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Late Stallion Givemeaminit Sires First Stakes Winner

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The filly is a member of her sire’s solitary crop.

Late sire and Louisiana champion 3-year-old male Givemeaminit sired his first stakes winner when his daughter Platinum Minit  captured the $125,000 Crescent City Oaks for state-bred sophomore fillies at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots March 23.

Plantinum Minit is from her sire’s first and only foal crop of just three registered foals. Givemeaminit, a grade 1-placed son of Star Guitar  , succumbed to EPM (equine protozoal myeloencephalitis) during his first season at stud. He stood at his breeder’s farm, Clear Creek Stud, in Louisiana, before his death in 2020.

Platinum Minit’s first black-type score was not without its share of drama. The 3-year-old Dallas Stewart trainee dueled stride for stride to the wire with Clearly a Test , only to be beaten a neck by that rival. She was inevitably declared the winner when stewards ruled she was hampered by Clearly a Test, who failed to keep a straight course the length of the stretch and repeatedly bore into Platinum Minit.

 

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Texas Horsemen Welcome Potential New Austin Track

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The new track would join Sam Houston Race Park and Lone Star Park in the state.

Plans are in motion for a third race track in Texas, this one would be built outside of Austin.

Plans for this track were first reported by Thoroughbred Racing Commentary.

The new track would join Sam Houston Race Park and Lone Star Park as Thoroughbred race tracks in the state.

 

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Research Finds Inbreeding a Factor in Pregnancy Loss

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Research explores genomic inbreeding and late-term pregnancy loss.

 

New research from the Royal Veterinary College, in collaboration with Cornell University, has found inbreeding to be a contributing factor in mid- and late-term pregnancy loss in Thoroughbreds.

This is the first study that explores the effect of genomic inbreeding levels on late-term pregnancy loss in the horse and will help inform mating choices to minimize the risk of miscarriages in Thoroughbreds.

Inbreeding is a common practice in horse breeding and livestock industries because individuals with desirable traits are highly prized. However, excessive inbreeding is known to increase the probability of uncovering homozygous recessive genotypes that previously have been associated with an increased risk of retained placenta and lower semen quality in horses.

 

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Florida Owners and Breeders Applaud State Lawmakers

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The Florida legislature passed March 8 a sweeping omnibus tax package that includes the extension of Florida’s all-time strongest Thoroughbred breeding and racing incentives and maintains state funding of Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority regulatory assessments.

In 2023, the Florida legislature enacted a two-year breeding and racing stimulus package totaling more than $65 million. This year’s bill, HB 7073, removes a two-year statutory sunset and, if signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis, extends critical industry funding.

 

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Trainer Delany Back Home After Accident at Delta Downs

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Delany was kicked in the back of the neck by a horse Feb. 7.

Trainer Sarah Delany, who was kicked in the back of the neck by a horse last week, was released from a Houston, Texas, hospital Feb. 13. But her road to recovery is just beginning.

Delany was tending to a horse Feb. 7 at Delta Downs Racetrack when the accident happened.

“I really don’t know what I would do without all my friends and all the people that have reached out to me and my husband (Benny Martinez). … I’m so blessed,” Delany said via text shortly after being discharged.

 

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Lucky Appeal First Winner for Stallion Breaking Lucky

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Breaking Lucky stands for $4,000 at Blue Star Racing in Louisiana.

 

Lucky Appeal  became the first winner for Louisiana stallion Breaking Lucky in winning a $33,000 open maiden race by a neck Jan. 27 at Sam Houston Race Park.

The 3-year-old gelding, owned by Henry S. Witt Jr. and trained by Sarah Davidson, rallied from last to run down Flotation Station near the wire. He raced 5 1/2 furlongs on a fast track in 1:07.72 under Richard Bracho. Bred in Louisiana by Blue Star Racing, Lucky Appeal is out of the Successful Appeal mare Mythic Appeal .

