Dollars & Sense with Frank Angst

The List: An Update and Review of the Top 25 General Sires List Rankings

Gulfstream Park and the Florida Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association reached an agreement supporting changes to existing state legislation that enables the live racing schedule to become independent of the venue’s pari-mutuel license.

Trainer Carlos Lopez was suspended 18 months and fined $12,500 for a pair of positives for the banned vasodilator diisopropylamine found in two horses that ran 1-2 in a claiming race last February at Mahoning Valley Racecourse.

Woodbine Entertainment has announced its award-winning docuseries Free Rein, featuring the elite competitors of Canadian Thoroughbred racing, will return for a second season beginning Jan. 10.

BH Interview with Mark Davis.

Winter weather in Bensalem, Pa., continues to wreak havoc on live racing at Parx Racing as the track canceled its Jan. 6 card because of snow. A winter storm in Florence, Ky., forced Turfway Park to cancel racing for Jan. 9.

Paul Oreffice, a partner in both Dogwood Stable and Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners who was in on Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Summer Squall and Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Palace Malice, died Dec. 26 at the age of 97.

Woodbine Entertainment has announced its award-winning docuseries Free Rein, featuring the elite competitors of Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Racing, will return for a second season beginning Jan.10.

Turfway Park has canceled its Jan. 9 race card due to lingering effects of Jan. 5’s winter storm and forecasted single-digit wind chills.