The South Dakota meet at the Brown County Fairgrounds in Abeerdeen that opens Saturday will run five days over two weekends. It features races for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses. Post is 1 p.m. Central. The card Saturday will feature the Harold Sanderson Memorial Sprint for Thoroughbreds.
Evangeline Downs, which had delayed the start of turf racing this meet to a tentative date of Wednesday, May 24, will instead be off the grass indefinitely. The track announced on its latest overnight that it would be “off the turf course for an extended period.”
A federal judge has given the go-ahead to The Stronach Group to pursue a claim against a leading racing tournament site, Derby Wars, ruling that the site is an offtrack betting outlet that should be subject to the provisions of a federal law governing interstate wagering.
A Louisiana lawmaker on Monday withdrew a bill that would have diverted $36 million from purse subsidies to a popular scholarship program.
A new racing week begins at Santa Anita on Thursday with a carryover of $136,859 in the single ticket jackpot pool of the $2 pick six.
There is a Rainbow 6 jackpot carryover of $192,733 into Sunday’s card at Gulfstream Park. It is a 20-cent wager and it will run on races 5-10.
Matt Crawford has been named manager of racing operations and racing secretary at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., according to a press release from the track. Crawford also will remain the racing secretary at Sam Houston, where he oversees the meets for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses.
The American Quarter Horse Association announced Thursday it has been teaming with racetracks and racing commissions to send “Racing Integrity Teams” to Quarter Horse racing events. The teams’ tasks vary and include performing searches of barns, stalls, or cars, surveillance of horses, sharing intelligence, and other integrity-oriented duties.
Tampa Bay Downs will host a pair of Florida Sire Stakes for the first time at its 2017-18 meet, with each seven-furlong race worth $125,000 and open to 3-year-olds sired by eligible Florida stallions.
The 56-day Laurel Park meet, which concluded Sunday, showed gains in total handle, average daily handle, in-state wagering, and out-of-state wagering.
