Pletcher Babies Out in Full Force P4 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here PERIOD OF PRIVATIZATION POSSIBLE FOR NY MOTT RUNNERS GET IN FINAL WORKS RACING by Mike Kane Live Oak Plantation=s To Honor and Serve (Bernardini) It was revealed Monday that a for-profit company was among a trio of noteworthy Bill Mott could manage the operations of the not-for-profit New representatives to work at Belmont Monday morning, York Racing Association during the time it is under the firing a four-furlong stewardship of the State of New York. The state is main-track bullet in preparing to issue a Request For Proposals to conduct :47 flat as he prepares business at the NYRA tracks--Aqueduct, Belmont Park for Saturday=s and Saratoga Race Course--for the three years that GII Kelso H. at Big New York controls the huge racing franchise. The RFPs Sandy. AHe went very are likely to generate a response from racing and well,@ the Hall of management companies interested in a piece of the Famer said of the billions in handle and other business generated by Sept. 1 GI Woodward NYRA. With revenue from the racino at Aqueduct, S. winner. AI couldn=t NYRA may end a decade of losses with a profit in have asked for him to 2012. look much better. He Three weeks after the 144th season of racing in seemed happy and To Honor and Serve holds off Mucho Saratoga ended, speculation was moving well. It seems Macho Man (Macho Uno) in Woodward replaced by news Monday when like he=s done very Coglianese/NYRA Photo state officials said that the bill well--particularly this authorizing the state takeover of past week. He=s kind of come back. Obviously, he=s NYRA will be signed by Governor coming out of a very competitive race, but he seems Andrew M. Cuomo this week. The like he=s bouncing back well.@ Mott issued a similarly signing will be followed by the upbeat bulletin for Besilu Stables= J “TDN Rising naming of the members of the Star” J Royal Delta (Empire Maker), who covered the temporary reorganization board of same trip as To Honor and Serve in :47.56 as she looks NYRA and the newest incarnation to bounce back from a runner-up effort in the of NYRA. Trustees of the GI Personal Ensign H. Aug. 26 in Saturday=s GI Beldame beleaguered association agreed in Invitational S. Cont. p4 Gov. Andrew Cuomo May to allow the state--which will governor.ny.gov appoint 12 of the 17 members of the new board--to control the association, which has a 25-year franchise agreement. The state moved to take over NYRA in the wake of a report in April alleging that NYRA president Charles Hayward was aware that it had overcharged bettors by 1% (totaling $8.5 million) on certain exotic wagers for more than a year. Howard Glaser, the director of state operations and the point man in the Cuomo administration on the NYRA restructuring, said a third party will be selected. AThe State of New York does not want to be in the business of managing horse racing in New York,@ Glaser said in a radio interview on WGDJ in Albany. AWhat we=re in the business of doing is fixing the management of horse racing and then leaving it to those that are competent to do it.@ Cuomo is also expected to participate in the release of a report by the committee that investigated an unusually high number of equine breakdowns and deaths last winter at Aqueduct. The release date is tentatively scheduled for Friday. 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The New York Post reported Monday that the state was moving toward privatization of racing in New York, a dramatic departure from the model that has been in place since NYRA was formed in 1955. However, later in the day state officials said that RFPs are for the term of the reorganization period. The change in racing law to allow the state takeover of NYRA was approved by the Legislature in June. Cuomo must sign it this week because a provision of the law pushes the formation of New York=s new gaming commission from Oct. 1 to Feb. 1 of next year. Cuomo=s signature will keep the New York State Racing and Wagering Board in place until the gaming commission is established. Cuomo took questions from reporters about the NYRA developments Monday following a press announcement on the Capitol on an unrelated matter. He spoke in general terms about what is ahead for NYRA. AWe=re going to be putting a new board in place to basically take control,@ Cuomo said. AHow you do the business of putting forth horse racing and what is racing in the future and how do you incorporate all the knowledge and potential of the entertainment industry, which is a big component of this, is something we=re working through.@ Speaking at the governor=s press briefing, Howard Glaser noted that the legislation says control must be returned to the not-for-profit NYRA. While NYRA will not be dissolved, Glaser said that the reorganization board is charged with recommending how the association will be shaped for life after state control. AThe franchise is NYRA=s--they have a long-term franchise,@ Glaser said. AThe operations of NYRA, which is what=s at issue here, because that is what has been flawed, could be done in a variety of ways. No one option has been selected, but there are many ideas on the table and we=ll look at that. 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Warrior) went in :48.89, and the 2-year-old filly will go Starlight Racing=s in Sunday=s six-furlong GII Matron S., rather than next Shanghai Bobby weekend=s GI Frizette S. at a mile. She found herself (Harlan=s Holiday) surprisingly far back last time in the Sept. 2 breezed four GI Spinaway S., but came on a bit late to be fourth. AI furlongs on the don't think the whole thing [in the Spinaway] was her training track in race,@ said Mott, who was pleased with Seasoned :49.47--the 16th- Warrior=s final morning prep. AI=d say at one point I=d be fastest of 33 spins willing to stretch her out--I won=t say we won=t--but I=m at the distance. AI going to enter her in [the Matron]. I think she=s a fast thought he worked enough filly that she can compete at that trip.@ very well,@ Pletcher Shanghai Bobby Horsephotos Seasoned Warrior earned her diploma second out at said of the Saratoga going six furlongs Aug. 12. undefeated GII Three Chimneys Hopeful S. hero. AWe were just looking for a nice, steady half and that=s exactly what we got. It was business as usual for him PEDIGREE INSIGHTS... and everything seems to be on schedule for the Get pedigree expert [Oct. 6 GI] Champagne S. at the moment.@ Cont. p5 Andrew Caulfield=s take on racing=s newsmakers! TDN TODAY You can find all of Caulfield=s columns in the TDN Archive.