Coming up this week – ORC dissolves, FLORIDA DERBY SHOWDOWN and just a week until the first entry draw at Woodbine for 2016!
Watch out though, bitterly cold temperatures and snow showers and more for early next week!
*SOVEREIGN AWARDS FRIDAY APRIL 8
*OPENING DAY AT WOODBINE, SATURDAY APRIL 9
**BREAKING NEWS – QUEEN’S PLATE favourite SHAKHIMAT will by-pass this Saturday’s SPIRAL STAKES at Turfway Park ar 1 1/8 miles against Kentucky Derby hopefuls and point to the grassy Transylvania Stakes at Keeneland on April 8. The colt was not on the list of entrants for the Spiral and is in fact, nominated to the 1 1/16 mile Transylvania.
(ABOVE) Sheena Ryan (inside) is aboard the 2-year-old A PIC BY MRWILL (Kentucky Bear – Princess G) named for Celebrity blogger and racing fan Mr Will Wong. Will took this photo of the filly going in tandem with mate Saturday Dancer. visit www.mrwillwong.com
Stakes winner SPADINA ROAD, now owned by Cory Hoffman and Stephen Chesney, gets ready to work on the Tapeta last weekend at Woodbine with Athenian Guard poised beside him – WILL WONG PHOTO
FINAL WEEK FOR ONTARIO RACING COMMISSION
It is a notable week in Ontario horse racing as the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario will take over the Ontario Racing Commission as of Friday, April 1. No joke, it has been 65 years since the ORC was established in 1950 by Ontario Provincial Government under Racing Commission act to govern, direct control and regulate horse racing in Ontario.
A webinar will take place at 11 a.m. on FRIDAY APRIL 1 to learn more about what will change: see http://www.agco.on.ca/pdfs/en/2016_webinar_ad_horseracing_reg.pdf so you can learn what is changing.
APPEALS PROCESS: On December 10, 2015, the Ontario Legislature passed legislation which will transfer the regulatory responsibilities of the Ontario Racing Commission (ORC) to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) and change the adjudication process for the appeal of horse racing decisions in Ontario. In particular, the legislation will create a new adjudicative body called the Horse Racing Appeal Panel (HRAP). The HRAP will have responsibility for hearing appeals of decisions made under the Rules of Racing. At the same time, the adjudicative responsibility for matters dealing with proposed refusals, suspensions and revocations of
Licences pursuant to Notices of Proposed Orders will be transferred to the Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT).
These changes come into effect on April 1st and are part of a broader government initiative to integrate horse racing and gaming regulation under a single regulatory body (i.e. the AGCO) together with a new adjudicative model to support independent and effective regulation of horse racing in the province.
About the Horse Racing Appeal Panel and the Licence Appeal Tribunal As of April 1, 2016, the ORC will be dissolved and the adjudicative responsibilities that were
exercised by it will be transferred to two bodies, depending on the type of appeal.
1. Horse Racing Appeal Panel
The newly-established HRAP will hear appeals of decisions made under the Rules of Racing. The majority of these matters will relate to on-track and conduct violations, positive test cases and related decisions made by Judges and Stewards. The HRAP will conduct these hearings as an entirely independent and impartial body and at arm’s-length from the AGCO.
2. Licence Appeal Tribunal
Appeals resulting from proposed refusals, suspensions and revocations of licences pursuant to Notices of Proposed Orders will be heard by the LAT. The LAT is an adjudicative tribunal with a mandate to resolve appeals regarding compensation claims and licensing decisions made by a wide variety of regulators and pursuant to appeal rights set out under a number of statutes, including other statutes administered by the AGCO (the Liquor Licence Act and Gaming Control Act).
Filing a Notice of Appeal
Effective April 1, 2016, licensees wishing to appeal a decision or matter related to:
• The Rules of Racing: must file a Notice of Appeal to the HRAP. More information on the HRAP and the required appeal forms will be available as of April 1, 2016 at www.hrappealpanel.ca.
Hearing Locations
Hearings conducted by HRAP will continue to be heard at: 10 Carlson Court, 4th Floor, Suite 400, Toronto, ON M9W 6L2 For information on hearings conducted by the LAT, please visit the LAT’s website at http://www.sse.gov.on.ca/lat.
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For more information about the new Horse Racing Appeal Panel or about the merger of regulatory functions between the AGCO and ORC, please visit the AGCO’s website or contact Scott Berry, the Manager of Board Relations at the AGCO, at 416 326-8737 or scott.berry@agco.ca.
Rob Love has been a busy outrider this spring at Woodbine – ERICK RUSNAK PHOTO
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT… 2016 ONTARIO BREEDING PROGRAM AWARDS AND INCENTIVES
2016 TIP/HIP program offers lucrative prizes for locally bred horses
SATURDAY SHOWDOWN – MOHAYMEN AND NYQUIST, Something’s Gotta Give!
Canadian-owned NYQUIST has arrived in Florida from California – GULFSTREAM PARK PHOTO
FROM ISPORTSWEB.COM
Horse Racing: Will there be two Kentucky Derbies this year?
by Gerard Apadula
The 2016, $1 million, 1 1/8-mile Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park is shaping up to be a showdown between, on most people’s lists, Horse Racing’s #1 and #2 ranked three year olds in the country in Nyquist and Mohaymen. If you are one of the many who believe that these two immensely talented colts are indeed the top two (in any order), then is it possible we could be watching the Kentucky Derby a few weeks early this year?
If so, that, readers, is unprecedented in the sport of Horse Racing….and if it’s not unprecedented, then it hasn’t happened in quite some time. As I took the 1 hour and 20 minute, round trip drive to (and from) my sisters house for Easter dinner Sunday, I though about it… and thought about it… and thought about it some more and could not come up with the same situation in the 36 years I’ve been involved with this sport. Read more – click on photo
http://isportsweb.com/2016/03/29/horse-racing-will-two-kentucky-derbies-year/
EASTERN CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED ASSOCIATION
1983-2016
http://ecta.ncf.ca
ANNUAL BANQUET AND AWARDS NIGHT
APRIL 23th 2016, Irish Hills Golf and Country Club, Carp ON
MEET AND GREET & SILENT AUCTION 5:30 PM. BUFFET DINNER 7:00PM
GUEST SPEAKER: Ms. Deborah Chute Adjala-Tosorontio Fire Department
BARN FIRE SAFETY
SILENT AUCTION includes cottage and condo stays, halters and moreTO THE BENEFIT OF ECTA AND LONGRUN
THOROUGHBRED SOCIETY FOR RETIRED RACE HORSES
Tickets: PREPAID ONLY
$60.00 ea (Table reservations recommended)
Ticket sales close Monday April 11th 2016.
AVAILABLE FROM : ECTA Board of Directors
or MaryEllen Kennedy @ (613) 257-58
