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The Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit, established in 2006 out of concern over the industry’s response to Barbaro’s severe injury in the previous year’s Preakness, was held for the 10th time on June 22. It has become an important gathering for those in the scientific, research and veterinary communities working to make racing […]

It’s been a busy week for DeShawn Parker, who recorded his 6,000th career win on June 21 at Horseshoe Indianapolis aboard a colt named For Mama. He dedicated the victory to his late father, highly respected Ohio racing official Daryl Parker, who died in 2021. On Saturday, Parker will be at JACK Thistledown near Cleveland […]

With the 2022 Triple Crown in the history books and no dominant leader in the 3-year-old division, racing fans begin to look ahead to important summer Grade 1 contests like the TVG.com Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park on July 23 and the Runhappy Travers at Saratoga on Aug. 27. In this week’s Friday Show, Ray […]

The Triple Crown comes to a close with Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, the culmination of a three-day racing festival at Belmont Park offering stakes for virtually every division of Thoroughbreds on both dirt and turf at the Elmont, N.Y., track. And while most of the best horses in training are participating, many of the races wound […]

There are just four weeks until the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority – the non-governmental organization created by a federal law passed by Congress in December 2020 – officially launches its Racetrack Safety Program on July 1 (an Anti-Doping and Medication Control Program goes into effect Jan. 1, 2023). This means, for the first time, […]

Here at the Paulick Report, we cover a lot of regulatory topics, and what usually grinds our gears is inaction – rules that should be in place, but aren’t, and their consequences. On this week’s episode of The Friday Show, we’re going in the opposite direction, and looking at some rules that are in place, […]

Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher has run 62 horses in the Kentucky Derby, but only four of those runners have competed two weeks later in the Triple Crown’s second leg, the Preakness Stakes, which will be conducted at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., for the 147th time on Saturday. Two of those who […]