Two officials from the consulting group McKinsey & Co. will discuss updated figures from their analysis of the racing industry during the Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing, according to the organizer of the annual conference, The Jockey Club.
If the applications filed with the Illinois Racing Board by Illinois racetracks for 2019 racing dates are a guide – and they almost certainly are – the state’s racing schedule next year will look almost exactly like those in 2017 and 2018.
The Virginia Racing Commission on Tuesday heard comments from more than three dozen people who asked to speak about the commission’s proposed regulations of gambling devices that could be in operation as early as next year at racing facilities in the state.
Local residents at a public town-council meeting Monday night in Lancaster, Mass., expressed legitimate concerns about a proposal to build a racetrack there, according to Tim Ritvo, chief operating officer for The Stronach Group.
AmTote and the Maryland Jockey Club made an error when tabulating the payoffs for the Rainbow 6 at Laurel Park on Saturday, incorrectly reporting a carryover when indeed the bet was hit.
John Andreini, a prominent owner of Quarter Horses and a partner in Ruidoso Downs, died following a brain aneurysm on Friday, according to a statement released by Ruidoso Downs.
The Illinois Racing Board at a regular monthly meeting Thursday at Arlington said it would begin the formal process of making rules to govern the introduction of historical racing machines to Hawthorne Race Course and Fairmount Park.
Jim Dunleavy, the mid-Atlantic correspondent for Daily Racing Form, has been named the winner of the 2018 Bill Handleman Award by Monmouth Park to recognize outstanding coverage of the track’s marquee race, the Grade 1, $1 million Haskell Invitational.
The Stronach Group has filed rudimentary renderings to the Lancaster, Mass., town council of a racetrack it hopes to build outside of town.
Forrest Kaelin, who trained Thoroughbreds for nearly 60 years following a brief riding career, died Thursday of natural causes at his Louisville home. He was 83.
