http://www.natalievoss.com/pr-list daily 0.75 2021-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1454993399635-UUDC6ITV5H3GVR5O2R86/concussions-banner-650x650.jpg PR List - 'Something's Wrong With My Brain': The Lurking Danger Of Concussions For Jockeys When Gwen Jocson retired from racing in 1999, she had ridden 763 winners to earnings of over $7 million. In 1991, still an apprentice, she finished the year with 376 wins, which remains the single-season record for a female jockey and which placed her third by victories that year behind Pat Day and Russell Baze. Jocson remembers telling people at the time that she walked away because she had grown tired of riding, but the reality was that she knew something was wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1454993399635-UUDC6ITV5H3GVR5O2R86/concussions-banner-650x650.jpg PR List - 'Something's Wrong With My Brain': The Lurking Danger Of Concussions For Jockeys When Gwen Jocson retired from racing in 1999, she had ridden 763 winners to earnings of over $7 million. In 1991, still an apprentice, she finished the year with 376 wins, which remains the single-season record for a female jockey and which placed her third by victories that year behind Pat Day and Russell Baze. Jocson remembers telling people at the time that she walked away because she had grown tired of riding, but the reality was that she knew something was wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1568860536314-N0OX72PTBJ66E3I9EKA3/George-Isaacs-Adriana-Duarte-photo.jpg PR List - A Look Back At The FBI’s Most Wanted Race-Fixer, And The Trainer Who Tried To Catch Him One night in 1998, longtime trainer George “Barney” Isaacs says he wore a wire and invited an armed felon into his apartment to help the FBI solve a horse racing mystery – and to get his hands on a $50,000 reward. Now, he wants his money. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1613369254467-9C0AUJSN21WN6AC18ZBF/inkes.jpeg PR List - ‘An Angel On His Shoulder’: This Thoroughbred’s Fate Was Written In Ink Fada was chatting with several other girls from the farm, and they mentioned that a new group of off-track Thoroughbreds had just arrived for Second Stride. The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance-accredited group bases its training operation out of Moserwood, so boarders are used to OTTBs coming in and out. Fada asked about the new trainees, but the person she was speaking to couldn't remember most of their names, except one – Inked. Fada said her heart stopped. “That's my horse!” she blurted out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1613369295105-T1G1E0KB4UL4T835RYDZ/Farm-Scenic-Mare-and-foal_Adobe-Stock-OK-684x455.jpg PR List - A Decade In, How Are We Doing With Thoroughbred Aftercare? Toughly ten years into the sport's most concentrated efforts to address the problem of aftercare, we at the Paulick Report wanted to know – how are we doing? What is working about the current industry approach to Thoroughbred aftercare, and what isn't? Which populations of Thoroughbreds are being best served by our current aftercare infrastructure, and which are still in need of help? This three-part series, starting today, will attempt to answer those questions. In Part 1, we tackle the easiest question: What are we, as an industry, doing well in the realm of aftercare? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1454992549993-0CBSTW2HYDBNXE8BAO8K/concussions-banner-650x650.jpg PR List - 'Something's Wrong With My Brain': The Lurking Danger Of Concussions For Jockeys When Gwen Jocson retired from racing in 1999, she had ridden 763 winners to earnings of over $7 million. In 1991, still an apprentice, she finished the year with 376 wins, which remains the single-season record for a female jockey and which placed her third by victories that year behind Pat Day and Russell Baze. Jocson remembers telling people at the time that she walked away because she had grown tired of riding, but the reality was that she knew something was wrong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1454994670582-7ISTUPP0S1J1F0AT32AY/Screen+Shot+2016-02-09+at+12.10.39+AM.png PR List - Women In Racing: Racing's Adventuress It can never be said that Virginia Kraft Payson is a passive observer of sports she loves. Race fans know her as the owner of Payson Park in Indiantown, Fla., as well as breeder of G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Vindication and G1 Kentucky Oaks winner Farda Amiga; while her racing and breeding career is a source of endless pride for Payson, her name appears in sport history books in a few other places, too. http://www.natalievoss.com/prmultimedia daily 0.75 2019-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1454995315806-IRQJISRPIFL9W654UJWC/DSC_0085.jpg PR/Multimedia - Inside The North American Racing Academy - Series A multimedia series featuring longform writing, photographs, and video shot by Voss gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to become a jockey. Ten students began the Spring 2015 semester at the Bluegrass Community and Technical College's North American Racing Academy learning how to properly mount a Thoroughbred. A few months later, they were galloping in an open field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1454995315806-IRQJISRPIFL9W654UJWC/DSC_0085.jpg