Laurel summer meet continues strong run
The summer meet at Laurel Park showed a significant gain in handle for the third straight year, according to figures released by the Maryland Jockey Club.
Jim DunleavyAug 31, 2017
The summer meet at Laurel Park showed a significant gain in handle for the third straight year, according to figures released by the Maryland Jockey Club.
The New Mexico Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a request to prohibit state racing officials from placing Heza Streakin Legacy on the stewards’ list. As a result, Heza Streakin Legacy will not compete in the $3 million All American Futurity.
The management of Gillespie County Fair and the greyhound tracks Gulf Coast Racing and Gulf Greyhound Park have informed the Texas Racing Commission of their intent to cease live racing and simulcasting operations on Thursday.
A federal law from 1992 prohibiting states from authorizing gambling on sports should be struck down because it violates several constitutional principles, challengers of the law argued in briefs filed Tuesday with the United States Supreme Court.
The New York Racing Association has reached a three-year extension on a deal to broadcast a two-hour live racing program from Saratoga Race Course on FOX Sports 2 each racing day
Handle at California tracks has failed to keep pace with business in 2016 through July, according to statistics provided at Thursday's California Horse Racing Board meeting.
What may become a landmark case began more than two years ago with the finding of a trace amount of a regulated, therapeutic medication in a horse trained by one of the most respected horsemen in the sport. It sits now on the precipice of undermining one of the linchpins of racing regulation, threatening the supremacy of a rule that regulators consider the most powerful deterrent to the illegal use of drugs in racing.
The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium has approved funding for two projects designed to improve the detection of banned blood-doping drugs such as erythropoietin and a class of drugs that mimic anabolic steroids, according to the organization.
John K. “J.K.” Adams, whose riding career peaked in the late 1970s in Maryland, drowned recently in New Jersey, according to a longtime friend. He was 62.
The Jockey Club has elected five new members, including Vinnie Viola, the co-owner of this year’s Kentucky Derby winner, Always Dreaming.