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Total handle, handle per race, and average purse per race were all up at the recently concluded meet at Horseshoe Indianapolis in Shelbyville, Indiana, according to an analysis by Daily Racing Form.
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The Maryland Jockey Club announced Thursday that it has received approval from the Maryland Racing Commission to conduct 120 days of live racing at Laurel Park in 2026. Mirroring this year’s racing calendar, races will be run at the track from January to June and will resume in September after a summer hiatus.
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Average viewership for the live broadcasts of Breeders’ Cup races on the Saturday, Nov. 1 card at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club was up 6 percent compared to the Saturday races last year, according to NBC, the broadcast partner of Breeders’ Cup.
Charles “Stormy” Bidwell Jr., a member of an influential sporting family from Chicago and the former owner and president of Chicago’s defunct Sportsman’s Park, died on Nov. 3 in Northfield, Illinois, according to his family and news reports. Bidwell Jr. was 97.
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Total commingled wagering on Thoroughbred races at U.S. racetracks in October rose 9 percent compared to the same month last year, but the result was heavily skewed by the inclusion this year of the Breeders’ Cup’s Friday card on Oct. 31.
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Total commingled betting on the nine Breeders’ Cup races held on Saturday at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Southern California was up 6 percent compared to wagering on the same nine races last year.
AmTote International and Elite Turf Club, two companies owned by 1/ST Racing and Gaming, are the first companies to respond to the lawsuit, which was filed last Friday. The suit alleges that racetracks and bet-processing companies have conspired “to divert money in the betting pools” from everyday players to the CAW groups.
Zvi Kriple, a trainer based in Ohio, has been banned by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority for two years following an investigation that concluded a horse in his care died from colic at Belterra Park near Cincinnati in April of this year without being treated by a veterinarian.
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Criticism of the role played by computer-assisted wagering teams in the parimutuel pools has once again reached a fever pitch, spurred by late odds changes at the recently concluded Keeneland meet, posts on influential social-media accounts, and a longshot class-action lawsuit filed Oct. 24.
A New York law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit in a federal district court alleging that companies in racing such as Churchill Downs and the New York Racing Association have engaged in a criminal scheme to conspire with the operators of computer-assisted wagering teams to defraud other bettors.