PR/Multimedia - Inside The North American Racing Academy - Series A multimedia series featuring longform writing, photographs, and video shot by Voss gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to become a jockey. Ten students began the Spring 2015 semester at the Bluegrass Community and Technical College's North American Racing Academy learning how to properly mount a Thoroughbred. A few months later, they were galloping in an open field. http://www.natalievoss.com/jitterbug-1 daily 0.75 2016-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1455597860086-9AJIMUISV0K6WFQ389H6/JitterShow_1.jpg Jitterbug - Jitterbug’s Guide To A Happy Marriage The day my Human bounded into the barn aisle with a glittery thing on her left hand (which turned out not to be a peppermint fragment, as it happened…oops) probably delivered the largest surprise of my week. I will never quite understand how I managed her through that relationship successfully, yet still can’t get her to boost my hay ration to a first-world level https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1455597860086-9AJIMUISV0K6WFQ389H6/JitterShow_1.jpg Jitterbug - Jitterbug’s Guide To A Happy Marriage The day my Human bounded into the barn aisle with a glittery thing on her left hand (which turned out not to be a peppermint fragment, as it happened…oops) probably delivered the largest surprise of my week. I will never quite understand how I managed her through that relationship successfully, yet still can’t get her to boost my hay ration to a first-world level https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1455598056962-F42QZPD5TJ2BY74LFZOU/Jitter0914.jpg Jitterbug - Jitterbug's Guide To Dressage Tests This week, the time finally came for my Human to step out of the bathtub and into the kiddie pool with a move from USDF Intro Test B to USEA Beginner Novice Test A. I wish I could say it was because her lower leg has really (finally) improved, but in reality I got so weary of the 2” (yes, that’s inches, not feet) fences that usually accompany Intro Test B that I practically began falling asleep on course. I alleviated my boredom by inventing creative new ways to pull rails (more on that in a future column), and eventually she got the message. Sometimes I just feel it’s time to stand up for my intellectual needs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1455598203726-2MZAN7LEIQC9JCY48CLN/100_2290.jpg Jitterbug - How To Help Your Human Pack For A Show My Human and I enjoyed a successful, if somewhat surprising start to our show season this year. I think she may finally be learning how to stay out of my way during the dressage portion—now we need to teach her to stay in the saddle for the rest of it. I was horrified to realize how ill-prepared my Human was for our show. Every time I looked up from my hay, she was hunting for a hairpin, digging through her grooming box, or frantically trying to scrub a grass stain out of her breeches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1455598433957-3VRTOW7P7JGA5USHGYVT/100_2093.jpg Jitterbug - Trailering With Your Human, Part 1 Across the country, horse show season is in full swing, and you know what that means—potentially long rides in hot trailers with inadequate snack options (I asked for alfalfa, not grass hay, stewardess!) next to that one gelding in the barn who spits when he snorts. A common misconception among horses, I’ve found, is that the most appalling part about climbing into a trailer is its obvious tendency to house Monsters. What’s really terrifying is that the whole process is a subtle power play by your Human, and it’s very dangerous to let him or her think it’s OK to play at being your leader successfully. http://www.natalievoss.com/smiley-pete daily 0.75 2019-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1456117832869-SRZLIY9YBHK1OLDB8OST/DSC_0009.jpg Smiley Pete - Keeneland's Switch Back To Dirt Track Could Appeal To Breeders' Cup And Derby Contenders https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1456117832869-SRZLIY9YBHK1OLDB8OST/DSC_0009.jpg Smiley Pete - Keeneland's Switch Back To Dirt Track Could Appeal To Breeders' Cup And Derby Contenders https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1456117160489-W6OS3IHO46QR61LZEGY2/DSCN3437.jpg Smiley Pete - The circle of agriculture: Changing land uses reflect cyclical market shifts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1456117448410-QF3M7ZFTKQ8ZLHHP02SO/DSCN7383+%281%29.jpg Smiley Pete - Behind the scenes of a Keeneland sale https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1456117833329-DP6HVO8SLTG1SKRI483F/3081_1062378795685_1112400173_30150339_5922207_n.jpg Smiley Pete - For the Love of Horses http://www.natalievoss.com/acreage-life-1 daily 0.75 2019-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1456119546561-GL4LI2Y9A3BEJCMUNCFM/image-asset.jpeg Acreage Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1456119546561-GL4LI2Y9A3BEJCMUNCFM/image-asset.jpeg Acreage Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1456119575358-LPZW1P2EI751JRQK3V0W/image-asset.jpeg Acreage Life - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and the Rest Whether you’re looking to spice up a sizable vegetable garden this spring or seeking an approachable way to start a