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Subsequent to a Monday morning fire where four Thoroughbreds died after the blaze consumed a transport trainer on the Bluegrass Parkway, one of the victims was identified as Respect the Code (Honor Code). Third in the Clocker's Corner S. at Santa Anita earlier this winter, the gelding was being shipped from his California base to Kentucky to be sold at the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Horses of Racing Age Sale July 10. Owned by David A. Bernsen and Omar Aldabbagh, the 4-year-old was trained by George Papaprodromou. An additional four Thoroughbreds were...

Ellis Park plans to honor Marvin Prado and other backstretch workers involved in rescuing six racehorses and one stable pony during a fire in the track's receiving barn last Sunday. They hope to do so during this weekend's races, contingent on the availability of Prado, whose daughter was born two months premature the day after the fire and is still hospitalized. The barn was engulfed in flames in a matter of 20 minutes and those on the scene say the man of the moment was Prado, with assistance from fellow...

The Vermont Arson Tip Award Program is offering a $5,000 reward for information that will lead to the arrest of anyone involved in the suspicious fire that consumed the Green Mountain Park grandstand in the overnight hours of Sept. 15-17. The former track, located in the southern Vermont town of Pownal near the borders of Massachusetts and New York, last ran a Thoroughbred meet in 1976 and had been closed for racing since 1991 after converting to a greyhound configuration. The building was abandoned and no one was hurt in...

The day it happened, Aug. 12, 2019, Louis Merryman didn't know what to expect, only that the next several months would not be easy ones. The main barn at his Anchor and Hope Farm had burned to the ground, and the list of problems seemed to stretch on forever. The only thing that he knew for sure was that this was not the end of his farm. "I look around and think that a small group of us have accomplished an awful lot in the last several months," he said....