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Race horse trainer Steve Asmussen, who set the record of 555 wins in 2004, broke his own record for most wins in a year Sunday when Prophesy won the first race at Remington Park to give the trainer victory number 556.
Steve Asmussen, who also trains reigning Horse of the Year Curlin, equaled the mark with 2 winners Saturday, and topped the record after 3-year-old gray filly Prophesy won by a half-length as the even-money favorite.
“We’ve had a tremendous year, made possible by some tremendous opportunities and my outstanding help,” race horse trainer Steve Asmussen said from the Fair Grounds, where he had several horses entered Sunday.
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Race horse trainer Steve Asmussen announced Tuesday that the Louisiana Derby winner, Pyro, will be one of the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile entries and will not run in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
Pyro was one of the 3 Breeders’ Cup contenders of Steve Asmussen pre-entered for the Breeders’ Cup Classic, including defending Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Curlin and Student Council.
The 2008 Breeders’ Cup will be run for 2 days from October 24-25 at Santa Anita Park. Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile post time is 11:30 am while the Breeders’ Cup Classic post time is 3:45 pm Pacific.
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By GREG MELIKOV
Bill Allen was asked a quarter-century ago why he was putting up 12 percent of the $3 million purse to supplement his Wild Again in the inaugural Breeders’ Cup Classic at Hollywood Park when the thoroughbred had no chance.
Allen, who organized and led Black Chip Stables, promptly predicted his horse was going to win and he was betting on it, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Wild Again went off at more than 31-1. The son of Icecapade led from the half-mile marker and won by a head in a rough-and-tumble race that prompted a stewards’ inquiry. Runner-up Gate Dancer was disqualified to third for interferring with favored Slew O’ Gold during the final furlong while the latter was advanced to second.
Allen, from Clarendon, TX, has been involved in horse racing for four decades. He is among four Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductees that will be enshrined on Oct. 4.
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Jockey Edgar Prado and Street Sense trainer Carl Nafzger, who between them have 3 Kentucky Derby wins, led a group of 6 new inductees into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame on Monday.
Inducted with jockey Edgar Prado and race horse trainer Carl Nafzger were retired jockey Ismael Valenzuela and three race horses: Manila, Inside Information and Ancient Title.
“I want to thank God for making me 5-foot-3 and 114 pounds so all this could happen,” jockey Edgar Prado said to an appreciative, capacity crowd gathered at the Hall across the street from Saratoga Race Course, home of the 2008 Travers Stakes.
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Kentucky horse racing officials have granted race horse trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. a continuance, pushing back his appeal of a drug suspension.
Dutrow, who was scheduled to meet with a hearing officer Tuesday, was granted a continuance by the Kentucky Racing Commission on Monday. No date of the next hearing has been set.
The next order of business for Rick Dutrow is to get Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown ready for the Haskell Invitational on Sunday, August 3, at Monmouth Park.
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A horse trained by Richard Dutrow, Jr., Salute the Count, that raced at Churchill Downs the day before Big Brown won the Kentucky Derby tested positive for twice the allowable level of the drug clenbuterol, a bronchodilator that helps burn fat and promote muscle growth, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Authority (KHRA) will issue the ruling Wednesday, suspend horse trainer Richard Dutrow, Jr. for 15 days and demand the horse’s owner to return the $20,000 in purse earnings, racing officials told the newspaper.
Richard Dutrow, Jr. has 10 days to appeal the penalty, which trainers often do to delay serving the suspension. However, John Veitch, the chief state steward for the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority, said that Dutrow waived his right to a formal hearing, and more or less accepted responsibility.
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After Horse of the Year Curlin’s 4 1/4 length victory in the Stephen Foster Handicap, horse trainer Steve Asmussen says he’s planning to work Curlin on turf while considering a trip to Paris for a bid in France’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Fr-I), Europe’s greatest race for older horses.
“We’ve talked about it since last year, since the (Breeders’ Cup) Classic and he (Jess Jackson, owner of Stonestreet Stable) put him back in training,” said horse trainer Steve Asmussen.
Curlin, who has a record of 9-1-2 in 12 career starts, will work on the Churchill Downs turf course and be pointed to a turf race in the United States in July. Among the possibilities are the $500,000 Man O’ War (gr. I) at 1 3/8 miles at Belmont Park and the $200,000 Arlington Handicap (gr. III) at 1 1/4 miles at Arlington Park., both on July 12.
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Big Brown’s trainer, Richard Dutrow, Jr., is scheduled to testify next week at a Congressional hearing examining safety issues in thoroughbred horse racing.
Richard Dutrow, Jr. was on the witness list released Wednesday for the June 19 hearing to be held by the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection. The hearing is titled “Breeding, Drugs, and Breakdowns: The State of Thoroughbred Horseracing and the Welfare of the Thoroughbred Racehorse.”
Subcommittee chairman Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., and ranking Republican Ed Whitfield of Kentucky recently announced plans for the hearing. They expressed concern about the sport after Eight Belles broke down last month at the Kentucky Derby and was euthanized on the track of Churchill Downs.
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Big Brown’s trainer, Richard Dutrow, Jr., believes that jockey Kent Desormeaux’s ride in the 2008 Belmont Stakes last Saturday, June 7, at Belmont Park cost Big Brown the Triple Crown.
Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown was eased in the final quarter-mile of the Belmont Stakes by jockey Kent Desormeaux and failed to finish the race.
If Big Brown is healthy, the plan is for him to run next in the Travers Stakes on August 23 at Saratoga. where horse racing fans might see a rematch between 2008 Belmont Stakes winner Da’ Tara and Big Brown.
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Big Brown trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. says he feels “like a loser” after Big Brown’s last-place finish in the Belmont Stakes, and he was still searching for answers Monday about what went wrong.
Big Brown became the first horse seeking the Triple Crown to finish last in 140 years of running the 1 1/2 -mile Belmont Stakes.
“I feel like a loser right now and I don’t know why,” horse trainer Richard Dutrow, Jr. told the Daily Racing Form on Monday. “Usually when I get beat I can handle it the right way, and I’ve handled this the right way, but I just feel like something’s not right.”
Dutrow said that unless Big Brown shows signs of a physical problem, the colt will be pointed to the Travers Stakes on August 23 at Saratoga and then the Breeders’ Cup Classic in October at Santa Anita Park.
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