The FHBPA Board of Directors approved an amended Voiding a Claim Rule at Gulfstream Park and Gulfstream Park West beginning with races on Thursday April 18, 2019. The previous rule involved fatalities on the track and horses that were vanned off. The new expanded rule allows a successful claimant to request the voiding of a...Read More
A longer version of this story was published by ParklandTalk.com here. Among the leadership success stories continuing to emerge in the wake of last year’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting is 19-year-old Nick Vaccarezza, who was sworn in last night (April 11, 2019) as one of the newest Board members of the Florida Horsemen’s...Read More
When your “office” is a shedrow and you may not even have a bucket for a chair, eating lunch at work is tough. Stopping by a water cooler with a race-ready Thoroughbred in one hand is certainly out of the question. This afternoon predicament of grooms shipping in with their runners to Gulfstream Park did...Read More
The 2018-19 Gulfstream Park Championship Meet ended this past weekend with a bang. The final Saturday card, which included the Gulfstream Park Oaks, The Florida Derby, and a $17 million Rainbow 6 mandatory pay out, helped boost the handle for the day to $47,520,600. The statistical winners were also crowned, with Irad Ortiz Jr. taking...Read More
