By David Hooper, Executive Director, Texas Thoroughbred Association
AUSTIN, (TTA) – The Texas Thoroughbred Association Board of Directors met at Sam Houston Race Park last Saturday morning and listened as operators of the state’s three Class 1 tracks waxed enthusiastically about prospects for their 2012 race meets and expressed optimism that track owners and...
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By David Hooper, Director, Texas Thoroughbred Association)
AUSTIN, (TTA) – Retama Park’s twin 2-year-old featured stakes, the $75,000 M2Technology La Senorita for fillies and the $75,000 El Joven for colts and geldings, headline the October 15 Saturday night racing card with nine Texas-breds, six state-bred fillies and three state-bred colts and geldings, set to try...
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By David Hooper, CEO, Texas Thoroughbred Association
Photo by Lucy Reyna, Horseback Magazine
AUSTIN, (TRC) – GOVERNOR PERRY APPOINTS HOUSTON CFA TO TRC TO FILL PABLOS’ VACANCY
Governor Rick Perry has appointed John T. Steen III, a Chartered Financial Analyst and director of commercial development for Lone Star NGL LLC, to the Texas Racing Commission to fill...
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AUSTIN, (TTA) – Nine colts and geldings and 11 fillies were entered in the two $100,000 divisions of the second legs of this year’s newest Texas Stallion Stakes Series to be run over 6 furlongs as the twin features of the 10-race card on Saturday night, September 24, at Retama Park.
Clarence Scharbauer’s homebred Sword...
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RETAMA AMENDS 2012 DATES REQUEST TO RUN 26 TB DATES IN 13 WEEKS TIL 12/29 – By David Hooper, Texas Thoroughbred Association
AUSTIN, (TTA) – Bryan Brown, Retama Park’s COO, has submitted an amended dates request for 2012 that would add three Thoroughbred dates to run 26 programs in 13 weeks from October 5 through...
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By David Hooper, Executive Director, Texas Thoroughbed Association,
AUSTIN, (TTA) – What a difference a year makes. Discussion of 2011 racing dates proposals took five meetings at the Class 1 tracks and one meeting in Austin in 2010 before requests were considered and formally finalized at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Texas Racing Commission....
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RACE DATES COMMITTEE MEETING SET FOR AUG. 3, By David Ho0per, Director, Texas Thoroughbred Association,
AUSTIN, (TTA) – The Texas Racing Commission’s Committee on Horse Race Dates will meet at Retama Park on Wednesday, August 3, 2011, at 11am in the Racing Office Recreation Room to discuss potential live race dates for calendar year...
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AUSTIN, (TTA) – The deadline to nominate stallions to the Texas Stallion Stakes for the 2011 breeding season is October 1, 2011. Only Texas-accredited stallions may be nominated. The fee to nominate is the greater of $1,500 or the advertised stud fee for stallions standing their first season in Texas in 2011. For stallions...
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TEXAS-BRED CANIGOTOO’S 96 ‘BEYER’ IS NATION’S HIGHEST FOR A 2011 2-YEAR-OLD
By Dav id Hooper, Executive Director, Texas Thoroughbred Association,
Trainer J. R. Caldwell recently posted that his 2-year-old lost to a “Calhoun steamer” last week.
The “Calhoun steamer” is Canigotoo, who showed in his impressive debut that he surely can go!
The Texas-bred sped five furlongs...
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By David Hooper, Director, Texas Thoroughbred Association
AUSTIN, (TTA) – The Texas Thoroughbred Association Board of Directors has elected David Stephens, an equine veterinarian from Aubrey, TX, and partner in Weems & Stephens Equine Hospital, as president of the state breed organization during a regularly scheduled Board meeting in Arlington on June 10. Dr. Stephens...
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