National Headlines | Paulick Report | 269 days ago
This weekend marks one of the biggest events of the year on
the racing calendar - the 143rd running of the Travers
Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. The "Mid-Summer Derby"
features some of the top...
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HBPA ‘zero tolerance’: Too good to be true?
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 269 days ago
It was a tough and clear-cut statement the National
Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association put out
in June in the wake of the dozens of positive tests in
Thoroughbred and Quarter horse...
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Three-year-old retirements: Tough choices, sleepless nights
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 270 days ago
There is a simplistic, sometimes angry – and usually
mistaken – assumption among many racing fans that when
someone is fortunate enough to breed or purchase the type of
Thoroughbred capable of...
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Nebraska: Six weeks for frog juice positive
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 273 days ago
Frog juice has spread to another state. This time it’s
Nebraska, where owner-trainer Kim Veerhusen has been
wrist-slapped with a $1,500 fine and a brief suspension that
ends Sept. 19, 2012, after a...
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Nebraska: Officials investigating Dermorphin positive at Horsemen’s Park
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 273 days ago
Frog juice has spread to another state. This time it’s
Nebraska, where owner-trainer Kim Veerhusen has been
wrist-slapped with a $1,500 fine and a brief suspension that
ends Sept. 19, 2012, after a...
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Fantasy ‘Capping with Chris: The Alabama Stakes
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 276 days ago
The competition is heating up as we head into week 3 of the
Breeders' Cup's Fantasy 'Capping Challenge. Each week,
players try to select the winner of one of the key races
leading up to the Breeders'...
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Jagow: In your heart of hearts, Del Mar or Saratoga?
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 276 days ago
Del Mar or Saratoga?
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Betting on a Button
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 278 days ago
Late on Monday’s Saratoga race card, a steward
accidentally closed the betting on the ninth race with still
two minutes to post. Carmine Donofrio, a racing board
steward, claimed he saw another race...
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Can Jockey Club reforms overcome ‘confederacy of dunces’?
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 280 days ago
Just because a situation looks hopeless doesn’t mean you
should give up. That philosophy, apparently, is what is
driving The Jockey Club and other supporters of medication
reform in horse racing.
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Court puts Penn National’s move to ban trainer on hold
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 280 days ago
Here is a curious case, but not a surprising one given the
Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission’s longstanding record
of regulatory impotence.
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Hope is home!
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 281 days ago
I'll Have Another's biggest racing fan, Hope Hudson, is
finally home from the hospital after her courageous surgery.
12-year-old Hope underwent her 10th operation on Aug. 8 to
help solve the symptoms...
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Fantasy ‘Capping with Chris: Fourstardave Handicap
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 283 days ago
It's week two of the Breeders' Cup's Fantasy 'Capping
challenge. Each week, players try to pick the winner of one
of the key races leading up to the Breeders' Cup at Santa
Anita Park in November....
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Prayers for Hope: An Update on Hope Hudson’s Surgery
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 284 days ago
Hope Hudson, the 12-year-old Missouri girl who became a
beloved member of the I’ll Have Another family during this
year’s Triple Crown, underwent surgery in St. Louis on
Wednesday, her 10th operation...
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California racing’s Catch-22
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 285 days ago
To best demonstrate the California Horse Racing Board’s
new rule voiding the claim of any horse that is
catastrophically injured and euthanized on the racetrack,
I’d like to borrow some dialogue from...
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Hospitality firm owned by Cowboys, Yankees hired to sell tickets to The Mansion at Churchill Downs
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 285 days ago
Churchill Downs has retained a company co-owned by the
Dallas Cowboys and New York Yankees to sell spaces to its
new luxury accommodation named The Mansion at Churchill
Downs, according to a report...
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Paulick Report Special: F-T Saratoga Sale, Day 2
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 286 days ago
The Thoroughbred yearling sales is in full swing with the
Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale that started Aug. 6. As the sale
enters its second day Aug. 7, the Paulick Report is back
once again with a...
