The Week in Review: A Good Year to Have a Tough Horse

Beverly Park won his 11th race of the season last week at Churchill Downs. Norman Lynn Cash owns and trains Beverly Park. Beverly's next closest rivals have 8 wins and 20 starts. No North American Thoroughbred has won more than 12 races in an entire calendar year since 2011. The next race for Beverly is in less than three months. He could be entered for the next one. Cash runs a 40-head stable split between Laurel Park in Maryland and the Th thoroughbred Training Center in Lexington, Kentucky. His horses race under the name Built Wright Stables.

Mind Control is the new favorite for the Parx Dirt Mile. The horse won the 21st edition of the race by a neck. Trainer Todd Pletcher's horse has won 11 of his races. Mind Control started in 15 consecutive stakes without being favored. On Sept. 24, bettors installed Mind control as the 3-5 choice for Dirt Miles. Far Mo Power and jockey Dexter Haddock were disqualified for interference. The winner was Mindcontrol. It was the first time in 2 1/2 years that a horse had been the public's choice.

There are some changes in the racing calendar in 2023. Ellis Park is being sold to the gaming company Churchill Downs, Inc. (CDI). Hawthorne Race Course will return a summer Thoroughbred season to greater Chicago. Canterbury Park in Minnesota is facing financial problems. The 10-year agreement between the track and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community is set to expire on December 31. The agreement provides purse funding in exchange for the tracks and horsemen not pursuing additional forms of gambling. FanDuel Sportsbook and Horse Racing has some overlap with the lower end of the class hierarchy.