Remington Park experienced a 7 percent increase in handle during its 67-date meet that ended Dec. 16, the Oklahoma City track announced. The average daily handle on Remington's races from all sources was $1,071,615.
Average daily handle at Turfway Park’s recently concluded holiday meet fell almost 5 percent from the figures posted at the corresponding meet in 2017, according to figures released Friday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission. The meet ended Monday before the northern Kentucky track’s winter/spring meeting began the following day with the new year.
Total wagering on U.S. races in 2018 was up 3.3 percent from 2017 despite a 2.8 percent decline in the number of races held, according to figures released Friday by Equibase, with betting growth during the year aided by favorable tax-law changes and a generally strong economy.
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.
