The National Handicapping Championship will return to Bally’s Las Vegas next year after more than a decade of being hosted by other Las Vegas casinos, according to the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, which administers the annual tournament.
Mahoning Valley Race Course in Ohio and Penn National Race Course in Pennsylvania have installed GPS timing systems and will use those systems as their official timers, the developer of the system announced on Tuesday.
Former jockey and prominent jockey agent John Bell died Sunday after a battle with cancer at 79.
A special meeting scheduled for Friday at which the California Horse Racing Board had been set to discuss the potential to move race dates from Santa Anita has been canceled, the racing board announced Monday.
The National Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association and its New York affiliate have approved a $50,000 contribution to a study designed to develop a test to detect so-called microdoses of blood-doping drugs, according to the organizations.
Handle on U.S. races during the first quarter of 2019 fell 3.5 percent, in part due to a 2.83 percent decline in March, when Santa Anita Park in Southern California canceled nearly three weeks of racing due to concerns over a spate of fatalities at the track, according to figures released on Friday by Equibase.
Australian superstar Winx, Hong Kong-based Beauty Generation, and the retired American horse City of Light continue to share the top rating on the latest edition of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings.
The Department of Homeland Security has authorized the issuance of 30,000 additional H-2B visas, a source of labor for many trainers on U.S. backstretches, the department announced on Friday.
On Thursday, the California Horse Racing Board voted to suspend the authorized thresholds for 11 medications, a variety of painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs that are commonly administered to horses. So what exactly does that mean for trainers, veterinarians, and horses?
The Jockey Club has released a report outlining its support for changes in racing regulations and medication practices, saying that the changes will help the industry avoid spates of deaths like those at Santa Anita this year that have drawn widespread negative attention to the sport.
