things happen in sports,” he opines. “In Barbaro’s instance, I don’t know that we’ll ever find the answer of what happened there. This was the horse that was very sound, never had any problems, wasn’t injected.”

At a sloppy Churchill Downs on Kentucky Oaks Day in 2008, Matz-trained Chelokee, owned by Centennial Farms, dislocated his ankle and broke down in the Grade 3 Alysheba Stakes, despite Matz’ precaution a week earlier in having a vet x-ray and ultrasound his colt.

“Thank God I put four bandages on, just because it was sloppy. I don’t know that it held him together but it might have just helped a little bit that nothing broke from it.” Especially since that accident, he says, “You know, every

time it’s a sloppy track, I always fret about it, that’s for sure. You keep your fingers crossed all the time that nothing like that happens again.”

Chelokee was, at least, able to be saved.

Matz says, “Right now there’s been so many breakdowns it’s absolutely insane. The biggest thing is that people have to have some common sense and know when it’s time to stop. A lot of times people don’t have the luxury of just saying you’ve got to stop on them. Some people can’t afford to take that time and maybe they shouldn’t be in racing. I don’t think Lasix is the culprit for doing all this stuff.

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PROFILE MICHAEL MATZ’ SHOW JUMPING ACHIEVEMENTS American Grandprix Association (AGA) Rider of the Year: 1981, 1984 AGA Show Jumping Champion: 1991, 1992 MEDALS: OLYMPICS 1996 Atlanta: team silver (Rhum IV) PAN AM GAMES 1995 Mar del Plata, Argentina: individual gold; team bronze (The General) 1983 Caracas, Venezuela: individual bronze; team gold (Chef) 1979 San Juan, Puerto Rico: individual gold; team gold (Jet Run) 1975 Mexico City, Mexico: individual bronze; team gold (Grande) WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 1986: team gold (Chef) 1978: individual bronze (Jet Run) FEI JUMPING WORLD CUP FINAL 1981 Birmingham, England: won (Jet Run) 1993 Göteborg, Sweden: third (Rhum IV)

MICHAEL MATZ’ TRAINING ACHIEVEMENTS Barbaro – G1 (Lael Stables) Kicken Kris – G1 (Brushwood Stable) Round Pond – G1 (Fox Hill Farms, Inc) Union Rags – G1 (Chadds Ford Stable) Visionaire – G1 (Team Valor International and Vision Racing LLC) Herboriste – G2 (Northern Bloodstock) Princess Haya – G2 (Eileen H. Hartis) Sangrita – G2 (Dorothy Alexander Matz) Street Sounds – G2 (Hidden Creek Farm) Aunt Henny – G3 (Edith R. Dixon) Batique – G3 (Helen K. Groves) Chelokee – G3 (Centennial Farms) Lady Dora – G3 (Erdenheim Farm) Political Attack – G3 (Erdenheim Farm) Ready Set – G3 (Lael Stables) Saint Marden – G3 (Martin S. Schwartz and Dennis Drazin) Somali Lemonade – G3 (Caroline A. Forgason)

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anything I feel I can do to stop them from bleeding…is it more humane to not give a horse water a day or two before and just let them have sips and draw them that way, or to just give them Lasix where they can rehydrate themselves?”

Matz has a filly who bled a “little bit” a couple weeks before her debut. “I went kind of easy on her, then [in the race] she bled a little through a very little bit of Lasix. We took her to the hyperbaric chamber and did ten treatments, but that was $3,500. I’m lucky to have that luxury. What are you going to do with the guy that has a horse at Penn National that they run every ten days to earn a living?”

Another problem he pinpoints is a lack of uniformity with medication rules, licensing, workman’s compensation, insurance – basically, the same complaint of any trainer who competes across state lines. One of these days, somebody is going to have to decide to listen to these guys for our industry to survive.

In the meantime, “It’s a big headache.”

Matz says of horseracing’s future, “I don’t think it’s great right now. The economy didn’t help matters and I think you’re always going to have somebody that’s pushed the limit to try to get an edge. How many speeding tickets are you going to get before you lose your license?”

But there may yet be a future, and this morning, it visits the barn in the form of a baby named Chloe, Matz’ first grandchild, who was born in January. Daughter Michelle Hyland carries Chloe past the stalls. “Look at those horses! They’re pretty cool, huh?”

Michelle says to her daughter. Michelle’s brother Mikey, both with Matz’ first wife Brigitte – they divorced when the children were very young – is a three-goal polo player.

Matz has four children with D.D.: Alex, 15; Lucy, 14; Robert, 11; and Arthur, 9. Alex is showing in medium junior jumpers, Lucy in pony jumpers. Family is a priority for the trainer, who has cut back from 85 horses – when he had overflow at Delaware Park – to 70-ish, which he can keep all in one place, at

his Fair Hill, Maryland, base. “That’s enough. I enjoy being with my family,” he says. “D.D.’s real good about making everyone have dinner together. But like now, I’m sort of sad – they leave [for Pennsylvania] on Sunday, and I’ll be down here for a little bit then go to Keeneland.

But they’ll come to Kentucky for Easter, so it works out.

“I’m lucky,” he adds. “I have a nice family, nice owners” – including his mother-in-law Helen Groves and Fitz Dixon’s widow Edie – “and I’d like to be known as a good person.

[Derbies] are those added things that happen along the way. You get out of things what you put into them. You don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it, and I think that I do work hard at this and try to do the right thing for the horses, and hopefully it’ll pay off.”

As the morning progresses, Matz visibly gets more relaxed. Following the final set of Vintage Farm workers, he returns to his office, taking phone calls while the occasional lizard darts around. Brette, he says, laughing, even found one in the fax machine the other day. Matz pulls a wall calendar out of his briefcase, marked up with a plan for Union Rags from the beginning of the year and mapped out through the Florida Derby, and reflects.

“I know that now with him, that he can have a horrible trip and not be able to make it,” he says, alluding to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile-G1 in which Union Rags ran second to Hansen, who was awarded two-year-old championship off the victory, by a head. Matz could also have been predicting the future, as Union Rags goes on to have a not-so-great trip in the Florida Derby, recording his worst result to date, a third-place finish.

A visitor asks permission to say hi to Union Rags, tucked back up in his stall after his morning routine of jogging, having a few good rolls in the round pen, and getting a bath. “Of course,” says Matz. But first, he reaches into the left hand drawer of his desk and pulls out a few peppermints. n

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HEN we in the West hear of racing in such countries as Libya we automatically think that it must revolve around nonthoroughbreds and poor purses for scant reward, all of which must surely have ground to a halt following the uprising and overturn of the Gaddafi regime.

Think again.

As Baghdad in Iraq has shown, horseracing often becomes a welcome distraction in times of trouble, with gate numbers increasing as countries recover slowly from war. It’s no different in Libya, where the highly active Libyan Equestrian and Horse Riding Federation staged a well-attended flat race meeting at the Abusita Center in Tripoli just after Christmas. This is just one of the racetracks in and around Tripoli, which also include Abi-Sitta and Ben Gashir – popular leisure destinations for Libyans, whatever the political situation.

It was business as usual in Tripoli, with horses and jockeys travelling from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia to compete against the local Libyan contingent. Horseracing has always been one of the most popular spectator sports in Libya, with traditionally large attendances on national holidays,

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Amad and Radwan Eshaab own and manage Libya’s largest stud and they have amibitious plans to help their country become an emerging racing nation.

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“Libyan breeders have always preferred horses other than the Arab. The Arab is a smaller horse and Libyans like the bigger horse, because we have traditional races that have always required size” Dr Amad Eshaab and a large crowd came out to see local hero Hussein Shaalami, Libya’s leading jockey, gain three wins and a second, including a win on Aramadi in the day’s

feature race, run over 10 furlongs.

The day’s third race was won by the Tunisian team of Munir Al-Mansur and mount Bal Mural, with Tunisia also gaining a one-two in one of the minor races on the card. Bloud Nyan proved best of the Moroccans on the day when gaining a second under Zarkan Atuhami, making this a truly international meeting. If those are unfamiliar names now, it might be worth storing them in the memory banks for future reference, because Libya is set to become an emerging racing nation.

The big ambitions of a far from small racing industry are being given a boost by two Thoroughbred breeders, Dr. Amad Eshaab and his brother Radwan, who own and manage Libya’s largest and most important stud, Al Shaab Stud in Tripoli. Al Shaab was established in 2000.

“We have been breeding the Thoroughbred for 12 years,” says Eshaab, “but there is no Libyan Stud Book up to now. We tried to establish one in 2004, but our Thoroughbred industry at that time was of no interest to any of the other Associations.” The International Stud Book Committee is currently in the process of working with emerging racing countries and it can only be a matter of time before Libya joins the ever-expanding list within the European and Mediterranean Stud Book Liaison Committee.

Eshaab explains, “We have big races here and Thoroughbred racing is very popular. It is very much in the blood and part of our culture, the same as in Ireland. Horse breeding is very popular and all horse owners and breeders love their horses so much.

Libyan breeders have always preferred horses other than the Arab. The Arab is a smaller horse and Libyans like the bigger horse, because we have traditional races that have always required size. Historically we have always crossbred the Arab with the Thoroughbred to produce Anglo-Arabs. The Arab is not very famous here, for a long time Libyans have bred the Anglo-Arab.”

With size and stamina traditionally taking prevalence it was natural for the brothers to look for complementary pedigrees in their quest for stallions at Al Shaab. “We started to breed from the speed horses,” Eshaab says.

“That’s why we selected horses from Australia, Argentina, and Britain. The pedigree and racecourse performance was very important.”

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“I feel we have a very nice future, but it is not going to be achieved very fast. We were 41 years under the Gaddafi regime so that is not easy for us. We need international support and investment” Dr Amad Eshaab That much is obvious when one looks at the impressive stallion roster the Eshaab brothers have established.

Among seven high-class individuals are the Australians Back Draft and Brut Force. The former won three races at two and is by Testa Rossa out of a good daughter of the champion filly Bravery. Brut Force, by Giant’s Causeway, boasts Zabeel’s champion filly Champagne as his dam. Al-Mutazim (formerly known as Metternich) is by Seeking the Gold out of the European champion filly Valentine Waltz, from the heralded family of Last Tycoon, Tie Black, Zipping, Zelding and Beauty Is Truth.

They stand alongside former leading British juvenile Raise a Grand, by Grand Lodge out of an Irish River mare; Fawri, by Kyllachy out of a Danehill mare; and Muraqeeb, a son of Mr Prospector out of a mare who is the result of a union between the two outstanding milers of their era in Britain: Kris and Al Bahathri. Possibly heading this star-studded bill is the champion Argentinean racehorse Indio Glorioso, an eight-year-old by Honour and Glory out of the top Argentinean racemare Indianato, herself from a prolific Grade One winner-producing maternal line.

Not surprisingly, mares visit the stallions not only from Libya, but from Egypt and Tunisia, too.

Amad and Radwan have now found themselves at the forefront of rebuilding the Libyan Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association (TBA) and establishing the Stud Book. “We are getting lots of support from all of the industry and as I am rebuilding the TBA I am the voice for our industry,” admits Eshaab. It is a huge responsibility, particularly coupled with his existing duties as General Manager of Al Shaab Stud and his job as a veterinarian.

“I would like our TBA to have an international role, like other associations,” he hopes, “We have over 1,000 breeders here and they have given me, through the TBA, the authorization to speak on their behalf. We are not looking for government support; we have

The Eshaab brothers added Australian stallion Back Draft to their roster to breed for speed

a lot of private investment and hope to attract more – we have a large industry and this can support investment and employment. We believe we can rebuild again and we can support each other within the industry. I feel, from all the owners who speak to me, that we have a very nice future, but it is not going to be achieved very fast. We were 41 years under the Gaddafi regime so that is not easy for us.

We need international support and investment.”

Amad and Radwan know first hand the

final blows dealt by the Gaddafi regime and were forced to cross the border into Tunisia in May of last year, unable to return until September. “Fifty-two horses were taken from us by Gaddafi’s son,” reveals Eshaab. “They were distributed in many different cities without documentation and we can’t find even one of the missing horses.”

It was in trying to help and support the industry that the brothers brought such unwelcome attention upon the stud. As Eshaab points out, “I sent an email to the

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RACING Australian Ambassador here in Libya looking for support. I explained we have no Islamic stronghold nor Al-Qaeda presence and we support the freedom of the Libyan people, so please support us. This put us in a very critical position and we were left in no doubt that Gaddafi was looking. The Ambassador supported us and said on television that he knew the Libyan people were saying the right things.”

