All-sources handle on Friday’s opening-day card at Saratoga was $20,247,319, less than 1 percent lower than the $20,332,053 wagered on opening day 2017. Paid attendance on Friday was 33,714, a 3 percent increase over the 32,730 paid attendance figure from 2017.
Lone Star Park is on pace to close out its meet Sunday with an increase compared to last year in average daily handle on its races, according to figures provided by the track.
Ron Paolucci, whose Loooch Racing Stables has become a leading owner in North America, said Thursday without equivocation that he is getting out of horse ownership.
A fire that occurred in a trailer transporting horses from Kentucky to New York on Tuesday killed three mares and their foals, according to the farm where the horses were to be boarded.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Tuesday approved a pending deal that will allow the group that owns a minority stake in Ellis Park to buy the majority stake held by Ron Geary, the public face of Ellis’s ownership since he bought the track outright in 2006.
Eric Halstrom has been named vice president of operations for Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La., according to a press release issued by the track Tuesday.
Due in large part to Justify, the Belmont Park spring-summer meet showed significant gains in handle at the 2018 meet compared to last year.
Los Alamitos finished its 12-day summer meeting on Sunday with a gain in average all-sources handle over the 2017 meet, according to a track statement, though comparisons with the corresponding meeting last year are difficult to make.
The 36-day summer party at Del Mar begins Wednesday. For many fans, the seven-week meeting, which lasts through Labor Day, is the highlight of the racing year – a chance to escape to the beach in northern San Diego County for top-class racing and an atmosphere unlike any other venue in the United States.
Total handle on sports in the state of New Jersey in June was $16.4 million, according to the state’s Division of Gaming Enforcement, with more than half of that money bet at the sportsbook at Monmouth Park.
