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Total betting on Thoroughbred races held at U.S. tracks declined slightly in July compared to the same month last year, according to figures distributed by Equibase on Tuesday, while the number of races declined nearly 5 percent.
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Barrington Harvey, who won more than 740 races in the United States and was a rare jockey active in his 60s, died recently while visiting his native Jamaica, a Los Alamitos official said Sunday.
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The Jockey Club will explore ways to increase the foal crop and push commercial breeders to limit the book sizes of popular stallions under new policies that will be prioritized by Everett Dobson, who formally took over the chairmanship of the organization on Wednesday. Dobson's remarks came at the end of The Jockey Club’s Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on Thursday,
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A retroactive purse payment of more than $670,000 will be paid to owners whose runners earned prize money at the 2023-2024 Golden Gate Fields meeting, the Northern California track’s final season.
The board of stewards of The Jockey Club has formally elected Everett R. Dobson as its next chairman, the organization announced on Wednesday.
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Marc Holliday, the chairman of the New York Racing Association, and Bret Jones, the president of Airdrie Stud in Central Kentucky, have been elected as stewards of The Jockey Club, the organization announced on Monday.
Thistledown racetrack outside of Cleveland canceled the remainder of its Monday race card after a horse broke down in the first race, one week after the track experienced problems with its racing surface that caused a week-long shutdown of live racing.
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Santa Anita will run 22 stakes at its fall meeting from Sept. 26 to Oct. 26, with lower prize money available in four races compared to last year.
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Humerto Ascanio, former assistant to Bobby Frankel, died on Tuesday at his home in Arcadia, Calif., from the effects of another stroke suffered in 2024 and dementia, according to his son, Matthew Ascanio.
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Gabby Gaudet, one of the most familiar on-camera presences in Thoroughbred racing, is taking her talents to Lexington. Gaudet, who has been an on-air analyst and reporter at FanDuel TV and the New York Racing Association for most of the past decade, has been hired as the Director of Communications at Keeneland, the racetrack and sales company in the heart of horse country, Keeneland announced on Thursday.
