The California Horse Racing Board postponed the allocation of 2017 racing dates for Golden Gate Fields and the Northern California fair circuit after relevant parties failed to reach a resolution at the racing board’s dates committee meeting on Wednesday.
Del Mar will offer a jackpot-style pick six, with a portion of the pool dedicated to the holder of a single winning ticket, at its 15-day autumn meeting from Nov. 11 to Dec. 4.
Officials with the National Thoroughbred Racing Association and the racing industry met with representatives of the IRS and Treasury Department on Monday in Washington in an ongoing discussion over proposed changes to how parimutuel winnings are taxed, NTRA officials confirmed on Thursday.
Century Casinos Europe GmbH was awarded the right to build a new gaming and horse racing facility in the Edmonton, Alberta, area. There were four final bids submitted to Horse Racing Alberta to build a facility that will replace Northlands Park, which was slated to close at the end of this year. Century currently owns and operates Century Downs, a gaming and horse racing facility in Balzac, a suburb of Calgary.
The West Virginia Racing Commission on Tuesday adopted a rule that will require the state’s two Thoroughbred racetracks to apply for accreditation through a program run by an industry-funded group.
Grade 1 winner Plenty of Grace has died at age 29, and will be buried at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky., where she was bred.
Good weather and larger fields contributed to the average daily handle at the recently concluded Emerald Downs meet increasing by 16.8 percent over 2015.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey has signed a bill allowing for wagering on the steeplechase races held at Far Hills, but the signature came too late to offer betting on the Oct. 15 card this year, according to officials with the company that has been hired to administer the wagering.
Every bet offered at the upcoming all-turf Thoroughbred meet at the Meadowlands at New Jersey will have a 15 percent takeout, the operator of the meet announced on Wednesday.
Churchill Downs will award a Japanese horse an automatic berth in next year's Kentucky Derby under a new program assigning points to participants in two Japanese stakes races, the track announced on Monday.
