Daily handle down 4 percent at Louisiana Downs meet
Louisiana Downs closed its 84-date meet Sept. 26 with a small decline in average daily handle on its races, but a double-digit increase in handle on Super Derby Day.
Mary RampelliniOct 03, 2018
Louisiana Downs closed its 84-date meet Sept. 26 with a small decline in average daily handle on its races, but a double-digit increase in handle on Super Derby Day.
George R. Albright, a trainer based at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pa., with nearly 4,000 lifetime starts, has been charged by a Pennsylvania county district attorney with one count of rigging a publicly exhibited contest, according to his attorney and court documents.
All-sources wagering at the 11-day September meet that ended Sunday at Churchill Downs was up nearly 15 percent on gross handle of more than $45.4 million, according to figures released Tuesday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
The inaugural Stronach 5 was deemed a success by officials from the Stronach Group on Friday after attracting a handle of $157,333 and ultimately producing a payoff of $9,888.30 to the 14 ticket holders who correctly selected the winners.
Anita Madden, the Lexington socialite who restored a semblance of glamour to historic Hamburg Place with lavish Kentucky Derby parties, died on Thursday night in a nursing facility near her home.
Bill Thomason, the chief executive officer of Keeneland Association, was elected the chairman of the board of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association on Thursday, at a meeting in which the association also created a smaller executive committee to meet more frequently with management.
A former office employee of the equine industry’s federal lobbying organization, the American Horse Council, has been accused of stealing nearly $600,000 from the operation during a five-year span, according to a lawsuit filed this week by the AHC.
Dr. Scott Stanley, who heads California’s equine drug-testing laboratory at the University of California-Davis, has accepted a position at the University of Kentucky in Lexington as the professor of analytical chemistry at the Maxwell G. Gluck Equine Research Center, according to the universities.
Parx Racing and Laurel Park both had brisk business at the betting windows last Saturday.
The New York Gaming Commission on Monday approved a proposed set of rules that would allow the New York Racing Association to offer a jackpot-type pick six bet, a wager that has become increasingly prevalent at U.S. tracks.