Churchill Downs Inc. (CDI) and the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) have reached an agreement to resolve a dispute over dues the racing company owes to the authority, according to a notice posted on HISA’s website and a legal filing by Churchill Downs, both on Tuesday. The agreement appears to be the beginning of the end of a dispute that was threatening CDI’s ability to send signals from its tracks to out-of-state simulcasting locations. One week ago, a three-person panel of HISA’s board members had ordered CDI to pay $5.3 million in fees and interest to HISA or face the loss of its simulcasting abilities. Details of the agreement were not available on Tuesday night. A spokesperson for HISA said that HISA would have no immediate comment beyond the notice posted on its website. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. The agreement was referenced in an order signed on Tuesday by HISA’s chairman, Charles P. Scheeler, approving a stay on the order previously issued by the board. The order says that enforcement actions against CDI will be dismissed “upon satisfaction of the conditions of the agreement.” Separately, CDI filed a letter with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on Tuesday saying that “the parties have resolved the dispute over the 2025 assessment.” The dispute began when CDI filed a lawsuit late in 2024 alleging that HISA had violated its enabling legislation by including purse distributions in a calculation to determine how much money tracks owed to HISA. The suit was filed jointly with the New York Racing Association, but NYRA withdrew from the litigation shortly after it was filed after reaching a settlement with HISA. Roughly 15 months after the suit was filed, in February of this year, HISA issued a notice to CDI alleging that the company had not paid dues for four of its racetracks throughout the entirety of 2025. The notice said that the three-person panel would rule on the dispute in March. Last week, the U.S. District Court heard oral arguments in the suit for the first time, and the judge in the case, Benjamin Beaton, had urged the two sides to resolve the dispute out-of-court. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.