They may have only returned to Tripoli in September, but the brothers were quick to restore business as usual at Al Shaab Stud and play a major role in strengthening the base of the Libyan Thoroughbred industry, despite the heavy losses in their broodmare band. In December they were back at Tattersalls Breeding Stock Sale in Newmarket, England, and purchased nine mares.

“We are looking for more ways in which we can support the Libyan owner,” Eshaab says, “and one way is to bring in horses from Britain to improve our breed. We would like to import many quality broodmares, based on their pedigree and race record, which should be at least Group Three standard.”

This isn’t as easy as it sounds, even if budget allows and the right horse is available.

“The main problem is that we have no air cargo from Europe to Tripoli, so we have to send a box by sea and overland via Genoa to Newmarket. This takes time. It’s more than 150 hours from Newmarket to Tripoli and this is very hard on mares, particularly any mare foaling around February 1st. It also costs a lot.

Until we have good connection with Europe by air cargo it is very difficult. Tripoli is only three hours from Newmarket by air.”

The problems of air cargo have not unduly affected other Libyan breeders and owners, thanks to the foresight and business acumen of the Eshaab brothers. Al Shaab is not only an important stud farm, but also a Thoroughbred auction house. “We hold a local auction here,” Eshaab explains, “which is very popular. The first Thoroughbred auction was held in Libya in 1974, but it was then stopped

by Gaddafi until we managed to reinstate it in 2009.”

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“We are looking for more ways in which we can support the Libyan owner, and one way is to bring in horses from Britain to improve our breed. We would like to import many quality broodmares, based on their pedigree and race record, which should be at least Group Three standard” Dr Amad Eshaab It was Al Shaab Stud that staged the renewed sales, held in March and October of 2009 and 2010. Not surprisingly, there was no 2011 renewal, but the sale returned to the stud this year, held on March 17th. The October sale of 2010 attracted buyers both locally and from Egypt and Tunisia.

One of the visitors was David Chester, Sales Director of Magic Millions, who commented,

“We conduct business in many countries around the world and found the Al Shaab Sale was outstanding and extremely professional.

All the presentation and health of all sale horses was up to world standard, an amazing achievement considering the short length of time the Australian sale horses have been in the country.”

Eighty-five percent of the catalogue changed hands and what might come as a surprise to those in well-established racing countries is the quality of the sale and the figures involved. The sales topper was a colt

by Raaqi out of a Polish Navy mare that made 85,000 Libyan dinar, a healthy $68,000. The average was an equally respectable $25,000, both figures twice that of the 2009 returns, showing that Amad and Radwan’s aim to import better horses is certainly working.

David Chester has pledged support in exploring better airfreight options between Libya and Australia. There remains only the acceptance of the Stud Book by the European and Mediterranean Stud Book Liaison Committee to assure the future of Libyan racing and breeding. “We have a lot of support and cooperation from other breeders,” says Eshaab. “We explain to them that we must breed and race in the right way and we are in constant communication with other countries.

“We would like support and assistance from important countries like Ireland and Britain and anyone in a position to help us rebuild. We need to have documentation in place to enable us to comply with European regulations for travel and trade, we need to get that certification in place.”

If anyone can achieve this, it is Dr. Amad Eshaab. “I’m a vet, so this is my hobby and my job. We are the first, and only, major stud in Libya. We have a very big veterinary clinic here with the latest state-of-the-art equipment. We want to help others rebuild their studs and become like ours.”

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Robbie and Jackie Davis Few riders debut at Saratoga’s world-class meet. Jackie Davis did. Her dad was the first person to greet her when she dismounted, completely exhausted. Few trainers win their first race with their daughter riding. Robbie Davis did. He hugged Jackie so hard he almost pulled her off her horse.

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HARING such seminal moments has made their bond even stronger. Which doesn’t mean they haven’t had their confrontations, none bigger than Jackie’s decision to become a jockey, a profession Robbie mastered, winning 3,382 races and more than $115-million in purses, still the 34th highest total in racing history. He accomplished this despite enduring a dark leave of absence in the middle of his career and an ugly knee injury that ended it prematurely in 2002.

“Growing up, my dad was my dad,” Jackie, who turned 25 on March 6, said. “I used to watch his races in the barn. I knew he was one of the best jockeys in New York, and that he won stakes, but I didn’t see him as anything other than my dad. I didn’t realize how great a rider he was. Now that I’m doing it, I can’t believe he got where he was, to achieve all of the things he achieved. It’s incredible. I dream of doing a quarter of what he did.”

But something Robbie couldn’t do forced him to temporarily abort his riding career, withdraw from New York and retreat to his hometown of Pocatello, Idaho – where he’d begun working as a dishwasher and busboy at Buddy’s Pizza when he was 14 to help his family. He thought he could have prevented

“He’s better at being a trainer than being my agent…he promised me, ‘When you win your fifth race, I’ll become your agent.’ He never thought I’d win that many” Jackie Davis on Robbie his horse from taking his next stride in the middle of a race; that in some way it was his fault that Mike Venezia leaped off his falling horse and rolled directly in the path of Davis’ horse, who struck Venezia’s head and instantly killed him on October 13, 1988, at Belmont Park.

After the race, Robbie hid in a broom closet. Then he hid out in Idaho. A fortuitous visit and subsequent article by the brilliant Sports Illustrated writer William Nack helped Robbie realize there was nothing he, nor any other human being, could have done to

prevent Venezia’s tragic death. Robbie eventually returned to riding, continuing his success, and in 1997 won the Mike Venezia Award, given to jockeys who exemplify extraordinary sportsmanship and citizenship.

That same year, he was honored by Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Long Island.

After his knee injury, he moved his family to their 80-acre farm outside Saratoga. In 2008, he briefly served as Jackie’s jockey agent before becoming a trainer in 2011. “He’s better at being a trainer than being my agent,” Jackie laughed. “He promised me, ‘When you win your fifth race, I’ll become your agent.’ He never thought I’d win that many.”

She fully realized his good intentions: “He didn’t want to see me get hurt. I’m a woman in a male-oriented sport.”

Jackie was two years old when Venezia died. “I was too young to comprehend it when it happened,” she said. “I still haven’t read the article. I get a little nervous about it. From my first race, you know what your dad went through, and how dangerous it is, yet you still want to do it. It’s fun. It’s all I wanted to do.

But if someone goes down and I’m nowhere near it, I still worry that I did something wrong. Then you have to go out and ride the next race. You have to get it out of your head.”

She couldn’t get her desire to ride out of her

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Regardless, she excelled. “After the first six months, Chris called me and said, ‘She can really ride,’” Robbie said. “I said, ‘Really?

Come on, Chris. I give her 99-to-1.’ He said, ‘Don’t tell her this, but she’s at the top of the class.’ They sit squat against a wall. She held the record: 22 minutes.”

After visiting the academy, Hall of Famer Gary Stevens called Robbie. “He picked her right out,” Robbie said. “He said, ‘She’s definitely a rider. She has all the goods.’ I was like, ‘Wow! Chris has been telling me.’”

Right about then, Robbie readjusted his attitude. “I was really happy to hear that,” he said. “I was a little ashamed of myself. But how do you put your kids on a horse and tell them, ‘Be careful…’? It’s a very fine line. If you’re too careful, you lose. It’s a split-second game.”

Her First Ride and First Win

Jackie Davis rides Catreign to victory at Aqueduct

head no matter how hard her dad tried. “I’ve been riding since I was three,” she said. “I had a pony when I was three in Idaho in his first retirement. I was riding bareback.”

A Different Life?

Robbie never expected his 4-foot-10, 100pound daughter, the second oldest of his and Marguerite’s six children, to become a jockey.

“She’s a little girl,” he said. “I never thought she had the structure to be a jockey. You’ve got to be really strong. She went to college. She wanted to go into design.”

Jackie said, “I wanted to be a designer or a fashion consultant. I can draw, paint, and write. I went to Hudson Valley (Community College). But my first year, sitting in a classroom, sitting at a desk, I hated it. I was so bored.”

Jackie had heard that Hall of Fame Jockey Chris McCarron was opening a jockey school, the North American Riding Academy, in Lexington, Kentucky, in 2006.

“I blindsided my dad,” Jackie said. “I said, ‘I’m going to jockey school and I want to be a jockey.’ He said, ‘No way! No way in hell is my daughter going to be a jockey! You’re not doing it. Why don’t you be a first-grade teacher? Why do you want to risk your life every day?’

“I said, ‘Dad, this is what I really want. I’m going to jockey school with or without your okay.’”

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it,” Jackie said. “It’s going to happen. I have to try it. I would hate to say, ‘What if?’”

Jockey School Jackie’s mom told her if she was going to jockey school, she’d have to do it on her own.

She was fine with that and applied. “It was a late application,” she said. “Chris didn’t know I was Robbie’s daughter.”

Chris interviewed her on the phone. Then he called her dad, quickly realizing that not only was she Robbie’s daughter, but also that she hadn’t even mentioned it to gain an advantage. Chris asked Robbie, “Why didn’t you call me?” Robbie hid his objections and replied, “I can’t get her out of bed every morning.’”

Regardless, Jackie was in. She quit her job working at Friendly’s Restaurant in Saratoga and headed for Kentucky. “I jumped in feet first, and if it didn’t work, it didn’t work,” she said.

In Lexington, while she completed the twoyear program at the Riding Academy, she took a job at Steak ‘n Shake, where, just as she had done at Friendly’s, she dished out ice cream.

“Being a jockey and making ice cream,” she laughed. Then she found a better job as a waitress at Hooters, where she had one problem: “I had to get on a bar stool to reach the zip line to put in an order,” she said. “I loved working there. The girls were a lot of fun. Couples would come in. Guys would come in and watch the game. I never felt threatened.”

She didn’t feel threatened at the riding

Jackie landed a job as an exercise rider for Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens in 2008, and was working for him that summer at Saratoga. She was scheduled to make her debut riding his Shifty Guy, but the horse scratched. The following day, August 30th, Jackie climbed aboard Easter Guardian for John Candlin, who bred, owned, and trained the gelding. “My entire family was there, my grandparents, all my brothers and sisters,” Jackie said.

Robbie was as nervous as a father could be: “It was Saratoga, the epitome of racing. You’re at the top of the top. If you never ride again, you can tell people, ‘I rode at Saratoga.’

Because a lot of jocks don’t do that.”

In a 5½-furlong turf sprint, Easter Guardian finished 11th in the field of 12 at 43-1. Jackie looked as if she might faint after she dismounted. “I thought I was fit and ready,” she said. “I was galloping eight or ten every day. It’s not even close to being in a race.

I was tiny at that point, 96 pounds. I grabbed two or three cups of water. Dad hugged me.

He was telling me how happy he was, how proud he was. It was so surreal.”

Robbie laughed at the memory: “She had rubber legs. She was so weak she could barely move. I was just so happy to have her come back. I was so proud. Then I saw the look in her eye: ‘Oh, yeah.’ She found something she really loved. There was no fear in her eyes.

She was hooked.”

Jackie needed a place to start, and she found one at Suffolk Downs in Boston. “You have to earn your stripes,” Robbie said. “She had to learn about getting behind horses, in among horses. To do that, you have to ride in races. Put on the white pants and ride as many as you can. She found a niche at Suffolk.

That’s all she needed to start improving.”

She won her first race, however, at Aqueduct, on November 5th, 2008, on 64-1

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“After the first six months, Chris called me and said, ‘She can really ride.’ I said, ‘Really?

Come on, Chris. I give her 99-to-1.’ He said, ‘Don’t tell her this, but she’s at the top of the class.’”

Robbie Davis on Jackie longshot Blue Hill Bay. “I couldn’t believe I won it,” she said. “I’m used to going to the lead with him and everybody catching up to me and passing me, and I said, ‘Where is everybody?’ It was great.”

Jackie worked out her own circuit between Suffolk and Aqueduct. In her first full year at Suffolk in 2010, she rode 72 winners, finishing sixth in the rider standings. In 2011, she was second with 127.

His First Mount and First Win Robbie has 11 horses on his farm in Saratoga, including two rescue horses. “They were headed to slaughter,” Robbie said. “They run them into the ground and give them all kinds of medication. It gets really sad.”

