Hawthorne's fall-winter meet that ended last week saw increases in average daily handle and handle per race but saw declines in gross handle and handle per starter when compared with the comparable 2016 season.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association has opened voting for the organization’s “Moment of the Year,” a contest it launched in 1999 to commemorate the sport’s most distinctive events of the preceding year.
Frank Stronach, the Austrian emigrant who made a fortune in Canada in auto parts and who has operated at the top of the Thoroughbred racing and breeding industry in North America for more than two decades, has been named the latest recipient of the Eclipse Award of Merit.
Turf Paradise in Phoenix will suspend phone betting by Arizona citizens on its races as of Jan. 9, citing the cannibalization of its ontrack handle and wagering through its in-state off-track betting network.
Remington Park in Oklahoma City closed out its 67-date Thoroughbred meet Dec. 17 and reported double-digit gains in handle over the corresponding season in 2016.
The Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission has revoked the license of a Penn National-based trainer after an investigation by the regulatory body revealed that the trainer failed to properly care for horses in his barn, according to a ruling posted on the commission's website.
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Jack Van Berg, the Hall of Fame trainer who conditioned 1988 Horse of the Year Alysheba, died Wednesday morning in Arkansas, according to a spokesperson for Oaklawn Park. Van Berg had been in a Little Rock, Ark., hospital. He was 81.
Negotiations between the New York Racing Association and the Jockeys' Guild over a contract regarding health benefits and insurance have stalled, creating the possibility of a work stoppage at Aqueduct beginning with the Jan. 6 card.
New York Racing Association officials believe a new hockey arena, hotel, and retail space announced Wednesday for Belmont Park is the next step in revitalizing the track and the Thoroughbred racing industry in New York.
Louis A. Cella has been named president of Oaklawn Park and of Southwestern Enterprises Inc., the racetrack’s parent company, according to a release from the track. Cella succeeds his father, Charles J. Cella, who died Dec. 6 at 81.
