ATTACKS FORCE REDESIGN OF BREEDERS' CUP LOGO.Breeders' Cup The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Grade I thoroughbred horse races operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982 by a consortium of North American racing organizations, led by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. organizers are scrambling to redesign the logo for the Oct. 27 event at Long Island's Belmont Park Noun 1. Belmont Park - a racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Elmont on Long Island; site of the Belmont Stakes Belmont Elmont - a town on Long Island in New York; site of Belmont Park , because the original version depicted a Manhattan skyline that included the World Trade Center's twin towers. Breeders' Cup president D.G. Van Clief Jr. said some New Yorkers complained that continuing to use the logo would be inappropriate. Van Clief said other New Yorkers said, ``Please do not change it. We'll be offended if you did.'' The latter group will be relieved to know the logo already is emblazoned on Breeders' Cup hats and shirts and there's no plan to recall the merchandise. The logo fiasco is not significant in itself, but it's emblematic of the Sept. 11 terror attacks' impact on the horse racing horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with industry. Although Pomona's Fairplex Park and some other U.S. tracks were among the first professional sports The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. venues to reopen last week, it's a mistake to think horse racing wasn't affected by the disaster. --Because of complications with air travel, some California trainers are scrapping plans to ship horses to Breeders' Cup preps at Belmont Park, where they would have gotten the benefit of races over the track. If anybody could be said to gain from this, it would be the Oak Tree Racing Association The Oak Tree Racing Association is an American not-for-profit corporation that exists to conduct live thoroughbred horse racing in Southern California. History In 1968, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club the operators of Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California decided to , which opens its 32-day season at Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
Officer, the nation's leading 2-year-old, is aiming for the $250,000 Norfolk Stakes Norfolk Stakes may refer to:
The Norfolk might mark the first meeting of Officer and Came Home, the California horse who won the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga but is back at Santa Anita. Reigning Horse of the Year Tiznow was delayed in getting back to Santa Anita after finishing a strong third to Lido Palace in the Woodward Stakes at Belmont in his return from injury. Now that Tiznow is home, his handlers are said to be leaning toward staying here for the $400,000 Goodwood Handicap on Oct. 7 - instead of immediately shipping out again for the $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup The Jockey Club Gold Cup, established in 1919, is a prestigious thoroughbred flat race open to horses of either gender three-years-old and up. It is typically the main event of the fall meeting at Belmont Park, just as the Belmont Stakes is of the spring meeting and the Travers at Belmont on Oct. 6 - before trying for the first-ever repeat victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic The Breeders' Cup Classic is a Grade 1 Weight for Age thoroughbred horse race for 3 years old and older run at a distance of 1ΒΌ miles (2012 m) on dirt. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup. . Horsemen have not expressed fear of traveling, however. ``I think it is on their minds, but I think they're still going to do what they planned for the most part,'' Santa Anita racing secretary Mike Harlow said of trainers. ``I haven't heard anyone say, 'I'm not going anywhere, with what's going on What's Going On is a record by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released on May 21, 1971 (see 1971 in music), What's Going On reflected the beginning of a new trend in soul music. .' '' Eight of Oak Tree's 12 graded stakes are scheduled for the meet's first two weekends so they can be used as Breeders' Cup preps. --Because Belmont Park, which is 23 miles from the World Trade Center, remained closed until Wednesday, four stakes races had to be canceled last weekend. Notable among the horses affected is 2000 Breeders' Cup Distaff The Breeders' Cup Distaff is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares, 3 years old and up. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup. It is sponsored by the airline Emirates. upsetter Spain, who had been set to use last Saturday's Ruffian Stakes as the first of two warmups but now will cram her preparation into a race this Saturday at Turfway Park in Kentucky. --Van Clief said he doesn't expect ``any meaningful difficulties'' for horses shipping to the Breeders' Cup from overseas. He said the event has received ``less than 100 cancellations'' from ticket-holding fans. --Prominent Arab owners have tried to allay fears they'll be deterred from appearing at - or sending their horses to - major racing events. Sheikh sheikh or shaykh Among Arabic-speaking tribes, especially Bedouin, the male head of the family, as well as of each successively larger social unit making up the tribal structure. The sheikh is generally assisted by an informal tribal council of male elders. Mohammed al Maktoum, the Dubai defense minister and master of Godolphin Racing, and Prince Ahmed Salman, a member of Saudi Arabia's ruling family and head of The Thoroughbred Corp., have been active buyers at the ongoing Keeneland yearling yearling an animal in its second year of age, e.g. yearling cattle, yearling filly, yearling colt. yearling disease rinderpest