Maryjean Wall, the Eclipse Award-winning former racing reporter for the Lexington Herald-Leader, and Jim McKay, the late racing broadcaster, have been selected to be inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame's Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor, the museum announced on Thursday.
Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minn., will make a decision early next year whether to extend its experiment to cut its takeout rates across the board, citing losses suffered by the track this year despite modest gains in handle, the track’s director of racing operations said during a presentation on Wednesday during a panel at the Symposium on Racing and Gaming.
The New York stewards fined trainer Mike Maker for running two horses he recently claimed at Aqueduct in the Claiming Crown at Gulfstream Park last weekend. The fine was $3,000 but was reduced to $1,500 for Maker waiving his right of appeal.
The racing industry should stake out defensible positions in its efforts to combat attacks from the animal-rights movement by adopting humane practices but should also be wary of partnering with animal-welfare organizations, participants at a morning session focusing on the movements said on Wednesday at the Symposium on Racing and Gaming in Tucson.
A proposal to modify a part of the recommended model rules relating to multiple medication violations has met a rebuke by The Jockey Club, with the organization stating that it will ask for the proposal to be removed from the agenda of a Thursday meeting of the Association of Racing Commissioners International model-rules committee.
The racing industry could benefit from richer academic analysis of its varied businesses by forging relationships with universities and making data more accessible to researchers, a panel of academics said on Tuesday afternoon at the Symposium on Racing and Gaming in Tucson, Ariz.
Art Sherman, the trainer of 2016 Horse of the Year candidate California Chrome, was presented with the Turf Publicists of America Big Sport of Turfdom Award on Tuesday during a luncheon held at the annual Symposium on Racing and Gaming.
If racing has an “identity crisis,” the term used in the title for the kick-off panel at the annual Symposium on Racing and Gaming, then it’s one of multiple personalities, participants in the panel told a packed audience on Tuesday morning at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Ariz.
The annual University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program Symposium on Racing and Gaming opens on Tuesday in Tucson with a decidedly utilitarian bent.
Total handle on U.S races in October and November this year was down 3 percent compared with wagering during the same two months last year, according to comparisons based in part on figures distributed Sunday by Equibase.
