ARCADIA, Calif. - The California Horse Racing Board on Thursday delayed deciding on a rule change that would allow a claim to be voided when a horse is severely injured during or after a race.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed a multibillion-dollar convention center at Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, but he and his staff have yet to discuss the impact that such a project would have on the track’s racing operations and the New York racing circuit, according to officials who have discussed the proposal with its supporters.

New York’s five off-track betting corporations have been unable to reach a deal that would allow the companies to offer simulcasts from Delta Downs in Vinton, Louisiana, the sides said on Tuesday.

Delta, a night-racing track which is scheduled to run through March 17, will still be available at tracks owned and operated by the New York Racing Association and through account-wagering services available in the state, Delta said.

Voting for the Eclipse Award for apprentice jockey will be reconducted early next week because statistics that were distributed to voters incorrectly included earnings and wins for one of the finalists after the rider lost his apprentice allowance, the administrators of the award said on Saturday.

Animal Kingdom gave Team Valor International’s syndicate members the thrill of a lifetime in 2011 when the stable’s homebred won the Kentucky Derby at odds of 20-1. But that wasn’t the stable’s only big news. Summer Soiree, one of 12 Team Valor stakes-winners in 2011, won the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks and two other graded races, and her runner-up finish in the Nov. 25 Matriarch also propelled the 20-year-old operation to its highest annual earnings. According to Equibase statistics, Team Valor closed out the year with $3,206,885 in winnings, putting it on North America’s top 10 owners’ list.

After their homebred Kitten’s Joy won the 2004 Eclipse as champion turf male, Ken and Sarah Ramsey gambled he would make a good sire. Their decision to breed many of their mares to him has paid off, and in 2011 they enjoyed their biggest successes with homebreds by the stallion Ken Ramsey has called “the family stallion.”

Eclipse Award-winning owner and breeder Frank Stronach has created six racing-stable companies that will sell shares to the public for $10 a share, according to documents filed in December with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The membership of the Thoroughbred Owners of California has approved changes to its bylaws allowing owner-trainers and their spouses the right to vote and permitting the organization to hold an election that could expand the number of owner-trainers on the board of directors.

Voting on the bylaw changes ends Wednesday, but a press release published on the organization’s website earlier this week stated that 95 percent of the 1,265 returned ballots approved the change, and that “it is clear that the ballot question will be approved.”

Bob Mayberger of Albany, N.Y., has won the 2011 Media Eclipse Award for photography for his panoramic picture of Thoroughbreds jumping over a fence during the A.P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase at Saratoga Race Course on Aug. 4, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form, and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters announced Friday. The photo appeared on the Sports Illustrated Snapshot web site that same day.

This is the first Eclipse Award for Mayberger, 58, a staff photographer for Eclipse Sportswire.

ESPN, HRTV, and Thoroughbred Times have won Media Eclipse Awards, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form, and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters announced Thursday.

ESPN won for television-live racing programming for its telecast of the Breeders’ Cup Classic at the 2011 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The one-hour program at Churchill Down on Nov. 5 culminated with the upset victory of Drosselmeyer over Game On Dude in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic.