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2012 A YEAR IN REVIEW
October 9
The American Quarter Horse Association takes action on the 11 trainers suspended by the Louisiana Racing Commission and the Zia Park Board of Stewards (New Mexico) as a result of horses testing positive for Class I drugs. AQHA suspends any AQHA memberships issued to the trainers pending final outcome of their cases with the Louisiana or New Mexico Racing Commissions. Also, effective Oct. 19, 2012, horses in which the 11 trainers are listed as an owner or trainer shall be ineligible to receive AQHA racing points or AQHA honors/awards including AQHA year-end Champion or AQHA Regional High Point recognition, and also be ineligible to enter any AQHA Challenge regional, bonus or maiden races.
October 28
G.R. Carter Jr. surpasses $60 million in earnings with Miracle Snow’s victory in the $170,360 Namehimastreaker New Mexico Classic Championship-RG1 at Zia Park.
October 30
A bankruptcy court tentatively approves the sale
of Yavapai Downs to Gary Miller, president of
the Arizona Horseman’s Benevolent & Protective Association, for $5.5 million. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Rural Development, which holds loans of $14.65 million on the track, agreed to the deal earlier in the month.
November 3
Imachickenkicker wins the $103,762 Lone Star Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1 for owners Jim and Shirley Wheeler, trainer Luis Villafranco and jockey Roy Baldillez. The Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Futurity is the third leg of the Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Triple Crown.
October 22
One Famous Eagle breaks the all-time earnings record for a freshman sire with progeny earnings of $2,378,819. In 1991, First Down Dash sired the earners of $2,361,652 in his first crop to race.
October 27
Zia Park hosts the fourth- annual Race To Whip Cancer Day to benefit breast cancer awareness and research.
October 31
Remington Park stewards disqualify Rylees Boy from his win in the
2011 Remington
Park Invitational Championship-G1, run on May 28, 2011, for a fluphenazine violation. His owner/trainer at the time of the violation was Gerardo Ochoa-Pena, who was fined $2,500 and suspended for 1 year.
November
November 1
The Tulsa County
fair board votes unanimously to approve a naming-rights deal with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation that includes a provision to cease live racing at Fair Meadows at Tulsa.
November 3
November 1
Michael Priddy is posthumously awarded
the Race Track Chaplaincy of America’s White Horse Award during a banquet at Santa Anita Park. Priddy was a maintenance department employee with Remington Park who died as a result of injuries sustained in a loose horse accident in March.
The Heritage Place Fall Mixed Sale includes more than 300 horses seized by the federal government in conjunction with an alleged money-laundering operation. Julianna Hawn Holt purchased A Dash Of Sweet Heat from
the VSE Consignment on behalf of the Department of
Treasury for the Heritage Place record price of $1 million. It is the second- highest price ever paid at auction for a Quarter Horse of racing age. The consignment and million-dollar sale leads to record-setting increases across the board for the Fall Mixed Sale.
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Don Shugart
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