Jockey Barrington Harvey sustained a fractured right wrist when his mount, Woodacoudashouda, slipped and fell on the first turn in Saturday’s final race at the Humboldt County Fair in Ferndale, Calif.
Jockey Jamie Theriot has been fined $500 by Del Mar stewards for standing up before the finish line aboard Holy Lute in the $84,535 Green Flash Handicap on Aug. 12.
Southern California racing officials have reached a tentative agreement for racing dates for three years and long-term offtrack stabling beginning in 2017, executives said on Thursday.
Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., is seeking an announcer for its meet that opens Sept. 10.
Handle is up but revenue remains down about three months into Canterbury Park's 2016 experiment with reduced takeout.
Retired Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron will be honored with the Laffit Pincay Jr. Award for distinguished service to racing in a ceremony Sunday at Del Mar.
The trainers’ awards at the upcoming Timonium meet have been doubled to $20,000 after the Maryland State Fair board put up $10,000 in an attempt to bolster racing at the seven-day meet.
Mother Nature, so kind to Saratoga the previous two summers, was far less so last weekend, resulting in at least a temporary halt to a potentially record-setting summer for the New York Racing Association.
Barbara Banke, owner of Stonestreet Stables, and Michael O’Farrell Jr., owner of Ocala Stud in Florida, have been elected to the board of stewards of The Jockey Club, the organization announced Wednesday.
The New York Racing Franchise Oversight Board on Tuesday approved a plan devised by the New York Racing Association outlining the company’s long-term plans for renovations at its Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York.
