LOCAL HORSES OUT OF TOWN

James R. Brown
Entries
December 3 – Turf Paradise
	Satellite Storm	Race 5	Claiming $12,500
	A. F. Indy	Race 8	Claiming $8,500
Results
December 2 – Turf Paradise
Toccet’s Charm finished 2nd beaten 2 3/4 lengths Race 6 View Chart
Sandi Gann
Entries
December 3 – Turf Paradise
	Royal Privacy	Race 5	Claiming $12,500
December 4 – Turf Paradise
	Good Time Dollar	Race 8	Waiver Maiden Claiming $5,000
Results
December 2 – Turf Paradise
Lesedi finished 2nd beaten 3/4 length Race 3 View Chart
Addysgoingmobile finished 7th beaten 20 1/4 lengths Race 7 View Chart
Steve Henson
Entries
December 3 – Turf Paradise
	Presidential Bird	Race 7	Claiming $3,000

HANDICAPPING CONTESTS ON BOXING DAY AND NEW YEARS DAY AT THE DERBY

BOOK YOUR CHRISTMAS PARTY AT THE DERBY

CARMA TO HOST ANNUAL THOROUGHBRED HOLIDAY CLASSIC THIS SATURDAY & SUNDAY AT LA EQUESTRIAN CENTER IN BURBANK

 PAIR OF SAN LUIS REY DOWNS FIRE SURVIVORS TO COMPETE ONE YEAR AFTER DEVASTATING BLAZE 

ARCADIA, (Dec. 3, 2018)–The California Retirement Management Account (CARMA) will stage its annual two-day Thoroughbred Holiday Classic this Saturday and Sunday at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center in Burbank.  In addition, the Calcutta, where jockeys and trainers will be featured on horseback, will be held Saturday evening at 5:30 p.m. Held annually since 2011, the event which raises awareness to help CARMA rehabilitate and place retired Thoroughbreds, gets underway on Saturday at 8 a.m.

This year’s Thoroughbreds-only show will include two horses that survived the devastating fires which engulfed San Luis Rey Downs a year ago and will again feature a jumping competition for racetrack trainers and jockeys on Saturday evening.  This competition will be supported by several members of the Southern California Thoroughbred community, including top trainer John Sadler, conditioner of recent Grade I Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and Horse of the Year candidate, Accelerate.

Sadler, an accomplished equestrian in his own right, has competed in every Jockey and Trainer Calcutta since the inception of the competition in 2013 and his team of fellow trainers remains undefeated.

“This is obviously for a great cause, as CARMA is doing wonderful things in terms of placing retired Thoroughbreds in good homes and really, bringing much joy to those folks that adopt them,” said Sadler, who is believed by many to be a leading candidate for racing’s Hall of Fame in the near future.

“I’ve been riding my whole life and for me, and everyone involved with CARMA, horses are family.  We all look forward to this fundraiser every year and we look forward to having a lot of fun and putting on a good show for everyone on Saturday.”

Admission is free to attend the horse show both Saturday and Sunday. Additionally, the Calcutta, on Saturday evening (5:30 p.m.) will offer attendees a complimentary hosted barbeque dinner and no-host bar (21 and over.)

For additional information on CARMA’s two-day Thoroughbred Holiday Classic Horse Show Dec. 8 & 9, please contact CARMA Project Manager Natalie Rietkerk at (626) 574-6654.

About CARMA

California Retirement Management Account (CARMA) is a 501c3 non-profit organization founded in 2007 to raise money for retired racehorses.  It is responsible for hosting fundraising events, educating owners and trainers on equine retirement, raising awareness and working to unify the racing industry in support of its equine athletes. Ways in which this is accomplished include facilitating the transition of racehorses off the track through its Placement Program and showcasing the breed’s versatility as equestrian mounts at its Thoroughbred Classic Horse Show. CARMA worked closely with the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) to adopt a rule change allowing for a 0.3% deduction from purses to help fund equine retirement.  This deduction which owners can “opt-out” of if they so choose, is used to support Thoroughbred retirement farms and other non-profit programs that care for and retrain retired racehorses. CARMA manages a grant request process and since 2008 has awarded more than 3.2 million dollars to qualified retirement facilities caring for Thoroughbreds. Donations are tax-deductible and may be sent to CARMA, 285 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia CA, 91007. (Tax ID #80-0146395).

CARMA Mission Statement

The California Retirement Management Account (CARMA) provides funding for the retirement of California-raced Thoroughbred horses and serves as an educational resource for the public and racing community.