small, fuss-free garden, your answer may lie in herbs. Actually, the definition of “herbs” is a broad one. Although we’re used to thinking of the word in terms of the traditional basil and thyme that appear alongside a roast chicken, the term technically includes hundreds of plants. The traditional botanical definition of an herb is a plant without a woody stem which dies to the ground in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1456119871645-WP0UHZ5UO1MQO004U8F9/image-asset.jpeg Acreage Life - Helping Your Animals - Beat the heat Summer is a good time to pull on your sunglasses, break out the bug spray, and hit the lake or the beach. For your animals, dealing with the summer temperatures isn’t quite as straightforward, making it important to have a plan for how to help them cope. There are a few basic themes to keep in mind across species: the symptoms of heat stroke for many species include lethargy, drooling, stumbling, confusion, increased respiration, increased rectal temperature, and (sometimes) stomach upset. If you see an animal showing signs of heatstroke, it’s best to act quickly to help the animal and to cool them gradually. Once they are stable, they should be seen by a veterinarian. In all cases, untreated heatstroke can lead to serious neurological damage and even death. http://www.natalievoss.com/investigative daily 0.75 2019-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1568860999925-UAVQECQAIYH19MRK80WG/DA.png Investigative - Chicken Houses And Horse Rescue: A Complicated Tale Several days after New Year's, New Jersey resident Dina Alborano posted a video on social media of a crowd of horses jogging down a livestock chute somewhere in Louisiana, imploring her followers on Twitter to donate money to prevent the horses from shipping to a slaughterhouse in Mexico. The cost to purchase 11 horses and pay for their quarantine and transport, she later told Horse Racing Nation, would run $32,000. She pleaded with casual fans, horse rescue keyboard warriors, and top racing journalists, owners, and jockeys to give something – anything — toward the horses' rescue and rehoming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1568860999925-UAVQECQAIYH19MRK80WG/DA.png Investigative - Chicken Houses And Horse Rescue: A Complicated Tale Several days after New Year's, New Jersey resident Dina Alborano posted a video on social media of a crowd of horses jogging down a livestock chute somewhere in Louisiana, imploring her followers on Twitter to donate money to prevent the horses from shipping to a slaughterhouse in Mexico. The cost to purchase 11 horses and pay for their quarantine and transport, she later told Horse Racing Nation, would run $32,000. She pleaded with casual fans, horse rescue keyboard warriors, and top racing journalists, owners, and jockeys to give something – anything — toward the horses' rescue and rehoming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1465864282945-I18J9VB7FKZRF7152JB2/drug-testing-test-tubes.jpg Investigative - New York’s Drug Testing Program Has Its Own ‘Style’ “It just doesn't pass the smell test.” Attorney Drew Mollica repeated the phrase, utterly mystified a few days after his client, Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, was handed a fine and suspension for overages of both flunixin and furosemide in Saratoga Snacks from a Sept. 20 race at Belmont Park. Mott was told the horse's furosemide levels were ten times the legal limit, despite the bleeder medication having been administered by a third party veterinarian at a third the usual dose, per Mott's request. Given his client's pristine reputation and clear medical records backing up Mott's account of the furosemide administration, Mollica already thought the situation smelled a little fishy. By now, he thought it stunk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1465864306749-YYGDHKIP58RKCOIHA35P/research-vet-checklist.jpg Investigative - Time For A Change? Veterinarian’s List No Safe Harbor For Racehorses On Jan. 27, 2015, six Thoroughbreds went to the post for the second race at Turf Paradise, but only five came back. Four-year-old Time for a J fractured the sesamoids in his left front leg and was euthanized on the track. What separated the dark bay gelding from most other horses who meet the same sad fate is that he had been officially identified as unsound before he entered the gates on that January afternoon. It was a red flag that at least one trainer and multiple racetrack officials chose to ignore — all completely within the bounds of Arizona state law. