Braulio Baeza cleared for New York state steward job
Braulio Baeza, the current New York Racing Association steward, has been cleared by the New York Gaming Commission to take the state steward's job at NYRA's three tracks.
Matt HegartySep 17, 2019
Braulio Baeza, the current New York Racing Association steward, has been cleared by the New York Gaming Commission to take the state steward's job at NYRA's three tracks.
Mike Lakow, who was hired as racing secretary at Saratoga and Aqueduct in New York last year, has taken a position to run the racing operations at Gulfstream Park.
Craig Fravel, the president and chief executive of the Breeders’ Cup since 2011, will leave the organization after the company’s two-day event this year in November and join The Stronach Group in the newly created position of CEO, racing operations, the two companies announced on Friday.
Monomoy Girl, the 3-year-old champion filly of 2018, will not make the Breeders' Cup because of a minor setback but will race in 2020 as a 5-year-old, according to bloodstock agent Liz Crow, who helps to manage the filly's ownership group.
Churchill Downs in Louisville will apply for the winter racing dates currently held by Turfway Park in a 2020 dates application due tomorrow at the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, according to two sources with knowledge of the plan.
Rick Violette, the late trainer and horsemen’s advocate, has been selected to receive the Joe Palmer Award for “meritorious service to racing” by the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters, the organization announced on Thursday.
Hawthorne Racecourse and Fairmount Park applied Monday for the maximum number of slot machines and table games granted them under gambling-expansion legislation signed into law this summer, but Churchill Downs Inc., parent company of Arlington International Racecourse, announced in a Wednesday morning press release that it had declined to apply for a casino license.
A racing medication advisory group has approved recommendations that would limit the use of a class of drugs called bisphosphonates to horses that are at least four years old and that would restrict the use of any non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug to at least 48 hours prior to a race, according to the group, the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium.
Bobby Lillis, executive director of the Maryland Horsemen’s Assistance Foundation and director of benefits for the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, has been named as the winner of the Thoroughbred Industry Community Award, it was announced Friday.
An appeal by trainer Marcus Vitali of a one-year suspension handed down by the Delaware Park stewards was postponed from Wednesday until Sept. 4 after the trainer’s attorney requested the delay, according to officials with the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission, which will hear the appeal.