New Mexico trainer Todd Fincher and exercise rider comment on the New York Times Article. Todd Fincher has been a horse trainer for 14 years and used to be a jockey. He spoke with KFOX14 about his reaction to a New York Times article on the dangers of horse racing, blasting New Mexico for its poor safety record. Read the article: Via www.kfoxtv.com
Via Scoop.it – New Mexico Horse Racing News Charles Allen “Charlie” Bird, 77, of Midland passed away Thursday, December 8, 2011 in Midland. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, December 12, 2011 at First Presbyterian Church in Midland with Pastor Steve Schorr officiating. Charlie was born December 2, 1934 in Midland to Ethel (Williams) and Freeman Allen Bird. He attended high school [read story]
Many of you who race at SunRay will recognize the person to left as Steve Bortstein, the paddock show host at SunRay Park. Steve now has a blog at horseracingnation.com and will be analyzing and commenting on New Mexico horse racing. Below I have copied his introduction found on his page. Stop by his New Mexico Horse Racing blog, say hi and show some support for your [read story]
Via Scoop.it – New Mexico Horse Racing News AQHA honors the 50-year cumulative and Legacy breeders who have dedicated their livelihoods to maintaining the integrity of the American Quarter Horse. From The American Quarter Horse Journal Twenty-six breeders from across the United States and Canada were honored by the American Quarter Horses Association as 50-year cumulative and Legacy breeders at a ceremony October 3 at the American [read story]
New Mexico Racing News would like to congratulate Trainer Steve Asmussen on his 6,000 career win! Steve Asmussen gave himself a nice birthday present by becoming just the fifth trainer in North American racing history to hit the 6,000-win milestone when Basalt captured the first race Friday evening at Remington Park in Oklahoma City. Asmussen, who turned 46 on Friday, was watching at his [read story]
Doc Blach and Mark Allen seem to be having fun with this. I sure hope Bird is a people horse, he seems to be doing a lot of promotions! : ) New Mexico’s Own Mine that Bird gets the graphic novel, big screenfilm and National Sweepstakes treatment. Against all odds, the remarkable little horse from Roswell, New Mexico became the winner of the 2009, 135th Kentucky [read story]
I highly recommend that everyone take time to both watch the video and read the article. The jockeys are surprisingly honest. The video round table includes Garrett Gomez who grew up and started his career in New Mexico. To watch the video please go to http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20111029/SPORTS08/310290116/Breeders-Cup-2011-Jockeys-rein-their-emotions When an enraged Calvin Borel charged at Javier Castellano near the Churchill Downs winner’s circle after narrowly avoiding a spill [read story]
I hope that they record this! Marvin Barnes, Dr. Charles Graham, John T.L. Jones Jr., trainer Bubba Cascio, trainer Jack Brooks, trainer Pat Thompson and breeder Joe Kirk Fulton will do a round table of sorts at the Heritage Mixed sale. It can’t help but to be interesting and entertaining. All names will be familiar to New Mexico people. IMAGINE SITTING around jawing with baseball [read story]
When development investment companies decide to sell an established luxury community, another such conglomerate usually steps in. When WCI Communities Inc. (a division of Westinghouse Electric Corp.) in 1996 put Bighorn Golf Club up for sale, one of its members, R.D. Hubbard, organized a group of 13 of his neighbors to buy the Palm Desert club. “I wasn’t in the development business,” says Hubbard, who [read story]
Jerry Lawhon, 84, retired to his ranch headquarters in 1995 from a lifetime of training and racing horses. He claims to be the mayor of Lawhon Hill, the name he gave his ranch in the northeast corner of Coke County and south of Blackwell where he tends his horses. “Jerry’s granddad had the first Livery Stable in San Angelo, and the passion for horses must [read story]