Robbie’s first starter as a trainer was the late-running Sandyinthesun, a gelding he owns in partnership with Tom Ponterella.

Now five, the son of the popular New Yorkbred Say Florida Sandy is out of an Alleged mare, In the Sun. Sandyinthesun began Robbie’s training career in a New York-bred maiden race on grass on closing day at Saratoga on September 4, 2011. “A race he should never had been in,” Robbie said. “It was 5½ furlongs and he’s bred to run a mile and a half. He beat one horse (in a field of 12), but he galloped out in front. He always gallops out in front.”

When Jackie had several live mounts at Suffolk last October 11 – she won the first three races that day – Robbie decided to come out of retirement and ride Sandyinthesun himself in a turf route that was switched to a muddy main track at Belmont Park. With the addition of Lasix, he finished a distant sixth in a field of 10. Sandyinthesun then finished sixth and eighth.

His next start came in a mile and a sixteenth grass race at Aqueduct on December 3. In a field of ten, he would be sent off at 39-1 under Jackie.

But there was a change. Robbie added blinkers. And he told Jackie over sushi in a

Japanese restaurant the night before to move him early.

Jackie said, “I don’t ride like that.”

Robbie told her, “Move up early. If he gets tired, blame me.”

She said, “Okay.”

As she was instructed, Jackie moved Sandyinthesun early into sixth in the tenhorse field, drawing within two lengths of the leader after three-quarters of a mile.

When she moved up on the backside, I had a whole lifetime in my mind,” Robbie said. “I started jumping. I said, ‘Oh, my God, she’s moving!’”

Sandyinthesun never stopped moving, crossing the finish line in a three-horse photo with Sam’s Buck and Windafull.

“He’s 17 hands,” Robbie said.

“He had a big advantage over another horse. I didn’t think I’d won until I talked to Richard Migliore and Leo O’Brien. They came up to me and said, ‘We think she won.’ So many things went through my head. They’re showing the race in slow motion on the screen. My heart is pumping.”

Jackie didn’t think she had won: “Cornelio (Velasquez, riding Sam’s

Buck) was right next to me, and I stand up and say, ‘I don’t think I won it.’ But his horse was half the size of mine.”

Robbie saw his horse’s number put up first on the toteboard. “I didn’t expect it,” he said.

“God gave me the greatest gift. The sun was shining on me in the winner’s circle. Oh, my God! She came in, and I grabbed the horse, and I’m shaking her hand.”

Jackie said, “My dad almost pulled me off the horse trying to hug me. My sister had tears going down her face. I said, ‘Oh my God, it was so great.’ I couldn’t believe it.”

The Davis family is closely bonded, “like you wouldn’t believe,” Jackie said. “My brothers and sisters are my friends. They told me, ‘Anything you want to do, you can.’

To have that kind of support is unbelievable.”

It will continue. In the jubilant winner’s circle, twoyear-old Eva, Robbie’s granddaughter and Jackie’s niece, jumped up and down screaming, “We did it! We did it!” n

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CALMING INFLUENCE Nervousness, irritability and excitability in horses in training can be frustrating for trainers and sometimes dangerous for those riding out. Behaviors such as wood chewing, windsucking or cribbing are equally undesirable as they can often lead to poor condition. Occasionally these oral stereotypical behaviors can be a sign of an underlying health issue. Health conditions such as tying up or gastric ulcers are anecdotally more prevalent in horses that appear to be anxious or stressed. There is no doubt that genetic make-up, environment, and the level and type of work will influence certain aspects of behavior, so there is always a great interest among horse professionals on the effect of a diet including supplements.

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HERE is an enormous amount written about the link between feeding and behavior, and the ‘calming supplement’ market is sizeable. However, there is in fact very little direct research in horses that investigates how diet impacts on behavior if at all.

One of the most basic ideas to consider is whether the anecdotal practice of placing horses that can be excitable or even unruly, such as those in pre-training, on a low energy, high fiber, low starch diet. Certainly the amount of energy fed per day, irrespective of the energy source, is thought to affect behavior in some horses. When an excess of concentrate feed is fed in horses that are confined for a large part of the day or where exercise is light, horses may pile on the pounds, or can express this excess energy

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intake through their behavior in terms of excitability or fractiousness. Research by Dr. Nell Davidson concluded that stabled horses fed a ration of forage only were less restless and more cooperative when being handled during light work, compared with those fed forage and cereals. A French study of showjumpers fed a ration that was lower in starch, higher in oil, and supplemented with magnesium, tryptophan, and B vitamins exhibited a reduced fear response and reactivity as well as lower heart rates in response to controlled stressful situations when compared to a high starch, low oil ration of similar energy content.

While resting heart is often viewed as a reflection of state of fitness, it can be very

variable due to the effect of excitability.

Research conducted by Doctors Erica McKenzie and Stephanie Valberg while investigating tying up showed that horses that were fed a low starch, high oil diet at a high level of energy intake similar to horses in training exhibited lower pre-exercise heart rates and had a calmer demeanor compared to those that were fed a ration with a higher starch content. A step down in the quantity of concentrate feed and the starch content may be worth trying with an excitable horse before reaching for the supplement tub or bottle.

The practice of maximizing good quality forage intake and complementing with a lowto-moderate energy, low starch, and high fiber feed would seem to stack up for excitable horses. In these animals, where more condition is required as training progresses, a high oil feed or supplement can be used.

For tying up, rations that are low in starch have been advocated for many years by veterinarians to help reduce the likelihood of further attacks. However while successful in

“A step down in the quantity of concentrate feed and the starch content may be worth trying with an excitable horse before reaching for the supplement tub or bottle” some receptive horses, the explanation for their benefit is less clear. It has recently been suggested that a ‘low starch’ contributes towards reducing anxiety and stress in these animals, which is now widely considered as a potential trigger for tying up in susceptible animals.

The level of forage fed and/or fiber content of the diet also appears to have an impact on other aspects of equine behavior. Stereotypic behaviors such as wood chewing and windsucking are known to be more prevalent in meal-fed horses exposed to diets that are low in forage and high in starch. This perhaps is not surprising, as this type of diet is very far removed from a horses’ natural diet and may frustrates their psychological need to chew. It has also been suggested that some of these oral stereotypic behaviors stem from the desire to stimulate saliva production in an ongoing attempt to buffer gastric juices,

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NUTRITION especially in horses with gastric ulcers.

However, while there are some horses that perform these behaviors that may have gastric ulcers, there are many others that do not, and the stereotypic behavior may have developed as a coping mechanism for another stressor.

There are many additives that are proposed to have carminative effects in horses, and which are commonly found in supplements marketed as calmers. Few of these have any substantive scientific evidence in horses to support their reputed effects. The rationale for the use of some additives such as B vitamins and magnesium largely comes from the symptoms of severe deficiency, which can include nervousness, excitability, and irritability. However a horse in training that is fed a good ration is unlikely to be severely deficient in these micronutrients, and the benefit of hyper-supplementation has not been investigated in horses.

Magnesium-based calmers represent a large chunk of the calming supplement market and so anecdotally this perhaps suggests that they have some effect in a proportion of horses.

Equine scientists need to evaluate the effect of magnesium supplementation further especially as there is some interesting research in other species. In mice, for example, it is suggested that magnesium may have anxiolytic (anxiety reducint) and antidepressive effects when fed at a comparable level per pound of bodyweight to that found in some equine supplements. Additionally in humans, magnesium shows a beneficial effect when supplemented in combination with vitamin B6 (pyrodoxine) in women with premenstrual syndrome.

Tryptophan is another frequent ingredient in equine calming supplements and is an essential amino acid involved in the synthesis of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Serotonin is involved in the mechanism sedation and also inhibits aggression, fear, and stress in some species. The response to tryptophan is quite varied between species and seems to be affected in other animals by factors such as age, sex, and level of exercise. There are no studies to date that confirm an effect of tryptophan in horses as a calmer.

The herb valerian is pharmacologically active and has been shown to have both sedative and anxiolytic effects. It contains a number of constituents that may contribute including isovaleric acid and GABA (a neurotransmitter). Its mechanism of action is believed to be due to the ability of one or more constituents to bind to the same receptor sites in the body as the psychoactive drug benzodiazepine (e.g. Valium). Despite few if any studies on the effect of valerian in horses, its established pharmacological action has led to it being considered as a prohibited substance in both racing and other equestrian disciplines for many years, and one or more of its active constituents form part of the postrace drug screen. Other herbs such as

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chamomile, hops, and lemon balm feature in equine calming supplements although again, there is little scientific evidence of efficacy specifically in horses.

Lecithin is a mixture of various lipid-like substances including phospholipids, which can be extracted from oilseeds such as soya.

Its primary use in the feed industry is to enhance absorption through its actions as an emulsifier. Interestingly in horses, soy lecithin has been shown to have an effect on behavior by reducing reactivity and spontaneous activity when combined with corn oil.

“There are many additives that are proposed to have carminative effects in horses, and found in supplements marketed as calmers. Few have any substantive scientific evidence in horses to support their reputed effects�

However, the amount of soy lecithin used in this study was relatively high (oil: lecithin ratio of 1:1 fed at 10% of feed intake) and it may be beyond the scope of most dietary supplements to deliver such an amount.

While strictly not a nutritional ingredient, there are a group of topically applied products that harness the science of pheromones in their formulation. Equine appeasing pheromone (EAP) is a substance that is produced naturally in mares following foaling, which helps calm and reassure foals to allow early bonding with the mare. There have been a couple of interesting French studies published in 2006 and more recently in 2011 reporting that a synthetic version of this substance can be topically applied in horses (by aerosol spray application to the nostrils) to reduce fear-based behavior and heart rate response to stressful situations.

The size of the equine calming supplement market is no doubt an indication of the perception of behavioral problems in horses, but there is a lot more work to be done in evaluating both the safety and efficacy of both nutritional strategies and supplements. It is a particularly difficult area to evaluate especially as although calmness may be desirable, severe sedative effects are clearly a step too far as they may impede a horse’s ability to exercise safely and perform to the best of its ability. n

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TED MUDGE

Helping to bring back Maryland’s glory days Ted Mudge was one of the founders of Instant Racing – the slots that turned round the fortunes of Oakland Park. Now the Vice President of Operations at Maryland Jockey Club hopes his ideas, driving ambition and passion for racing can do the same for the sport in his home state.

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HEN Frank Stronach purchased the Maryland Jockey Club (MJC) back from his Magna Entertainment Company (MEC) in mid-2011, the years of mismanagement associated with Magna did not convince anyone that Stronach would be its savior.

Changing this impression is foremost in the mind of Ted Mudge, whose assignment to Vice President of Operations under President Tom Chuckas was one of Stronach’s first moves, and perhaps his shrewdest.

One of the founders of Instant Racing, which turned a floundering Oaklawn Park around ten years ago (see sidebar), Mudge is a Maryland guy whose passion for racing in his home state drives his ambition to also change the game at Pimlico and Laurel Park.

His joint purchase of AmTote in 1986 and subsequent sale of much of it to Frank Stronach began a fruitful association. After his success with Instant Racing, Mudge’s business mindset propelled him to put AmeriTab

“Broadbent was a marketing genius, and I learned more from him in a year than I have in 40 years” Mudge on Dick Broadbent

President Charlie Ruma and Bloodstock Research Information Services President Dick Broadbent together in 2001 to create AmericaTab. “Broadbent was a marketing genius, and I learned more from him in a year than I have in 40 years,” Mudge says with admiration.

In 2003, between his time at AmTote and becoming President of BRISbet in 2004, Mudge had joined MEC in a similar position to the one he holds now, but “it didn’t work out, car guys were running the company” Mudge said of the much-maligned Magna management of Stronach’s tracks. “I was VP of Development and was trying to find ways to make them better. You can’t shrink your way to greatness. All they cared about was cutting costs.” He left after two years of frustration.

Now, mostly racing people, and not manufacturing or casino people, operate Stronach’s racetracks. At the MJC, Mike Rogers – who runs Stronach’s highly successful breeding operation Adena Springs – acts as liaison to Stronach in Canada.

Working alongside Rogers and Chuckas, Mudge has thrown himself into help bringing Maryland racing back to her glory days,

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There are big plans for Pimlico, home of the Preakness Stakes, with Stronach wanting to build a new grandstand and host the Breeders’ Cup

utilizing the new slots that are located away from Pimlico and Laurel to revitalize all aspects of the industry, but not relying on them for support.

