All-sources handle at the Churchill Downs fall meet that ended Sunday was down slightly from the corresponding meet in 2015, according to figures released Monday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
All-sources handle was down 7.3 percent and ontrack handle was down 6 percent at the Belmont Park fall meet, according to figures provided by the New York Racing Association.
Online voting is now open for the seventh annual Secretariat Vox Populi Award. This year’s nominees are: Beholder, California Chrome, Songbird, and Tepin.
The California Horse Racing Board has set the 2017 racing dates for Northern California and will finalize them at the December meeting
Gulfstream Park officials announced late Monday that the Florida Department of Agriculture has lifted the quarantine on Barn 5, which had been implemented two weeks earlier after a horse in that barn died and subsequently tested positive for equine herpesvirus.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Tuesday approved new rules that will require account-wagering companies to post bonds as a condition of licensing beginning in 2017.
Art Sherman, the trainer of 2016 Horse of the Year candidate California Chrome, has been named the winner of the 2016 Big Sport of Turfdom, which is awarded by the Turf Publicists of America annually to honor a “person or group of people who enhance coverage of Thoroughbred racing through cooperation with media and racing publicists.”
A new economic impact study paid for by members of the Maryland equine industry claims that the state horse industry generated $1.15 billion in economic activity in 2015, up 23 percent when compared to economic activity in 2010.
There will be plenty of money awaiting fans betting the Thanksgiving Day card at Del Mar on Thursday after no one hit the pick six on Sunday, producing a carryover of $82,246 in the general pool and adding to the growing carryover in the single-ticket jackpot pool.
Trainer Art Sherman said he hopes to get California Chrome a prep race before the Jan. 28 Pegasus, and has spoken to Ed Allred – owner of Los Alamitos – about putting on a race Dec. 17.
