Popular track announcer Dan Loiselle, breeder John G. Sikura, and trainer Reade Baker are among the 2018 inductees into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Monday signed a bill that allows the owner of Colonial Downs to operate gambling machines at the track and at as many as 10 off-track betting facilities.
A rules committee of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Monday voiced its approval for several major changes to the way drug positives are adjudicated in the state.
Wagering on races held at U.S. racetracks during the first quarter this year was up 6.2 percent despite a 3.4 percent drop in the number of races held, according to figures released on Thursday by Equibase, the best three-month showing for handle figures in the economically challenged racing industry for some time.
Hazel Park Raceway in southeast Michigan was shuttered Thursday after ownership group Hartman & Tyner announced that the property was in the process of being sold, just under a month before the scheduled opening day of the live race meet.
For the second time in six months, Keeneland Race Course will open its race meet with new takeout rates in place. But this time around, the silence greeting the decision is golden.
Average daily handle at Turfway Park this winter was down 9 percent over corresponding dates from the previous winter, according to figures released Wednesday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Harry "The Hat" Hacek, an agent for top jockeys in California and Illinois, died Saturday in Hot Springs, Ark., his daughter, Brittney Hacek, said on Tuesday. Hacek was 71.
Larry Wolken, who headed the racetrack concessions company Turf Catering for decades and was a Thoroughbred owner, died on March 30 in Hot Springs, Ark. He was 87.
A late scratch in the third race at Mahoning Valley Race Course in Ohio led to a brief bet-processing outage at several tracks in the U.S. on Monday, delaying payouts and betting services at the tracks for approximately half an hour, according to officials with knowledge of the problem.
