Headlines: January 31
– Take a right on Funny Cide. WinStar names it roads after its best-known horses. (LHL)
– A wedding planner called trainer John Servis last spring in hopes of renting Smarty Jones for a post-nuptial carriage ride. Funny. (Cap.)
– Suffolk rider Jill Jellison, at Tampa for the winter, trails Vicki Aragon-Baze by only two wins for third place on the all-time winningest female jockeys list. (DRF)
– Jockey Gary Boulanger is in critical condition after a fall during the Mac Diarmida Handicap at Gulfstream on Sunday. (Globe)
– The Kentucky Horse Racing Authority is expected to recommend this week the creation of a worker’s comp fund for riders (TT) … How other states handle insurance for riders and workers. (LHL)
– The Cornell equine testing lab is freezing urine samples now for use as new performance enhancing substances tests are developed. (NYRA)
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