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Godolphin scandal widens with more failed tests

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:33:02 MDT

Godolphin scandal widens with more failed tests

The Associated Press

Updated May 20, 2013 09:33AM MDT

London • British racing authorities say another seven horses from a Godolphin stable have tested positive for a steroid, including the winner of the world’s oldest classic. Trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni already has been banned eight years. He has acknowledged giving anabolic steroids to 15 horses in one of the largest doping scandals to hit the sport in Britain. After tests on all Godolphin-owned horses in Newmarket, the British Horseracing Authority reported that seven based at Al-Zarooni’s Mo...

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Lukas seeks 3 times the fun in Preakness

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:02:31 MDT

Lukas seeks 3 times the fun in Preakness

By DAVID GINSBURG The Associated Press

Updated May 18, 2013 12:02AM MDT

Baltimore • After being on this earth for 77 years, winning 13 Triple Crown races and totaling more than $100 million in purse money, Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas has earned the right to sit in an office and let his assistants do the grunt work in the stables. That’s not going to happen anytime soon. With three entrants in Saturday’s Preakness — that’s a third of the field — Lukas has been working diligently this week at Pimlico Race Course. Although he’s already won the Preakness five ti...

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Malnourished horses to be sold at public auction in Utah County

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:22:38 MDT

Malnourished horses to be sold at public auction in Utah County

By Jessica Miller The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 15, 2013 11:22PM MDT

A number of horses found sick and malnourished on a Spanish Fork ranch in February will be sold at a public auction next week. Fourth District Judge Fred Howard has ruled that the Utah County Sheriff’s Office can auction off the 70-80 horses seized from Trudy Childs, 59, and her son Rory Childs, 31. The two have each been charged with 20 counts of cruelty to an animal, a class A misdemeanor, after Utah County Sheriff’s deputies found more than 100 horses on four different pastures that were mal...

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Orb faces a friend in the Preakness

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:58:26 MDT

Orb faces a friend in the Preakness

The Associated Press

Updated May 15, 2013 11:58PM MDT

Baltimore • Kentucky Derby winner Orb and Illinois Derby champion Departing played together as foals in the lush pastures of Claiborne Farm in central Kentucky. It will be all business on Saturday, though, when the horses meet for the first time on the racetrack in the $1 million Preakness Stakes. Orb is aiming for the second jewel of the Triple Crown, and a chance three weeks later at the Belmont Stakes to become the first horse to sweep the series since Affirmed in 1978. Departing, it tu...

Top Kentucky Derby, Oaks horses pass drug tests

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:33:58 MDT

Top Kentucky Derby, Oaks horses pass drug tests

The Associated Press

Updated May 8, 2013 11:33PM MDT

Louisville, Ky. • Top finishers in last weekend’s Kentucky Derby and Oaks were fast and clean. Post-race test results received Tuesday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission showed no irregularities in the samples taken from money-paying horses in the Oaks and Derby and three other competitors. HFL Sport Science, the KHRC’s official laboratory, worked all weekend to expedite test results. Derby winner Orb, runner-up Golden Soul and show finisher Revolutionary were tested with two other hors...