HORSE RACING: NO P. VAL FOR OAK TREE OPENER.Byline: KEVIN MODESTI Staff Writer Patrick Valenzuela will miss Wednesday's opening card of the Oak Tree thoroughbred season at Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
Agent Tom Knust said Valenzuela was not officially named at entry time Sunday to ride the seven mounts for which he had trainers' commitments, avoiding a potential showdown with California 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 Board representatives. In a statement, the CHRB CHRB California Horse Racing Board CHRB Community Housing Resource Board (Montana) CHRB Commonwealth Health Research Board said a ``dialogue is continuing as Patrick Valenzuela and the CHRB work to resolve some issues.'' According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Knust, Valenzuela submitted to a medical examination Saturday and a urine test Sunday and passed both, and has agreed to a ``compromise'' on the board's demand for documents explaining his hospitalization for more than a month in August and September. Knust said he expects the documents to be delivered today and Valenzuela cleared in time for Thursday's entries and jockey assignments to be set Tuesday. Valenzuela attorney Neil Papiano Neil Papiano was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1934. He played football and baseball at Stanford University , where he received his B.A. in 1956 and his M.A. in 1957. He received his LL.B. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1961, and affiliated with Phi Delta Phi. had argued that the CHRB's demand violated the jockey's patient-doctor privacy rights. Valenzuela, 43, who competes under a special licensing agreement after a string of drug-related suspensions dating to before his 1989 Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby One of the classic U.S. Thoroughbred horse races. It was established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Ky. With the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, it makes up U.S. racing's coveted Triple Crown. victory aboard Sunday Silence, has passed urine and hair-follicle tests since missing the entire Del Mar meet with what initially was called a back problem. Valenzuela has been exercising horses at Santa Anita. In his only race since July 16, he went to Toronto and rode Becrux to victory in last weekend's Woodbine Mile. heymodesti(AT_SIGN)aol.com (818) 713-3616 |
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