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Gary Contessa always had a desire to be on the management side of the racing business. After four decades of training horses, he's getting a chance to live on other side of the fence. Contessa, 68, is working at Canterbury Downs in Minnesota.
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The Wednesday continuation of a Monday hearing regarding Hawthorne Race Course’s bankruptcy did not yield any official action, but it seems more a matter of when and how than if the sale of the Hawthorne property will go through.
Breeders’ Cup has adopted a three-tier structure for its foal nomination fees that will be based on a stallion’s stud fee, the organization announced on Wednesday.
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Greg Maffei, the former head of the operating company for Formula 1 and the co-founder of a company seeking to create a franchise-based racing league, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Jockey Club Round Table.
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A start-up co-founded by the former head of the Formula 1 auto-racing series has announced plans to launch a Thoroughbred league, with 10 teams drafting from a pool of 80 horses purchased by the start-up for races held in 2027.
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Trainer Jena Antonucci will not be suspended for 15 days under a settlement the trainer reached with the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority in a case involving a positive test for the regulated painkiller lidocaine in a horse she trained, according to documents related to the case.
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All-sources handle for the Belmont at the Big A spring meet that concluded June 28 was $396,862,961, down 3.9 percent from the $413,005,553 handled last year, according to figures supplied by the New York Racing Association.
Wagering on races held at U.S. tracks in the month of June dropped nearly 5 percent compared to the same month last year, while purses continued to inch up despite the decline.
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John Parisella, a man with a big personality, who was dubbed “trainer to the stars,” and a winner of more than 1,200 races in a four-decade-plus career, died Friday in a hospital in Long Island, N.Y., according to his ex-wife Melissa. He was 85.
The growing importance and prevalence of biometric devices to evaluate a horse’s soundness and fitness was made starkly evident on the final day of the Welfare and Safety of Racehorse Summit on Tuesday when six vendors explained their products.
