Accredited Louisiana breds sold uncommonly well at the Texas Two-Year-Olds In Training Sale which was held Wednesday, April vi, 2022, at Solitary Star Park at K Prairie.

A Louisiana-bred filly from the showtime ingather of Spendthrift Subcontract's stallion Free Drop Billy consigned by Carl Deville as Hip 134 topped the sale at $200,000. The colt attracted attention later on she breezed a quick x.ii over the Lone Star Park dirt Monday afternoon. Out of the One-half Ours mare Solo Buena, she'southward a half-sis to stakes-placed Swot Analysis, who was 2nd in the Louisiana Futurity at two. The colt previously sold equally a yearling in the 2021 Breeders Sales Company of Louisiana Yearling Auction for $10,500.

A total of 30 accredited Louisiana breds sold for $1,137,500 with an boilerplate of $37,917, higher up the sale boilerplate of $34,667. The median price for Louisiana breds sold through the ring was $30,000 also above the sale median of $28,000.

Other Breeders Sales Visitor of Louisiana Yearling Sale graduates showed meaning bumps over their yearling sale prices. Hip 133, a colt by Star Guitar out of the Difficult Spun mare, Well Spun also consigned by Carl Deville, sold for $30,000 an increase of $21,500 over her yearling sale price of $8,500. And Hip 100, a colt by Guilt Trip out of the stakes winning Milwaukee Brew mare Hometown Gossip, sold for $24,000 out of the Criterion Preparation Center Consignment, upward $20,500 from his yearling auction toll of $three,500.

Following the auction, Roger Heitzmann, Secretarial assistant/Treasurer of the Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Clan said "Louisiana breds offer pinhookers a terrific return on their investment. With purses on the rising in Louisiana, I expect the need for accredited Louisiana breds to rise besides."

(Grand Prairie, Texas) A colt from the starting time crop of Spendthrift Subcontract'south stallion Gratis Driblet Billy led the way at the 2022 Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Auction, with the hammer dropping at $200,000.

The Louisiana-bred filly, consigned by Carl Deville equally Hip 134, was purchased by Mansfield Racing. She was a supplement to the sale and she didn't disappoint, breezing a quick 10.ii over the Lone Star Park dirt Monday afternoon. Out of the One-half Ours mare Solo Buena, she's a half-sister to stakes-placed Swot Assay, who was second in the Louisiana Futurity at two.

Hip 72, a filly by first crop stallion McCraken, standing at Airdrie Stud, was the second highest priced two-year-sometime to sell and the highest priced colt with a final bid of $125,000. Mansfield Racing signed the ticket for the dark bay or brown filly. He's a one-half-brother to seven winners from vii to race, including stakes-winner Magic Tale. Thruway Racing consigned the filly.

Wednesday'southward auction outpaced last twelvemonth's sale in total sales, average price, and median price. Eighty-eight horses sold for $3,050,700 in total sales. The average price was $34,667 this year; last year, the average cost was $32,671. The median jumped to $28,000, compared to $20,000 in 2021.

"We're manifestly thrilled to see such strong trade in our two-year-old marketplace," TTA Sales Director Foster Bridewell said. "We tin't thank the owners and consignors plenty for sending us quality horses to sell and we're fortunate that so many buyers showed up in a big manner. I think it'southward a sign of only how potent racing is in Texas, cheers to the increased purses and incentives for owners and breeders."

State highway Racing, amanuensis, was the leading consignor by total sales at $664,000.

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Thoroughbred farriers will be restricted by new rules when the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's nationwide regulations go into effect on July 1, 2022. The regulations focus primarily on the traction devices farriers will be permitted to apply to Thoroughbred horseshoes, according to theAmerican Farriers Journal.

All rules in the HISA Racetrack Safety Program were approved past the Federal Trade Commission on March 4, 2022.

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One-eyed gelding has scrapes, stiffness afterward hitting rail in Arkansas Derby (G1).

The one-eyed New York State-bred gelding Un Ojo came out of a tumultuous 8th-place finish in the Arkansas Derby (G1) with some shoulder scrapes and stiffness but remains on course for a start in the May vii Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1).

Trainer Ricky Courville said Apr 5 that the son of Laoban needed some surgical staples in his left shoulder blade after hit the track Apr 2 during the $i million stakes at Oaklawn Park, and will be walked the rest of this calendar week equally he recovers from the rough trip.

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(Grand Prairie, Texas) A filly by Direct Fire was worth the look at the 2022 Texas Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale breeze bear witness Monday.

Cataloged in the supplement every bit Hip 144, the colt was the last horse on the runway Monday afternoon, delivering the fastest 1/8th of a mile breeze, stopping the clock in 10.one on the Lone Star Park oval. Consigned by Pike Racing as agent, the LNJ Foxwood-bred filly is out of the Excellent Art mare Luckfromabove (IRE); her showtime foal to race, a full sister to this colt, is a winner.

