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Lead to For Love As well soon after her scratch from a March race at Sunland Park
Stakes-winning trainer Raul Velarde Vega was issued a summary suspension by stewards in New Mexico on March 24 following a horse he properly trained was scratched by a veterinarian and became the subject of a warning recognize from the El Paso County Animal Welfare Division.
Vega trainee Lead to For Really like Way too, a 3-calendar year-previous Thoroughbred filly, had been entered in the 2nd race on March 21 at Sunland Park. In accordance to New Mexico Racing Fee government director Izzy Trejo, racing officers grew to become anxious when the filly arrived at the paddock.
Photos of the filly demonstrate that she had considerable protrusion of ribs and significant wounds with areas of raw skin on her hindquarters, on possibly facet of her tail.
Trejo stated that right after her scratch in the paddock, Induce For Enjoy As well was despatched to the test barn, in which employees took photographs to document her affliction. Due to an ongoing shortage of regulatory veterinarians at Sunland, the filly had not experienced a pre-race inspection performed the early morning of the race, so her physical appearance in the paddock was the to start with time officers had observed her that working day.
“The NMRC then referred to as the New Mexico Livestock Board when the secure gate stability explained to us that the horse remaining the grounds quickly with the proprietor of the horse hauling it,” Trejo said by using e mail.
The commission offered the Livestock Board with speak to data for Vega and the horse’s proprietor, Erika Aldrete. Livestock Board officials figured out the horse had been taken to a residence in El Paso, Texas. The El Paso County Animal Welfare Office caught up with the horse and issued a warning to Vega, necessitating the horse’s owner or custodian to have Bring about For Adore Far too evaluated by a veterinarian within just a single 7 days.
Trejo stated the commission subsequently required the horse to be presented to New Mexico racing officers for out-of-competition screening and evaluation.
Stewards issued a summary suspension of Vega for conduct harmful to racing. Vega is scheduled to have a hearing on his summary suspension March 31.
Lead to For Really like As well has made one particular other life span get started, in a Feb. 24 maiden race likely 870 yards at Sunland in which she completed eighth of eight, trailing in the course of and ending 14 lengths driving the seventh-put horse.
Vega has properly trained 91 Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred winners from 847 starters in a career that stared in 2013. Previous yr was his most prolific year, with 205 Quarter Horse begins and 70 Thoroughbred begins. He is a stakes-winning trainer of Thoroughbreds and a a number of graded stakes-positioned trainer with Quarter Horses. Past year, Vega rated 35th in the nation by earnings for Quarter Horse racing.
Editor’s observe: An earlier model of this tale improperly stated that Lead to For Like As well is a Quarter Horse. She is a Thoroughbred.
