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First-year trainees from the Godolphin Flying Start program, currently based in Lexington Kentucky, hosted their USA conference, "Passion Unbridled, Purpose Driven," at Copper Roux Wednesday. Executive Director Clodagh Kavanagh traveled from Ireland and opened the conference which drew a diverse audience of Godolphin Flying Start alumni, Godolphin staff including Dan Pride, Michael Banahan, farm rotation and externship hosts including Tony Lacy, Fergus and Kate Galvin, and Amplify mentees. Twelve trainees from Ireland, UK, India, Spain, New Zealand and Morocco, shared stories highlighting their passion for horses while addressing specific target demographics,...

How did we get hooked on this sport? We all have stories about how our love affair developed and blossomed. The TDN will be reaching out to numerous notable people in the industry to get their stories to find out how they got hooked and stayed hooked on the sport. Annise Montplaisir, Executive Director, Amplify I became hooked on racing when I was 12 years old, after watching the 2007 movie "Ruffian." I already loved horses and was avidly involved in the 4-H horse project, but growing up on the...

Horse owner Brent Malmstrom told Wednesday's opening session of the annual National HBPA Conference that he has spent more than $620,000 "with no end in sight" on fighting the two-year suspension handed trainer Jonathon Wong after one of Wong's horses became the first to test positive in a post-race sample for the widely prescribed diabetes medication Metformin under the HISA era. The comments came during the opening session of the four-day National HBPA Conference at Prairie Meadows. While Malmstrom doesn't own the horse at the center of the case, he...