Quarter horse deaths in California?
The amount of quarter horse deaths in California racing has skyrocketed the past two years while the amount of thoroughbred deaths has gone down, according to data released this week in another new report on racehorse deaths.
There were 78 quarter horse deaths in the year ending June 2009, doubling the amount since 2007. Meanwhile, thoroughbred deaths went down to 230 in 2009 from 264 in 2007 and a high of 272 in 2005.
A message seeking comment from Los Alamitos owner Ed Allred wasn’t immediately returned. A spokesman there pointed out that the track’s volume of races — some 200 nights per year — factors in the amount of deaths. – MORE: signonsandiego.com
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Jesus Alfredo Soto died January 28 of a heart attack
Jesus Alfredo Soto, 58, who with wife Sandra owned champion Royal Quick Dash, died January 28 of a heart attack. Soto had triple bypass surgery about a year ago, and that surgery was followed by a kidney transplant.
Soto had been an attorney in Mexico before coming to the United States from Guasave, Sinaloa. He is survived by three sons: Alfredo Jr. in Sallisaw, with children Walter and Isabella; and in Mexico, Eliot, with daughter Renada; Ulisses and Sinhue.
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Discounts for 2010 Stallion Services at Harts Farms
“With the tough economic conditions in the horse business we want to help mare owners this season,” farm owner Chad Hart said in a statement Tuesday.
Hart Farms is home to grade 1 winner and first crop sire Bigtime Favorite,multiple grade 1 sire Check Him Out, grade 2 winner Coronas Leaving You, #5 first crop sire of 2009 First N Kool and grade 1 stakes-placed First Prize Perry.
The farm will also offer no interest financing on their breedings.
For information on stallion fee discounts and financing or to book mares contact Chad Hart at 706-201-5648 or Hart Farms’s ranch manager Duane Griffith at 337-643-3255.