Greg Avioli, the president and CEO of Breeders' Cup Limited, resigned on Friday to take a position with a new racing and gaming company, according to a release from Breeders' Cup.
The Breeders' Cup board will meet next week to discuss interim leadership and how it will choose the organization’s next CEO, Breeders' Cup chairman Bill Farish said in the release.
An operator error at a data center in Sacramento, Calif., caused betting to continue at some California simulcast locations for five minutes after the first race at Turf Paradise in Phoenix, Ariz., on Jan. 26, although no bets placed after the start of the race were honored, the California Horse Racing Board said in a statement released on Tuesday.
The racing board conducted a month-long inquiry into the incident, in which bets from California were not merged with the host track, Turf Paradise, for that day’s first race.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Gulfstream Park and Calder Race Course averted a potentially disastrous dates conflict at the 11th hour when they amended their dates applications with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation on Monday afternoon.
Monday was the final day for both tracks to amend dates applications for the fiscal period from July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012. Racing dates in Florida have been deregulated since 2002.
Hialeah Park has filed a lawsuit alleging that Calder Race Course and a nearby dog track have conspired against the track’s efforts to open a casino.
The lawsuit, filed Feb. 11 in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, alleges that Calder, which is owned by Churchill Downs Inc., and Flagler Dog Track, in Hialeah, have conspired to use the legislative and judicial process to deny a slot-machine license to Hialeah.
MIAMI, Fla. – Calder Race course late Saturday morning lifted the restrictions it had imposed earlier this week on horses stabled in its barn area that ship to race at Gulfstream Park. The announcement came after five Calder-based trainers had scratched their horses out of races on Saturday’s program at Gulfstream.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey plans to ask private companies to submit bids to lease the state’s Monmouth Park for the 2011 racing season, the governor announced late on Friday.
The state will issue a request for proposals from interested companies next week, Christie’s office said in a release. Monmouth Park is currently owned and operated by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which also owns the Meadowlands racetrack and the stadium used by the NFL’s New York Giants and New York Jets.
Officials of Suffolk Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation in New York are expected to decide over the next several days whether the company will pursue the protection of bankruptcy, a spokeswoman for the company said Friday.
The parimutuel system has undergone several changes in the 84 years since it was adopted at U.S. racetracks, allowing new bet types, accepting wagers from far-flung locations and in different currencies, and calculating prices when takeout rates have differed between jurisdictions. But the basic math has remained the same: Minus the takeout, winning bettors in one bet-type pool get all the money from the losing bettors in the same pool.
Are bettors ready for that system to change?
ARCADIA, Calif. - Tapizar, one of the top 3-year-olds in California this year, has been diagnosed with a bone chip in a knee and is off the Kentucky Derby trail, trainer Steve Asmussen said on Tuesday.
Tapizar will be sent to Kentucky, where noted veterinarian Larry Bramlage will conduct the surgery. Tapizar was still in California on Tuesday. Asmussen did not give a time frame of how long Tapizar would be out of training.
"It's very, very disappointing," he said. "I feel bad for everybody involved."
The Kentucky Senate late on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that would allow Kentucky to join with other states in passing regulations affecting Thoroughbred racing, according to state legislative records.
The bill was sent to the House, where it is expected to pass. If it is approved, Kentucky would become the first state to authorize the formation of a multistate group whose participants could approve regulations that would become effective in all of the participating states.
