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Del Mar will offer financial incentives to the owners of horses formerly based in Northern California during its summer meeting from July 18 to Sept. 7.
The California Horse Racing Board on Thursday rejected a proposal for three weekends of late summer racing at the Humboldt County Fair in Ferndale, leaving no prospect for racing in the northern half of the state in the foreseeable future.
Federal legislation that would abolish the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority and seek to replace it with a national regulatory framework tied together by a state compact was reintroduced to Congress on Thursday.
For the second time this spring, officials with the Humboldt County Fair in Ferndale, Calif., will appear before the California Horse Racing Board in Sacramento on Thursday seeking racing dates for a late summer meeting.
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New York racetracks will start using penny breakage for payouts made with betting accounts starting Sept. 1 as the result of language tucked into a massive state budget package signed into law by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday.
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Total wagering on Thoroughbred races held at U.S. tracks in April dropped 5.16 percent while the number of races held declined 6.15 percent compared to the same month last year, according to figures distributed by Equibase on Monday.
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A coalition of businesses that rely heavily on guest-worker visas used the backdrop of the Kentucky Derby on Thursday to press for the adoption of new immigration rules that would increase the availability of the visas for agricultural and backstretch workers and set them on a path to citizenship.
Kimberly Graci, a trainer based at Penn National who has racked up more than 600 wins in her career, has accepted a lifetime ban from racing as part of an agreed order to resolve charges that she violated rules on starting horses within a mandated stand-down time after they had received intra-articular injections of regulated medications.
Jose Salinas, one of a dozen trainers based at Penn National to be charged with running horses within a required stand-down period after injections of painkillers, has been suspended 60 days after an arbiter rejected testimony that he was not at fault.
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Handle figures for the spring meet at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Ky., dropped significantly compared to last year as the havoc caused by torrential rain on the track’s scheduled opening weekend took its toll.
