Trainer

A trainer at Mystic Aquarium has been taken to the hospital after she was bitten by a sea lion during a public feeding demonstration. The Day of New London ( http://bit.ly/oO8YCV) reports the 34-year-old woman was bitten on the leg Monday. Old Mystic Fire Assistant Chief Christopher Clarkin said the woman's leg was bandaged and she was conscious when she was taken by ambulance to a hospital for treatment. Aquarium spokeswoman Erin Merz said the trainer was following protocols when something apparently spooked the 8-year-old female sea lion.

Despite vigorously denying he gave one of his horses an illegal performance-enhancing mixture, trainer Doug O'Neill was suspended 45 days — a ban that won't take effect until after his superstar colt, I'll Have Another, tries to win the Triple Crown. After a nearly two-year legal battle, California racing officials agreed with O'Neill but still found fault because of a rule that says trainers are ultimately responsible for horses in their care. The ruling Thursday doesn't prevent O'Neill from saddling his Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner in the Belmont Stakes on June 9. ...

Doug O'Neill, the trainer of Triple Crown hopeful I'll Have Another, was suspended 45 days after one of his horses had an excessive level of carbon dioxide, but the punishment won't start before he saddles the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner in the Belmont Stakes June 9. The suspension comes in the final weeks of I'll Have Another's attempt to become horse racing's 12th Triple Crown winner and first since Affirmed 34 years ago. The colt...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Frank O’Neill, the Los Angeles Lakers trainer from 1960 to ’74, has died. He was 81. Mr. O’Neill died of congestive heart failure Tuesday at his home near the Lakers’ training facility, the team said Wednesday. He took over as trainer when the Lakers moved from Minneapolis to Los Angeles. Mr. O’Neill studied to become an athletic trainer at the University of Florida. He earned his certificate as a physical therapist in the Navy. He worked with the Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles, and the University of Southern California before...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Despite calls to free or destroy the animal, SeaWorld said yesterday that it will keep the killer whale that drowned its trainer, but will suspend all orca shows while it decides whether to change the way handlers work with the behemoths. Also, VIP visitors who occasionally were invited to pet the killer whales will no longer be allowed to do so. “We’re going to make any changes we have to, to make sure this doesn’t happen again,’’ Chuck Tompkins, chief of animal training at SeaWorld parks, said a day after a 12,000-pound killer...

Doug O'Neill, the trainer of Triple Crown hopeful I'll Have Another, was suspended 45 days after one of his horses had an excessive level of carbon dioxide, but the punishment won't start before he saddles the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner in the Belmont Stakes June 9. The suspension comes in the final weeks of I'll Have Another's attempt to become horse racing's 12th Triple Crown winner and first since Affirmed 34 years ago. The colt...

By The Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — I'll Have Another caught Bodemeister down the stretch and pulled away in the final furlong on Saturday to win the Kentucky Derby. Jockey Mario Gutierrez, riding in his first Derby, guided the 3-year-old colt ahead of Bob Baffert's Bodemeister and a late closing Dullahan to win on a fast track. It was trainer Doug O'Neill's first Derby victory. He had never finished better than 13th in the Kentucky Derby with two other horses.

“Boxing? You’re going boxing?’’ says a neighbor to me on my way to my first class. “That’s cool! But it’s violent.’’ Arriving at Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood, I sign a waiver that mentions “injury or even death’’ and in the following days, I’ll sport an impressive bloody nose, overhear a walleyed coach mention an upcoming brain scan, and have my trainer explain the disquieting interior mechanics of...

Stormy's Majesty and Beautiful But Blue scored front-running victories Sunday in $75,000 stakes races for New York breds at Aqueduct. Stormy's Majesty held off 4-5 favorite Inherit the Gold by a half length in the Mr. G.J.G with Chuckie Lopez aboard for trainer Dominic Galluscio. The 5-year-old won for the seventh time in 15 starts, paying $12.80. Beautiful But Blue stretched her winning streak at Aqueduct to three races with a two-length victory over Peggy Jane in the Windswept Wings for 3-year-old fillies.

