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Claret Beret, the leading older dirt female in Daily Racing Form’s latest division ratings, died suddenly from a possible cardiac episode back at her barn shortly after a routine workout at the Palm Meadows training center on Friday.
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The Arkansas Racing Commission on Thursday unanimously approved Oaklawn Park's racing calendar for next season. In changes, the meet will mostly be comprised of three-day race weeks instead of last season's four, and will start in November rather than December.
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The New York Racing Association will offer significant purse increases when Belmont Park opens for racing this September.
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Churchill Downs has doubled the purse of the June 27 Stephen Foster Handicap, making the Grade 1 mid-summer race for older horses worth $2 million, among the richest purses in the U.S.
An arbitrator has reduced a two-year suspension handed down to a Washington-based trainer to four months on the grounds that the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority failed to issue an adequate alert to horsemen about the possibility that a supplement contained a prohibited substance.
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The takeout for Monmouth's rolling pick 3s and daily doubles will be cut to 15 percent, the track said on Friday, effective with the Saturday card. The track had cut the takeout on both the late pick 3 and final daily double on every card at the beginning of the meet on May 9.
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The state of Maryland is considering whether to exercise an option that would allow it to match an $85 million deal made by Churchill Downs Inc. to buy a package of intellectual property rights related to the Preakness Stakes, according to officials with knowledge of the process.
Rick Baedeker, a former president of Hollywood Park and executive director of the California Horse Racing Board, announced his retirement from the sport at the racing board’s monthly meeting in Sacramento, Calif., on Wednesday.
Horses racing at tracks under the jurisdiction of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority had a fatality rate of 0.95 per 1,000 starts in the first quarter of 2026, HISA said in a quarterly report issued on Tuesday.
Ercel Ellis Jr., a jack-of-all-trades in the racing industry who hosted a racing radio broadcast for five decades, died on May 7 in Lexington at a veterans’ affair facility, according to his family. Ellis was 94.
