John Heims, the director of media relations at Monmouth Park, will serve as the racing secretary for the track next year, replacing Mike Anifantis, a top official of the track said on Thursday.
The Oregon Racing Commission is conducting a probe into a race on Monday at Portland Meadows in which more than $9,000 in bets were placed on a 74-1 first-time starter to show, racing officials in the state confirmed this week.
Churchill Downs Inc. has reached an agreement to sell its mobile-gaming company, Big Fish Games, for nearly $1 billion, three years after acquiring the business, the company announced late on Wednesday.
The success of Del Mar's fall meeting, which ended Sunday, can best be illustrated by the fact that even without the handle figures from this year's Breeders' Cup, the track was still up in terms of average daily handle from a year ago, with the best numbers posted yet for this now 4-year-old season.
A Pennsylvania state judge has granted stays to three trainers based at Parx racetrack near Philadelphia who had been suspended for failing to comply with subpoenas issued by the state’s racing commission early this month, according to court filings.
The California Horse Racing Board on Thursday granted conditional approvals to racing applications for upcoming meets at Santa Anita Park in Southern California and Golden Gate Fields in Northern California, with the approvals ostensibly contingent on the tracks reaching agreements with horsemen by the beginning of December.
The same number of Thoroughbred dates will be held in New Jersey in 2018 as this year but the Monmouth Park meet will be extended two days and the all-turf Meadowlands meet will be reduced by two days.
Roman Chapa, the Texas journeyman jockey who was suspended for five years in 2015 for using an illegal electrical device on a horse, has been placed on probation for 10 years after pleading guilty to a criminal charge of making a false statement to a state investigator.
Hall of Famer and two-time Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Lure died Wednesday morning at his longtime home, Claiborne Farm, due to the infirmities of old age. The son of Danzig was 28.
The New York Racing Association and New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association are starting a program that will make it less expensive for owners and trainers to race at the Aqueduct winter and spring meets from Dec. 6 through March 31.
