BH Interview: Janie Buss

Last week, the benevolent arm of the Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association teamed with Amplify Horse Racing and the Morton High School District 201 to host the inaugural Morton Urban Equine Program.

Horse vans and truck-and-trailers transporting horses have continued to exit Ruidoso Downs due to two nearby wildfires in New Mexico. Racing has been canceled at least through this weekend with doubts growing about whether the meet can continue.

Juddmonte general manager Garrett O’Rourke discusses the farm’s multiple grade 1-winning homebred Idiomatic in the July issue of BloodHorse magazine’s Beyond the Headlines feature.

The New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling Sale might be down on numbers, but Kane Jones insists the quality on offer at today’s auction is at least as good, if not better than has ever been seen at Karaka previously.

The first of three daytime Thoroughbred meets this year at Los Alamitos Race Course will begin June 22.

The day commenced with a stallion show where guests were presented six of the current roster at Kildangan Stud. This was followed by a display of the trainee’s business plan projects which they recently completed.

A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool June 22 at Gulfstream Park is expected to offer the potential to yield a rewarding return. The following day, June 23, Woodbine will offer a mandatory payout for the Thoroughbred Jackpot Hi-5.

Trainer Aidan O’Brien’s hopes of a record-extending ninth Gold Cup (G1) are pinned on Kyprios, who bids June 20 to become the first horse since Kayf Tara to win nonconsecutive editions of the race.

Horse vans and truck-and-trailers transporting horses have continued to exit Ruidoso Downs due to two nearby wildfires in New Mexico.