“We are not going to have a casino at the racetrack,” he says emphatically. “I’m not a fan of it at the track. I’m not wanting welfare.

When you aren’t working you have welfare as a safety net, but when you’ve got a job it’s just a handout. Racing has to fix itself and not wait for a handout because we’re not disadvantaged. We have pageantry and wonderful entertainment to promote. We have to make betting as easy as pulling a handle and still have all the wagers that handicappers want. We can add new elements that make it easy to enjoy the game, and sell the entertainment of the game. We need to learn to promote it in today’s market, and not the 1940s market.”

Thinking toward the future, and not bemoaning what used to be, is necessary to pull the MJC out of the disintegrating inertia that has plagued the industry in Maryland.

Everyone has a reasonable complaint, but nothing will ever be corrected if reiteration of the problems continues without any decisive action.

Mudge says he sees as part of his remit to “reinvent racing” from a business standpoint, using ideas that go beyond building a following for a single horse that will retire in a couple of years and instead making the sport itself, and Maryland racing in particular, the draw.

He explains the MJC’s plans by using the fall of General Motors as an example for collective sacrifice producing collective gain.

“They got the cash flow positive, made better cars, made union deals, and marketed itself better,” he said matter-of-factly. “We

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If 20 people were waiting to buy the MJC I would agree with some of the detractors, but no one is going to spend money like Stronach in this game” Mudge on Frank Stonach have to do things the same way. If we reduce the number of days, we get better quality racing. Maryland has given us an opportunity to turn ourselves around. These are interesting days.”

Mudge understands that one thing horsemen want is a year-round circuit. He

insists that shortening the meets will not lead to 40 days of racing in Maryland. Instead, it will lead to the ability to accomplish more positive changes as customers return and purses increase.

“If 20 people were waiting to buy the MJC I would agree with some of the detractors, but no one is going to spend money like Stronach in this game,” he insists, assuring everyone that Pimlico isn’t going away. “He’s a racing guy, and he loves this game.”

Staying ahead of the curve has been a hallmark of every endeavor Mudge has undertaken, but that also brings resistance and criticism. To find the solutions, he can’t sit removed in his office, so he has been in the paddock before each race, having breakfast in the jocks’ room, and sitting in the stands with fans, talking to everyone, inviting input.

“I’ve made changes from meetings with customers,” he said, citing the restoration of the Twin Tri, a popular bet discarded in recent years. “The Twin Tri was something they loved in the past. This was a Maryland thing, and should be our signature bet.”

This coupling of his ADW background with marketing know-how bodes well for a track learning how best to apply gaming funds, but his owner’s perspective is a key element in communicating his ideas to horsemen.

“Stronach thought that I had a varied background and would be able to make some changes,” he said. After all, Mudge has encouraged bettors to become owners, including Robert Cole, who claimed Shake You Down, who went on to take third in the 2003 Breeders’ Cup Sprint, for $65,000 and put a partnership together that included Cole 15 years ago.

“I understand the guy sitting in the seats.

I touch with empathy every aspect of this

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PROFILE game. Look, I grew up on a farm and ran away to be a jockey at 13. That didn’t go over well! But I started in racing in 1987 as an owner and breeder. I go to the paddock to try to meet everyone I don’t know. I find out what they really want, as horsemen, breeders, and fans.”

Mudge’s efforts have been met with suspicion by trainers unaccustomed to track management speaking to them as individuals.

With reserved, wary attitudes, they wonder why a management man wants to talk to them.

“As an industry we have lost trust and we need to gain that back,” he admits. “But we all want the same thing. What we’re doing isn’t just for one track, or just for horsemen, but for all of racing. And we have to do what’s best for the customer, because he drives everything we do. That’s always first in my mind – the customer. Trust works both ways.”

Now that Stronach has greater control of running the tracks, the right people in place, and support from the state in the form of slots, Stronach feels more comfortable putting money into Pimlico, and is eager to do so. He wants to build a new grandstand as soon as possible, probably downtown, and even host the Breeders’ Cup. Only one more part of the puzzle remains: assurance that the horsemen will be there for the long haul.

“They need to understand that Stronach is one of them,” Mudge says. “He is not the enemy. He’s made mistakes – we’ve all made mistakes – but he adores horse racing. He loves this game. He’s committed to racing in Maryland.”

As a broodmare owner himself with stock in Maryland as well as in Kentucky, Mudge acknowledges that breeders are a cornerstone to the sport in Maryland that cannot be

forgotten. With the foal crop in Maryland drastically reduced, taking care of the factory is important to racing’s recovery there.

“One thing I can say to breeders is that Stronach has 20-30 horses racing in Maryland, and he intends to stand stallions in

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Maryland as soon as existing agreements allow him to move them.”

The Racing Commission, Chuckas, Rogers, and the horsemen are confidentially talking about the long-term health of Maryland racing, but a formal agreement is needed for everyone’s comfort level to move forward in the right direction.

Mudge bubbles with ideas he can do in the meantime, and likens his incessant cheerleading of Maryland racing to that of a carnival barker, but change is difficult. Even while unhappy with the present, many are afraid of any adjustment, as if hoping circumstances will magically improve on their own. Mudge gets adamant when saying that everyone needs to put in an effort, that to keep doing the same thing is to continue to lose 5% every year.

“We’ve lost the simulcasting audience and need to get it back,” Mudge points out. “We’re not going to do that with the same format we have now. We need to shake it up. Calder was smart. They created weekends like the Summit of Speed where all the focus of the racing world was on them for that weekend.

“I thought about having teams of states and have races where you bet on “your” state.

Frank does the Sunshine Millions, but I was thinking you could draw horses from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York – have 10 horse fields

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with two horses from each state and you root for your state.”

Mudge referenced with ebullience Daily Racing Form’s Steven Crist’s article of March 23rd which proposed an older horse bonus series of the Donn Handicap, Santa Anita Handicap, and Pimlico Special from Stronach’s tracks. Not only does it help older horses have Grade 1 races to aim for in a series, but represents tracks working together.

“The older horse series could start the synergy,” he says with rising energy. “Don’t think I’m not going to be on the phone to other racetracks finding out what works! If it works in one place, it can work other places.”

Excitedly trying to encourage Preakness horses to ship in sooner to Pimlico, Mudge jokingly declares, “If they would bring a Preakness horse early I’ll muck their stalls! I’ll bring crab cakes for their crew!”

The essential problem in Maryland is that there isn’t going to be a fairy godmother swooping in to give everyone everything they want. Mudge is part of a team that will connect all the wrestling, squawking, needy aspects of Maryland’s racing industry into one mutually beneficial whole so the beautiful lady that is Maryland racing is again fashionable, fun, and vibrant.

“I am now doing the one thing I was put on Earth to do,” Mudge says eagerly.

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When General Manager Eric Jackson needed a way to revitalize Oaklawn Park as it struggled against neighbors with gambling, he called in the dynamic president of AmTote, Ted Mudge, to come up with a way to produce electronic pari-mutuel racing machines that could work around the antislots sentiment that pervaded Arkansas.

Together, they brainstormed for two days on Parsons Island with programmers from his native Maryland, including Oaklawn wagering director Bobby Geiger, a slots machine maker and a Maryland Racing Commissioner who could advise them on legalities. Oaklawn owner Charles Cella was involved, and formed with his family one of the two partnerships that combined became the ownership of RaceTech, manufacturer of Instant Racing machines, the other half being Mudge and his partners with AmTote, and others.

“We got the idea based on Pick 6 wagers, how it carries over to new races each day,” Mudge explained. “We used tapes of old races, and linked the machines together with millisecond carryovers. You can play for 5 cents, 25 cents, $1 on digitized horse races from all tracks that would send them to us, and the DRF provided handicapping information. There are different ways to handicap a race, and three of those elements would show up for the race, but it wouldn’t tell you which race. The stats would be represented graphically, so whether it’s a $5,000 claimer or a $500,000 stakes, the handicapping would be the same graphically with those elements (such as jockey stats, trainer on turf horses, or speed figures). It’s not about the dollar value of the race, so no one could find out which horses were running ahead of time.”

The Instant Racing machines incorporate simple gaming without losing a focus on racing. Oaklawn installed 50 machines in 2000, and after four years, they reached

$1-million a month, and then it snowballed.

By 2005 there were video poker and blackjack machines alongside more than 700 Instant Racing machines. Instant Racing alleviated the fears of anti-gambling factions and served as a gateway to expanded gaming.

“Nobody else has taken to it because they are holding out for slots,” Mudge says.”Whatever concerns there are against slots, history has proven otherwise. Oaklawn then got slots in addition to Instant Racing.”

Using this model, Kentucky Downs finally saw the light and while slots legislation died in the state government, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission bypassed that to install 200 machines they call Historic Race Wagering, in September 2011. They created 80 new jobs in two months, and after a slow start with the careful marketing that track president Corey Johnsen wanted for the conservative county, it gained momentum. In three months, they had generated $19.52million, and after five months, $40.2million. In January 2012, gaming rose another 11.1% and Kentucky Downs is in the process of adding 75 more machines with a goal of 500.

Johnsen called the success “exciting” as two more live days of racing were added for 2012 to make it six days for the small track.

Ellis Park in Henderson, Kentucky, gained approval to have Historic Race Wagering machines by April. With 91% returned to bettors, Kentucky has realized $400,870 for the General Fund, $2.86-million for the track including purses, $80,497 for the Equine Industry Program, $40,249 to Equine Drug Research, and $40,249 to the Higher Education Fund from the remainder.

As a further sign of confidence, Churchill Downs Incorporated doubled its investment in Kentucky Downs to 10% ownership, buying shares once owned by Brad Kelley’s Bluegrass Hall.

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TRAINERS STATISTICS Todd Pletcher (nearside) with D. Wayne Lukas

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Statistics saturate sports, and none are more significant, none more cherished, than career stats. As Tiger Woods prepared for the Masters in April, just about every golf fan on the planet knew a victory would be Tiger’s 15th major title, leaving him three behind Jack Nicklaus’ all-time record. Last winter, Kobe Bryant was celebrated for moving past his former Lakers teammate Shaquille O’Neal and into fifth place on the all-time NBA scoring list. And what baseball fan didn’t follow Hank Aaron’s chase and surge past Babe Ruth’s career home run record of 714? These are benchmarks of greatness.

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ORTH American trainer statistics in horseracing? They’re not exactly mainstream. Did you know that the late Dale Baird’s 9,445 victories are more than 3,000 ahead of Jack Van Berg, King Leatherbury, Jerry Hollendorfer and Steve Asmussen? Or that relatively young Todd Pletcher is already third in all-time earnings behind D. Wayne Lukas, and will likely pass him in a few years? Or that Richard Hazelton is seventh on the all-time victory list? Is this the first time you’ve heard of Richard Hazelton?

These incredible trainers, and dozens of other top conditioners, share a common denominator: every one of the top 50 trainers in career victories, and every one of the top 25 in career earnings, has more victories than seconds, and more seconds than thirds.

“Some trainers are a little more effective at winning races,” Pletcher said. “People on the list are good at placing their horses, evaluating

what they have and putting them in the right places to win. In order to do that, you have to have clients that are in the same frame of mind: to run horses where they can win. In the long run, that’s what you have to do to be successful.”

To be successful for enough years to reach 6,000 wins, let alone more than 9,000, is remarkable. Hollendorfer reached that elite status on September 3, 2011, when Just Tappin It won the sixth race at Golden Gate Fields. “I saw Jerry at a sale last November and congratulated him for winning 6,000 races,” Pletcher said. “I said, ‘That’s 60 wins for 100 years.’ He said, ‘I started young.’”

Hollendorfer, now 65, is one of only four trainers in the top ten in both victories and earnings – fourth and seventh, respectively.

Seventy-six-year-old Lukas, who is first in earnings and eighth in wins; 46-year-old Asmussen, who is fifth in both; and 58-yearold Bill Mott, fourth in earnings and ninth in wins, are the others. Hollendorfer’s career winning percentage of 23.5 is the highest of

the 13 trainers in the top 25 in victories who have available career statistics.

The 44-year-old Pletcher, who knew that he ranked 26th in career victories, reached his own milestone on February 11, when Spring Hill Farm took the third race at Gulfstream Park, giving him No. 3,000. “That gave me pause,” Pletcher said. “It’s a special milestone.

