Dan Kenny, bloodstock agent and racing journalist, dies at 73
Dan Kenny, a jack-of-all-trades in the racing industry who was a co-founder of Four Star Sales, died on Dec. 25 at an assisted-living facility in Atlanta, Ga.
Matt HegartyDec 28, 2018
Dan Kenny, a jack-of-all-trades in the racing industry who was a co-founder of Four Star Sales, died on Dec. 25 at an assisted-living facility in Atlanta, Ga.
Joe Harper, the longtime racing executive whose name is synonymous with Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, the seaside track he has led for 40 years, has been selected to receive the Eclipse Award of Merit, the organizers of the Eclipse Awards announced on Thursday.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court decision from last year that sent tremors through the racing regulatory community by throwing out the state's absolute-insurer rule in a case centered on a drug positive for a horse trained by Graham Motion more than three years ago.
Santa Anita Park has hired Woodbine racing official Steve Lym as its vice president and racing secretary, the track announed in a release.
Average daily handle at the recently completed eight-day fall Thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos was down 8.3 percent compared to average handle at the winter meet last year, according to figures from the California Horse Racing Information Management System.
The New Jersey Senate on Monday unanimously approved a bill providing $20 million in subsidies annually to the state’s racing industry for the next five years, including $10 million a year for purses at Monmouth Park.
Bushrod has been disqualified from a race at Canterbury Park in August after testing positive for cardarine, a substance available at Internet pharmacies that has only recently been classified as prohibited in Thoroughbred racing, according to officials.
The Virginia Racing Commission at a meeting on Thursday awarded racing and gambling licenses to the group that purchased Colonial Downs earlier this year, putting the New Kent track on schedule to open for an abbreviated but rich meet of live racing in August of next year.
A bill that would send $20 million annually from the New Jersey General Fund to Thoroughbred and Standardbred purses and breeder awards has passed out of a state Senate subcommittee.
A total teardown and rebuild of Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore to make the track “the ideal venue to host the Preakness Stakes” would cost a minimum of $424 million, according to a study conducted by a Maryland state agency