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The end of the Golden State Racing meeting at Pleasanton on Wednesday, and the absence of racing dates in Northern California for the foreseeable future, has led veteran trainer Steve Specht into retirement.
The racing-fatality rate at racetracks under the jurisdiction of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority during the third quarter of this year was 0.93 per 1,000 starts, according to figures published by HISA on Tuesday.
The New York State Gaming Commission has approved a plan to migrate Catskill OTB’s existing wagering accounts to Suffolk OTB, commission officials said at a meeting on Monday.
Thoroughbred racing officials in Texas are confident that they will be able to re-apply for $2.5 million in purse bonuses available to statebred horses in 2025 after a request for the money was rejected on Wednesday at a Texas Racing Commission meeting.
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Trainer Eddie Truman was warmly remembered in the racing community on Wednesday after his death early that morning. On Tuesday evening, Truman hosted a card party at his home in Sierra Madre, Calif., according to his friend and fellow trainer Jay Nehf, who confirmed Truman’s passing.
The organization founded by Thoroughbred owner Mike Repole to press for change in racing is holding discussions with racing constituencies to put in place mandatory funding mechanisms for aftercare efforts, the executive director of the organization, Pat Cummings, said during a panel at the Global Symposium on Racing on Wednesday.
Officials with the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit urged local horsemen and regulatory personnel to establish lines of communication to the agency in order to improve their investigations of illegal doping during a panel on Wednesday morning at the Global Symposium on Racing in Tucson.
Hall of Fame trainers Bob Baffert and Todd Pletcher both appeared together on a panel at the Global Symposium on Racing five years ago, when the symposium organizers first launched a series featuring racing personalities in a quasi-intimate question-and-answer session. They were back in the same setting Tuesday morning, and, as the moderator, 1/ST Racing’s Amy Zimmerman, noted right off, wow, what a five years it has been.
The overall fatality rate for horses racing at U.S. tracks is expected to drop for the first time to a rate below 1 horse per 1,000 starts at the end of 2024, according to figures provided by Lisa Lazarus, chief executive of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, during an opening address at the Global Symposium on Racing in Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday morning.
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Churchill Downs Inc. and the New York Racing Association, the two largest contributors to the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, are currently in arrears to HISA for a total of $5.8 million, according to documents posted on HISA’s website on Friday.
