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Headlines: January 18

– Maddy’s Lion wins inaugural Jimmy Winkfield Stakes at Aqueduct. (NYP)
– Jockey Kieren Fallon relaxes in Florida. “America … has clearly given him a fresh outlook on the business of riding.” (Guar.)
– Audiotape of a Jockeys’ Guild meeting reveals that the jockeys who went on strike at Churchill Downs last fall were coached by Guild lawyers, and that the incident in which rider Shane Sellers was escorted from the track may have been orchestrated by the organization. (SBJ)
– “Las Vegas will be the scene of the best horseplayers in the world,” with back-to-back handicapping tournaments this week. (Las Vegas Sun)
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Posted in Miscellany on January 18, 2005

Headlines: January 17

– Remembering the greatest race-fixer of all. Anthony “Fat Tony” Ciulla “fixed races at Suffolk Downs, the old Garden State racetrack, and a graveyard of now-dead tracks like Narragansett, Hialeah, and Green Mountain…. Ciulla, who could be as charming as he was intimidating, admitted to fixing hundreds of races by paying off jockeys, usually for between $3,000 and $6,000 a race, and sometimes as much as $10,000.” (NYS)
– Editorial calls for putting NYRA under new management. “It’s time for the state to muck out NYRA’s stables and put the franchise out for competitive bid” (NYDN) … NYRA responds. (TT)
– Sweet Catomine wins Santa Ysabel Stakes. “The 1-10 favorite, [she] toyed with her five rivals, prevailing by 2 1/2 lengths over 9-2 second choice Pussycat Doll.” (LAT)
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Posted in Miscellany on January 17, 2005

Headlines: January 16

– At 75, trainer Allen Jerkens is still very much in the game. (Sent.)
– Spanish Chestnut takes San Rafael Stakes, Minister Eric wins San Fernando. (LAT)
– Scrappy T upsets in Count Fleet Stakes. (DRF)
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Posted in Miscellany on January 16, 2005