You don’t get a chance to look back and reflect on what you’ve done. Sometimes, when you’re working seven days a week, and 365 days a year, you don’t have time to enjoy it.”

Pletcher is third in earnings ($215.7million) behind only his mentor and former boss, D. Wayne Lukas ($258.8-million), and the late Bobby Frankel ($227.9-million).

Money records, of course, are affected not only by inflation, but also the reality that a horse can now win more purse money in a single race, such as the $10-million Dubai World Cup, than Kelso, Forego and John Henry did in their entire careers. “I think the money thing is difficult to analyze,” Pletcher said. “The modern trainer has a lot more

Dale Baird

Jack Van Berg

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“Wayne, in so many ways, changed the game more than any single trainer ever has, just the way he conducts his stable and builds it, the multiple divisions.

Everything about it revolutionized training” Todd Pletcher on D. Wayne Lukas opportunities and the purses are much higher.

One generation or two generations before us didn’t have those opportunities. Wayne Lukas and Jack Van Berg are responsible for that, opening up operations at more than one track. Wayne, in so many ways, changed the game more than any single trainer ever has, just the way he conducts his stable and builds it, the multiple divisions. Everything about it revolutionized training.”

While it seems just a matter of time before Pletcher takes over the earnings record, Baird’s mark is safe for at least a decade. Regardless, Pletcher thinks that Asmussen (6,128) can catch him: “Steve has a huge chance to catch Dale. The numbers Steve’s manufactured the last seven to ten years are incredible.”

Last year, Asmussen led all trainers in victories for the seventh time, with 348. He says matching that number this year will be extremely difficult: “We have cut back on the number of horses we have in half, from 300 to 150, so I’m not going to put up the numbers I put up the last three years.” Yet through the

Nick Zito, D. Waynes Lukas and Bob Baffert

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Scott Lake

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RACING ALL-TIME NORTH AMERICAN TRAINING MONEY LIST (up TO ANd INCLudING MARCH 20, 2012 (Statistics from www.equibase.com)

VICTORIES Trainer

Starts

1sts

2nds

3rds

Earnings

Win %

Dale Baird

56,995

9,445

8,263

7,595

$35,326,403

16.6

*Jack Van Berg

40,070

6,411

5,436

4,841

$82,906,043

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*King Leatherbury

34,979

6,338

5,129

4,492

$59,113,064

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*Jerry Hollendorfer

26,158

6,161

4,551

3,777

$128,411,345

23.5

*Steve Asmussen

29,099

6,140

4,935

4,102

$190,032,313

21.1

*Scott Lake

23,147

5,174

4,097

3,263

$96,669,838

23.3

*Richard Hazelton

25,479

4,745

3,867

3,504

$40,769,382

-

*D. Wayne Lukas

27,100

4,640

3,908

3,425

$258,862,177

17.1

*Bill Mott

20,394

4,179

3,269

2,794

$201,324,291

20.5

Frank Merrill, Jr.

17,208

3,974

2,191

1,990

$16,980,632

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The Next Ten: *Allen Jerkens (3,828), Buddy Delp (3,674), Rick Dutrow, Sr. (3,665), Bobby Frankel (3,654), Hirsch Jacobs (3,593), Everett Hammond (3,425), *Bruce Kravets (3,346), *Bernie Flint (3,254), *Gerald Bennett (3,258), *Frank Martin Sr. (3,240).

EARNINGS Trainer

Starts

1sts

2nds

3rds

Earnings

Win %

*D. Wayne Lukas

27,086

4,640

3,906

3,423

$258,832,471

17.1

*Bobby Frankel

17,657

3,654

3,002

2,497

$227,912,709

20.7

*Todd Pletcher

13,491

3,048

2,167

1,772

$217,566,194

22.6

*Bill Mott

20,360

4,173

3,261

2,793

$200,962,644

20.5

*Steve Asmussen

29,015

6,128

4,922

4,090

$189,189,036

21.1

*Bob Baffert

10,020

2,182

1,651

1,413

$173,130,304

21.8

*Jerry Hollendorfer

26,091

6,145

4,536

3,767

$127,910,648

23.5

*Ron McAnally

17,629

2,560

2,389

2,188

$123,057,352

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*Richard Mandella

10,880

1,901

1,681

1,599

$117,211,660

17.5

-

-

$109,206,777

-

Charlie Whittingham

-

2,533

The Next Ten: *Shug McGaughey ($109,232,094), *Allen Jerkens ($101,905,433), *Nick Zito ($101,528,176), *Scott Lake ($96,427,215), *Neil Drysdale ($90,873,545), *Roger Attfield ($88,760,921), *Jack Van Berg ($82,894,628), *Rick Dutrow Jr. ($81,959,602), *Christophe Clement ($78,091,755), *John Sadler ($78,004,445). * Active

third week of March, he already had 86 winners, second only to Jamie Ness (95).

Hollendorfer’s 50 victories this year gave him 6,145, just 17 ahead of Asmussen. Both trainers are going to have to post a decade of big numbers to even approach Baird, who passed away December 23, 2007, at the age of 72.

With only nine stakes winners, Baird’s career earnings ($35.3-million) aren’t even in the top 50. His 9,445 victories came from 56,995 starters, more than double the other trainers in the Top Ten. Baird was North

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America’s leader in victories 15 times, and, because he owned a majority of the horses he trained, North America’s leading owner 17 times. He won every training title at Mountaineer Racetrack from 1981 through 2000.

But unlike 75-year-old Van Berg (second in victories with 6,411), Hollendorfer, Lukas, Mott, Frankel, and four other Top Ten trainers in earnings – Bob Baffert, Ron McAnally, Richard Mandella and the late Charlie Whittingham – Baird isn’t in the Hall of Fame.

He might not ever reach that hallowed

destination, not only because he lacked a national profile in stakes races, but also because he achieved notoriety for sending his discarded horses to slaughter.

Leatherbury, third in wins with 6,336, led North America in victories twice. The 79year-old conditioner has won 25 training titles at Pimlico, 20 at Laurel and four at Delaware Park. He won six races on a single card, and had five on a single afternoon four times.

Scott Lake, who is the same age as Asmussen, is nearly 1,000 victories behind him at 5,163, which is good enough to rank sixth, thanks to his gaudy win percentage of 23.3.

While racing fans around the country may not be familiar with Richard Hazelton, the seventh-leading trainer in victories (4,745), Pletcher surely is: “I know that he’s won a lot of races and was a juggernaut for years.”

Indeed. Now 80, Hazelton has been a force in Chicago for decades, and he is the all-time leading trainer at Arlington Park, where he’s

“Steve has a huge chance to catch Dale. The numbers Steve’s manufactured the last seven to ten years are incredible” Todd Pletcher on Steve Asmussen won eight training titles, with 1,181 victories.

He captured the title at Sportsman’s Park 17 times and has been the leading trainer at Hawtorne three times.

Lukas is eighth in wins (4,640), Mott ninth (4,173) and the late Frank Merrill Jr. – a legendary Canadian Hall of Famer – tenth (3,974), followed by Hall of Famer Allen Jerkens (3,828). Merrill led North America in victories in 1955 (154), 1958 (171), and 1960 (143). He won a record 19 Canadian training titles and captured two titles at Arlington Park, and one at Gulfstream Park and Hialeah.

On the all-time earnings list, 59-year-old Bob Baffert ranks sixth ($172.2-million) from just under 10,000 starters, some 17,000 less than Lukas and 19,000 fewer than Asmussen.

Seventy-nine-year-old Ron McAnally ($123million) is eighth, followed by 61-year-old Richard Mandella ($117.1-million) and Whittingham ($109.2-million), who may have been passed by 61-year-old Shug McGaughey ($109-million) by the time you read this. McGaughey has done so with only 7,656 starts. Allen Jerkens ($101.8-million) is 12th but could be passed by Hall of Famer Nick Zito ($101.2-million) by the end of the year or next year. n

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HARRY HACEK

HARRY THE HAT The story of the colorful jockey’s agent Horseracing occupied a prominent place in the culture of old, and racetracks overflowed with enthusiastic crowds.

The sport’s stars often became heroes and celebrities, their stories sometimes told on television and radio but more frequently on the front pages of the daily sports sections.

And behind the scenes, one of the sport’s most prominent characters, Harry Hacek, flamboyantly wore his hat.

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LTHOUGH his vision has degenerated, he can still clearly see and recall some of horseracing’s best years.

Perhaps that’s why today’s racing, by comparison, seems so bland to him, a relentless buffet of gruel.

For more than four decades, at racetracks from California to New York, Hacek was known as Harry the Hat, and until 2005 he worked as an agent for many of the era’s most successful jockeys.

When Steve Cauthen found himself mired in a slump a year after winning the Triple Crown on Affirmed, he called Harry the Hat. As it turned out, though, their partnership lasted only a day or so before Robert Sangster signed the jockey to a contract and took him to England.

Eddie Delahoussaye, Chris McCarron, Randy Romero, Sandy Hawley, Darrel McHargue, Earlie Fires, Kent Desormeaux, Alex Solis, Larry Snyder, Jorge Velasquez, Robbie Davis, Eddie Maple, Garrett Gomez, Gary Stevens – Hacek worked with them all.

“Harry the Hat was a character,” Romero said, his face lighting up with recollection.

“Once the nickname stuck, I switched mainly to baseball caps of different themes. My ploy worked well. To this day, many people who don’t know who Harry Hacek is know me as Harry the Hat” “But he really worked at it, at getting his jock the best mount.”

Hacek once bet a bookmaker $7,500 that he could get his jockey the mount on a certain horse pointed to the Kentucky Derby. And then Hacek paid the trainer of the horse $7,500 to give his jockey the mount.

Yes, in those days, Hacek was a character, the sort of person only found at racetracks or in Damon Runyon stories. Just ask anybody

who walked the backside in those days about Harry the Hat, and you’ll get a smile, or maybe a smirk, but certainly an anecdote.

“Harry had a gift for gab,” said McHargue, who topped the national standings shortly after going to California with Hacek in the late 1970s. “He wouldn’t leave a stone unturned, and he had a way with diplomacy.”

In his teens, Hacek made what seemed to a kid a small fortune as a bellhop at the Morris Hotel in Chicago, and then in the winter, he said, he’d travel to Florida to find work at the racetrack walking “hots.” He lived in a tack room but thought it was paradise, for how could life be any better than life at the racetrack?

He and Craig Perret were roommates for a time, which is to say they shared a tack room.

And it was Perret, Hacek recalled, who first suggested the smooth-talking youngster should be an agent. Hacek soon found his niche.

To stand out and distinguish himself from other agents, Hacek began wearing a snappy fedora. That prompted Gene Cilio, a successful trainer in Chicago, to give Hacek the nickname that would become familiar at racetracks nationwide.

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Hacek worked with many leading jockeys during his career as an agent including Chris McCarron and Eddie Delahoussaye (above), Randy Romero (far left), Earlie Fires (below left) and Craig Perret (left)

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HARRY HACEK “Once the nickname stuck,” Hacek said, “I switched mainly to baseball caps of different themes. My ploy worked well. To this day, many people who don’t know who Harry Hacek is know me as Harry the Hat.” Hacek said he never took himself “too seriously” as an agent and tried to enjoy the sport. Most of all, though, what enabled him to be so successful, he said, was an uncanny memory. Wherever he was, at whatever racetrack, whatever circuit, he knew the horses. He knew them so well, he said, that he could look at a condition book and tell you what horses would be entered before the overnight ever came out.

“He truly knew the lay of the land,” said Pat Pope, the longtime racing secretary at Oaklawn Park, about Hacek. “He always knew whose horse was going where, and he knew the best horses for each race. He knew his business. He had respect.”

Pope marveled that Hacek always represented a top jockey. But, for whatever reasons, Hacek didn’t remain with any one jockey for a very long time. In California, he’d yearn for his home in Chicago, and then he’d think of trying New York, and then he’d remember the natural beauty of California.

He always wanted to be, he said, where he wasn’t.

These days, at 64, Hacek lives in Hollywood, California. His vision has stabilized, but he’s waiting for a kidney transplant, which he critically needs.

He spends much of his free time at the People Helping People Emergency Shelter and the Los Angeles County Jail. Between the two, he said, most of his days are “spoken for.” He volunteers at his church, distributes food to the homeless, and counsels inmates. He sometimes serves as a liaison between prison inmates and family members or attorneys.

