I let him go into the first turn and then I just used my judgment. after the gates open, everything changes. “Honestly, I know my horse is fast, but I never thought I was going to be on the lead by three or four lengths,” Ortiz said when asked if he was surprised by how easily Life Is Good outran presumptive Horse of the Year Knicks Go ( Paynter) in the Pegasus. Tuesday, the sometimes polarizing rider sat down with the TDN Writers' Room presented by Keeneland as the Green Group Guest of the Week to discuss his success, his suspension, his rise to the top of the game and whether or not he pays attention to either the positive or negative attention he receives from racing fans. aboard emergent superstar Life Is Good (Into Mischief). on back-to-back winner Colonel Liam ( Liam's Map) and Pegasus World Cup Invitational S. Upon his return, the 29-year-old picked up where he left off at Gulfstream, piloting winners left and right and over the weekend, added two more seven-figure Grade I wins to his trophy collection with victories in the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational S. Shortly after scoring a hat trick of victories at the Breeders' Cup, Ortiz was suspended 30 days for careless riding at Aqueduct. It just won’t be.It was an eventful few months for three-time Eclipse champion jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. “There’ll be a cultural shift once there’s a genuine recognition that doping will not be tolerated in horse racing. “I think you will genuinely see a shift in culture over time because the programs are going to be too robust and the enforcement is going to be robust and it’s going to be national,” she said. Lazarus said success will be judged by the rate of horse fatalities, which has been decreasing, and hopes the authority gains the trust of those in the industry and the general public based on the intense research that went into developing these policies.
It’s great for everyone that participates in the sport, specifically equine athletes and the jockeys.” “A lot of these best practices - and we haven’t done this alone - now will be adopted across the industry, which we think is great,” O’Rourke said. O’Rourke said NYRA has been at the forefront of horse safety issues for a while other than appointing people to specific positions as part of adjustments to the new rules won’t have to change much to get up to code. NYRA executive Glen Kozak is among those on HISA’s racetrack safety committee. You don’t really hear much about it, which I think is great and says something about it.”
“You almost don’t notice it,” New York Racing Association president and CEO Dave O’Rourke said. New York also bans it for 2-year-olds and in all stakes races. The three Triple Crown races are in their second year running without Lasix. The new safety agency will start by prohibiting Lasix use on race day while allowing tracks to apply for an exemption. Lasix, the much-debated anti-bleeding medication that also works as a diuretic to cause horses to urinate and lose 20 to 30 pounds of fluid, which can increase their ability to run faster, will get a close look over the next three years. It is different than the performance-enhancing substances trainers Jason Servis and Jorge Navarro were charged with using.Ĭasse, who has been among those in the sport calling for stricter regulations, hopes HISA “can have a little better control and identify the bad apples.” A lifetime ban is among the potential punishments. “So, there is genuine and, I believe, principled disagreement over what helps the horse and what doesn’t and what puts a horse at risk.”īetamethasone, the steroid that can help horses’ joints, which 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit tested positive for and prompted Bob Baffert’s suspension by Churchill Downs, is considered a therapeutic drug. “There’s no doubt in my mind that anyone who’s involved in it, or the vast majority, love their horses and care about their horses,” she said.
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