GOOD NEWS! SANTA ANITA OVERNIGHT PURSES SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER THAN RECENTLY CONCLUDED AUTUMN MEET AS THE GREAT RACE PLACE APPROACHES TRADITIONAL WINTER MEET OPENER ON DEC. 26

SANTA ANITA CONDITION BOOK ‘ONE’ WILL BE ONLINE TUESDAY, HARD COPIES TO BE AVAILABLE IN SANTA ANITA RACING OFFICE WEDNESDAY MORNING 

ARCADIA, Calif. (Dec. 3, 2018)–With its traditional Winter Meet opener fast approaching on Wednesday, Dec. 26, Santa Anita Park has announced substantial purse increases for all of its overnight races, with some categories getting as much as an 11 percent boost when compared to purse levels at the track’s recently concluded Autumn Meet.

Santa Anita’s Winter Meet Condition Book One will be available to horsemen at santaanita.com on Tuesday, with hard copies available in the Racing Office this Wednesday, Dec. 5.

In addition to higher purses, horsemen will also find increased benefits for those running in races with purse levels of $30,000 or lower, as purse distribution in those races has been adjusted to better compensate horses that finish fourth and fifth.  Percentage of purse distribution in those races, from first through fifth, will now be 55, 20, 12, 8 and 5.

“The overall increase in purse money is due to increased handle over the last year,” said P.J. Campo, Vice President, Racing for The Stronach Group.  “We’ve adjusted the purses for the mid-level races in order to try to increase participation and field size, which drives handle.  With these and other changes in place, we’re looking forward to a great Winter Meet starting the day after Christmas.”

Other changes, designed to increase field size, come in the first condition allowance category.  Instead of being restricted to horses who are non-winners of $10,000 other than maiden, claiming or starter, horses will now be eligible if they’ve won $15,000 “other than.”

This adjustment has been made to entice more European and out of state horses to participate.  Additionally, for the first time ever, horses that win first condition allowance races at Golden Gate Fields will now be exempted and be eligible to run again at the same non-winner’s level at Santa Anita, which will hopefully serve as an incentive to Bay Area horsemen to ship south for substantially more money.

For additional information regarding Santa Anita’s 2018-19 Winter Meet, please visit santaanita.com, or contact Santa Anita Racing Director Dan Eidson at (626) 574-6352.

Do Horses Need Hay Around the Clock?

A horse owner asks if she’s feeding her horse hay often enough. Nutritionist Dr. Clair Thunes responds.

Question: .Do horses need hay around the clock? I have heard that horses need hay kept in front them all the times, but also that they don’t need 24-hour access to hay. I feed my 20-year-old horse 8 ounces of protein feed in the morning with two to three flakes of hay, and then turn him out on the pasture in afternoon until it gets dark. Now that it’s dark at 5: 30 p.m., I bring him in but don’t give him any hay for the night. Am I feeding him enough?

Answer.  Accurately evaluating if you’re currently feeding the right amount of hay is challenging because I don’t have all the information I need about your horse and what you’re currently feeding. There are really two ways to look at your question:

1. The first is are you feeding enough to meet your horse’s nutritional requirements; and
2. Are you feeding enough to maintain gut health?

I will try to address both using some general considerations and hope you’ll find it helpful.

You’re correct that some owners/barns keep forage in front of their horses 24 hours a day while others meal feed. If you think back to where horses come from, they evolved in an environment where they could eat around the clock. Because available forage was low in nutritional value, they had to eat a lot of it, and their digestive tracts evolved accordingly. As a result, their digestive tracts are set up to receive small amounts of food almost constantly and always secrete stomach acid; most of their digestive tract volume is dedicated to forage fermentation.

Traditionally, our domesticated horses were fed in the morning before they went to work. They might receive a meal during the day in a nose bag or similar and then would receive another meal or be turned out on return from work at night. Meal feeding has remained our model for feeding horses even though few horses work all day and this pattern of feeding goes against how their digestive tracts are designed. Feeding this way was a necessity of the lifestyle, and meal feeding remains a mainstay of feeding practice in many barns.

When we apply these considerations to your horse, you’re doing a combination of both as you meal feed, but your horse also gets access to pasture for at least some of the day. It sounds as though your horse likely has feed for most of the daylight hours, assuming the morning hay lasts until turnout. However, overnight there is no feed available. Having no forage available overnight goes counter to the way your horse’s digestive tract is designed. Yet it’s how many horses are fed.

That said it’s also true that the risks of developing issues such as equine gastric ulcer syndrome and some forms of colic increase when horses are meal fed and go for long periods without forage access. So feeding some forage after return from pasture might benefit gastrointestinal health especially now that you are bringing your horse in earlier and the time spent in the stall without forage has increased.

This brings us to the other consideration: Are you feeding enough to meet your horse’s nutritional needs? The first consideration, and what I am going to focus on here, is calories–are you feeding enough calories to maintain body condition? Reducing your horse’s turnout time on pasture means less time for him to consume pasture and the possibility he’s consuming fewer calories. I say possibility because horses have actually been shown to consume the greatest amount of pasture when they are initially turned out, so reducing turnout time might or might not have a significant impact on total pasture intake.

