York Racing Association, Adam Coglianese)
The talk should be of the horses.
Instead, it's on what's being done to the horses.
As thoroughbred horse racing moves into the one season of the year when it retains a fraction of the primacy it once held on the American sports scene, the buzz should be about the prep races for the May 3 Kentucky Derby, about how Samraat and Uncle Sigh will renew their rivalry at the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct Saturday and how the powerful California Chrome will state his Derby case the Santa Anita Derby, also this Saturday, the strong showings of Vicar's In Trouble and Constitution last Saturday at the Florida and Louisiana derbies, respectively, and the slide of early Kentucky favorite Cairo Prince.
Unfortunately the buzz is about just that -- the alleged use of an electronic buzzer to "stimulate" horses during races and fresh allegations of doping directed at veteran trainer Steve Asmussen.
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Instead, it's on what's being done to the horses.
As thoroughbred horse racing moves into the one season of the year when it retains a fraction of the primacy it once held on the American sports scene, the buzz should be about the prep races for the May 3 Kentucky Derby, about how Samraat and Uncle Sigh will renew their rivalry at the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct Saturday and how the powerful California Chrome will state his Derby case the Santa Anita Derby, also this Saturday, the strong showings of Vicar's In Trouble and Constitution last Saturday at the Florida and Louisiana derbies, respectively, and the slide of early Kentucky favorite Cairo Prince.
Unfortunately the buzz is about just that -- the alleged use of an electronic buzzer to "stimulate" horses during races and fresh allegations of doping directed at veteran trainer Steve Asmussen.
continue to read here
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