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AQHA Annual Report Available
The American Quarter Horse Association 2012 Annual Report is available to download by visiting www.aqha.com/annualreport. The report contains, among other things, com- plete statistics on AQHA membership, horse registrations and transfers, as well as show and race statistics.
Guilty Pleas In Zetas Case
Both Zulema Trevino, wife of Jose
Trevino Morales, and daughter Alexandra Garcia Trevino pled guilty to money launder- ing charges on March 29. According to the Houston Chronicle, Zulema admitted that she helped her husband launder millions of dollars through their Quarter Horse breeding and racing operation from 2008-2012. Alexandra admitted she knew about the money launder- ing, but did not alert authorities. Prosecutors recommended probation for both women.
World Chariot Championship
The World
Championship Cutter &
Chariot Racing Association
championship meet was
held the last two weekends
in March at Weber County
Fairgrounds in Ogden, Utah. The World Champion Chariot run was made March 31 and was won by Rowdy Friends Racing Team
of the Tooele Valley Chariot Association, who scored an upset win in :22.62 for 440-yards over former World Championship team Vane Racing in second at :22.73 and the father-son team of Don and Ryan in third at :22.79. Brent Young drove the Rowdy Friends Racing team of Dont Gimme No BS (BS Gimme Five-SB Dashin Bugs, Blushing Bug), an 8-year-old gelding with a 93 speed index who won 2 races on the flat track and earned $11,777, and BS Big Shoes (Maknmoves-Sugar Tree Lane, Lanes Leinster), a 6-year-old gelding with a 94 speed index from 7 starts on the flat track and no wins.
CHRB Dismisses Zilpaterol Positives Over Contaminated Feed
48 positive tests for
zilpaterol from March 1
through March 26 have
been or will be dismissed
by the California Horse
Racing Board (CHRB)
after several brands of sweet feed were found to contain the banned medication, which is used to promote weight gain in cattle. The contamination occurred in products using
a molasses base made at a Purina mill in
Turlock, California, and included Purina Race Ready, Purina Strategy, Purina Omoline-200, Country Acres Horse Feed, and Country Acres Sweet-12. The CHRB also issued a directive instructing all licensed feed vendors to remove the products from state racing facilities until Purina can show that the feed does not contain the drug. Horsemen can return the products, which have the letters “TRL” in the date code, to their distributor. Purina is investigating and will post updates on their website.
Los Al Will Not Expand Track
According to the Daily Racing Form, Los Alamitos withdrew an offer to expand its race- track to accommodate Thoroughbred racing for 2014 citing, among other things, disagree- ments with the California Thoroughbred Trainers and not wanting to get into a confron- tation with Fairplex Park over race dates.
Apollo TB
Thoroughbred sire Apollo (Falstaff-Tumble Along, Tumble Wind) has been pensioned from breeding and will spend his retirement at Vessels Stallion Farm in California. Apollo had been standing at stud at Joneson Ranch in Oklahoma. The 1988 chestnut stallion won 5 races, includ- ing 2 stakes, equaled the World Record for
5 1/2-furlongs, and earned $354,475 on the track. He is the sire of Quarter Horse earners
of more than $7.9 million, including 3-Time Champion/Broodmare of the Year Apollitical Time ($904,242) and 2-Time Champion Old Habits ($680,966). He is also the sire of nearly $6 million in Thoroughbred earners.
Ullery New Racing Secretary At Will Rogers Downs
Jesse Ullery is the new racing secretary at Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Oklahoma. Ullery, who has been
the voice of Will Rogers
Downs for the past 5 years and the track clocker for
the last 4, became the assistant racing secretary before last year’s spring meet. The Quarter Horses meet at Will Rogers Downs begins Sept. 7 and runs through Nov. 9.
Jesse Ullery
Apollo Pensioned
Bliss New Bob Moore Farms Vet
Dr. Shalyn
Bliss is the new
veterinarian at
Bob Moore Farms
in Norman,
Oklahoma. A
graduate from
Oklahoma State
University, Bliss
is a member of
the Society for
Theriogenology,
American
Association of Equine Practitioners, American Veterinary Medical Association, Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association, and the Texas Equine Veterinary Association. Bliss is proficient in areas of embryo transfer, semen freezing, sub-fertility management of mares and stallions, low dose insemination, and semen processing techniques.
Keller Named Prairie Meadows Racing Secretary
Chad Keller was named the new Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racing sec- retary at Prairie Meadows in Altoona, Iowa. Keller joined Prairie Meadows
in 2000 as entry clerk and placing judge, was
named clerk of
scales in 2001, was promoted to assis-
tant Thoroughbred
racing secretary in
2006, and became
the Quarter Horse
racing secretary in
2008. The 26-day
Quarter Horse
meet at Prairie
Meadows begins
Aug. 17 and runs
through Oct. 12.
Chad Keller
Dr. Shalyn Bliss
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