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2012 A YEAR IN REVIEW
August 11
The AQHA officially endorses The Jockey Club’s proposed Reformed Racing Medication Rules.
August 18
Fair Grounds Race Course enjoys record on-track handle and attendance for
a Summer Quarter Horse program during an evening that featured camel and ostrich races as well as a beer tasting event. On-track handle was $77,300, and while a total admission count was not available, the track stopped admitting guests midway through the night as it reached occupational capacity.
August 4
Haulin Candy Salt wins
the $92,295 Speedhorse Derby-G3 for trainer Clinton Crawford, jockey Alex Baldillez Jr. and owner/ breeder Carl Pevehouse.
August 14
Hialeah Park and the Florida Quarter Horse Racing Association announce a strict medication policy for the 2012-13 winter Quarter Horse meet. The winner and at least one random horse in each race will be tested for a wide range of drugs including zilpaterol, ractopamine and dermorphin, with penalties at least as strict as those in the RCI Rules of Racing.
August 18
The New Mexico-Bred Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred Sale posts an increase in average headed by the $92,000 sale of Veramonte, by Jesse James Jr. MJ Farms consigned the highest-seller, who was purchased by Bob and Delores Gerhardt.
September 2
Jockey Gilbert Ortiz is honored as the winner of the second annual Sam Thompson Memorial Jockey Award in a special winner’s circle ceremony at Ruidoso Downs.
August 4
CRM Livewire wins the $50,669 Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Derby-G1 for owner Dan Jones, trainer Matt Whitekiller and jockey Cody Smith.
August 6
August 9
C.W. Bubba Cascio announces his return to training Quarter Horses in 2013 after several years of retirement from the track. For the past few years, Cascio has been breaking and conditioning Thoroughbreds at his Tolar, Texas, home.
Fair Grounds evacuates the barn area in preparation for Hurricane Isaac, and cancels the final four days of its summer Quarter Horse meet. The storm eventually damaged barns, guard shacks and fencing, and washed out the main track after 20 inches of rainfall.
August 15
August 29
September
September 2
Ochoa becomes American Quarter Horse racing’s all-time money earner after winning the $2,234,540 All American Derby-G1, the richest Quarter Horse race for 3-year-olds and up. Ochoa’s new earnings stand at $2,584,243.
The Oklahoman reports that a Texas judge has agreed to the sale of more than 450 horses linked to a federal prosecution of Jose Trevino Morales and his wife Zulema Trevino, of Zule Farm. The agreement
to sell the horses comes after reports of sick and dying horses at the Lexington, Oklahoma, farm since FBI agents raided the facility in June.
Micah and Leslie McKinney unveil an owner’s incentive program called Racing Free at an informational meeting in Ruidoso, New Mexico, the evening before the All American Futurity trials. The program encourages drug-free racing
by rewarding owners of enrolled horses with cash each time their horse wins a race and has a clean drug test.
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