in wildebeeste in the Serengheti. sale in Kentucky. ``We think this was a cowardly act against civilians, and we are 100 percent against it,'' Sheikh Mohammed has been quoted as saying. ``We are 100 percent with America and we will do anything we can to get these people, to get justice.'' On Thursday, Keeneland announced Sheikh Mohammed has donated $5 million to its fund for the victims of the terrorist attacks. ``This is my second home,'' Salman said, referring to the United States, in The Thoroughbred Times. ``We've got to get them and get them big and do like we do in Arabia - an eye for an eye.'' Salman's star horses include Officer and the recently retired Horse of the Year contender Point Given. --Without football to bet on, gamblers turned to horse racing over the weekend, helping to swell the mutuel pools at Fairplex Park to $8.8 million on Saturday and $8 million on Sunday. Those are the fifth- and 10th-highest handles in track history. That, despite declines in overall attendance at the Los Angeles County Fair The Los Angeles County Fair (also called simply the L.A. County Fair) is an annual event held in the Fairplex in Pomona, California, held every September. It is a carnival with rides, merchants, food vendors, cooking contests, and livestock. The 2007 L.A. since it reopened after the Sept. 11 shutdown. Fairplex racing goes on through Monday. --Fans have had to wrestle with a skeleton version of the Daily Racing Form The Daily Racing Form, LLC (DRF) is a broadsheet newspaper founded in 1894 in Chicago, Illinois by Frank Brunell. The paper publishes the past performances of race horses as a statistical service for bettors on horse racing in the United States. past-performance charts while the newspaper's staff works to restore its operations at offices four blocks from the World Trade Center. --Oak Tree is one of many racing associations to set up disaster-relief funds. It has invited the Red Cross to solicit contributions during Wednesday's season-opening program and has said it will match contributions up to a total of $100,000. Ceremonies before the meet's first race will include winner's-circle appearances by jockeys and an equestrian color guard. --Racing Form editor-publisher Steve Crist criticized the racetracks that reopened quickly last week. A handful of tracks, including Fairplex, missed only Sept. 11, the day of the attacks. ``Is the thoroughbred racing industry a professional sport like those whose popularity it envies, or a gambling enterprise like any other room full of slot machines? That question was answered bluntly this week by the industry's response to Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the United States, and it may change forever the way that American racing is perceived,'' Crist wrote. ``The other sports shut down; the casinos didn't. There's no more uncertainty about which side of that fence is the one where racing lives.'' OUT OF THE GATE FAIRPLEX PARK LEADERS (Through Wednesday) Jockey #Wins Martin Pedroza #21 Matt Garcia #18 Tyler Baze #17 Isaias Enriquez #10 Goncalino Almeida #7 Trainer #Wins Jeff Mullins #8 Paul Aguirre #5 Juan Garcia #5 Barry Abrams #4 Mark Glatt Glatt may refer to:
Craig Lewis #4 ON THE STAKES SCHEDULE Fairplex Park Saturday --$100,000 Pomona Derby, 3-year-olds, about 1 1/8 miles. Sunday --$100,000 Ralph Hinds Invitational Handicap, 3-year-olds and up, about 1 1/8 miles. Belmont Park Saturday --$300,000 Vosburgh Stakes, 3-year-olds and up, 7 furlongs. --$150,000 Jerome Handicap, 3-year-olds, 1 mile. Sunday --$200,000 Jamaica Handicap, 3-year-olds, 1 1/8 miles on turf. Turfway Park Saturday --$500,000 Kentucky Cup Classic, 3-year-olds and up, 1 1/8 miles. Louisiana Downs Sunday --$500,000 Super Derby XXII, 3-year-olds, 1 1/4 miles. Santa Anita Wednesday --$100,000 Sen. Ken Maddy Handicap, 3-year-olds and up, fillies and mares, about 6 1/2 furlongs on turf. A WEEK AT THE RACES At The Races is a British television channel, originally co-founded with Channel 4, but now owned by a partnership between British Sky Broadcasting, Arena Leisure PLC and 28 (out of the 59) UK racecourses. Budroyale, the 1999 Breeders' Cup Classic runner-up, might not run in Sunday's Ralph Hinds Memorial, taking some allure from the big race of the Fairplex Park season. Trainer Ted H. West was said to be unhappy with Budroyale's 121-pound assignment, which is one pound less than top-weighted Native Desert's. ... Guided Tour and jockey Larry Melancon drew post 3 and were made 7-5 morning-line favorites in a six-horse field for Saturday's Kentucky Cup Classic. Balto Star (Pat Day) is 9-5, Performing Magic (Victor Espinoza) 3-1. ... Squirtle Squirt (Jerry Bailey) faces older horses for the first time for trainer Bobby Frankel in Saturday's Vosburgh, the East Coast's major prep for the Breeders' Cup Sprint The Breeders' Cup Sprint is an American Weight for Age Grade I Thoroughbred horse race for three year olds & up. Run on dirt over a distance of 6 Furlongs (3/4 mile), the race has been held annually since 1984 at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the . ... Until Sundown, second to Congaree in Hollywood Park's Swaps Stakes, is among the challengers for E Dubai in Sunday's Super Derby. ... Jane duPont Lunger lunger see atypical interstitial pneumonia. , who counted Go for Wand Go For Wand (April 6, 1987 - October 27, 1990) was a champion American thoroughbred racehorse. Sired by Canadian Hall of Famer Deputy Minister, Go For Wand was foaled and raised at Claiborne Farm. She was a rising star of racehorses, particularly fillies. among the stars she bred and owned under the Christiana Stable banner, died of cancer Tuesday in Wilmington, Del. She was 87. - Kevin Modesti CAPTION(S): box Box: OUT OF THE GATE (see text) |
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