The Ontario government announced Friday a funding agreement that will give the province’s horse-racing industry $105 million annually for the next 19 years, beginning April 1, 2019.
Warren B. Williamson, the California-based owner and breeder who raced the top-class but ill-fated mare Nashoba’s Key, died several days ago of natural causes following a recent surgery to repair a fractured hip.
The owner of a small non-profit horse-therapy center in Louisville, Ky., has been indicted on charges of devising a scheme to defraud the government, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
The overall fatality rate for Thoroughbred races held in North America in 2017 inched up slightly to 1.61 per 1,000 starts, according to data released on Monday by The Jockey Club.
Tom Benson, a businessman who owned the New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans, passed away Thursday at age 90.
Gun Runner and Winx are top-rated horses in the first 2018 listing of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has said that the state needs to be “open-minded” when considering the legalization of casino-style gambling, according to local newspapers, in his first comments related to the authorization by the legislature last month of slot machine-like devices at Colonial Downs.
Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky has signed a bill that grants Breeders’ Cup Ltd. a tax exemption on its handle any time the two-day event is held at a Kentucky track.
Joseph Appelbaum was recently elected president of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, and on Friday it was announced he has been elected the head of the affiliate’s national umbrella organization.
The British-based parent company of Television Games Network reported strong revenue growth for TVG in 2017, but the overall results for its U.S. operations were dragged down by significant increases in expenses at other business units in the U.S.