Basically, he said, he tries to give something back.

But Hacek rarely goes to the racetrack anymore. To spend a day at Santa Anita or Hollywood Park and see how the quality of

“Harry the Hat was a character, but he really worked at it, at getting his jock the best mount.”

Randy Romero racing has declined would be, he said, frustrating. His health wasn’t the only reason he retired from the racetrack in 2005; his frustration urged his retirement, too.

The racetracks and the California Horse Racing Board should be embarrassed, he said, by the racing. They “have a responsibility to

the public of putting on the best programs possible,” but “instead they have collectively and consciously built a wall around the state.”

The “California con,” he continued, referring to the increased takeout, didn’t improve racing but only enhanced purses for a few horsemen. And that’s essentially the problem, he said: little if anything is ever done to improve racing. And that problem, of course, isn’t confined to California.

Hacek has many opinions about where racing has gone wrong, some of them specific, such as racetracks’ taking entries too far in advance, and many of them general, such as the lack of coordination between associations.

Saying everything needs to be turned upside down, Hacek generally embraces a populist view. But his criticism, motivated by an eagerness to see horseracing recover some of what it was, generally comes down to this: the sport has neglected its product.

The neglect, or rather a subtle shift in emphasis, began, Hacek would say, with fullcard simulcasting. And even if it didn’t involve a total shift, there was a dilution. Full-card simulcasting stayed even when the actual horses traveled elsewhere.

Racing, of course, can’t put simulcasting back in a jar any more than Pandora could have stuffed the ills of the world back into a box. But the shift, the dilution, didn’t stop with simulcasting, did it? Video games, slot machines, cards and concerts all followed, so that some racetracks focused on activities and sources of revenue that had little to do with racing, and some even advocated increased takeouts and some were moved to bring in managers and executives whose knowledge of racing wouldn’t fill a thimble. That’s perhaps the most disturbing aspect of neglect: It gathers momentum.

But hope remained.

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ISITING the home of Dermot Weld is rather like visiting a museum. It’s bright, airy and welcoming – and packed with photographs, awards, and trophies from every known corner of the world. Weld is a traveller and he is very much a conqueror, in the nicest possible way. You have only to look at the two Melbourne Cups and a Hong Kong Vase displayed close to the impressive Key to the City of Melbourne to know that he came, he saw, he conquered, and he is very much loved and respected wherever that happens to be.

“I have been very fortunate travelling horses, I was one of the early pioneers of international runners,” Weld explains, sitting comfortably in the office, his chair overlooked by the beautifully portrayed head of that fine filly Committed. The history of his great record as a trainer, since taking over the stable from his father Charlie in 1972, is all around him. “I have been fortunate to train 21 European Classic winners, apart from Grade 1 winners on the east coast, midwest, and west coast of the United States.

“I started travelling horses in the early ’90s and a lot has changed. Now it’s commonplace to run horses in Australia and Dubai and Asia and America, it’s pretty standard. The advantage I had in the ’90s has long gone!

People are more aware nowadays, with modern technology and communications so much better. Don’t forget, the cellular phone was only just appearing in the ’90s.

Technology has advanced incredibly and flight paths have become easier.

“My own travelling experience has helped,” he continues. “After qualifying as a vet from University College Dublin I travelled the world on a student ticket and I was involved in American, Australian, and South African racing.” Weld was also a leading amateur jockey and

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As one of the most respected European trainers worldwide, Dermot Weld’s record has been a catalogue of firsts. The first European trainer to win a race in Hong Kong, the first to win the Melbourne Cup, the first to win with a two-yearold on dirt at Grade 2 level, the first non-American to win a leg of the US Triple Crown. His record with his National Hunt horses is just as remarkable.

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“I follow world racing very, very closely. When you have a particular race in mind, preparation begins many months in advance and it all depends on how the horse runs in its build up. I prefer to race them straight off the plane – go in, strike and get out” this put him in a unique position: he not only worked his way around the world’s racetracks, he rode on them, too. For a trainer of international runners, there could be no finer grounding.

“I’ve ridden the winner of one of the only major National Hunt races in

South Africa, the Freights Services Champion Hurdle run at Pietermaritzburg,” Weld reveals. “I also rode Yamasur to win the Bright Hour Amateur Hurdle, run on the same program as the Colonial Cup at Springdale racecourse in Camden, South Carolina. It was my only ride in America, so you could say I have a 100% record as a jockey there!

Yamasur was trained at Belmont and it was a vet I worked for there, Bill Reid, who got me the ride.

“I’ve been fortunate enough to work with some very good people, like Tommy Smith in Australia. In America I worked as a vet at Belmont Park and Saratoga. I’ve combined that working experience with riding on the racetrack. I’ve ridden track work at Belmont, Saratoga, and Churchill Downs. It gives you a concept of the tracks and an insight into how they race. It all gave me a good grounding and good insight and concept of racing in these countries, not only working as a vet, but also riding – and riding winners.”

Such experiences widened Weld’s view of the racing world and what it might take to come back and win at these tracks. “The Australians never believed a non-Southern Hemisphere horse could ever win the Melbourne Cup. And so the challenge was always there! Vintage Crop would have won the Melbourne Cup the year before he did, but getting there was not possible; the whole quarantine arrangements were not set up.”

Elsewhere, as quarantine and travel fell into place, Weld was ready to take advantage and strike. “We were the first to go to Hong Kong, in the first year of the International races in 1991. There were only the two International races then and we sent a horse over for each of them.

1990 Belmont Stakes winner Go and Go is still the only non-American-trained horse to win a leg of the US Triple Crown

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Additional Risk won the Hong Kong Bowl, which is now the Hong Kong Mile, and our other horse ran second in what’s now the Hong Kong Vase. That was the start of the travelling.”

Weld was the first European trainer to win a race in Hong Kong, the first to win in Australia, the first to win with a two-year-old on the dirt at Grade 2 level, and he still remains the only non-American to train a winner of one of the legs of the U.S. Triple Crown. “I follow world racing very, very closely,” he says. “When you have a particular race in mind, preparation begins many months in advance and it all depends on how the horse runs in its build up. I prefer to race them straight off the plane – go in, strike and get out.

“Dimitrova won the American Oaks at Hollywood Park on the West Coast in early July; we brought her home and then sent her to the East Coast where she ran second in the Garden City Handicap at Belmont early September, and then she came back to win the Flower Bowl there at the end of that month.

She was back home for about four weeks between each.

“Pine Dance would be a good example, he won the American Derby in Chicago, a race we’ve won three times. He ran in the Secretariat Stakes then I put him in a box and sent him to Philadelphia Park where he won the Pennsylvania Derby on dirt three weeks later. From there he went to Meadowlands and ran well to be third in a Grade 2 on dirt.

He went back out to win the Brandywine Stakes at Delaware the following May then was sold to race in Saudi Arabia.

“To me, winning the Belmont Stakes was a

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Weld with his two Melbourne Cup winners – Media Puzzle (left) and Vintage Crop

bigger feat than winning the Melbourne Cup. Go and Go was a horse I always thought could come back and win a leg of the Triple Crown.

He was a very laid back horse and the Laurel Futurity was a Grade 2 two-year-old race run on turf, so my thought was to run him there and then go for the Breeders’ Cup in Florida.

But it rained overnight at Laurel Park and the Futurity was switched to the dirt track. He was very adaptable, it was a sloppy track and he handled it well. I would have liked to train him for the Kentucky Derby, but in those days getting to Louisville was too difficult and the quarantine arrangements were not there, so it was just not possible. Hence, the Belmont Stakes.

“Dress to Thrill was another I should mention. She went through 2002 as a threeyear-old unbeaten, up to the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Arlington. All year I had planned to bring her for the Matriarch Stakes, it was a race I had always wanted to win, but it turned out to be a particularly high-class field that year. She won. She was a good filly.”

Not all of his best horses have been globetrotters, and Weld fondly recalls his more ‘local’ winners. “Winning the Two Thousand Guineas in 2003 with Refuse to Bend was a definite highlight. Also Grey Swallow: champion two-year-old, winner of the Irish Derby at three, and the Tattersalls Gold Cup at four.

“Vinnie Roe was the only horse to win a Classic, the Irish St Leger, four years running.

His achievement is one of my great pleasures.

We’ve also had 17 Royal Ascot winners.

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Initially I made my name as a trainer with fillies. Blue Wind was champion three-yearold filly of Europe and Committed was champion female sprinter of Europe two years running.”

Weld owes international success to attention to detail. “Science has moved forward and so has the scientific approach in training horses. I was always very aware of the dehydration factor when travelling horses.

Others were aware, but it was not accepted to

“Some horses appear to travel extremely well, but in fact mentally have not coped. Keep stress levels down, keep constant – the same people, same diet, keep it simple” be as big an issue as I thought it. It’s common knowledge nowadays. To re-hydrate a horse quickly is the key and is vital.

“The stress of travelling is something we don’t fully build in. Some horses appear to travel extremely well, but in fact mentally have not coped. Keep stress levels down, keep constant – the same people, same diet, keep it simple. For Australia, I sent the food over in advance of the horse so that

it would be there when we arrived.”

The horses in his care are given time to develop slowly within the best of environments at all time. Ventilation is seen as a very important aspect and great care has been taken to ensure it is adequate within the American-style barns, even down to the pitch of the roof.

“We have a combination of traditional open boxes and American barns. I find some horses are better suited to the open boxes, while others prefer the companionship of being in the barns. It’s a combination of keeping them happy and keeping their environment as healthy as possible,” explains Weld. “When the yearlings first arrive I like them to have a little break. There’s a big difference between horses arriving from the sales and horses arriving straight from farms.

Those coming from the farms I go straight ahead and break. Those from the sales I like to give a month off. When it comes to food, horses are very adaptable, I don’t worry about a change in diet, I like to build them up slowly.

“I bring my horses along slowly, breaking the traditional old-fashioned way, and I take my time. They canter on grass doing figures of eight, which is probably old-fashioned but I still like my young horses to train on the grass. I have them cantering in figure-eights as it helps to make a horse’s mouth more adaptable and helps them to learn to lead on the near fore and then the off fore and teaches them balance.”

It isn’t only the horses who are brought

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“I’m very positive about the future of racing.

There is very much a goodwill feeling within the industry and its leaders. Racing has great ability to adapt to change and as it becomes more international it is learning to work more with communications” Emulous won the Group One Matron Stakes (Pat Smullen) at Leopardstown in 2011

Vinnie Row (left) wins the Irish St Leger for a historic fourth year in succession

along slowly and gently with the minimum of fuss. “Over the past 25 years I have only ever had two jockeys, I think that’s worth a mention! Mick Kinane for 15 years and Pat Smullen for ten,” which suggests he is a very easy man to work with. He is certainly well liked wherever he goes, and among the many racing trophies are a few personal additions that mean much to him.

“I am very fortunate to be honored in Australia and it was a wonderful honor to be given the Key to the City of Melbourne by the Lord Mayor.” Weld has been similarly honored at home, too. “I have been voted Irish Sports Person of the Year twice, and in 2003 I was Person of the Year in Ireland.” Yet there is one medal he treasures above all else.

“I am immensely proud to have received the Charter Day Medal in 2001 from University College Dublin, in honor of the work I do for the University. I was only the fourth person to receive the honor, following on from Dr. Ken

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Whitaker, a former Secretary of the Department of Finance; Professor Dervla Donnelly, a distinguished academic who chairs the prestigious Royal Dublin Society; and former Taoiseach [Prime Minister] Garret Fitzgerald. It is the highest honor the University bestows.

“I was directly responsible for moving the veterinary college where it had been for 100 years to the new site on the campus,” Weld reveals. “I was coordinator of that development and I was responsible for the communications, funding and government funding and development. I am very proud of what is probably the finest veterinary school in Europe.”

Appropriately for a trainer noted for his international exploits, Weld’s 3,000th winner was attained in Dubai by King Jock in February of 2005, while last April the aptly named Notable Graduate gave him his 3,500th winner at Tipperary. The 4,000th

winner might come in South Africa, the last country still remaining on Weld’s Wish List, or it might just be at the Grand National.

Because unlike most leading flat trainers, Weld is just as successful when he turns his attention to National Hunt.

“I have always enjoyed training a few National Hunt horses,” he says, “as I was leading N.H. Amateur in Ireland three times.

