Earle Mack, the Thoroughbred owner-breeder, has donated $100,000 to the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation in memory of former Jockey Club chairman Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps, who died on Wednesday.
Organizations representing horse breeds across Massachusetts will join together to support the construction of an equine center in the state that would also include a racetrack to replace Suffolk Downs, officials of the group leading the effort announced on Tuesday.
California Authority of Racing Fairs executive director Chris Korby announced on Tuesday that he will retire on Nov. 1.
Wagering on U.S. races increased slightly in March of this year compared to March of 2015, even as the number of races held at U.S. tracks continued to plummet, according to figures released on Tuesday by Equibase.
Trainer Ramon Preciado has yet another clenbuterol positive at Parx Racing. The positive, from Flattering Tales – winner of a $10,000 maiden-claiming race Nov. 8 – is the sixth for Preciado during 2015 and comes less than a week after the stewards issued a ruling for Preciado’s fifth positive.
Sunday’s nine-race card at Aqueduct was canceled due to safety concerns regarding high winds.
Officials of Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment Inc., which owns the Parx casino and Parx Racing in Bensalem, Pa., have not publicly confirmed they want to lease out or turn over the horse racing end of their operation to an outside management group. But if they do, at least one party, and maybe two, appear interested in discussing such an arrangement.
A horse at Parx Racing who became ill this week has been determined to have the equineherpesvirus, resulting in two barns at the Pennsylvania track being quarantined. As a result, no horses stabled at Parx will be allowed to ship off the grounds until the quarantine is lifted.
Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct racetrack will be allowed to operate 1,000 additional slot machines under an unusual deal brokered as part of the state’s back-room budget negotiations.
Regulators in Florida have recently begun handing down dozens of sanctions to trainers at Tampa Bay Downs and Gulfstream Park for violations pertaining to the use of medications on a controlled substance list, according to horsemen in the state and an attorney who plans to represent the Tampa trainers.
