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.
Terry Wallace, who was the track announcer for Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., for 37 years, died Thursday after a lengthy illness, according to a press release from the track.
Two-time Eclipse Award winner Julien Leparoux and accomplished veteran riders Joe Bravo, Kerwin Clark, John Davila Jr., and Scott Stevens are the finalists for the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, it was announced on Thursday by Santa Anita, which has presented the award annually since 1950.
One of the topics being discussed among racing officials over the past two days outside the conference rooms at the University of Arizona Symposium on Racing is whether the recent popular vote in Florida to ban dog racing could happen to horse racing in one or more states soon.
