signed by Martin’s Last Dollar Ranch, who sold for $15,000. Next, was FROSTED LITTLE SNAP, a palomino stallion also from Martin’s Last Dollar Ranch sold for $6,200. Completing the top 3 was SHINNG DULCES, a palomino filly bred by Chisum Ranch sold for $7,500. The entire Sale of 72 head sold averaged $7,271 with the top 5 averaging $21,600 and top 10 averaging $16,700. The HPRBA will hold its 23nd Annual Sale on Saturday, June 4, 2022 in Amarillo, Texas in conjunction with the Coors Cowboy Club Ranch Rodeo. For more information visit the HPRBA website at www.hprba.com, and keep up on Facebook, by following High Plains
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The Kentucky Derby – A Case Study for Understanding Racing’s Regulatory Process by Wendy Davis, National Animal Interest Alliance Board Member
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he Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously held major sporting event in the United States. It has been contested every year at Churchill Downs without interruption since the inaugural running on May 17, 1875. The last few years of America’s most iconic horse race have been anything but ordinary. Two years ago, Maximum Security was disqualified from his 2019 Derby win due to interference coming into the homestretch – the first winner ever disqualified for interference in the history of the race. At the time there was disbelief from the public who watches racing only on the first Saturday in May. For those who work with the
rules of racing on a daily basis, the decision was not surprising. Other than this race being watched around the world, the decision to disqualify for interference (defined as an action that cost another horse “the opportunity for a better placing”) as was straightforward. What was out of the norm was the legal battle that lasted until late August 2020 when the United States Court of Appeals supported the opinion of U.S. District Court Judge Karen Caldwell, who ruled Nov. 15, 2019, that disqualification decisions are not subject to judicial review and that the disqualification procedure in place does not implicate an interest protected under the due process clause of the Constitution. This year’s Derby, Medina Spirit, trained by Bob Baffert, was not without controversy as the winner may become only the second horse in the history of the race to be disqualified for a medication violation. The only other came in 1968 when Dancer’s Image was disqualified for the presence of phenylbutazone. Both incidents brought the rules of racing to the front pages of newspapers and magazines across the country and left people wondering about just what is going on.
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