The Stronach Group, the owner of a handful of racetracks nationwide, including the two Thoroughbred tracks in Maryland, has reached an agreement to purchase Rosecroft Raceway, Maryland’s only harness track, from Penn National Gaming Inc.
Land Over Sea, second to Cathryn Sophia in the Kentucky Oaks on May 6, heads a field of 14 entered Sunday for Friday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes for 3-year-old fillies going 1 1/8 miles at Pimlico.
Introduction to Exchange Wagering webinar with Mike Hogan and Peter Thomas Fornatale.
An error by Am Tote forced four horses who raced Friday at Belmont Park to run for purse money only, meaning they participated in their respective races, but wagering was not accepted on them.
The final rating for the Kentucky Derby broadcast on NBC on Saturday was a 9.0, according to the network, down 6.3 percent from the 9.6 final rating for the broadcast last year.
The first exchange-wagering site in the U.S. is expected to be launched on Tuesday as scheduled in New Jersey. The site, operated by Betfair, will allow New Jersey residents to accept and make bets with other customers of the exchange.
R.D. Hubbard is now the sole owner of Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico after buying out the interests of Ed Allred and Bruce Rimbo, the track announced Monday. Hubbard had owned 72 percent of Ruidoso Downs, which he first bought into in 1988.
Trainers Jeff Bonde and Javier Sierra were fined $500 recently by Santa Anita track stewards for medication violations.
The race portion of a three-plus-hour broadcast of the Kentucky Derby on NBC Saturday posted a 9.3 overnight rating, according to the television network, down 14 percent compared with the overnight rating for the same portion of the broadcast last year.
Average daily all-sources handle declined modestly compared with 2015 during the winter-spring meet at Hawthorne that ended April 29, but gross handle for the meeting was down sharply because of a reduction in race days.
