Golden Gate Fields reported a 12.8 percent increase in all-sources handle from last year for its recently completed summer meet, and that it was the the sixth straight meet at the track with a handle increase.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has scheduled a committee hearing for next Tuesday to discuss dates proposals from state racetracks, including a request by Churchill Downs to take the winter dates on the state racing circuit from Turfway Park.
Northern California trainer John Martin has been suspended six months and fined $20,000 after three of his runners tested positive for the banned medication ergoloid mesylates at the Big Fresno Fair in 2018 and at Golden Gate Fields in March.
Keeneland has reached a deal with Sky Sports Racing in Britain that will give the company exclusive rights to the track’s racing signal and its sales broadcasts in the U.K. for the next three years, Keeneland officials said on Wednesday.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has elevated its chief veterinarian, Dr. Bruce Howard, to the position of interim equine medical director as it continues to search for a replacement for Dr. Mary Scollay.
All-sources handle at the September meet that ended Sunday at Churchill Downs averaged more than $4.85 million per card, up 17.6 percent over the corresponding 2018 meet, according to figures released Monday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Several familiar faces – both of the four- and two-legged variety – will be in action at The Retired Racehorse Project's Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America, this week at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky.
Emtech, a 3-year-old colt, sustained a fatal injury to his right foreleg in a one-horse spill in the stretch of Saturday’s eighth race at Santa Anita, according to a statement released by the track.
David Pettinger, a retired jockey whose brother, Don Pettinger, followed him into race riding, died Sunday in Eads, Colo., according to family members. He was 66.
A Florida state appeals court has ruled that Churchill Downs Inc. can convert its racing license at Calder Race Course in Miami to a jai-alai license without losing the ability to operate slot machines at the property.