BREAKING LUCKY’S RACE RECORD

Breaking Lucky raced initially for Gunpowder Farms and delivered a victory in the 2015 Prince of Wales Stakes—the second leg of Canada’s Triple Crown—at Fort Erie and placed in the Ontario Derby (G3). The following year, he won the 2016 Seagram Cup Stakes (G3) at Woodbine and placed in four other graded stakes, including a second in the Clark Handicap (G1).

 

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Louisiana-Bred Colt is Golden Pal’s First Foal

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Coteau Grove Farms bred the colt out of the Scat Daddy mare Multi Strategy.

Ashford Stud’s grade 1-winning turf sprinter Golden Pal   sired his first reported foal Jan. 9 when the winning Scat Daddy mare Multi Strategy produced a bay colt at Keith and Ginger Myers’ Coteau Grove Farms in Louisiana.

Multi Strategy, who is owned by the Myers, is out of the French Deputy grade 3 winner Freefourracing , making the mare a half sister to stakes winners Ready Racer  and Speedway . The immediate family also includes grade 1 winner Five Star Flight.

“This is a strong colt with great bone and muscle,” said Coteau Grove broodmare manager Jacob Cyprian. “He has a beautiful head with quality. We sold his half brother for good money, so hopefully this colt will do the same.”

 

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Touchuponastar Untouchable in Louisiana Champions Day Repeat

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The Star Guitar gelding has won nine of his last 10 races.

 

Coming off convincing stakes victories, including one against open company, Touchuponastar  did exactly as expected back in against fellow Louisiana-breds, dominating the Dec. 9 Louisiana Champions Day Classic Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. With Tim Thornton aboard, the 4-year-old Star Guitar   gelding led gate to wire, taking the $145,500 feature by a geared-down 1 1/4 lengths in 1:50.12 for 1 1/8 miles over a fast surface.

Tumbarumba  was second, 16 1/2 lengths clear of Cosmic Train  in third. Bayou Jam  was fourth and last.

Touchuponastar, sent off at 1/5, also won this race last year, clinching Louisiana’s champion 3-year-old colt or gelding honors. Jeff Delhomme trains the regional sensation for his brother, former New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme, and father, Jerry Delhomme, who race as Set-Hut. Jerry Delhomme trains Cosmic Train and all runners were individual betting interests.

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Spinning Aces Becomes First Stakes Winner for Hard Aces

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Spinning Aces wins the Jean Lafitte Stakes at Delta Downs
Spinning Aces wins the Jean Lafitte Stakes at Delta Downs

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Hard Aces went to stud at Averett Farm in Louisiana after his racing career.

Louisiana-based stallion Hard Aces was represented by his first stakes winner last week when Spinning Aces captured the Nov. 10 Jean Lafitte Stakes at Delta Downs.

Racing in third early, Spinning Aces advanced to take command and was determined through the stretch, defeating Awesome Ruta by a neck. He raced seven furlongs over a sloppy track under Joel Dominguez in 1:27.86, posting an 82 Equibase Speed Figure. He paid $19.80 to win in taking the open, $100,000 stakes event.

Spinning Aces, a 2-year-old gelding bred by Gerald Averett Jr. in Louisiana out of the Afternoon Deelites  mare Just Alex, is 2-0-1 in three starts with earnings of $89,540 for owner Lynne Boutte and trainer Allen Landry.

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Uncertainty Amid HISA Conflict Continues in Texas

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Texas tracks have been unable to send their domestic simulcast signal out-of-state.

 

Lone Star Park, like some other tracks across the country on July 4, will ignite fireworks before thousands of fans in a celebration of Independence Day, coming on the closing day of the track’s Thoroughbred season.

But amid continued opposition of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority by the Texas Racing Commission and other entities in Texas, the state’s Thoroughbred industry has taken on a less celebratory mood over the past year. Texas tracks running Thoroughbred meets have been unable to send their domestic simulcast signal out of state over the length of the dispute, which began last July when HISA began its initial responsibilities for enforcing uniform safety and integrity rules in United States Thoroughbred racing.

Since then, the overall handle has plunged at Lone Star Park and Sam Houston Race Park, the state’s other track that hosts Thoroughbred racing.

 

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