No injuries in minor Belmont barn fire
There were no injuries to horses or humans reported as a result of a small fire in a tack room in barn 61 at Belmont Park on Thursday night.
David GreningFeb 24, 2017
There were no injuries to horses or humans reported as a result of a small fire in a tack room in barn 61 at Belmont Park on Thursday night.
Handle at all California racetracks sustained a significant decline in January, a month in which wet conditions plagued the sport throughout the state.
The Breeders’ Cup and Upper Right Marketing, a retail merchandising company, have signed a multiyear agreement making Upper Right the exclusive Breeders’ Cup retailer for its branded merchandise and apparel, the Breeders’ Cup announced on Thursday.
Due to an inordinate amount of snowfall in Vancouver in early February, opening day at Hastings has been moved back by one week. The 52-day meet was originally scheduled to begin on April 16 but will now start on April 23.
Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., will run 33 stakes races this year with total purses of $3,725,000, down from 41 stakes scheduled for last year's meet with total purses of $4.65 million, according to a stakes schedule distributed by the track on Wednesday.
Trainer Otabek Umarov will have his suspension reduced from 10 years to five years under a settlement approved Tuesday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Tickets for Equestricon, a horse racing convention, fan festival and trade show, will go on sale Friday at the event website, Equestricon.com.
Frank Stronach will be presented with the E.P. Taylor Award of Merit for his longtime involvement in Thoroughbred racing in Canada at this year’s Sovereign Awards ceremony.
Stall applications are now available on the Monmouth Park website and in the track’s administration building for this season’s meet. They are due by March 16. The New Jersey Racing Commission has approved a 71-day Thoroughbred season for 2017, which includes 56 race days at Monmouth and 15 turf-only cards at the Meadowlands.
The Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie, the top race of the Laurel Park winter meet, and the feature race on this Saturday's Winter Festival program, on Wednesday drew a field of eight, including five last-out stakes winners.