My parents both rode point-to-point winners and my father trained some very good N.H. horses, including the 1959 Galway Plate winner Highfield Lad. I’ve won every N.H. race worth winning in Ireland.” Wins at Cheltenham and a second in the Grand National add to his record. “We have always had a small but select team of jumpers and we have a very high strike rate.”

The future looks bright for Weld and for racing. “I’m very positive about the future of racing,” he insists. “There is very much a goodwill feeling within the industry and its leaders. Racing has great ability to adapt to change and as it becomes more international it is learning to work more with communications. The racing industry is doing very well in its use of modern technology.

“Racing in Ireland is very different to other countries, it is an industry recognized by our Government as an employer that involves every county and it has a large spin-off, providing rural employment. Ireland has great limestone land and is a natural producer of the best horses in the world and generations of people with equine knowledge and know-how. It is recognized from a tourist point of view; the Galway Festival, for example, brings many millions of euros to Galway City. Racing is rightly so recognized.

Horse racing is a very important industry to our country.”

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World rules for equine drug testing and therapeutic medication

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HEN Thoroughbred racing was developing 300 or more years ago there were few “drugs” and no drug testing whatsoever. Carl Vernet, an equine artist in the early 1800s, painted scenes of trainers medicating horses from large bottles right before the race; pre-race “medication” of horses was clearly accepted, at least in part because it was presumably not perceived as being effective.

This matter of effectiveness soon changed: morphine and cocaine were purified in the 1800s, and American horsemen rapidly identified their performance effects. Then, when American trainers hit Europe around 1900 armed with these new medications, they did very well indeed. They became known as the “Yankee alchemists”; they won races, and most importantly, they made money for their owners, among them an American barbed wire millionaire known as “Betcha-a-Million” Gates.

When American money, American trainers, and the new American medications met oldschool English society trainers, it was simply no contest. The American trainers were so successful that the leading English trainer, the well-bred and socially and sartorially correct George Lambton, was reduced to announcing in the press that his horse X running in race Y on day Z was going to be medicated with the new American “dopes.” This maneuver got the

It’s been said that change is the only constant in life.

Nowhere is this more true than in the field of equine drug testing. In recent years, testing for performance-altering substances has rapidly evolved from a crude art into a highly sophisticated technology. Equine drug testing can now readily detect and identify low part per trillion concentrations in 1 mL of blood, a dramatic improvement in testing sensitivity and specificity in just the last 20 years.

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attention of the English Jockey Club and in 1903 the medication of a racing horse became an offense against the rules of racing.

Equine drug testing followed soon thereafter, first in Austria and then in France; prior to World War II, French drug testing technology led the world, with the United States nowhere. Then, in the mid-1930s, George Woodward, for whom the Woodward Stakes is named, sent a veterinarian, Dr. Catlett, and a chemist, Dr. Charles Morgan, to France to learn the new French drug testing techniques. These gentlemen brought drug testing back to the United States, starting on the East Coast in Florida and soon thereafter in New York.

Post-World War II, matters accelerated dramatically. Numerous new drugs/ medications were synthesized/became

available, including various amphetamines, numerous highly potent narcotics, tranquilizers, bronchodilators, and even your everyday phenylbutazone – basically horse aspirin – all of which became available to horsemen and were soon being widely used.

Drug use and medication testing in American racing came abruptly front and center in the 1968 Kentucky Derby, when Dancer’s Image won the Derby and was immediately “called positive” for phenylbutazone. Among the outcomes of this event was the setting up of the Kentucky Equine Drug Research program at the University of Kentucky, now housed in the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center where I and my colleagues have been privileged to work for quite some time.

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The LTQ Orbitrap from Thermo Scientific is the current state of the art in drug detection mass spectrometry and will readily detect substances in complex matrices such as horse urine.

It also provides outstanding mass accuracy which allows rapid and unequivocal identification of the substance detected. The instrument is sensitive down to about one part per trillion, which is equivalent to one second in your life if you are 32,000 years old

Image because drug detection was just beginning to catch up with drug use. Since then, the sensitivity of drug testing has increased at least a millionfold, and nowadays it is actually difficult to identify a medication that will, in the language of the street, “not test.” On the contrary, the problem now is that we can readily detect minuscule traces of therapeutic medications and environmental substances at concentrations which have no significance whatsoever for the sport of racing. And in retrospect, it is interesting to note the first medication called positive in a very high profile race, the Kentucky Derby, was actually a medication which is now recognized worldwide as a therapeutic medication, and not in any way considered a high-potency performance altering substance.

So, just how sensitive is testing today? The answer is, extremely: in Dancer’s Image, phenylbutazone was detected at parts per million concentrations. Testing today, however, can readily detect parts per billion and, with just a little effort, parts per trillion.

To put these concentrations into perspective, one part per billion is one second in your life if you are 32 years old, and one part per trillion is one second in your life when you get to be 32,000 years old. Yes, Dorothy, we can detect medication amounts equivalent to one second in 32,000 years, at least one billion times more sensitive than the detection in

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Dancer’s Image, and without trying particularly hard, either.

Given this super sensitive testing, one of the problems has become establishing what to do about minuscule ineffective traces of therapeutic medications. This is an industry problem, since anybody who runs a horse that is treated with a therapeutic medication is immediately at risk of having a trace of the medication identified, called “positive,” and then being paraded in the press as a trainer/owner associated with a “horse doping positive.” This is because the popular press is generally either not interested in

“It is interesting to note the first medication called positive in a very high profile race, the Kentucky Derby, was actually a medication which is now recognized worldwide as a therapeutic medication”

distinguishing or fails to distinguish between a trace level of a therapeutic medication and an outright attempt to improperly influence the performance of a horse with an undetectable high potency stimulant drug.

Or, to put it another way, therapeutic medication “overages” are less likely to sell newspapers.

Given these circumstances, a major part of the problem before the industry is, how do we handle this suddenly arrived, super testing?

The answer, in principle, is simple: you determine when the therapeutic medication stops having an effect, just like when the aspirin you took no longer fixes your headache. Any medication traces that you can detect after this point are traces without pharmacological effect and are, therefore, of no forensic significance.

Horseracing worldwide has taken up this challenge. Around the world, regulators have identified medications that are appropriate for use in horses in training, the equine equivalent of the medications in our bathroom medicine cabinets. For these substances, which we call “therapeutic medications” to distinguish them from performance altering substances [colloquially drugs or, a simply appalling word, “dopes”], racing authorities are identifying regulatory thresholds/cut-offs and withdrawal times. The objective, of course, is to allow horses access

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WORLD RULES ON MEDICATION to modern therapeutic medication during training, but at the same time to not allow them to race with performance-influencing concentrations of these medications in their bodies.

HRH Prince Philip has stated the problem very well: Thirty years ago in his foreword to my book Drugs and the Performance Horse, he noted that “the dividing line between treatment of injury and disease, on the one hand, and the preparation of horses for competition on the other, is very narrow and not easily defined.” And in a nutshell, our current book, World Rules for Equine Drug Testing and Therapeutic Medication Regulation, basically sets forth how this narrow and not easily defined “dividing line” is currently defined, and indeed defined many times around the world. The problem is that it is defined just a little bit differently everywhere.

These differing definitions should not be unexpected. The world of racing and racing itself is, like politics, ultimately local, and these cut-off concentrations have always been worked out locally. The Canadians were the first to formally address this problem, and they have for 30 years now published a booklet of Canadian withdrawal time guidelines. Reflecting the culture of Canada, this book is bilingual, one side in English, one-side in French, which has led one of my colleagues to name it “the upside down book.”

“Around the world, regulators have identified medications that are appropriate for use in horses in training, the equine equivalent of the medications in our bathroom medicine cabinets” To the credit of our Canadian colleagues, however, they where the first to clearly identify the problem and the first to come up with and publish a workable solution, an approach the rest of the world has basically followed.

The next group to tackle this problem were the Australians in the late 1980s; they came up with their own booklet covering much the same type of medications and using the testing technologies then available in Australia. Their technology, however, was not exactly equivalent to the Canadian technology, so what they came up with was a system that worked very well for Australians

in Australia, and this booklet was published in 1992.

In 1994 matters came to a head in the United States, and the National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Associations [NHBPA], University of Kentucky, the Jockey Club, and a number of other groups hosted a three-day international workshop on the therapeutic medication regulation problem.

The workshop was attended by racing administrators, analysts, and veterinarians from around the world. Our Canadian colleagues came to the conference and outlined how these matters were handled in Canada. In closing, the workshop endorsed the Canadian approach and recommended it to racing authorities worldwide. Following this lead, California soon adopted a number of defined regulatory thresholds based on the Canadian model, and our British colleagues went back to England and within a number of years had produced a withdrawal time guideline booklet appropriate for use in English racing.

Since then these regulatory guidelines have proliferated, but with one proviso. In much the same way as currencies vary from country to country, it also happens that medication regulations vary from country to country and, in the United States, from state to state. On the other hand, the big change that has occurred in the last 15 or so years is that these local regulatory procedures are increasingly being communicated, which is the first

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19th Century equine artist Carl Vernet painted scenes of trainers medicating horses from large bottles right before the race

requirement for their ultimate review, evaluation, and incorporation into a world medication rule.

The United States has 30 different racing jurisdictions, and, therefore, 30 different sets of rules of racing. Given this circumstance, in 2001 or thereabouts it was suggested to the NHBPA that it propose a national medication rule. The NHBPA took up this challenge, and in 2001 produced the first draft of a proposed national medication rule. This proposed rule was based largely on the rules in place at that time in the United States, and individual rules seen as being particularly suitable for widespread application were identified and proposed as the basis of a national rule. In 2003 this proposed rule was rewritten and published as a 20-page supplement in the Journal of Equine Veterinary Sciences, giving the proposed rules some scientific standing.

In 2009, it was again updated, but by this time the document had grown too large for publication as even a full volume supplement to a scientific journal, and so it was published as a NHBPA booklet. This booklet was rewritten yet again in 2012, by which time it had grown to 280 pages and extended to cover world medication rules.

Based on its North American origins, our book draws heavily on the medication rules in place in North America that is in the United States and Canada. It covers about 99 therapeutic medications, endogenous, dietary, and environmental substances and the order of presentation follows the Association of Racing Commissioners International [ARCI] uniform classification system the foreign substances. This ARCI classification system arose when, in the mid-1990s, ARCI

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“If there is one thing that is certain, that is that the range of environmental substances identified in post-race urine will continue to increase as the scope and sensitivity of equine drug testing increases” categorized all 1,000 or so known potentially performance altering substances into five classes. Class I includes those with the highest potential to influence performance, for example amphetamines and opiates, through four further gradations, to the last class, ARCI class 5 substances, substances of clear therapeutic benefit and with essentially no capacity to directly alter performance, for example the anti-ulcer medications. This ARCI classification system was originally developed as a guide for regulators, to allow them to adjust the severity of penalties based on the ARCI classification of the performance affecting ability of the substance in question.

Of these 1,000 or so potentially performance altering substances identified by ARCI, about 40-to-50 are recognized by ARCI as therapeutic medications appropriate for use in horses in training. Additionally, close to

another 40-50 substances have been identified by other racing authorities around the world as therapeutic medications, and about 15 ARCI substances are either endogenous, for example hydrocortisone; dietary, for example theobromine; or environmental substances, ie arsenic, to pick a relatively innocent and noncontroversial environmental substance.

I say “innocent and relatively noncontroversial” environmental substance because these substances likely to show up at trace levels – and we emphasize the words trace levels – now include morphine (as morphine glucuronides); benzoylecgonine (the major metabolite of cocaine); bufotenine (obscure hallucinogen found in Reed Canary grass); caffeine (with which we are all very familiar); cathinone (recreational substance now available as “bath salts” from “head shops” which has shown up at trace levels in horse urine); salicylate (aspirin) from alfalfa grass and present in enormous concentrations; scopolamine from jimson weed; and the granddaddy of the entire group, theobromine, from cocoa husk. And if there is one thing that is certain, that is that the range of environmental substances identified in post-race urine will continue to increase as the scope and sensitivity of equine drug testing increases.

