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The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority has filed a complaint to its board alleging that Churchill Downs has failed to pay $2.4 million to the authority for services provided in 2025, according to a notice posted to HISA’s website on Wednesday.
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John Ortiz, a trainer based in New York, is facing the loss of nearly $500,000 in purses after five of his horses tested positive for the regulated anti-inflammatory dexamethasone over a three-week period in November and December of last year.
The Florida House of Representatives on Wednesday night overwhelmingly passed a bill that would allow the state’s two remaining Thoroughbred tracks to operate casinos without a requirement to run live races, but a similar bill in the Senate is expected to face an uphill climb.
The chairman of the Texas Racing Commission said Wednesday that a response to a cease-and-desist order the commission recently sent to Churchill Downs Inc. regarding the entry of the company’s account-wagering operation into the state is being reviewed by the office of the state’s governor and its attorney general.
The Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit has suspended the probationary accreditation status of a drug-testing lab operated by the Ohio Department of Agriculture for a minimum of six months, HIWU announced on Tuesday.
New restrictions on betting by computer-assisted wagering programs put in place on Thursday by the New York Racing Association were suspended on Friday, NYRA announced just before the day’s card was scheduled to start.
Widespread winter-related cancellations at tracks throughout the Midwest and Northeast led to a 13.6 percent decline in the number of races at Thoroughbred tracks and a 6.1 percent drop in handle in the month of January when compared to the same month last year, according to figures released by Equibase on Thursday.
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The Florida House Commerce Committee on Tuesday advanced a bill that would allow Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach and Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar to decouple their racing and gambling licenses.
The Department of Labor has authorized the release of nearly 65,000 new H-2B visas, which allow foreigners to work on a temporary basis in the U.S. in specific sectors of the economy, including racetracks.
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The New York Racing Association on Feb. 5 will implement a previously announced policy to throttle down the wagering activity from computer-assisted wagering teams as of one minute to post in nearly all of its parimutuel pools, the association announced on Friday.
