Tuesday, July 27, 2010

“Panel opposes horse racing plan” plus 1 more

“Panel opposes horse racing plan” plus 1 more

Panel opposes horse racing plan

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 12:26 AM PDT

27 July 2010 Last updated at 03:14 ET

Plans to re-introduce horse racing to Lincoln's West Common have been opposed by an advisory body.

The Lincoln Racecourse Regeneration Company (LRRC) says that staging races at Carholme up to 16 times a year would provide a boost to the city's economy.

But the independent Commons Advisory Committee, a panel of local interest groups, said the proposals were too vague.

The city council is due to make a decision on the plans next month.

'Questions unanswered'

The LRRC has so far been available to comment on the outcome of the panel meeting which took place on Monday night.

The company has previously said the return of professional flat racing to the Common would improve the area and the amenities it provides local residents, workers and visitors and at no cost to the taxpayer.

But many local residents are against the idea, claiming it could cause disruption including parking problems.

Speaking after Monday's meeting the advisory panel's chairman, Helen Heath, said: "Everybody round the table feels that the proposals don't really come up to scratch, that there is insufficient detail.

"There is no business plan, there's no financial breakdown. There are too many questions left unanswered."

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Racing days are over for NorCal champ Chieftain

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 08:14 PM PDT

(07-27) 19:44 PDT -- Bold Chieftain, who maximized his California-bred status to earn $1,542,151 while winning 17 of 38 starts, has been retired after finishing last in the California Dreamin' Handicap on Sunday at Del Mar.

"The fun we had with this horse I just can't put into words," trainer and co-owner Bill Morey Jr. said. "It's just been a wonderful ride. It was a little gloomy the other day when he ran poorly, and I said, 'That's it.' I tried to remember the good days and not that day. He had so many good ones and very few bad ones."

Morey and his partners - Dwaine Hall, Ken Robinson and the late Ernie Langbein - also were the official breeders of Bold Chieftain because they own his dam, Hooked on Music.

"His legs are fine but he has been bleeding (internally) on us and we can't seem to control it," Morey said. "We gave him a little more medication when he ran the other day but he was listless. The horse is retiring sound. His legs are fine and he's not hurting."

Bold Chieftain, whose sire, Chief Seattle, was a son of Seattle Slew, began his racing career at Golden Gate Fields on Nov. 6, 2005. He ran third in his first stakes appearance, in the El Camino Real Derby in January 2006 at Bay Meadows, and won his first stakes - the Hayes Valley - in October that year, at Golden Gate.

He went on to win 12 more stakes, including the California Cup Classic and the California Dreamin' Handicap twice apiece - both restricted to Cal-breds. He enjoyed some of his greatest successes this year at the age of 7, collecting his richest purse in winning the $500,000 Sunshine Millions Classic and garnering his only graded victory in the Grade 2 San Francisco Mile.

"Every horse owner would love to have one of these in their stable at least once in their career," Morey said. "He's done everything we asked and more. He won on every surface from dirt to slop to various synthetics to turf. There wasn't a track he couldn't win on."

For the record, Bold Chieftain won six of 16 starts on grass, five of 12 of synthetics and six of 10 on dirt, including both of his races on wet tracks. Based at Golden Gate Fields for most of his career, he won 12 of 21 starts in Northern California.

Bold Chieftain finished worse than fourth only five times including an eighth-place finish in the 2008 Breeders' Cup Mile in his only appearance in a Grade 1 race.

"We did as good as we could to rack up the money we did and never left California," Morey said. "We won some very nice races in Southern California."

A stud on the racetrack, Bold Chieftain now will become one in earnest.

"We don't have it arranged yet where he will stand but we do have a few coals in the fire," Morey said.

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