Flintshire to be based with Chad Brown
The Juddmonte Farms-owned Grade 1 winner Flintshire, trained in Europe by Andre Fabre, will be based in North America this year with trainer Chad Brown.
David GreningMar 03, 2016
The Juddmonte Farms-owned Grade 1 winner Flintshire, trained in Europe by Andre Fabre, will be based in North America this year with trainer Chad Brown.
Santa Anita will cease turf racing in early June on the hillside turf course and in mid-June on the oval portion of the turf course to replace the surface, track officials announced late Wednesday.
Bernard “Bernie” Hettel, a longtime racing official who has headed the Virginia Racing Commission since 2011, has resigned from his position as executive secretary and will step down at a later date, the racing commission announced on Wednesday.
A federal judge in Kentucky has thrown out a patent-infringement lawsuit that the manufacturer of Instant Racing machines filed against its only competitor.
The political action committee administered by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association in 2015 raised $276,742 from racing-industry members and distributed $288,500 to legislators, their associated PACs, and unassociated political groups, according to a report prepared by the NTRA and distributed on Wednesday.
An unidentified horse has tested positive for the equine herpesvirus at Payson Park, forcing the Indiantown, Fla., training facility to be quarantined under Florida Department of Agriculture regulations for at least the next 21 days.
Jeffrey Cannizzo will replace Chester Broman in a non-voting seat reserved for the New York Thoroughbred Breeders on the board of the New York Racing Association.
Daily Racing Form’s Joe Nevills and Nicole Russo have been named Sovereign Award finalists for writing for their story on the popular Canadian-bred sire Smart Strike, entitled: “Smart Strike Remembered.”
A key Florida Senate committee removed two massive gambling deals from its docket on Tuesday, intensifying doubts that the full state legislature will allow bills radically changing the Florida gambling landscape to go forward this session.
A Florida House committee advanced a bill on Monday containing revisions to an earlier bill approving a proposed gambling compact with the Seminole tribe, leaving intact most provisions affecting the horse-racing industry.