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by Jennifer K. Hancock
Meet Ginny HardinG at tHe ruidoso select yearlinG sale
Oh September! Fall is fast approaching and the fastest 2- and 3-year-old horses will be racing on the Mountain for their place in the history books.
Kissn Carter is the 446th and final horse listed in the 2016 Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale catalog. The sale will be held Sept. 2-4 and begins immediately following the conclusion of the day’s races.
The mega-talented Ginny Harding of Horse Heaven Gallery will be at the sale each evening with her artwork and the 2016 edition of her Fine Art Jockey Trading Cards. The series’ three new riders are Ricky Ramirez, Gilbert Ortiz, and Larry Payne. Ramirez is currently ranked fifth for the year for Quarter Horse jockeys with $1,251,240 in earnings, but last year he topped all jockeys with $3,675,556 in earnings. Part
of the exclusive 3,000-win club, Ortiz has $1,056,119 in earnings in 2016 and is currently ranked eighth nationally. Payne has won 10 percent of his 111 starts this year and has lifetime earnings of $28,375,968.
These three 2016 jockeys, as well as some riders featured in earlier series, will be on hand to sign them at Ruidoso Downs. The signing will take place at the track on Sunday at 10 a.m. prior to the day’s races. Horse Heaven Gallery’s booth and jockey signing table will be set up near the program sales at the entrance
to the track. All proceeds will be donated to a rider in need or the Permanently Disabled Jockey Fund.
Visit Horse Heaven Gallery’s Facebook page for more information on the signings, and stop by Ginny’s booth at the sale or on Sunday at the races to pick up these collector item cards.
lone star Park oPens
Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie, Texas, opens
its fall Quarter Horse meet on Sept. 16. The track recently announced that it will allow horses shipping from Ruidoso Downs to enter the stable area after Ruidoso Downs lifted it quarantine on EHV-2.
A letter on the Horsemen’s page of Lone Star
Park website states: “Horsemen are reminded that we continue to require to all horses admitted to or already in the stable area to have a current (90 day) FDA approved EHV-1 vaccine or EHV-1 booster. Vaccine information must be noted on the health certificate for admittance to Lone Star Park’s stable area.
“All trainers and horse haulers are urged to take extreme caution when transporting horses to properly disinfect and sanitize their trailers if there is any chance they may have transported an exposed horse. We also stress the importance of everyday biosecurity methods for all horsemen to continue to follow.”
Lone Star’s 26-day fall meet runs through Nov. 12 and features eight stakes for Quarter Horses. The track will also host stakes for Arabians, Paints and Appaloosas
during the meet, including the Speedhorse Lone Star Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1. Racing will be conducted Thursday-Saturday with first post each night at 6:35 p.m. Visit www.lonestarpark.com for the latest information.
disqualifications
The Oklahoma Horse Racing Board stewards took down Telesforo Perrett’s Zoomin Effortlessly from his win in the June 4 Remington Park Championship-G1 after a positive test for stanozolol. The 5-year-old gelding is now unplaced after the stewards’ ruling. The new order of finish is Moonin The Eagle first, TF Cajun Cartel second, and Bodacious Eagle third.
Moonin The Eagle is owned by Gregorio Garcia Garza, trained by Rolando Almanza, and was ridden by Esgar Ramirez. Now a perfect three-for-three in 2016, Moonin The Eagle’s career record improves to seven wins in 14 starts, two seconds and one third with earnings of $548,985.
The order of finish in the West Texas Futurity-G2, which was contested on April 30 at Sunland Park
in New Mexico, has also been adjusted following disqualifications of the first- and third-place finishers after positive lab tests from the April 15 trials. Jess Prize Me, who finished second, was named the winner of the $214,635 West Texas Futurity-G2.
Eyema Blue Wagon, who crossed the wire first, is owned by Regal Racing Stables, LLC and trained by Albert Franco. Groupie James, who crossed the wire third in the final, is owned by Carlos Trujillo Jr. and trained by Jose Ramirez, Sr. Both horses are now listed as unplaced in the West Texas Futurity-G2.
Jess Prize Me, who earned $102,414 for the win, follows in her dam’s hoofsteps as Fast Prize Zoom also won the West Texas Futurity. Bred by Weetona Stanley and W.E. Smith, the bay filly is trained by Chris Zamora and owned by LMG Racing, Inc. Valorus was placed second and Imperial Eagle was placed third.
cHallenGe testinG announced
The American Quarter Horse Association’s Bank of America Challenge Championships will be held Oct. 29-30 at Los Alamitos. Per track rules, horses competing in the Challenge Championship races will be required to be on the grounds no later than Oct. 12.
AQHA has announced that, as a condition of eligibility for the Challenge Championship races, AQHA and Los Alamitos Race Course in cooperation with the California Horse Racing Board will require out-of-competition
hair testing for clenbuterol as a criteria for eligibility. In addition to clenbuterol, Los Alamitos also requires that all horses participating in major races such as the Challenge Championship races also test free of albuterol, zilpaterol, and ractopamine in hair tests to be eligible to race.
The presence of clenbuterol can be determined
by testing hair samples at the University of California Davis Maddy Lab. UC Davis provides post-race sample
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