Author: from Bucyrus Fair

The first clash of the Hambletonian-hopeful 3-year-old trotting males took place Monday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with even-money shots Herodotus and Once In A Lifetime earning new speed marks while winning their respective $37,500 divisions.

On Wednesday (May 18), Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas, denied an injunction sought by opponents of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act from implementing their Anti-Doping and Medication Control program starting on Monday (May 22).

We did not anticipate reaching out to you, but we couldn’t help reacting to the broadside that your president, James L. Gagliano, directed at the National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association (NHPBA) on May 12 for having the temerity to challenge The Jockey Club’s wounded sacred cow, the Horseracing Integrity & Safety Act (HISA). You didn’t mention the U.S. Trotting Association (USTA) by name, but there’s a clear implication that the USTA is one of those “unrelated, agenda-driven, special interest activist” plaintiffs that you flippantly accuse as trying to “hoodwink” the racing public. How ironic.

U.S. District Court Judge James Hendrix ruled on Thursday that the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act, which was amended by Congress and signed into law in December 2022, is constitutional according to a story in Thoroughbred Daily News.

Veteran reinsman Bruce Ranger moved four steps closer to the 10,000-win threshold on Saturday at Cumberland, picking up a quartet of victories including three-in-a-row on the 12-race program.

The homebred daughter of Dude’s The Man, Dudes Sweet Bet fought off all challengers on her way to another victory in Saturday night’s $19,000 featured Filly & Mare Open Pace.

Regardless of whether you liked It’s Academic in Saturday night’s $40,000 featured Open 1 for trotters at The Meadowlands or you didn’t, it would have been tough to think that in a field that included Hillexotic, Lovedbythemasses, Inaminute Hanover, Ahundreddollarbill and Delayed Hanover that the Ron Burke trainee would be sent to the gate as the prohibitive 1-5 choice.

Natameri (John MacDonald) captured the featured $8,500 Open 1 Pace at Vernon Downs on Saturday (April 29).

Catch Me Conrad (Tellitlikeitis – Envy) and driver Lindsay Moen scored in the Saturday night $10,800 featured Open Handicap Pace at Northville Downs.