Step into the Santa Anita stable area, and you will be watched. The track announced on Thursday that it recently installed a security system with more than 1,000 cameras that will follow activity throughout the stables. The cameras have been installed in high-profile areas such as roads but also around stables and in individual shed rows to follow activity in each stable.
Arlington concluded its 2016 racing season Sept. 23 with a drop in all-sources average daily handle of 2 percent from last year - decent for a track that at mid-meet had seen handle fall enough to cut purses.
The Illinois Racing Board on Tuesday unanimously passed a 2017 racing schedule that mirrors this year’s, though the dire state of the Illinois racing industry infused the brief annual dates awards meeting with gloom.
Wagering figures at the recently completed Monmouth Park meet in Oceanport, N.J., tumbled across the board, according to figures released by the track Sunday night, reflecting the track's struggles to fill races and card competitive betting contests.
The inaugural Pegasus World Cup, a proposed $12 million race that is scheduled for Jan. 28 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., will be broadcast live during a 90-minute telecast on NBC.
The 12-day Los Angeles County Fair meeting at Los Alamitos ended on Sunday with a decline of approximately 5 percent in all-sources daily handle, track officials said.
Trainer Steve Miyadi was suspended by the California Horse Racing Board on Sunday after the regulatory body ruled that a recent altercation between Miyadi and Alex Solis, a jockey and racing board commissioner, was a violation of a stipulated agreement reached this summer.
Parx Racing handled $9.6 million on Saturday, the second-highest in track history, according to Joe Wilson, the chief operating officer of Parx.
Two New Jersey real-estate developers who were seeking approval to build casinos have suspended an advertising campaign supporting a casino referendum, they announced on Thursday.
Handle figures at California tracks slumped more than 11 percent in August, with declines at Del Mar, on the Northern California fair circuit, and the Los Alamitos nighttime mixed meeting, according to figures announced at Thursday’s California Horse Racing Board meeting.
