Select 2YOs from trainer Kiaran McLaughlin’s barn are running Lasix-free:
“There’s so much talk of no Lasix, we decided not to run them on it until they need it,” McLaughlin said Monday at [Saratoga]. “No one told me I had to do this, I decided it.”
Good for him.
9/15/11 Addendum: Jeff Scott looks closer: “Lest anyone get the impression that McLaughlin’s four juveniles were the only 2-year-old starters not running on Lasix at the Spa, Equibase charts show there were 60 altogether, and they came from the barns of 25 different trainers.”
Posted by JC in Racing on 09/06/2011 @ 7:16 am / Tagged Darley, Drugs in Racing, International, Kiaran McLaughlin, Lasix, New York, Trainers / Follow @railbird on Twitter
Almost 10 months after NYC OTB closed its doors for good, the New York Times visits the defunct betting parlors, finding most remain empty and unmourned by neighbors. (“Thank God they’re gone,” says one.) There’s a slideshow, unlikely to induce nostalgia (even in me, quoted as an occasional former patron, pro-OTB community), except possibly for retro signage.
Posted by JC in Industry on 08/29/2011 @ 12:03 pm / Tagged New York, New York Times, Not-stalgia, NYC OTB, NYC Real Estate, OTB Parlors / Follow @railbird on Twitter
I’m heading up to Saratoga for the Whitney Handicap, which is a Breeders’ Cup Classic Challenge race and a stakes I best remember for 2006, the year Invasor won by digging in and outlasting Sun King by a nose. There is no Invasor in this year’s field, but the winner will get a guaranteed spot in this fall’s Classic, a race Invasor also won in 2006 at awesome odds of 7-1. If I’m missing, just a little, a horse retired more than four years ago, it’s probably because I recently wrote a profile of Invasor for Hello Race Fans, which includes several replays from his career, including — of course! — the Whitney.
Posted by JC in Racing on 08/05/2011 @ 8:57 am / Tagged Breeders' Cup, Hello Race Fans, Invasor, Saratoga, Whitney Handicap / Follow @railbird on Twitter
