Winning Ponies
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"Winning Ponies" Previews the 138th Preakness Stakes
This is Preakness weekend and we have 2 guests with different connections to the race. This is also the 40th anniversary of Secretariat's Triple Crown and no one captured his essence on film over the years other than photographer Tony Leonard. After his passing last year, Bobby Shiflet put together a partnership to protect Leonard's legacy. Many in the industry thought Leonard's work would be broken up, but through Shiflet's efforts he has ensured that his work will be preserved for...
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"Winning Ponies" Presents DRF Handicapper Mike...
Mike Watchmaker is the national handicapper for Daily Racing Form. He first joined the Form in 1980, and was named New York columnist in 1983. He left the Form in 1991 to join The Racing Times, then worked for NYRA, where he was program handicapper and morning line maker before rejoining the Form in 1998. He will review his observations of Oaks/Derby weekend and the impact the Derby will have on upcoming Triple Crown races. In the second segment our own Ed Meyer will be our guest. He was its...
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"Winning Ponies" Presents the 2013 Oaks and Derby Preview
For this year's Kentucky Oaks and Derby preview, we have lined up a trifecta of handicappers representing the country from coast to coast, who will help us put the Oaks and Derby picture into perspective. West-coast based Jay Privman, Louisville's own Jennie Rees and Daily Racing Form's East coast handicapping editor Dan Illman. Jay Privman covers the Southern California circuit plus such national events as the Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup. He is the author of "Breeders' Cup: Thoroughbred...
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"Winning Ponies" Presents Last Year Derby Winning...
The Kentucky Derby is almost upon us and our first guest is last year's Kentucky Derby winning trainer Doug O'Neill. He won both the Derby and the Preakness Stakes with 'I'll Have Another'. He knows how to get his colt in top shape for the first jewel of the Triple Crown. This year he will be represented by 'Goldencents', winner of the Santa Anita Derby in his last. He will give us a comparison between both colts and a feeling of how confident he is about his charge this year. In the second...
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"Winning Ponies" Welcomes NARA Executive Director Remi...
Remi Bellocq will talk a little about what keeps him busy at Equine Programming for Bluegrass Community and Technical College these days, which he joined after 18 years in various management positions at racetracks across North America, notably Santa Anita in southern California. Remi will tell us about their trip to Abu Dhabi in Nov. 2012, and all the fund raising efforts to support their teaching horses at the College. He will brush over the new online course offerings, summer classes in...
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"Winning Ponies" Presents Senior Communications Director...
Darren Rogers is the Senior Director of Communication and Media Services at Churchill Downs. As one of the busiest men in racing over the next four weeks, he'll be discussing the impact of the Kentucky Derby and Oaks point system on this year's races. Darren will also update listeners on any new activities that will be incorporated into Kentucky Derby Week at Churchill Downs. As horses begin to ship in for training at the historic oval, he'll give us updates on any training plans for those...
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"Winning Ponies" Presents Keeneland Communications...
Julie Balog is the Director of Communications at the Keeneland Association, the world’s largest Thoroughbred auction company and a world-class Thoroughbred race course, where she joined in 1999. She has led Keeneland’s media outreach relations efforts. Keeneland is unveiling a host of enhancements for the upcoming spring meeting to help make betting easier and more enjoyable for fans. Aditional race analysis this spring from handicapper Katie Mikolay Gensler and longtime Keeneland...
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"Winning Ponies" Welcomes Back DRF Editorial Director...
John Engelhardt will host three guests this week. Newly appointed Editorial Director at the Daily Racing Form to lead its national editorial operation based in New York, Mark Simon will be our first guest. He will tell us a little about his new responsibilities and what plans he has for the publication. Peviously the founding editor of Thoroughbred Times, he was hired by Dick Broadbent, owner of Bloodstock Research, at the time to start the publication. Under his direction the Thoroughbred...
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"Winning Ponies" Presents "New Vocations" Program...
Anna Ford from New Vocations will be our first guest. She is the program Director in charge of the Thoroughbreds & Adoption Office. This program starting this week, will produce the simulcast television feed for Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race which will run informational slates that feature retired racehorses available for adoption. The slates will include a photo of the horse, biographical info, what they will be most suitable for in retirement (ie. trail riding, show jumping, etc…)...