However, at this time of year pasture quality drops off considerably. Rate of plant growth is reduced, so there’s a strong likelihood that your horse is not getting the calories from the pasture that he did over summer and early fall. This could lead to a loss of condition. Not knowing what condition your horse is in currently, I can’t determine whether this would actually be beneficial or not for your horse.

If current condition is ideal, then a loss of condition should cause concern and would require that these missing calories be provided some other way such as additional hay. This could be achieved by feeding some hay when you bring your horse in which would also help solve the issue of the long overnight period without feed.

If your horse needs to lose a little weight, or the reduction in pasture intake does not cause a loss of condition, then you could look at restructuring your current feeding program to spread out the hay you are feeding throughout the day and overnight. Instead of increasing hay intake in this scenario you could feed some of the morning hay in the evening.

Whether you feed more total hay or spread out the current hay fed, consider using a slow feeder so that it takes longer for your horse to eat the hay you are feeding. Some horses can handle constant access to forage without gaining undesirable weight. This typically requires finding an appropriate hay that has low nutritional value and restricting access with slow feeders. However, not all horses adjust to this even when the hay is of low nutritional value and display undesirable weight gain and therefore must have their intake limited.

One last general rule of thumb to keep in mind when debating the issue of whether you’re feeding enough total feed is how much feed your horse is consuming as a percentage of body weight. Research suggests that most mature horses in grazing situations consume 1.5-2% of their body weight per day as dry matter. While studies have shown wide variation in the amount consumed by each individual, veterinarians and nutritionists typically recommend a minimum of 1.5% of body weight as dry matter to maintain gut function.

Hopefully as you consider these general guidelines and your current feeding program they will help you to determine how best to make feeding adjustments if you decide changes are necessary.

About The Author

Clair Thunes, PhD

Clair Thunes, PhD, is an independent equine nutrition consultant who owns Summit Equine Nutrition, based in Sacramento, California. She works with owners/trainers and veterinarians across the United States and globally to take the guesswork out of feeding horses. Born in England, she earned her undergraduate degree at Edinburgh University, in Scotland, and her master’s and doctorate in nutrition at the University of California, Davis. Growing up, she competed in a wide array of disciplines and was an active member of the United Kingdom Pony Club. Today, she serves as the regional supervisor for the Sierra Pacific region of the United States Pony Clubs. As a nutritionist she works with all horses, from WEG competitors to Miniature Donkeys and everything in between.

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Entries
December 6 – Los Alamitos Race Course
She’sluckythatway		Wgt-124	Race 1	Claiming $6,250
Mo Mississippi		Wgt-122	Race 4	Maiden Special Weight

Los Alamitos Thoroughbred Daily Results and Activity

Early Entries

Thursday, December 6

Turf Paradise Daily Results and Activity

Results Monday, December 3 Race# Race Type Purse Race 1 Starter Optional Claiming – $10,000 $9,405 Race 2 Claiming – $8,000 $9,000 Race 3 Claiming – $3,000 $7,000 Race 4 Waiver Maiden Claiming – $8,000 $6,300 Race 5 Claiming – $16,000 $12,500 Race 6 Starter Optional Claiming – $6,250 $8,200 Race 7 Claiming – $3,000 $7,000 Race 8 Claiming – $10,000 $8,500

Early Entries Saturday, December 8 Race# Race Type Purse Race 1 Rocky Jones S. $6,000 Race 2 AQRA-Turf Paradise Open S. $6,000 Race 3 Arizona Breeders’ Futurity $30,000 Race 4 Cactus Flower S. $25,000 Race 5 Claiming – $8,500 $8,000 Race 6 Arizona Breeders’ Futurity $30,000 Race 7 Cactus Wren S. $25,000 Race 8 Claiming – $6,250 $9,000

Final Entries Wednesday, December 5 Race# Race Type Purse Race 1 Allowance $20,000 Race 2 Claiming – $3,500 $7,000 Race 3 Claiming – $8,500 $8,000 Race 4 Claiming – $3,500 $7,000 Race 5 Claiming – $3,000 $7,000 Race 6 Maiden Claiming – $5,000 $6,300 Race 7 Claiming – $3,000 $7,000 Race 8 Claiming – $8,500 $8,500

Portland Meadows Daily Results and Activity

Results

Race#	Race Type	Purse
Race 1	Maiden	$4,000
Race 2	Maiden	$4,000
Race 3	Allowance	$4,500
Race 4	Portland Meadows Fall Derby	$15,650
Race 5	Maiden Claiming – $4,000	$5,300
Race 6	Claiming – $5,000	$5,600
Race 7	Claiming – $2,500	$5,500
Race 8	City of Roses H.	$13,000
Race 9	Claiming – $3,200	$6,400
Race 10	Claiming – $2,500	$6,500

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