Classic Empire, the winner of the 2016 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and the 2016 2-year-old champion, was assigned 126 pounds to top the annual Experimental Free Handicap, a ranking of the top juveniles to run in North America last year.
Last month, New Vocations Thoroughbred retraining and adoption organization opened its New York satellite facility at Dan and Danielle Dill's October Hill Farm in Fort Edward, about half an hour northeast of Saratoga Springs.
Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colo., will race 39 dates in 2017, from May 19 to Aug. 13. Hank Demoney will be the new racing secretary. He most recently served as a steward at Arapahoe.
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.
