Local residents protest proposed casino at Belmont Park
The communities surrounding Belmont Park are prepared to go to court to fight a proposed video lottery terminal casino at the track.
David GreningJan 13, 2016
The communities surrounding Belmont Park are prepared to go to court to fight a proposed video lottery terminal casino at the track.
The NFL is returning to the Los Angeles area and has chosen the site of shuttered Hollywood Park to construct a stadium that could be home to two teams for the 2019 season. On Tuesday, the league announced that the St. Louis Rams are returning to the Los Angeles area after a 20-year absence. League owners voted 30-2 to approve the move.
Frank Stronach, the owner of The Stronach Group racing company, has proposed the creation of a $12 million race that would be funded by a $1 million investment each from 12 individuals, according to the company.
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The administrators of the Eclipse Awards have decided to select a second photograph for this year’s Eclipse Award for Photography after acknowledging that the submission was not initially passed on to the category’s judging committee.
Trainers of claimed horses will have to provide the new connections of the horse with information about any joint injections administered to the horse within the previous 30 days under a house rule adopted by the Maryland Jockey Club, the owner of Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course.
Remington Park has released the stakes schedule for its Quarter Horse meet that opens March 11 and the 40-race calendar will be worth a track-record $5.7 million.
A small tornado ripped the roof off several stalls at trainer Peter Miller's barn at San Luis Rey Downs late Wednesday afternoon, the most significant damage from a series of storms that have pounded Southern California this week as the predicted El Nino weather pattern materializes.
Steven Wood has been named track superintendent at Del Mar, replacing Richard Tedesco, who will remain as a consultant, the track announced in a statement on Wednesday.
Officials at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., on Wednesday released the stakes schedule for the 2016 spring meet with minimal changes from last year, when the Blue Grass Stakes was moved a week farther out from the Kentucky Derby.
Jennie Rees, the longtime horse racing reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal, has been named the 2015 Eclipse Award winner for feature/commentary writing, and her colleague, columnist Tim Sullivan, has been named the Eclipse winner for news/enterprise writing, the award administrators announced on Tuesday.