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Thistledown bans trainer Exposito after allegedly pulling gun on jockey
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 286 days ago
Trainer Adolfo J. Exposito is facing criminal charges in
North Randall, Ohio, after allegedly assaulting and
threatening jockey Hector L. Rosario Jr. with a gun in the
parking lot of Thistledown...
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Prayers for Hope
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 287 days ago
Hope Hudson, the frail 12-year-old Missouri girl who touched
so many hearts during this year’s Triple Crown after the
Make A Wish Foundation and Three Chimneys Farm arranged for
her to come to the...
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Paulick Report Special: F-T Saratoga Sale
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 287 days ago
The Thoroughbred yearling sales will be in full swing over
the next two evenings with the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale
that will be held Aug. 6-7. The Paulick Report is back once
again with a special...
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Monarchos doing "very well" following colic surgery
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 289 days ago
Charles Nuckols III reported late Friday that stallion
Monarchos, winner of the 2001 Kentucky Derby, is doing "very
well" after emergency colic surgery this week. The
14-year-old is still at the...
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Fantasy ‘Capping with Chris
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 290 days ago
The Breeders' Cup has launched the newest fantasy sports
game, Fantasy 'Capping, and Chris Paulick, son of Paulick
Report founder, Ray Paulick, is all over it. Each week,
starting this Saturday,...
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Stallion Monarchos undergoes emergency surgery for colic
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 291 days ago
For the second time in about a year, 2001 Kentucky Derby
winner and Nuckols Farm stallion Monarchos is battling
colic. The farm reports that the 14-year-old was rushed to
Hagyard Equine Medical...
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Ebanks ‘blindsided and shocked’ by Rosario sacking
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 292 days ago
Joel Rosario, who moved to New York from Southern California
in late June in hopes of taking his career to the next
level, has fired his agent for the second time in two and a
half years, switching...
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Move Over Media: Here comes ‘The Mansion’
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 293 days ago
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Japanese jockey Fukunaga breaks through at Del Mar
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 294 days ago
It was a just a 2-year-old maiden event, squeezed in between
the Grade 2 Amsterdam Stakes at Saratoga and Grade 1 Haskell
Invitational at Monmouth Park, but Sunday’s third race at
Del Mar felt like a...
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It’s Sweet 16 Time!
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 297 days ago
You may have heard about our Facebook All-Time Favorite
Thoroughbred Bracket Challenge on TVG's Blinkers Off today
or perhaps you have been playing along and even entered a
bracket to win some...
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Vet who testified before Congress embroiled in legal battle
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 299 days ago
Sheila Lyons, the veterinarian whose July 12 testimony
before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and
Transportation was critical of current medication and
veterinary practices in the...
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Bracket Time! Join Our Thoroughbred Favorites Facebook Tournament
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 299 days ago
We have completed the First Round of our July Madness
bracket challenge on the Paulick Report Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/paulickreport. We saw some stunning
upset winners (seeding was...
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Lasix pledge represents step forward, sacrifice
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 300 days ago
The word “hypocrite” has been thrown around a great deal
lately on the divisive issue of race-day medication in
American horseracing.
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Del Mar Diaries: The Jockeys, ‘Uncovered’
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 304 days ago
Horse racing jockeys are some of the most finely-tuned
athletes in the world. But like all professional athletes,
they are people with lives outside of their game. It's just
not that often you get to...
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Del Mar’s opening: broken attendance records are a broken record
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 305 days ago
They did it again.
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‘Where the turf meets the surf’: Del Mar kicks off its 75th season of racing
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 306 days ago
The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club kicks off its diamond
anniversary meeting at 2 p.m. (PDT) Wednesday with a couple
of traditions that have been around for awhile, though not
for the seaside track’s...
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Tony Leonard: There will never be another
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 307 days ago
The first Belmont Stakes I ever attended was in 1988, and I
have a clear recollection of my introduction to Tony Leonard
that afternoon. As the horses for the big race were leaving
the stable area...
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July Madness: Join in our Thoroughbred bracket challenge today!