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"Winning Ponies" Presents Former Jockey/TVG Analyst...
Chantal Sutherland is our first guest. During her 13-year career, Chantal a Toronto native, won 931 races and purses worth more than $47 million. She retired at the top of her game as one of racing’s all-time leading female jockeys. She has just started with TVG and covered Game On Dude winning the Santa Anita Handicap - a race she had won on him in 2011. Handicapper Tom Law has created a new website called "thisishorseracing.com" with updated columns and blogs on thoroughbred racing. He...
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"Winning Ponies" Presents Trainer Ken McPeek and...
Kenny McPeek is not cut from the same bolt of cloth as many of today's trainers. A graduate of the University of Kentucky with a degree in business administration, McPeek, now 50, interviewed on Wall Street before deciding to make a go of it as a Thoroughbred trainer. Concerned with the sport's flagging popularity, he helped developed an iPhone app, HORSE RACES NOW, which permits fans to watch races without paying a fee. Mr. McPeek has discovered and/or trained such quality racehorses as...
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"Winning Ponies" welcomes jockeys Alex Solis and Rosie...
Alex O. Solis (born March 25, 1964 in Panama City, Panama) is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California. He got his big break and his first gained national prominence when he won the 1986 Preakness Stakes with Snow Chief. In 2002, he was inducted in the Calder Race Course Hall of Fame. Solis won two Breeders' Cup races in 2003 with Johar (who finished in a dead heat) in the Breeders' Cup Turf and aboard...
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Winning Ponies welcomes back Robert Elliston
Robert N. Elliston has been president and CEO of Turfway Park since June 1999, shortly after the track was purchased by Keeneland Association, Harrah's Entertainment, and GTECH Corporation. An avid horse racing enthusiast his entire adult life, Elliston currently serves as executive chair of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Board of Directors and is treasurer of the Kentucky Equine Education Project(KEEP) Board. He also serves on the Thoroughbred Racing Association...
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"Winning Ponies" welcomes rider John Mckee and Greta...
Born Aug. 21, 1981 in Cincinnati, Ohio, McKee now lives in Louisville with his wife and stepson. John's father, David, had been a jockey in the late 1970s and early '80s. "When I saw his win pictures," McKee told Maryjean Wall of the Lexington Herald-Leader about his father, "it was something that I always wanted to do after that." His father had known Eddie Campbell from his riding days and he suggested that his son approach Campbell to ask him to work with him. Campbell had been Steve...
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Winning Ponies welcomes back Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day, born in Colorado, is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991. Day also received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1985, given annually to a North American jockey who demonstrates the highest standards of professional and personal conduct. In 1995, he was voted the Mike Venezia Memorial Award for "extraordinary sportsmanship and citizenship". He officially...
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Winning Ponies welcomes Hall of Fame trainer Richard...
Richard E. Mandella (born November 5, 1950 in Altadena, California) is a Thoroughbred horse trainer and a member of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame. Mandella's father, a blacksmith, introduced him to horses at an early age and while still in high school, he began starting and training horses at a nearby ranch. He spent a year in New York as assistant to Lefty Nickerson and then took a job with Texas horseman Roger Braugh in 1974.
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Winning Ponies welcomes John Engelhardt and John McDulin
Mr. Engelhardt is the President of the Turf Publicists of America, and also currently the Publicity Director at River Downs. Mr. McDulin writes for the Daily Racing Form. He also creates the charts for Equibase. He has called races, set the morning line at various tracks, held the role of Stakes Coordinator at two tracks, and worked on radio as a professional handicapper. This guy has practically done every job in racing. They will be talking about racing as with every spring, we begin to...
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"Winning Ponies" welcomes jockey "Jersey" Joe Bravo -...
Joe Bravo (born September 10, 1971 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is the son and grandson of jockeys. He began his professional career in Thoroughbred flat racing at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, Florida during the latter part of 1988. According to his NTRA profile, Joe Bravo has dominated the New Jersey racing circuit since the early 1990s. He has won nine riding titles at Meadowlands Racetrack and thirteen at Monmouth Park. He got his big break in 1997 when he rode Formal Gold to his...
