Stronach to be honored at Sovereign Awards
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.
Ron GierkinkFeb 17, 2017
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.
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling throwing out allegations that an upstart maker of historical racing machines infringed on the patents of a competitor owned by The Stronach Group, according to court documents.
Federal prosecutors in Louisiana have charged a veterinarian and a Nebraska online pharmacy with conspiracy related to their alleged roles in providing an illegal painkiller, dermorphin, to Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse trainers in Louisiana in a case stretching back more than five years.
One winning ticket in Sunday’s pick six at Santa Anita was worth $148,205, a payoff that included the single ticket provision of the $2 bet.
The single ticket jackpot carryover for the Santa Anita pick six has reached $33,967 after multiple tickets correctly selected the sequence on Saturday.
All barns that were quarantined at Turfway and Keeneland after the discovery of the equine herpesvirus were released Friday by Kentucky Agriculture officials.
An influential racing policy group has recommended that racing commissions adopt threshold levels for the prohibited medication glaucine, citing evidence that the substance can be ingested by horses through environmental contamination.
Trainer Jerry Weaver, 81, suffered a fatal heart attack in his tack room at Golden Gate Fields on Tuesday, according to a track executive.