Equibase Co., the racing industry’s official data collector and supplier, will no longer release handle and purse figures on a monthly basis, the company said on Wednesday, citing “significant fluctuations” in the data when comparing the figures on a year-to-year basis.
Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, La., has started construction on a 70-stall receiving barn that is scheduled to be operational in advance of the meet that opens April 12.
The Association of Racing Commissioners International has named three former racing regulators to its newly formed Integrity Compliance Certification panel, a committee that is expected to grade racing states on conformity to uniform recommendations of the organization, the ARCI announced on Wednesday.
Four of five nasal-swab samples taken from horses currently isolated at Fair Grounds because of the equine herpesvirus returned negative results from a lab in Kentucky after testing positive for the wild strain of EHV-1 at a Louisiana lab.
Jockey Drayden Van Dyke remained hospitalized over the weekend after breaking his right forearm in a spill at Santa Anita last Thursday. On Sunday, it was unclear how long he will be away from riding.
Two horses that finished fifth in consecutive races at Del Mar last August have tested positive for the prohibited substances, Sildenafil, more commonly known under the trade name Viagra, and the anti-inflamatory Dexamethasone.
There are two carryovers in the $2 pick six for Thursday’s eight-race program at Santa Anita. The main pool begins with a carryover of $71,437. There is also a carryover of $38,404 in the single ticket jackpot portion of the bet, which is paid out only if there is a single winning ticket.
The mutuel field, the 24th or “all others” option, closed Sunday as the 5-2 favorite over divisional champion Classic Empire (5-1) in Pool 2 of the 2017 Kentucky Derby Future Wager.
The winner of the $250,000 Albuquerque Fall Quarter Horse Championship this year will receive an automatic berth to the $600,000 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos on Dec. 16, a first for the New Mexico race that was launched in 2015.
A California court of appeals on Jan. 26 overturned a 2014 California Horse Racing Board ruling suspending Quarter Horse trainer Jose De La Torre 38 months and fining him $160,000 for four clenbuterol positives at Los Alamitos in 2013.
