Equibase, the industry’s racing and breeding database, has restored its website’s capabilities to nearly 100 percent following attacks that began last late week that shut down some of the site’s services, according to company officials.
Edward “E.T.” Baird’s jockey’s license has been revoked by stewards at Arlington. In an official ruling dated Sept. 13, 2019, Baird was cited for violation of Illinois Racing Board rule 508.30 B, whereby a licensed individual is to be suspended for refusing to submit to a stewards’ request to take a breathalyzer test.
The Illinois Racing Board declined to issue a 2020 Illinois racing schedule during its annual dates award meeting Tuesday, voting unanimously to reconvene Tuesday, Sept. 24 after giving Churchill Downs Inc. an opportunity to reconsider the possibility of turning Arlington International Racecourse into a racino.
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.
