Breeders' Cup tax exemption signed into law in Kentucky
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.
Matt HegartyMar 13, 2018
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.
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.