The daily average handle on the live racing at Golden Gate Fields and from all-sources showed increases during the 32-day 2015 fall meeting at the Albany, Calif, track.
The racing highlight of 2015? That's easy. It was American Pharoah bounding through the stretch at Belmont Park on his way to becoming the 12th Triple Crown winner.
Tampa Bay Downs has signed on to provide a per-start matching donation to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance beginning with its current 2015-16 race meet. Horse owners will have the opportunity to contribute $5 per start to the TAA for each horse who starts in a race at Tampa Bay Downs. The track will match all contributions made by owners.
Longtime Pennsylvania horsemen Keith LeBarron died Monday at age 62 following a brief illness.
Workers' compensation insurance rates to cover jockeys and exercise riders could increase dramatically at New York Thoroughbred tracks in 2016 unless the New York Gaming Commission approves a plan submitted Monday that could keep levels at 2015 rates.
Los Alamitos finished its 12-day winter Thoroughbred meeting on Sunday with an increase in all-sources handle but a decline in ontrack business from last year's winter meet.
Jockey G.R. Carter Jr., the all-time leading Quarter Horse rider in wins and earnings, retired Saturday night at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, La.
The U.S. Senate on Friday passed a tax bill containing a provision allowing horse owners to use a three-year depreciation schedule for racehorses as part of a comprehensive tax bill that is now being sent to President Barack Obama for his signature.
Santa Anita has suspended turf workouts for the start of the winter-spring meeting on Dec. 26, racing officials said on Thursday.
After a two-month search, Paul Espinosa has been named the new announcer at Charles Town.