6 horses collected a 10.2 clocking over the dirt at Lone Star Park, all tying for the second fastest 1/8th of the day:

Hip 56: Filly by Conquest Mo Money out of the Northern Afleet mare Afleet Tee, consigned by

Benchmark Training Middle, Agent for Judge Lanier Racing

Hip 68: Colt past Midshipman out of the Harlan'southward Vacation mare Capital Deployment, consigned by

Pike Racing, Agent.

Hip 69: Filly by Accelerate out of G2SW Ciao Bella Luna, consigned by Pike Racing, Agent

Hip 72: Colt past McCraken out of SP Conjuress, consigned past Pike Racing, Agent

Hip 89: Colt by Palace Malice out of the Zensational mare Gagaoveryou, consigned by Oak Creek

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Hip 134: Filly past Gratuitous Drib Baton out of the Half Ours mare Solo Buena, consigned by Carl Deville,

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"I think the quality horses the consignors sent to us for this sale really put on a bear witness today," TTA Sales Managing director Foster Bridewell said. "The concluding horse to cakewalk drops the bullet, we had half dozen get 10.2, and 17 stopped the timer in ten.iii; that'south a attestation to the horses and the training leading upwardly. We owe a debt of gratitude to the folks that trust united states of america to sell for them and we're thankful for the consignors who have brought these athletes to this sale."

The cakewalk results and videos are available online at TTAsales.com. The 2022 Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale is Wednesday, April sixth, beginning at 12pm CT.

THE 84-Mean solar day SEASON WILL RUN THROUGH August 27

OPELOUSAS, LA –The 2022 Thoroughbred season at Evangeline Downs volition brainstorm on Wednesday, April 6.  The run across volition consist of 84 days of racing, running on a Midweek through Sabbatum weekly schedule and concluding on August 27.  First post each night volition be at the new time of 5:30pm Central time.

The stakes agenda features a couple of new additions with the Acadiana and Lafayette Stakes.  Both of these races were previously contested under state-bred conditions, just are now open stakes events.  The Acadiana, for 3-yr-quondam fillies, volition be run on Friday, April fifteen, with the Lafayette, for 3-twelvemonth-olds, the following night.  The May stakes action features the EVD Distaff, for 4-year-sometime and up Louisiana-bred fillies and mares, on May half dozen and the EVD Classic, for Louisiana-bred 4-year-olds and upwardly, on May 7.

The featured night of the Thoroughbred racing season will have identify on Sat, June 4 with the Louisiana Legends Night.  The heady card volition include six stakes races for horses bred in the Bayou Land, each with a purse of $75,000.  A new star emerged last year as Cilla took the Legends Mademoiselle Stakes and later scored a graded stakes win in the Prioress (G2) at Saratoga in September.

July will encounter the renewals of the Opelousas and John Henry Stakes turf races.  The Opelousas, on Friday July 1, is for 3-yr-old and up fillies and mares.  The John Henry, to be run on Sabbatum, July 2, is for three-year-olds and up.

The final month of the racing season will include a couple of stakes weekends.  The Fri, August 5 card will include the Spotted Horse, a stakes for three-year-old and up fillies and mares.  The Evangeline Mile, for iii-year-olds and upwardly, will exist contested Saturday, Baronial six.  Louisiana-bred two-year-olds will take middle stage on closing weekend with the D.S "Shine" Young Futurities.  The fillies partitioning will exist run on Friday, August 26, with the colts and geldings partitioning on the concluding night of the encounter Saturday, August 27.

Tim Thornton, a iii-time riding champion at Evangeline Downs, will be the peak returning rider in 2022.  Thornton, who captured his fourth consecutive riding championship at Delta Downs over the winter, finished second in the standings final flavour with 100 wins.  Gerard Melancon eclipsed the 5,000 career wins mark terminal summer and returns looking to add to his stellar career numbers.  Apprentice Vincente Del-Cid volition be a new face in the jockey colony this season.  Joe Stokes, Pedro Cotto, Jr., Devin Magnon, Kevin Smith and Aubrie Dark-green are amongst some of the riders looking to have a solid run across.

Eduardo Ramirez will be dorsum to defend his 2021 leading trainer title and will face a potent challenge from the Karl Broberg barn.  The sometime Broberg banana notched 44 wins and a 31% winning prune to unseat the perennial leader final yr.  Other regulars returning with stables to the Opelousas oval include Keith Bourgeois, Sam David, Sam Breaux, Rylee Grudzien, Ron Faucheux and Allen Landry.  Ricky Courville, trainer of Kentucky Derby hopeful Un Ojo, will also return with a stable for the 2022 season.