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 308 days ago
If you are a member of our Facebook community, it's likely
you've seen our July Madness bracket challenge celebrating
the passion of the racing fan. A few weeks back, we asked
members of our Facebook...
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U.S. Senate hearing: We’ve been here before
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 312 days ago
If Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees Hall of Famer, were in
attendance at this afternoon’s United States Senate
hearing of the Committee on Commerce, Science and
Transportation (entitled Medication...
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Rash of Dermorphin Positives in Ruidoso Futurity Qualifying
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 313 days ago
The highly publicized scandals of 2012 over illegal drug use
in horse racing – particularly in Quarter horses – may
have reached their zenith at Ruidoso Downs on May 25 when
eight of the winners of...
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Prominent racing family’s mares rescued from Texas slaughter auction
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 313 days ago
There is nothing illegal about it, but I was stunned to
learn that one of the most prominent families in Texas
horseracing may have been responsible for dumping 10
broodmares – including a daughter...
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Paulick Report Special: F-T July Sale
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 314 days ago
As the traditional Thoroughbred auction season gets underway
with the Fasig-Tipton July Sale Tuesday, the Paulick Report
is back with a special print publication available at the
sale.
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Senate committee unveils witness list for hearing on horse racing
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 315 days ago
Chairman John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV today announced the
witnesses testifying at the U.S. Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing this week on
“Medication and Performance...
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U.S. Senate to examine drugs in racing
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 318 days ago
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U.S. Senate to examine drugs in horse racing
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 318 days ago
"Medication and Performance Enhancing Drugs in Horse Racing"
will be in the spotlight next Thursday in Washington, D.C.,
when the United States Senate's Committee on Commerce,
Science and...
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Moo-ving like a winner: Cattle steroid charge in NorCal
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 321 days ago
The California Horse Racing Board has filed a complaint
against trainer Genaro Vallejo after a post-race sample from
the horse Red Dwarf tested positive for the prohibited Class
1 drug zilpaterol...
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Jury sends mixed signals in Everest Stables lawsuit against Canani, Licht
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 321 days ago
It was a case that could have been a storyline for an
episode of the short-lived HBO horseracing series
“LUCK.” Trainer Julio Canani – on whom the fictional
“LUCK” role of the cagey horse trainer...
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Jockey Club President: Reformed racing medication rules would enhance integrity of sport
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 325 days ago
“There’s no legitimate use for dermorphin in racing.
This drug in horses is an abuse of the horse. This puts the
horse’s life in danger. It puts the jockey’s life in
danger. This is an attempt to...
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Black Caviar racks up $20 million on Betfair
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 327 days ago
Black Caviar was the darling of the racing world, from
Melbourne to London and all points in between. She trended
on Twitter and prompted thousands of Australians to make the
trip all the way to...
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Fabulous Forum sold: Say goodbye to Hollywood?
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 327 days ago
Plans by Madison Square Garden Co. – new owners of the
Forum in Inglewood, Calif. – to pump $50 million into
resurrecting the former home of the Los Angeles Lakers and
Kings into a world-class music...
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Monmouth Park in driver’s seat to host 2013 Breeders’ Cup
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 329 days ago
One of the things New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo accomplished
with his takeover of the New York Racing Association was
elimination of Belmont Park as a likely host of the 2013
Breeders’ Cup, according to...
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Help preserve racing and breeding in Ontario
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 332 days ago
On Sunday, the attention of millions of Canadians and racing
fans throughout North America turns to the Queen’s Plate,
a time-honored race for 3-year-olds bred in Canada that will
be having its 153rd...
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Trainer Janks: It’s Fraud and It’s a Felony
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 332 days ago
Reading yet again of a new illegal drug, dermorphin, I
wonder when racing officials and owners will ever get it.
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The Tree Frog Drug: Combating the Latest Racetrack Cocktail
National Headlines | Paulick Report | 334 days ago
Dermorphin is a highly potent drug that only recently hit
the pharmaceutical landscape of American racetracks –
especially those in the southern regions of the country
where Quarter horses race – but...
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