The panel was moderated by John Kimmel, a New York-based trainer with a degree in veterinary medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. Panelists were Christophe Clement (US/France); John Gosden (UK/AUS), Richard Mandella (US); Graham Motion (US); and John Size (HK/AUS). The presentation was organized around questions that Kimmel asked. This isn’t a transcript, but a…
As I wrote in my first post about this Monday summit, I came to it with little prior knowledge about the use of Lasix or about bleeding in horses. Given the length, detail, and number of the presentations, it would be impossible to capture everything that was said; I’m trying to distill what I found…
Doing this in small and, I hope, manageable bites, a presentation or two at a time. Following a morning in which the focus was on the basics of EIPH (exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage) and the effects of furosemide (Lasix/Salix), lunchtime and afternoon sessions were devoted to an exploration of international and North American perspectives on EIPH…
I don’t know a lot about medication in horses. I’m neither a vet, nor a scientist, nor a horsewoman. For these reasons, I haven’t had much of an opinion on race day medications in horses, leaving those decisions to those better informed than I. And for these reasons, I spent the first day of my…
It feels both fitting and exhausting that the school year comes to an end just as the Triple Crown does. I’m sitting today in my last full day of end-of-year meetings; yesterday, I published my final post at BelmontStakes.com; early Sunday afternoon, I filed my last Triple Crown race story for Thoroughbred Times. Since late…
Heading into Belmont weekend, the horse Colin is getting a lot of love. Of course, over at Colin’s Ghost, Kevin Martin has done several recent posts on the namesake of website; in 2008, he did a series of posts on the undefeated horse, commemorating the 100th anniversary of his win in the Belmont Stakes. I…
Belmont Park: The Grade I, $1 million Belmont Stakes at 1 ½ miles #1 Master Of Hounds (10-1 ML): European ran quite credibly to be fifth in the Derby after getting modest reviews in terms of appearance leading up to the race and that was only his second start of the year, so you would…
Earlier this week, I posted on Twitter and Facebook the ad below for this year’s Belmont Stakes. I wrote, “I love this ad. And I know that it’s stuff like this that makes non-New Yorkers hate us…but I still love it.” The responses to the ad were all favorable…perhaps because those who don’t like it…
I met her in the winner’s circle at Churchill Downs. I’d been assigned to cover the Eight Belles on Oaks Day, a race in which my focus was on Arienza, Azeri’s first foal who’d won her first two starts before losing to the dominant Joyful Victory in the Fantasy Stakes. Watching from the rail, disappointed…
It’s Belmont week! As usual, Belmont is dark today and tomorrow, but the mornings on the backstretch will be busy, as shippers arrive and those horses on the ground continue to work towards this weekend’s races. In addition to the racing action, several racing organizations are taking advantage of the focus on Belmont to raise…
Brooklyn Backstretch 