For more information on Evangeline Downs, visit the rail's website at world wide web.evdracing.com.  Evangeline Downs data can also exist found on Twitter @EVDracing and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/EvangelineDownsRacing.

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April i, 2022 – The Horseracing Integrity and Safe Authority (HISA) reached meaning milestones this week with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) blessing the proposed Enforcement and Methodology Assessment Rules in add-on to the distribution of the 2022 cost assessments to land racing commissions. As the July 1, 2022 program constructive date for the Racetrack Safety Plan approaches, these developments are the latest steps forward in HISA's mission to brand racing safer and protect the integrity of the sport through uniform rules, enforcement mechanisms and accreditation standards.

"These developments bring us closer to fulfilling our mandate to protect the wellbeing of both equus caballus and rider through uniform rules and accreditation standards," said HISA CEO Lisa Lazarus. "The Racetrack Condom Program will expand veterinary oversight, impose surface maintenance and testing requirements, raise jockey safety and implement voided claim rules, among other important measures that volition get into effect on July 1."

The Enforcement Dominion (8000 Serial) describes a range of violations and civil sanctions, establishes procedures for disciplinary and racetrack accreditation hearings, and grants the Dominance necessary investigatory powers. Its blessing by the FTC indicates that the rules meet the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act's (the Act) requirement to ascertain violations and provide for adequate due process, including impartial hearing officers or tribunals commensurate with the seriousness of the alleged violation. In developing these rules, the Authority relied to a cracking extent upon rules governing horseracing equally they currently exist in well-nigh states.

The annual assessments that state racing commissions are receiving today were determined by the FTC approved Methodology Assessment Rule (8500 Series), which outlines a procedure designed to ensure fairness and equity across thoroughbred racing jurisdictions. The cost calculations correspond each land's proportionate share of HISA's 2022 budget as required nether the Deed. Under the rule, HISA calculated fifty% of each state racing commission's cost according to the full number of starts in covered races and the remaining half based on starts weighted for purses in covered races.

It is HISA's intention to work with relevant stakeholders on an ongoing basis to evolve and ameliorate the rules as more data become available and as circumstances dictate.

Villa d'Este gave birth to the Gift Box colts April three at the Louisiana farm.

Staff at Coteau Grove Farms in Louisiana received the gift of a lifetime April iii when their mare Villa d'Este foaled not one, but two healthy colts by Souvenir Box.

In the months leading upwards to the birth, broodmare manager Jacob Cyprian said the mare's size had them questioning her due date.

"We've been looking at her since January, we knew she wasn't due until the starting time of April … We were like, 'Man, she's then big,' so nosotros only started keeping an middle of her and started watching her," Cyprian said. "We never knew it was twins. When she got in foal, we always thought she was just having i."

"(We thought) the engagement could exist incorrect so we started backtracking, trying to see what was going on, and nosotros were right (about the due date). When she started getting shut, we but kept an eye on her and she was but getting real slow and existent heavy. I said, 'Well, she's going to go soon.'"

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Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Clan would like to share the following list of dates of interest to Louisiana horsemen and women.

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April 4

  • Texas 2-Year-Olds In Training Cakewalk Show, Lonely Star Park at Grand Prairie

April 6

  • Texas Ii-Year-Olds In Training Auction, Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie
  • Evangeline Downs 2022 Thoroughbred Meet Opens

April 7

  • Louisiana  Downs barn expanse opens for 2022 Thoroughbred meet.


April 10

  • Palm Sunday

Apr 12

  • LTBA Lath of Directors Meeting, Prejeans, Lafayette, LA, 12:00 noon

Apr 15

  • Good Friday/LTBA Function Airtight
  • Acadiana Stakes, Evangeline Downs

April 16

  • Lafayette Stakes, Evangeline Downs

April 17

  • Easter Lord's day

Apr 18

  • Taxation Day

April 19

  • LTBA to mail letter to membership for nominations to run for LTBA Board of Directors.

April 28

  • Louisiana Downs 2022 Thoroughbred run into zero date for papers.

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May 1, 5, six, vii, viii

  • New Orleans Jazz Fest at the Fair Grounds

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Claims brought by the National HBPA to enjoin enforcement of HISA were dismissed.

Claims brought in a Texas federal courtroom to stop the Horseracing Integrity and Safe Human activity from going forward were dismissed on March 31 by U. Southward. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix.

The lawsuit, filed by the National Horsemen's Chivalrous and Protective Clan and joined past affiliated HBPAs, sought to have the courtroom enjoin enforcement of the Human action as unconstitutional. The HBPAs argued that HISA gave unlawful regulatory power to a private entity it created, the Horseracing Integrity and Condom Authority.

Later on finding the HBPAs have standing to bring the case and that an actual controversy exists, Hendrix also institute at that place is no disagreement virtually the material facts, leading the way to a conclusion based on the application of law.

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