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.
Del Mar and Santa Anita intend to run four days a week during their fall meetings even though the population of Thoroughbreds in Southern California has declined by approximately 24 percent in the last year, racing and track officials said at Saturday’s annual meeting of the Thoroughbred Owners of California.
Sunland Park in New Mexico plans to donate a total of $100,000 to two foundations assisting families following the mass shooting in neighboring El Paso, Texas, the track announced late Friday.
The Drug Testing and Standards Committee of the Association of Racing Commissioners International has approved recommendations that would ban the administration of a class of painkilling drugs within 48 hours of a race and the administration of anti-inflammatory drugs known as corticosteroids within 14 days of a race.
Santa Anita will not run races on its hillside turf course at the autumn meeting, which begins on Sept. 27, and will run turf sprints at 5 and 5 1/2 furlongs during the six-week season.
Despite losing a Saturday card due to heat and the majority of another card due to rain, all-sources handle for the first half of the 2019 Saratoga meet is up over the first half of last year’s meet, according to figures provided by the New York Racing Association on Thursday.
Steve Koch, the executive director of a racing-industry safety and welfare accreditation program, has accepted a position with The Stronach Group as a senior vice president of racing, the company announced on Thursday.
Jockey Mickey Walls and trainer Josie Carroll were among the 2019 inductees into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the Mississauga Convention Center on Wednesday night.
