CHRB Investigates
“The California Horse Racing Board announced late Sunday that it was reviewing events prior to Sweet Catomine’s fifth-place finish in the $750,000 race at Santa Anita.” Good. More transparency and accountability in this sport, please. (Blood-Horse)
Is the story more complicated than initially reported? Bill Christine writes, “George Slender, a Santa Anita steward, said that there were reports that Sweet Catomine hadn’t been moved at all, and that this was one of the issues state investigators were addressing.” (LA Times)
Continuing fallout: Sweet Catomine and other horses owned by Marty and Pam Wygod have been moved from trainer Julio Canani’s barn to that of John Shirreffs. “Shirreffs, who has other horses for the Wygods, described it as a ‘tough situation.'” (Blood-Horse)
