A distinguished group of five veteran jockeys have been selected as finalists for the 2023 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. Daniel Centeno, Javier Castellano, Terry Houghton, Edwin Maldonado and Willie Martinez will be considered by their peers.

A distinguished group of five veteran jockeys have been selected as finalists for the 2023 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. Daniel Cedeno, Javier Castellano, Terry Houghton, Edwin Maldonado and Willie Martinez will be considered by their peers.

Woodbine has announced that The Queen’s Plate, North America’s longest continuously run stakes race, will once again be known as The King’s Plate.  

Ben Mosier, executive director of the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit, describes HIWU and his background.

Tom Durkin and Dave Johnson discussed their careers during a Dec. 6 panel called “Storytellers of the Game—Racing’s Legendary Announcers” during the University of Arizona’s Race Track Industry Program’s Global Symposium on Racing.

The Winter meet will be highlighted by a pair of graded events for 2-year-olds—the Grade 1, $300,000-guaranteed Starlet for fillies Dec. 10 and the Grade 2, $200,000-guaranteed Los Alamitos Futurity Dec. 17.

Tom and Debi Stull, owners of Tommy Town Thoroughbred farm and stallion operation in California, may race and breed more in Kentucky to take advantage of the lucrative purse structure there. They plan to keep the farm and stallions in California.

Stallion Director of Spendthrift Farm Mark Toothaker talks about this years additions to the stallion barn.

Brendan Kumagai, together with Gurashish Bagga, Kimberly Kroetch, Tyrel Stokes, and Liam Welsh, took the $20,000 first prize with the submission, “Bayesian Velocity Models for Horse Race Simulation.”

Innovations in sensors and equine-tracking technology, currently in testing or development, have the potential to assist horsemen and veterinarians and reduce the occurrences of equine breakdowns, experts said Dec. 6.