Greg Avioli, a former chief executive of the Breeders’ Cup, has been hired to a similar position with the Thoroughbred Owners of California, the organization announced Wednesday.
The New York Senate and Assembly passed bills on Wednesday that would return control of the board of the New York Racing Association to the association itself, but it is unclear if the legislation will be acceptable to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Members of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission voted unanimously at a meeting on Wednesday to uphold a decision last week by the commission’s executive director to deny the stay of a 10-year suspension handed down to trainer Otabek Umarov.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Wednesday is scheduled to consider a request by the banned owner-trainer Otabek Umarov to stay a 10-year suspension handed down by Kentucky’s stewards near the end of May.
The University of Kentucky and the Jockeys’ Guild will launch a three-year pilot study this summer designed to produce a management protocol for jockeys who have recently suffered concussions or are experiencing concussion-like symptoms, the two organizations announced Monday.
The 2016 Triple Crown is now in the books, with a different horse winning each of the three legs of the series. Business results from the races affirmed what the industry already knew – that a Triple Crown try is great news for the third leg, the Belmont Stakes. But another dubious theory – that American Pharoah's Triple Crown win last year, which ended a 37-year drought, would provide a boost to the series this year – did not pan out, with little evidence that racing benefited significantly from what was undeniably the most positive coverage of racing in two decades.
Golden Gate Fields will have a mandatory Golden Pick 6 payout Sunday with $1,408,071 carried over in the pool after multiple tickets hit all six winners Saturday.
The two-hour broadcast of the Belmont Stakes on NBC Saturday drew a 4.3 rating, the network said Sunday, down 6.5 percent from the rating of the same broadcast in 2013, when no Triple Crown was on the line as well.
The purses for the Breeders’ Cup Classic and the Breeders’ Cup Turf have each been raised by $1 million, Breeders’ Cup Ltd. announced Saturday through its broadcast partner, NBC.
All-sources betting on this year’s Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in New York was down 37 percent compared with wagering on the race last year, when interest in the race was buoyed significantly by the popular and ultimately successful bid for a Triple Crown by American Pharoah, according to charts of the races.
