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
A pilot project to use GPS technology to time workouts conducted in September and October at Keeneland Racecourse in Kentucky has proved the system can work in the future with a larger workload, the administrators of the project said on Wednesday.
Golden Gate Fields reported a 19 percent gain in all-sources handle at its fall meet compared to last year’s fall meet. The 30-day fall meet ended on Sunday.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Tuesday placed three drugs on its prohibited substances list following positive findings for two of the substances in horses that raced in the state this fall.
Tom Hammond, the veteran television host, and the late Joe Burnham, a cinematographer, have been selected for induction into the National Museum of Racing’s Media Roll of Honor.
The New York Gaming Commission on Monday approved a rule allowing tracks to apply for temporary exemptions to a regulation requiring that purses be no more than two times the claiming price in a race.
Horsemen say the cost of doing business in New York, topped by exorbitant workers' compensation premiums, has trumped the fact that NYRA offers some of the highest purses in the country. Add on top of that the high cost to live in New York plus intense scrutiny from the Department of Labor, and New York racing is facing a crisis.
William Perry, a longtime leading trainer in New England and Florida who trained the Grade 1 winner and millionaire Formal Gold, died on Thursday, according to friends.
