WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here UNBEATEN VORDA SOLD LOPRESTI OFFERS OPTIONS FOR WISE DAN Leading French juvenile Vorda (Fr) (Orpen--Velda Fresh off a 1 1/4-length victory in last Saturday=s {GB}, by Observatory), who maintained her perfect GII Fourstardave S. at Saratoga, Wise Dan (Wiseman=s record in last month=s G2 Prix Robert Papin at Ferry) is expected to make one more start before Maisons-Laffitte, has been sold to Sheikh Mohammed attempting to defend bin Khalifa Al Thani, our sister his title in the publication Jour de Galop has GI Breeders= Cup Mile revealed. Also victorious in at Santa Anita, June=s Listed Prix La Fleche, the according to trainer bay will line up in the colors of Charlie LoPresti. Gerard Augustin-Normand, who LoPresti indicated retains a 50% interest for that the 6-year-old Sunday=s G1 Prix Morny at would likely contest Deauville. She will remain in Keeneland=s training with Philippe Sogorb. GI Shadwell AGerard Augustin- Normand and Turf Mile Oct. 5, Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al although he hasn=t Wise Dan Thani will share ownership of ruled out a start in Adam Coglianese Vorda for the Prix Morny,@ the Sept. 15 explained the Sheikh=s stud and GI Woodbine Mile. The gelding, who won both of the Vorda (Fr) racing manager Sylvain Vidal. aforementioned races in 2012, appeared no worse for Scoop Dyga AAfter the race she will be wear coming off his eighth consecutive victory. AIt owned outright by the Sheikh and is to remain in doesn=t look like it took a whole lot out of him,@ training with Philippe Sogorb. We also have to thank LoPresti commented the day after the race. AIt was a Philippe, who chose the filly as a yearling, trained her pretty easy race for him.@ In related news, LoPresti and suggested we should buy her. The filly has worked indicated that MGSW Successful Dan (Successful well and he is delighted with her condition for Sunday's Appeal), runner-up behind Cross Traffic (Unbridled=s race.@ Song) in the Aug. 3 GI Whitney S., may return in the Aug. 31 GI Woodward S. ARight now, he=s good,@ said REACTION FROM THE RACING AND GAMING LoPresti. We=re excited. He=s training good...We=re not LAW SUMMIT By Mike Kane going to do a whole lot with him.@ Speakers at the Saratoga Institute on Racing and Gaming Law Tuesday reacted negatively to comments made Sunday about medication policy during The Jockey Club Round Table. Day 1 of the annual program presented by Albany Law School=s Government Law Center and the Institute of Legal Studies was called AThe Race Horse Medication Summit.@ The presentations discussed problems plaguing the industry, some of which were covered during the The Jockey Club=s meeting, which was held at the same location, the Gideon Putnam Hotel and Conference Center in Saratoga Springs. However, some of the speakers at the Saratoga Institute took issue with what was said at the Round Table that, if national uniform drug testing rules are not enacted quickly, the federal government would take over the regulation of racing. Trainer Rick Violette, president of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen=s Association, and other panelists said that positive things are happening in racing. 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He said, >I have trouble getting by our horses getting a medication on race day. All those other athletes can=t even have a cup of coffee.= I said, >What planet are you on?= AThat was the same Sunday that Tony Romo had broken ribs and had pain-killing injections into the ribs before the game and at halftime had it redone. The bat boy on most baseball teams couldn=t pass the regimen that our horses go through. Litteraly 981 medications are on a screening rotation.@ Dr. Scott Palmer, who was a member of that New York task force that examined the cause of the 21 Turf: equine deaths at Aqueduct in 2011-12, said that the Aug 24 $200,000 Del Mar H.-GII, World Anti-Doping Agency policy of granting Del Mar, 3yo/up, 1 3/8m T, Closes Aug 15 exemptions to athletes needing specific medications to Dirt Mile: compete would not work in racing. Stats showed that Aug 25 $250,000 Pat O’Brien S.-GII, some 40% of requests where approved. The USADA Del Mar, 3yo/up, 7f, Closes Aug 15 has been discussed as a possible regulator for racing. Classic: AIt seems like the Olympics have kind of got a halo,@ Aug 25 $1,000,000 TVG Pacific Classic-GI, Violette said. AThey are assumed to be the pristine hay, Del Mar, 3yo/up, 1 1/4m, Closes Aug 15 oats and water of the human athletes.@ For additional information, incl. the complete Win and You’re In schedule, Prior to Violette=s talk, a long list showing theraputic click here or call the Breeders’ Cup Racing Office at (859) 514-9422. medications permitted for use by human athletes in *Travel awards for ALL Championship starters (based outside CA). competition. AThe medications on there are incredible,@ he said. AThe good news, and there is a lot of good news, I AWe think of them as the hay, oats and water of the can=t wait to go back to Washington if they ever call us human set and virtually none of those medications are back and say, >What have you done?= We=ve done a lot allowed on performance day. Most of those in the last five years since Eight Belles in both the medications are off the charts for seven days, 10 days, Thoroughbred aftercare programs that are all over the some longer.@ country now, to what is happening in the Mid-Atlantic. Violette acknowledged that more work remains. The Jockey Club cringes when the Mid-Atlantic gets AWe=re not looking at it through rose colored glasses,@ credit for advancing that they haven=t been capable of he said. AProfessional athletes get tested once, maybe advancing in the last 50 years, that=s uniform twice a year unless they are coming back from a medication.@ suspension. We test 30 to 40% of the horses every Edward Martin, president and CEO of the Association single day in New York. It=s an incredible endeavor. Dr. of Racing Commissioners International, said the model [George] Maylin has been doing it for years.