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"Winning Ponies" welcomes Jockey Shane Sellers and Asst...
Shane Jude Sellers (born September 24, 1966 in Erath, Louisiana) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. At age eleven, he began working around horses and in 1983 rode his first winner at Evangeline Downs. Sellers won several national riding championships and was a leading rider at Arlington Park. Over his career, he rode in the Kentucky Derby 14 consecutive times, with his best finish a third with Wild Gale in 1993. The two took third again that year in the Belmont Stakes. He rode...
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"Winning Ponies" welcomes jockey Jersey Joe Bravo
Joe Bravo (born September 10, 1971 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is the son and grandson of jockeys. He began his professional career in Thoroughbred flat racing at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, Florida during the latter part of 1988. According to his NTRA profile, Joe Bravo has dominated the New Jersey racing circuit since the early 1990s. He has won nine riding titles at Meadowlands Racetrack and thirteen at Monmouth Park. He got his big break in 1997 when he rode Formal Gold to his...
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"Winning Ponies" welcomes V.P. of H.A.N.A, Mr. Mike...
Mike Maloney is one of the most respected professional gamblers in the country, and is on many panels to discuss and design programs for the betterment of racing. Mr. Maloney currently V.P. of the Horseplayers Association of North America (H.A.N.A), said the practice of "past post" betting is so persistent, he intentionally placed a small simulcast bet last spring at Keeneland for a race occurring in New Orleans. He immediately reported the snafu with the betting window and has since become...
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Winning Ponies" welcomes Hall of Fame rider Randy Romero...
Randy Paul Romero was born December 22, 1957 in Erath, Louisiana, into a family involved with horses. His father Lloyd J. Romero was a Louisiana state trooper who trained American Quarter Horses and later, after a drunk driver crashed into his police car and permanently disabled him, he began training Thoroughbreds for flat racing. The 1978 movie Casey's Shadow is based on Lloyd Romero and his family. Randy was elected into the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame May 27, 2010. In 1975 Randy...
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Winning Ponies" welcomes Hall of Fame rider Randy Romero
Randy Paul Romero was born December 22, 1957 in Erath, Louisiana, into a family involved with horses. His father Lloyd J. Romero was a Louisiana state trooper who trained American Quarter Horses and later, after a drunk driver crashed into his police car and permanently disabled him, he began training Thoroughbreds for flat racing. The 1978 movie Casey's Shadow is based on Lloyd Romero and his family. Randy was elected into the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame May 27, 2010. In 1975 Randy...
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"Winning Ponies" welcomes NTRA contests qualifier Brian...
Mr. Brian Feldman, a driver from Mason, Ohio, who qualified online for the 2010 NHC, moved into eighth place on the tour with 8,073 points. He has qualified for the NHC twice before, finishing 14th in 2001 after winning the Turfway qualifier and competing again in 2007. Turfway is his home track. To qualify for the national championship and earn tour points, players enter contests at tracks around the country and online. Mr. Feldman will be talking to our host about the intricacies of...
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"Winning Ponies" welcomes trainer Chris Block and...
Chris Block grew up in the business with his parents, who have been involved in racing and breeding for about 40 years. "My dad loved racing and ran a few down at Fairmount when I was a kid. I insisted he takes me every time he went. I loved the horses and the races. The more I went, I knew I'd get involved in racing." At one time Chris thought about being a jockey. He worked three summers as a groom for the Bill Mott stable in Illinois, Minnesota and Kentucky before taking out his trainer's...
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"Winning Ponies" welcomes trainer Tom Amoss and DRF...
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"Winning Ponies" welcomes trainer Scott Lake and Jockey...
Mr. Lake led the nation in wins in 2006 and was second to Steve Asmussen by just three victories, 488-485 in 2007. He passed the 4,000 win mark in 2006. Scott started training full time on his own in 1991 with one horse but soon developed into the top conditioner in the Mid-Atlantic with dozens of training titles in Maryland, Delaware Park, Penn National and Philadelphia Park. His biggest successes have come with claims he has developed into stakes stars. Lake was a finalist for the Eclipse...
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