An Illinois man has filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey-based Standardbred trainer seeking more than $31,000 in compensation for bets he lost in a 2016 Meadowlands harness race because the winner of the race tested positive for a banned drug.
A little over two years after leaving his position as executive director of racing for the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Bill Nader has been re-hired as the association’s director of racing, business operations.
John Brunetti, the South Florida real estate mogul and horse owner who has owned Hialeah Park for the past 40 years, died on Friday at his Florida home in Boca Raton, according to friends of the family.
The two races this week in England that are part of Churchill Downs’s new European Road to the Kentucky Derby were postponed because of wintry conditions.
Prominent owner Rick Porter recently announced the launch of the National Thoroughbred Welfare Organization, with the aim to ensure the welfare of Thoroughbreds leaving the racetrack by stopping the pipeline of horses available for purchase by slaughter buyers.
Kentucky agriculture officials announced Thursday they had lifted a quarantine of a barn at Turfway Park that had several horses test positive for the equine herpesvirus in early February.
A bill that gives Breeders’ Cup Ltd. a tax break anytime the two-day event is held at a Kentucky racetrack passed unanimously in the state Senate on Wednesday, and the legislation is now headed to the desk of Gov. Matt Bevin.
Churchill Downs Inc. has reached a deal to buy Presque Isle Downs and Casino in Erie, Pa., the company announced on Wednesday after releasing its 2017 financial results.
The Virginia Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that will allow the owner of Colonial Downs to operate devices closely resembling slot machines throughout the state, a move that will likely lead to the re-opening of the track for live racing, according to racing officials.
The Virginia Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday approved a bill that would allow the owner of Colonial Downs to operate devices closely resembling slot machines throughout the state, but not before attaching an amendment requiring that the legislation pass next year as well before becoming law.
