Purses up, betting down slightly through June
Wagering on races held at U.S. tracks in the month of June dropped nearly 5 percent compared to the same month last year, while purses continued to inch up despite the decline.
Matt HegartyJul 06, 2026
Wagering on races held at U.S. tracks in the month of June dropped nearly 5 percent compared to the same month last year, while purses continued to inch up despite the decline.
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John Parisella, a man with a big personality, who was dubbed “trainer to the stars,” and a winner of more than 1,200 races in a four-decade-plus career, died Friday in a hospital in Long Island, N.Y., according to his ex-wife Melissa. He was 85.
The growing importance and prevalence of biometric devices to evaluate a horse’s soundness and fitness was made starkly evident on the final day of the Welfare and Safety of Racehorse Summit on Tuesday when six vendors explained their products.
The developers of a risk-assessment model for racehorses in Hong Kong will attempt to build a similar model for U.S. racing by the end of next year, one of the developers said on Monday at the Safety and Welfare of the Racehorse Summit at Keeneland.
not surprising that the organizers of this year’s Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit, which opened on Monday at Keeneland, staged a presentation allowing regulatory veterinarians and their supervisors to explain the data and policies that generally lead to raceday scratches.
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A New York court has ruled that it will not hear an appeal of a nearly four-year-old case involving trainer Todd Pletcher and the 2022 champion 2-year-old Forte, but Pletcher’s attorney said on Friday he will pursue another appeal to the state’s highest court.
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The Kentucky Equine Drug Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a proposal for a study that will examine the prevalence of unsoundness among horses that were scratched on race day by regulatory veterinarians.
Frank Stronach, the Canadian businessman who once headed a vast racing operation that included breeding farms and racetracks, was found guilty on Friday of sexual assault and indecent assault in a verdict issued by a Canadian judge.
Total commingled handle on Thoroughbred races held at U.S. tracks in May dropped 4 percent compared to the same month last year, but the number of races held dropped at a larger rate, according to figures distributed by Equibase on Friday.
The Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit has reduced a penalty for two violations of its prohibited substance policy to a series of fines after determining that a Parx-based trainer bore “no significant fault” for the finding of testosterone in hair samples from two mares in his care.