New Jersey voters will be asked in a referendum this November to decide whether the state should allow two new casinos to open outside of Atlantic City, opening up the possibility that the Meadowlands harness track will get a long-sought casino license.
Thomas Vanderhyde, a prominent owner in the Midwest in the mid-2000s, died last Thursday at age 67.
Jac’s Fact, a five-time stakes winner during his 4-year-old campaign in 2015, dethroned two-time Ohio-bred Horse of the Year Needmoreflattery during Saturday night’s annual awards banquet of the Ohio Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners at Darby Dan Farm in Galloway, Ohio.
Songbird was the 3-5 favorite for the Kentucky Oaks and Mohaymen the 3-1 favorite for the Kentucky Derby with one more day of wagering still to go in the future wagers being offered this weekend by Churchill Downs.
Santa Anita has been reaccredited by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s Safety and Integrity Alliance for outstanding standards related to a variety of policies ranging from safety and security for horses to wagering security.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled on Thursday that Los Alamitos Race Course was in violation of state law when it denied owner Gustavo de la Torre the right to run Runaway Fire in the $175,100 El Primero Del Ano Derby for Quarter Horses last April.
Presque Isle Downs in northwest Pennsylvania will present the same 12 stakes during its 2016 season as it did last year. But six of the events formerly worth $75,000 got purse boosts, making every stakes the track offers worth at least $100,000.
DerbyWars, the Louisville, Ky.-based company that offers daily fantasy contests on horse races, has reached an agreement with Hawthorne Race Course near Chicago that will pay the track a fee for contests that include Hawthorne's races, according to officials.
Total all-sources handle on races run at New York Racing Association tracks in 2015 was $2,243,039,376, a 3 percent increase from 2014 when $2,177,979,073 was bet, NYRA announced Thursday.
The board of the New York Racing Association on Thursday approved a resolution to support federal legislation that would appoint a private, nonprofit company as the overseer of the sport’s medication policies, becoming the second major Thoroughbred racetrack operator to endorse the controversial bill.