A Kentucky Derby-winning thoroughbred trainer urged a court Tuesday to reject his 10-year ban from the sport, arguing that a top New York racing official appeared biased as a member of the industry organization that first suggested revoking his license. Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr.'s license was revoked by the New York Racing and Wagering Board in October, although he is currently working under a court-ordered stay. The three-member board cited infractions including syringes containing an analgesic and sedative found in Dutrow's desk and an analgesic found in the urine of his horse...

A civilian piloting a military-contracted jet was killed when his aircraft crashed into a Southern California farm field as he completed a training exercise, authorities said. The privately owned Hawker Hunter jet trainer went down Friday near Naval Base Ventura County, fire department spokesman Steve Swindle said. The pilot was the only person aboard. The high-performance military-style aircraft, contracted to play the enemy in training exercises, took off from the base with another jet trainer and went down as it was returning.

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas criticized the behavior of a few of his peers Wednesday, saying the actions of a few recent Kentucky Derby winners have tarnished the reputation of his profession. Speaking at Pimlico Race Course, site of Saturday's Preakness, Lukas said, "I'm very disappointed as a trainer that we have the stigma of some of our Derby winners not carrying the banner. " He cited Rick Dutrow, who is appealing a 10-year suspension in New York for multiple medication violations, and Chip Woolley, who last year allegedly urinated...

WASHINGTON - Amid his year-by-year narrative of his complex relationship with Roger Clemens and performance-enhancing drugs, Brian McNamee weaved in a tale of two wives. He said it was his own wife who nagged him into keeping evidence that has become crucial in the trial of the storied pitcher, and it was a request from Clemens's wife that led to what McNamee called a "creepy" injection scene in a bathroom. Clemens's longtime strength coach testified Tuesday for a second day in the perjury trial, pushing his running total to roughly 10 hours on the stand, including...

Four days before the Preakness, I'll Have Another trainer Doug O'Neill was feeling very skittish about his pending appearance on the grand stage. His nervousness had nothing to do with saddling up the Kentucky Derby winner Saturday with the Triple Crown hanging in the balance. O'Neill didn't care that it was too wet to send I'll Have Another out on the track, and he certainly wasn't uneasy about the Preakness coming down to another duel between his horse and Derby pace-setter Bodemeister.

For a frail little girl and a soon-to-be-famous trainer, it was a love of horses that brought them together. They wound up sharing the ride of a lifetime, basking together in a Kentucky Derby victory that defied history. Next up is a reunion at the Preakness. Doug O'Neill and Hope Hudson met on the backside at Churchill Downs during the hectic days leading up to the Derby. O'Neill was prepping the colt I'll Have Another for the race. Hope, a 12-year-old from Missouri who is battling a rare disease, was getting her first up-close look at the sleek...

Johnny Cueto left Cincinnati's game against the Chicago Cubs with two outs in the fourth inning with a strained muscle in the upper right side of his back. Cueto was visited by a trainer and pitching coach Bryan Price with one out in the fourth. After getting Alfonso Soriano to pop out for the second out a trainer and manager Dusty Baker went to the mound and Baker decided to take the right-hander out of the game. Sam LeCure relieved Cueto. Cueto (9-5) allowed three hits with a walk and two strikeouts.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The killer whale that drowned a trainer last year at SeaWorld in Orlando resumed performing yesterday for the first time since the death. Tilikum participated in the marine park’s signature “Believe’’ show before a crowd of thousands, more than a year since drowning 40-year-old Dawn Brancheau during a performance on Feb. 24, 2010. No trainer has been allowed in the water during shows since Brancheau’s death, but the park is working to get them back in. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration accused SeaWorld of recklessly putting trainers in danger.

Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Doug O'Neill could face a suspension in California after one of his horses was found to have an elevated level of total carbon dioxide, an infraction for which he previously has been punished. The California Horse Racing Board is considering the case, which involves "milkshaking," the illegal practice of giving a horse a blend of bicarbonate of soda, sugar and electrolytes. The mixture is designed to reduce fatigue and enhance performance. O'Neill faces his third total carbon dioxide violation in California and fourth in a career that has spanned 25...