Santa Anita has reached an agreement with TVG and Xpressbet that requires the account-wagering companies to pay a greater share of their handle toward purses and to the track on account wagers placed on mobile devices at the track.
Stewards at Turf Paradise have suspended jockey Martin Osuna for six months and recommended that the rider be suspended an additional five years after determining that he used an electrical device during a stakes race for Quarter Horses on Sunday at the Phoenix track.
Super tests will be standard fare during the upcoming meet at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark. The Arkansas Racing Commission on Wednesday announced an increase to its drug-testing budget for the 2017 meet at Oaklawn. The added funds will provide for “super tests” on every race run at the track rather than just its graded stakes races.
New York’s Thoroughbred racing industry could take a multi-million dollar hit as the result of a state-approved deal between Genting, the operator of the Resorts World video slots casino at Aqueduct, and financially strapped Nassau County Off-Track Betting Corp.
The Pennsylvania Racing Commission has approved a three-day-a-week winter racing season at Parx. The Bensalem track had been scheduled to close Jan. 10 and reopen March 4.
Trainers in New York must complete four hours of continuing education courses annually in order to maintain their license, under a rule passed Tuesday by the New York State Gaming Commission.
At 74, Nick Alexander took a new job last week. Alexander was elected chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners of California in a unanimous vote of the board of directors. Alexander, a retired auto dealer and active Thoroughbred owner and breeder, replaces Mike Pegram, who served as chairman for six years and will remain a member of the board.
The 3-year-old filly Masio, beaten 60 lengths in her most recent start and winless in her only three previous races on dirt, reversed her form and provided trainer Richard Vega with the 1,000th win of his career when she upset Sunday’s seventh race at Parx Racing.
The model-rules committee of a national group representing racing commissions has approved a set of recommended rules for out-of-competition testing and adopted modifications to rules related to penalties, according to participants in the meeting.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Photo Call has been retired and will become a broodmare at Denali Stud in Paris, Ky., for owner St. Elias Stable.
