CHRB Again Denies Dates for Northern California Racing

Reflecting contentious votes of two previous meetings of the Horse Race Board in California, the ChRB again chose the duration of its monthly meeting on June 19 not to grant career dates this year in northern California.

The offers of the Fresno County Fair to hold races in Fresno and the Humboldt County Fair were running in Ferndale, failed with four opposite commissioners to grant dates and three in favor. Fresno had requested seven dates: from September 19 to 21, 26-28 and October 1. Ferndale wanted eight days of racing on weekends from October 11 to 12, 18-19 and 25-26.

Commissioners Oscar Gonzales, Brenda Washington Davis and Peter supported granting dates, while Thomas Hudnut, Damascus Castellanos, Dennis Alfieri and Dr. Greg Ferraro opposed. His votes were the same last month when the Humboldt County Fair filed a request for the dates of the end of summer.

Hudnut stopped Thorsday before issuing his “no” vote on the dates for Fresno, saying that the decision was “very difficult.” If it had changed to a “yes”, the ash request for the career dates would have passed.

The races in California remain consolidated in the southern part of the state, as has been through 2025. Santa Anita Park He has seen an increase in field size and bets in 2025, coinciding with the consolidation of races.

Santa Anita has loaded some races designed specifically for the old horses in northern California, although the successful riders of numerous previously based in northern California have fallen, several speakers, on Thursday warming.

The owner/breeder Justin Oldfield said that “he tried” in southern California, but found “an indisputable increase in costs, moving the horses to the south of California, in the light of having more wallets.”

He said that he and his wife, Julia, transferred all their horses to the south of California before they finally chose to send them to Emerald Downs In Washington.

Pure blood races raised in California outside the State do not get Breeder awards, except in races in graduated betting races. In part due to this reason and with Ferwer racing opportunities in the state, continuous decreases are anticipated in the state foal harvest.

Last year, numerous fairs in northern California held races that passed the summer months, as they have usually done. However, after a failed autumn meeting in Pleasanton Under Operator Golden State Racing, the races ceased in northern California Deringia winter and this spring. Golden Gate Fields, which the Santa Anita operator, 1/ST Racing, closed last year, previously accelerated periods of duration in northern California. The horses also stabilize in Golden Gate for much of the year.

When pleasanton ended up training and stabilizing this spring, which was needed after the closure of Golden Gate, the riders sent their stables to the south of California or transferred their horses outside the state. Representatives of Bernal Park Racing, a group headed by the owner/breeders George Schmitt and John Harris and backed by their personal financial support, hoped to attack many of these stables now outside the State to participate in Fresno and Ferndale.

California’s pure blood coaches supported Fresnos Bid, while the owners of pure blood or California opposed the dates of the race for both fairs. Schmitt and the riders of northern California who spoke duration of the meeting accused OCD of favoring the interests of southern California.

Photo: Alex EversOscar Gonzales in Santa Anita Park

Speaking on Thursday, the Chrb meeting, Gonzales Tok Exception to the correspondence of Toc Eddie Mishow’s lawyer and aimed at Chrb, which Gonzales felt that it was “a letter of intimidation”, alleging a possible requirement made openly. The basis of this accusation was an email of May 26, Andy Titus, president of the Humboldt County Fair, Bill Wijzer, President and CEO of Toc, in which Titus wrote: “We are four votes to obtain those dates.”

But on Thursday, Ferndale’s count was four votes against. Those commissioners who voted against the awarding of dates to the fairs in northern California expressed Conerns about the viability of the meetings, mentioning a population of limited horses and thesis propose dates that fall largely outside the operations of their fairs. Only the date of October 1 of the proposed ash measures would have coincided with its fair.

“Some of us feel that we do not have the opportunity, the option, for two viable clues, one in the north and one in the south, and it is a pity, because we would honestly like that,” Hudnut said in comments between the two date.

In another action of the Board:

• • The CHRB advanced a state regulation that would be the maximum age of races of 10 years for all races that accelerate in the state, they expect standard records, whose maximum age of racing would be 14. In addition, the maximum age of the Sousy Sousy Itamags Targers Targers Targers Targers Targers Targers Targers Targers Targabs Targabs race 5. Before continuing, the regulation now goes out for a period of public comments. 45 days.

• • Chrb executive director Scott Chaney said that an age restriction is likely to be applied that would apply to training on the agenda for the August meeting. The same age maxims would be proposed as for races.

• • Chrb Equine’s medical director, Dr. Jeff Blea, also warned the growing threat of the new screw worm, which can cause serious and mortal damage to animals. Although the NWS has been eradicated from the United States for decades, recent detections in Mexico led to the suspension of imports of cattle, horses and bison along the southern border of the United States.