A large chunk of Tuesday's 3 ½-hour Illinois Racing Board meeting centered on a contract dispute between Arlington and the Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association.
Recommendations contained in a report released Wednesday examining the fatal injury suffered by Mongolian Groom in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic can be implemented at racetracks with far less prestige and personnel than those that host the year-end event, the author of the report, Dr. Larry Bramlage, said on Thursday.
A committee in the Kentucky House of Representatives advanced a bill on Wednesday that would allow sports betting at the state’s racetracks.
He Looks Hot, the survivor of three colic surgeries in the last five years and the winner of the prestigious Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos last month, was named 2019 World Champion Racing Quarter Horse in a ceremony at Heritage Place in Oklahoma City on Wednesday evening.
Equibase, the industry-owned racing data company, has reached an agreement to acquire the timing assets owned by American Teletimer Corporation.
Bricks and Mortar, a leading candidate for 2019 Horse of the Year, has been named the recipient of the Vox Populi Award, an honor created 10 years ago by the late Penny Chenery.
Brad Kimbrell, the longtime head of InCompass Solutions, has retired and will be replaced by Harold Palmer, The Jockey Club announced Tuesday.
Wagering on U.S. races fell in 2019 when compared to the total amount of betting the previous year and when adjusted for a decline in races held during the year, according to figures released on Monday by Equibase. It was the first decline in the amount bet on U.S. races in five years.
Arlington and the Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association had yet to sign a contract for the 2020 racing season as of Wednesday afternoon, a violation of a racing statute altered during 2019.
No races were upgraded to Grade 1 status for 2020, but four races – three in California, one in New York – lost their Grade 1 ranking, the American Graded Stakes Committee announced on Friday when releasing its comprehensive graded stakes list for next year.
