Aidan Butler, who has overseen the racing operations at Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Fields in California for the tracks’ parent company for two years, has been named the chief operating officer of the company and will relocate to Florida as part of his new job responsibilities.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Tuesday ratified 2021 race dates while tabling a discussion on penalties that will be applied to violations of a pending rule restricting use of the whip in a race.
Jeffrey Cannizzo, who has led the New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc. for 13 years, has accepted a position with the New York Racing Association to be its senior director of government affairs, the two organizations said Tuesday.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission and three tracks in the state have joined together to petition the state Supreme Court to revisit a ruling issued late last month that invalidated a type of gambling machine in wide use at state tracks.
The New York Gaming Commission will discuss potential new regulations on the use of the whip at a meeting scheduled for Monday morning, according to an agenda for the meeting distributed on Thursday.
Chris Polzin was named director of racing and racing secretary at Indiana Grand last week and will take up his duties there Oct. 26.
The Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council has approved a proposal to provide as much as $30,000 in funding toward a multi-state study of furosemide use and bleeding in 2-year-old horses.
Supporters of federal legislation that would create a national regulatory body for racing have named seven members to a committee that would be responsible for selecting the organization’s board of directors.
Wagering on U.S. races was up 30 percent in September compared to the same month last year, according to figures released on Monday by Equibase, an increase fueled in part by the rescheduling of the Kentucky Derby to the first Saturday in the month.
Gerald Lawrence, a racetrack executive who had senior leadership positions at some of the most prominent racetracks in the country, died Thursday, according to an obituary prepared by his family. He was 81.
