The television rating for the Belmont Stakes broadcast on NBC on Saturday was a 3.6, with a share of 9, according to the network, well down from last year’s rating for a successful Triple Crown bid by Justify but an improvement over the figure for the broadcast in 2017.
A four-hour hearing in the New York Senate on Wednesday featuring 20 witnesses laid bare competing, often diametrically opposed perceptions of the racing industry, at a time when the sport is being attacked by some critics and organizations over the health and safety of its horses.
When the Department of Labor announced in mid-May that the multiple Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown had reached a settlement requiring him to pay $1.6 million in back wages and fines for labor-law violations, many racing observers gasped at the enormity of the settlement and its seismic potential for repercussions on the backstretches of racetracks across the U.S.
A massive gambling expansion bill that could cast a lifeline to the state’s ailing racing industry sailed through the Illinois Senate on Sunday after easily passing the House of Representatives on Saturday evening.
A bill that would expand legal gambling in Illinois and allow the state’s horse racing entities to operate casinos at their tracks passed the Illinois House of Representatives early Saturday evening.
California Senator Dianne Feinstein and members of her staff held a conference call with California Horse Racing Board chairman Chuck Winner and executive director Rick Baedeker on Friday to discuss a variety of subjects related to horse safety issues that have affected the sport in California in recent months.
Parx Racing, the Philadelphia-area racetrack, has been accredited by an industry-funded health and safety organization for the first time, according to an announcement by the group.
David Cross Jr., who trained Sunny's Halo to victory in the 1983 Kentucky Derby, died late Wednesday night at the University of Kentucky's Albert B. Chandler Hospital in Lexington, Ky., according to trainer Jinks Fires, for whom Cross had worked in recent years.
A Florida administrative law judge has ruled that Calder Race Course in Miami should lose its slot-machine license due to the demolition of its grandstand, reversing another judge's ruling from late last year.
Los Alamitos officials are considering reducing the number of racing days for the track’s upcoming summer meeting from 12 to 10 to ensure all programs draw sufficient entries, track vice-president Jack Liebau said on Tuesday.
