The Illinois Racing Board has amended its 2020 racing dates awards after the state of Illinois said it had decided not to sell land in south suburban Chicago to a developer who planned on constructing a new harness racino there.
A start-up racing application modeled on fantasy sports games will offer a promotional contest during the Breeders’ Cup that is free to play while offering $20,000 in total prizes.
The nominees came from all corners of the country, spanning barns from New York to California to Florida and more, and converged on the "Thoroughbred Capital of the World" as the North American Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards returned to Lexington, Ky., on Friday.
Kentucky Downs plans to conduct major renovations to its property over the off-season for the Franklin, Ky., track, with the goal of countering additional competition that is expected from a new casino nearly equidistant from the track’s major market, Nashville.
Delaware Park raced the same number of dates this year as in 2018 but ran fewer races. The result was a 7 percent decline in all-sources handle at the 81-day meet.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission unanimously approved the sale of Turfway Park in Florence, Ky., to Churchill Downs Inc. at a special commission meeting held on Tuesday, according to a KHRC official.
The seven states operating as a regulatory cooperative in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast have agreed to adopt more stringent rules over the administration of therapeutic medications that can act as painkillers and anti-inflammatories.
Cowboy Swagger, with noted professional Fallon Taylor aboard, won the barrel racing discipline at the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover at the Kentucky Horse Park, and was subsequently voted America’s Most Wanted Thoroughbred.
Magnum Moon, winner of the 2018 Arkansas Derby, was euthanized on Friday after battling laminitis for more than a year.
Wagering on U.S. races in the third quarter of this year declined 1.89 percent, a slightly higher rate of decline than a drop in the number of races, according to figures released on Friday by Equibase, at a time when racing officials are closely watching handle numbers for evidence of attrition against a backdrop of intense criticism of the sport from some quarters.