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1465864284765-XBDP3TVA27QOUXWD35O0/Homepage-graphic.jpg Investigative - Click Here To Cheat? Online Peddlers Of Racehorse Snake Oil Go Largely Unchecked A plain brown package arrived at the doorstep of Dr. Mary Scollay, equine medical director for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission. There was no return address label. No packing slip. According to what she had read online, the small vial inside containing a dark red liquid was “a proprietary formula that is an extremely potent blood builder.” It was “extremely fast acting” and “best given the day before an event.” It also “would not test.” http://www.natalievoss.com/horse-care daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1613370317328-C4MC2PM627EI5353N7U3/Horse-Legs-Close-Up_Adobe-Stock-OK.jpg Horse Care - Bramlage: Racing And Training 2-Year-Olds Reduces Their Risk Of Injury – Here’s Why One theory that many people have offered over the years is that the practice of allowing horses to race at two years old is either the direct cause of early breakdowns or predisposes horses to serious injury later. Many such hypotheses equate training and racing a 2-year-old with putting an elementary school-aged child into the Olympics. For more than two decades, the sport has heard calls to put an end to 2-year-old racing. Those calls have been renewed recently, as some fans have seen the racing shutdown as a good time to reevaluate and modify its structure and improve equine welfare. The problem, according to Dr. Larry Bramlage, top orthopedic surgeon and Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital, is the halt of 2-year-old racing and training wouldn't be a net gain for welfare or fatality rates – it might actually be a loss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1613370317328-C4MC2PM627EI5353N7U3/Horse-Legs-Close-Up_Adobe-Stock-OK.jpg Horse Care - Bramlage: Racing And Training 2-Year-Olds Reduces Their Risk Of Injury – Here’s Why One theory that many people have offered over the years is that the practice of allowing horses to race at two years old is either the direct cause of early breakdowns or predisposes horses to serious injury later. Many such hypotheses equate training and racing a 2-year-old with putting an elementary school-aged child into the Olympics. For more than two decades, the sport has heard calls to put an end to 2-year-old racing. Those calls have been renewed recently, as some fans have seen the racing shutdown as a good time to reevaluate and modify its structure and improve equine welfare. The problem, according to Dr. Larry Bramlage, top orthopedic surgeon and Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital, is the halt of 2-year-old racing and training wouldn't be a net gain for welfare or fatality rates – it might actually be a loss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1613370426158-H7P60UZRYIURD2PWDJ4G/osphos-bisphosphonate.jpeg Horse Care - Bramlage: ‘Price To Pay’ For Bisphosphonate Use Is Delayed Healing “I wish we'd never seen these drugs,” said renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. Larry Bramlage at the conclusion of a recent presentation about bisphosphonates. Four years after the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Tildren and Osphos (both trade names for bisphosphonates) for use in adult horses suffering from navicular syndrome, Bramlage said he's seeing unintended side effects from people using the drug off label. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1465865419491-2XQGZFFF6ZPY3W1HF2UM/0795-0011.jpg Horse Care - Human Drug Can Help Horses Fight EHV-1 — If You Time It Right As the EHV-1 outbreak in New Mexico and Arizona continues to unfold, many horsemen are watching nervously from afar, wondering what they would do if they had horses stabled on the backstretch at Sunland Park, Frontera Training Center, or Turf Paradise. Experts say when it comes to dealing with an outbreak, vaccines can't be expected to prevent a horse from contracting EHV-1, but there are some treatments available that could reduce the risk that a horse develops neurological symptoms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1731720637363-H4MAXXP9W5BGZ6TADJ1Y/Screen+Shot+2024-11-15+at+8.30.26+PM.png Horse Care - Put A Pin In It: Hows And Whys Of Corrective Surgeries In Young Thoroughbreds Decades ago, in an era increasingly far from today, when many Thoroughbred breeders were also owners, and many owners also rode, the larger breeding farms had a polo barn on the back of the property. When a foal was born with crooked legs that didn’t straighten themselves with time, that’s where they went, destined for a riding life where money was no object and time was practically free. Many an extremely well-bred trail horse or polo pony started this way – probably a disappointment to their breeders, but still a productive partner whose DNA wouldn’t enter the breed’s gene pool. From then to now, the ancient maxim about creating Thoroughbreds has been “breed the best to the best and hope for the best.” It’s still true. But in recent years, breeders have had the option to revise nature’s final draft when it isn’t quite perfect the first time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689fc6325981d3d9138183d/1465865422183-ZDXMHPKM86YJ8G51ELYE/horse-eating-hay-close-up.jpg Horse Care - Cut And Dried: Proper Hay Curing And Storage Can Prevent Barn Fires As summer fades into fall, horse farm managers are either baling and storing some of their last hay harvests, or loading their lofts and storage buildings with hay bought from nearby suppliers in preparation for winter. Even though the outside temperature is about to drop in most of the country, experts say this is the time to think about hay fires. Just a few weeks ago, a fire ripped through a pole barn adjacent to a horse barn at the University of California-Davis, destroying the building and its hay stores before firefighters got the flames under control. 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