With respect to the other non-American therapeutic medications, some regulatory authorities outside of the United States recognize substances as therapeutic medications. These entities include Canada (Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency, CPMA), Australia (Rural Industries and Research Development Corporation), Great Britain

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WORLD RULES ON MEDICATION (British Horseracing Association, BHA), the European Horseracing Scientific Liaison Committee (EHSLC), the International Equestrian Federation (FEI), and in the Far East, we have the so-called Asian Screening Limits, which have been adopted by approximately 22 predominantly Asian countries or administrative entities. Locally, the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) and the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) also recognize these substances as therapeutic medicationa.

Given the large number of different entities involved in medication regulation, it is easy to understand why worldwide, harmonized regulation is a quite some distance from being achieved.

Our book is written with primary emphasis on practical information and especially withdrawal time guidelines, which are absolutely essential for anyone wishing to avoid medication problems. At this point a worldwide technical/philosophical divide immediately becomes apparent. In the United States, where 30 different racing jurisdictions share a continent, the regulatory emphasis is on concentration-defined thresholds, with relatively limited withdrawal time guideline information. On the other hand, in Canada and many other jurisdictions in the world, the regulatory information communicated is

withdrawal time guidelines, with few or no specifics concerning the actual regulatory thresholds. More recently, however, while the Asian screening limit information includes concentration information, the official communication also makes crystal clear the fact that despite the published existence of these concentration-defined screening limits, simple detection of a medication at any concentration constitutes cause for regulatory action.

We also specifically address the matter of withdrawal time guidelines and factors affecting them, because it is important for horsepersons to understand the various factors which give rise to variability in drug detection times and as such the probability of incurring a “positive� identification.

Discussion therefore begins with the role of dose, then the matter of analytical sensitivity, and the effects of urine pH and volume.

Other factors discussed include the role of route of administration, the matter of frequency of medication use, the presence of substances in the environment, the possibility of post-collection contamination having occurred, and how to identify this nonhorseman-related source of positives. The discussion closes with the effects of medication formulation on detection times, increasing incidence of low concentration

identifications of environmental substances, and the role of unexpected metabolic transformations in generating unexpected positives.

This book also includes a series of specific alerts for certain therapeutic medications that are, for one reason or another, associated with an unusually high incidence or risk of what will call inadvertent positives. These medications include Acepromazine, Carbazochrome, Diclofenac, Dimethyl SulfOxide [DMSO], Fluphenazine, Furosemide, Glycopyrrolate, Ibuprofen, Isoxsuprine, Meloxicam, Methocarbamol, Methylprednisolone, Meclofenamic acid, Naproxen, Phenylbutazone, Premarin, and Pyrilamine.

Modern medication regulation is a highly technical area, being the result of a series of interfaces between horsemanship, analytical and forensic science, gambling, public relations, racing regulation and the law. It is an area that is rapidly evolving. Even as we prepared for publication in the first weeks of 2012, ongoing changes in regulation philosophy, interpretations, and actual regulations changes continued to evolve worldwide. Any actions taken by individuals in a specific regulatory jurisdiction should always involve a careful contemporary review of the in-place rules and regulations. n

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EW research, published in the Equine Veterinary Journal – the premier international journal for equine veterinary science – has shown that exercise early in life has a positive effect on musculoskeletal health and may have a positive impact on the future racing careers of Thoroughbreds.

A recent global collaborative research effort, led by scientists at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, and funded in part by both the U.K.’s Horserace Betting Levy Board and the New Zealand Racing Board, showed that exercising young horses was likely to have a beneficial effect on musculoskeletal tissues, and since musculoskeletal injuries are one of the main causes of wastage and days lost from training, this called the old dogma into question. By superimposing exercise on the normal pasture-based life of foals, researchers have

Jasmine Tanner of Massey University

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What do the statistics tell us about training two-year-olds – good or bad? New evidence from New Zealand suggests that entering training and racing at two years of age promotes a longer and more successful Thoroughbred racing career.

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been able to show that bone density is increased. The cannon bones of horses that were exercised as foals were bigger and stronger than those of foals managed conventionally. Everyone interested in racing would love nothing more than to produce stronger racehorses and see athletic injuries minimized. However, the experimental situation does not always translate to real life.

Jasmine Tanner of Massey University points out that recent scientific evidence suggests that, contrary to what the layman might anticipate, exercise at a young age may have a protective effect for the equine athlete. There

has been concern that racing young horses before their skeletons are mature, might blight their future and in particular lead to orthopedic problems.

Studies looking at lifetime achievements within racing have reported that 50% of Thoroughbred foals worldwide fail to race, while in Standardbreds a larger proportion, around 80%, will race. Reasons why foals do not make it to the racetrack include lack of ability, illness, and musculoskeletal injury. These statistics are a major cause for concern within the racing industry and this information has both important

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welfare and financial implications.

Building on these statistics, Dr. Tanner’s group has looked at the association of age at entry to race-training with number of race starts, the number of years raced by the age of seven and overall earnings for the 4683 Thoroughbreds and 1810 Standardbreds in New Zealand’s 2001/2002 foal crop. The three training milestones that were used to indicate early entry into training were registration with a trainer; trialing to assess race potential; and racing. The statistics overall are sobering: only 68% of the Thoroughbred foal crop were registered as entering training, 57% trialed, and 45% raced in New Zealand, but it is important to recognize that many New Zealand Thoroughbreds are exported and so some of the most promising individuals, because they are particularly successful, may have been omitted from this survey. Twelve percent of Thoroughbreds and 8% of Standardbreds were exported in this group.

Recent data from the U.K. suggests around 65% of the Thoroughbred foal crop will race, but it is telling that this statistic has not improved in the last three decades. More promisingly, of those that did race, in this survey 50% won at least one race and 64% were placed by the time they reached seven years.

Drilling down into the effects of age at entering training, Dr. Tanner’s study found similar results in both Standardbreds and Thoroughbreds and came to the conclusion that racing at two years was beneficial to a horse’s later career. Horses that were registered as entering training as two-yearolds had more race starts at three and beyond compared to those that were first registered as three-year-olds. Likewise, those that trialed and raced at two years subsequently had more starts: for example, Thoroughbreds that trialed at two went on to have a median of 12 starts at three and beyond compared to only eight in the group that trained first at three years. The figures were the same for those that raced at two years: a median of 12 future races compared to eight in the others. But, putting racecourse appearances aside, horses that entered race-training at two were also more likely to win or be placed than those that were first registered as entering training at three years: Thoroughbreds that first raced at two years were roughly four times more likely to win and five times more likely to be placed than their less precocious fellows. Colts were very slightly more likely to be placed and, predictably, had more earnings.

Statistical analysis of earnings is tricky from the scientific point of view: one or two high earning horses can have a disproportionate effect on analyses. However, taking these potential problems into account, Dr Tanner

was able to prove that horses that achieved the two-year-old milestones in New Zealand of trialing and racing had greater earnings than those that achieved these milestones later.

Dr. Tanner comments, “Musculoskeletal injuries are one the main causes of wastage in racing and days lost from training. Our study indicates that horses in training or racing as two-year-olds are more successful which suggests that may have better musculoskeletal health throughout life than those first in

“Our study indicates that horses in training or racing as two-year-olds are more successful which suggests that may have better musculoskeletal health throughout life than those first in training or racing at a later age” Jasmine Tanner

training or racing at a later age. This could have a positive impact on their future success in racing. If this is indeed the case then it may be possible to manipulate the initiation and structure of race-training to reduce the risk of such injuries in the future.”

We know that racing two-year-olds confers a lifelong racing career advantage; experimental studies suggest that bone, tendon, and other musculoskeletal tissues are made stronger by early exercise: the challenge now for the veterinary science community and trainers is how we can build on the Massey study to understand the interaction between race-training and musculoskeletal development to reduce injuries in racehorses.

This is an important study that exemplifies how science and the racing industry can work together for the ongoing benefit of the horse and horsemen. The data in this major study encapsulated the careers of an entire foal crop and included both Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds, and this partnership shows how collaboration between scientists and the racing industry can lead to robust populationbased analysis. The data come specifically from New Zealand and this immediately begs the question – does this apply to the rest of the world? Exact statistics and specific data might vary by a few percentage points from country to country but the overwhelming message here has global resonance: racing two-year olds is to be encouraged. n

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N an above-the-fold front page expose on Sunday, March 25, the Times unleashed a damning 6,000-word multimedia piece by Drape and three co-writers, about high rates of injuries and breakdowns – “incidents per 1,000 starts” is how the paper categorizes them, not to be confused with the standard “fatalities per 1,000 starts” – told with tawdry tales of drug abuse that gave it a Wild West flavor. The backdrop to the article is Ruidoso Downs and Casino in New Mexico, but the suggestion is that it’s Anytrack, USA. If the late Arnold Kirkpatrick was still penning this column, he’d say – with his trademark wit, a straight face, and a twinkle in his eyes – to industry leaders about the expose, “And if you didn’t know this was coming, fellas, with all the McKinsey Reports and RCI meetings and Round Tables we so solemnly hold every so often about improving this sport, about making it safer and cleaner, but forget about as quickly on the way home after a day or two of desk pounding and chest thumping, then we’re in greater trouble than I thought.”

After that, again with eyes twinkling, he’d probably dress down the authors and editors of the Times piece for shoddy, sensationalistic journalism and questionable science for lumping together Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred racing injury statistics in New Mexico as the focal point for indicting the Thoroughbred industry as a whole. “I may be a tottering old poot,” he might have said, “but I know journalism, son, and that’s not it.”

What the Times piece did, unfortunately, was to further fragment an already leaderless industry, because no one body speaks for racing as a whole. And this became loud and clear from the article’s responses (or lack thereof), which sputtered out in bits and pieces, mostly in defensive postures for the agendas of some of these organizations.

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) and the Jockey Club responses were the most notable. The NTRA, without questioning the thesis of the article, capitulated right away and said in earnest that “participants must consider all options for

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Scratching beneath the surface of the injury debate The New York Times has, during the tenure of its racing writer Joe Drape, crusaded against drugs in racing, and it has long suggested that breakdowns and injuries are the results of rampant drug usage. enacting nationwide reform.” But it patted itself on the back, too, with this: “Over the past several years, the industry has instituted a number of significant safety and integrity reforms, including such initiatives as the Equine Injury Database, the NTRA Safety and Integrity Alliance and the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance.”

The Jockey Club, which has been on a mission of its own to ban raceday medication, issued an update to its Reformed Racing Medication Rules on March 30, featuring a broader categorization of drugs and stiffer penalties for violations after its president, James L. Gagliano, told the Times in a March 29 article, “The Jockey Club continues to believe that horses should run only when they

“Both studies make it patently clear that incidents per 1,000 are significantly greater in the sun-baked, arid West – especially in New Mexico, Arizona, and California – than anywhere else”

are free from the influence of medication and that there should be no place in this sport for those who repeatedly violate medication rules.”

What apparently neither the NTRA nor the Jockey Club has done in its haste to comment and further its agendas is examine the raw Times data in depth, which, to a great degree, has been corroborated by a Thoroughbred Times study published on April 7. The Thoroughbred Times found the average incident per 1,000 was 4.33 versus the Times rate of 5.2 for Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse starts but that the geographic patterns of incidents were essentially the same. And in both studies, the patterns that emerge about injuries and breakdowns transcend the Jockey Club’s singular focus on raceday medication and the NTRA’s myriad initiatives and are at odds with parts of the Times thesis itself, which ignores racing surfaces.

For example, both studies make it patently clear that incidents per 1,000 are significantly greater in the sun-baked, arid West – especially in New Mexico (with Ruidoso Downs tops at 13.9 incidents per 1,000, according to the Times), Arizona, and California – than anywhere else.

And both studies corroborate that the synthetic surfaces outside of California at Presque Isle Downs and Casino in Pennsylvania, Keeneland in Kentucky, and Woodbine in Canada (the Times alone) are the three safest tracks in North America. Presque Isle’s rate is 1.3, Woodbine’s is 1.4, and Keeneland’s is 1.6, according to the Times.

(According to Thoroughbred Times, Presque Isle’s rate is 1.05 and Keeneland’s is 1.65).

Based on the information provided, track surfaces play a major role in injury rates, everything else being equal, and synthetic surfaces outside California are apparently the best safeguard against injury and breakdowns yet this hasn’t been addressed by the paper or the organizations it has on the run.

Arnold Kirkpatrick, who liked factoids, would probably suggest that the Jockey Club, the NTRA, and the Times get their heads out of the sand – the real stuff, anyway. n

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