Sponging incident at Gulstream Park raises questions for the entire industry It is only about a year ago that an elaborate contraption was found to have been hidden beneath the turf at Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong designed to fire small injections of tranquilizer as horses left the barrier at...

Would-be race fixer probably lost a big bet: Golden Velvet wins in a dead heat anyway Golden Velvet, Darley Stable’s candidate for Sunday’s Rampart Handicap at Gulfstream and the dead-heat co-winner of the Sabin Handicap here Jan. 6, was found after that race to have been “sponged.” Without explanation...