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Wendell Fong is up in time in the $100,000 Fire Plug to give Natalia Lynch her first training victory
Gold Square s Wendell Fong will look to make the grade in Saturday s Grade 3, $200,000 Tom Fool Handicap, a six-furlong sprint for older horses at Aqueduct Racetrack.
The Tom Fool is part of a loaded Saturday card that includes the Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham, a one-turn mile contest that provides 50-20-10-5 Kentucky Derby qualifying points to the top four finishers; the $250,000 Busher Invitational for 3-year-old fillies offering 50-20-10-5 Kentucky Oaks qualifying points; and the $125,000 Heavenly Prize Invitational, a one-turn mile for fillies and mares 4-years-old and up.
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Racehorse Respiratory Health (valued at $95) is available to the first 150 SC members that are in good standing to register into the course. Over 100 SC members have registered to date.
This free online Racehorse Respiratory Health course is offered from March 22 to April 9. Respected experts from the racing industry include course instructor Dr. Melissa McKee from Ontario, and guest expert, Dr. Patty Hogan from New Jersey.
Register for the course today at TheHorsePortal.ca/SC. No prior online learning experience is required and the schedule is flexible.
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JOHNSTON It was June when silver-haired Anna Amalfitano, 87, emerged from 44 days of quarantine in the nursing home’s downstairs isolation ward.
She had been the first resident at Cherry Hill Manor Nursing and Rehab Center diagnosed with COVID-19 after her caregiver tested positive for the virus toward April’s end.
By then workers at Cherry Hill, as in nursing homes across America, navigated the halls looking like space walkers, covered from head to toe in gowns and masks, making it hard for residents like Amalfitano to recognize them.
Amalfitano didn’t fully grasp the gravity of personal loss suffered at the center until residents were allowed to move out of their rooms again as case numbers dipped.
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