Churchill Downs officials on Thursday released the complete qualifying-points schedules toward the 2020 Kentucky Derby and Oaks with no changes from what has become traditional.
The University of Louisville's Equine Industry Program will examine topics including racetrack surfaces and sports betting during a free series of lectures this fall.
Ken Rudulph, one of the original members of TVG’s broadcast team, and Matt Bernier, a former handicapper for Daily Racing Form, have been hired to team up for the network’s “Morning Line” studio show, TVG announced on Thursday.
A high-profile Massachusetts developer has floated a proposal for a casino in the southeastern corner of the state that would also include a one-mile Thoroughbred track, but the project faces significant hurdles.
The Jockey Club has elected six new members, including Gary Barber, who owns a number of horses running in the top classes of racing.
Mountaineer Park in West Chester, W.Va., canceled its race card after four races had been run on Wednesday night due to reports of an active shooter in a town nearby.
An analysis of potential sites for a new casino in Chicago has concluded that tax rates contained in the casino’s enabling legislation would likely make the casino financially unfeasible to private companies, introducing the possibility that the casino may not be built without additional legislation.
The New York Franchise Oversight Board on Tuesday approved a handful of resolutions related to a project to build a hockey arena for the New York Islanders on a parcel of the Belmont Park property, clearing the way for ground-breaking.
A cache of hypodermic needles and injectable substances found in the Monmouth Park barn of the now-suspended trainer Aparna Battula was placed there by a disgruntled employee who had been fired the day prior to the discovery, the attorney for the trainer said on Tuesday.
Saying that the sport of racing is facing an “existential crisis,” Bill Lear, the vice chairman of The Jockey Club, said on Sunday that the entire industry needs to join together behind his organization’s support of a federal bill that would create a national policy-making body for the sport.
