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.
Trainer Ramon Preciado has been suspended 90 days and fined $2,500 for a clenbuterol positive at Parx Racing on Oct. 24, 2015.
Horses competing in the Blue Grass Stakes on April 9 at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., will again be subject to additional security precautions before and after the race, the track announced Thursday.
Los Alamitos track owner Ed Allred said Tuesday that plans are under way to develop property adjacent to the racetrack for retail and senior housing, but that a long-term commitment to live racing remains in place at the Orange County, Calif., racetrack.
Edward A. “Buddy” Bishop, the registrar for The Jockey Club from 1984 to 2003, died Wednesday morning of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Lexington, Ky., according to The Jockey Club. Bishop was 80.
Judy Wagner, winner of the 2001 National Handicapping Championship and a member of the Louisiana Racing Commission, has been appointed as chair of the Association of Racing Commissioners International for a two-year term.
The criteria to void a claim at California racetracks will be expanded on July 1 to include horses that bleed through the nostrils, California Horse Racing Board executive director Rick Baedeker said on Thursday at the monthly meeting of the racing board in Sacramento.
The last sliver of hope that live Thoroughbred racing might return one day to Rockingham Park, where Seabiscuit, Dr. Fager, Mom’s Command and other Hall of Famers once competed, is extinguished now that the property is officially for sale.
