Total betting on the 14 Breeders’ Cup races held Friday and Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., was up 0.6 percent compared to last year, when there were 13 official Breeders’ Cup races held at Del Mar in Southern California, according to charts of the races.
Handle on the five Breeders’ Cup races held on a revamped Friday card at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., was $38.1 million, according to charts of the races, up 21 percent over the handle on four Breeders’ Cup races on the Friday card last year at Del Mar in Southern California.
The New York Stallion Stakes series will double in value next year to $2.3 million due to increased financial support from the New York State Breeding and Development Fund.
Federal tax-reporting changes implemented in the fall of last year have resulted in a decline of $307 million in the amount of total winning wagers reported to the IRS in the past year, a drop of 82 percent.
Four of the seven head-to-head wagers that Breeders’ Cup will offer during its two-day event on Friday and Saturday will pit U.S.-based horses against European-based horses, according to a roster of the bets released on Wednesday.
The Michigan Gaming Control Board has awarded 26 days of live Thoroughbred racing next year to a group that plans to convert a shuttered harness track into a Thoroughbred track, the board said on Wednesday.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission voted narrowly after a five-hour meeting on Tuesday to delay awarding a license to one of three applicants for a harness track and casino in Oak Grove.
Larry Snyder, who ranks as one of the all-time winningest jockeys in North America, died Monday. He had been battling cancer. Snyder was 76.
TVG1, the sport's only dedicated horse racing broadcast channel available on most cable and satellite systems, will telecast races from the Churchill Downs fall meet this year for the first time in a decade, the two companies announced this weekend.
Mountaineer Park in Chester, W.Va., has suspended live racing for the next two weeks due to the diagnosis of at least one case of Legionnaire’s disease among its employees, according to officials with knowledge of the situation.
