The Frank De Francis Memorial Dash, which was once of Maryland’s most prestigious stakes races, has been upgraded to a Grade 3 stakes, the owners of Laurel Park announced Thursday.
The Stronach Group, which owns a number of racetracks in the United States including Santa Anita Park and Gulfstream Park, filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that a fantasy horse racing site is in violation of federal law because its business is “indisputably a form of wagering on the results of horse races,” according to the suit.
On Wednesday night, the Christmas tree was lit in Rockefeller Center. Hours earlier and about 12 blocks away, New York Racing Association officials gave a presentation that showed the future of the organization was both merry and bright.
The Indiana Horse Racing Commission and a veterinarian charged last year with multiple violations of the state’s racing law have reached a settlement agreement that will ban the veterinarian for nine years from the racing industry.
W. Ted Hill, the Jockey Club steward at New York Racing Association racetracks since 1996, will retire at the end of the year and be replaced by longtime New Jersey steward Jim Edwards, the Jockey Club announced Wednesday.
The second highest ranking government official in Texas has sent a letter to the Texas Racing Commission's chairman “urging” the panel to repeal historical racing rules at its next meeting, Dec. 15. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick late Tuesday released the letter he sent to the commission's Robert Schmidt.
The New York Racing Association has scheduled a total of 237 days of racing at its three tracks in 2016, 14 fewer days (5.5 percent) than what was scheduled in 2015.
Robert Beck, the highly involved chairman of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission since 2008, announced his resignation on Tuesday at the close of the commission’s regular monthly meeting.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Tuesday was stopped from considering a request by Keeneland to go forward with a new Quarter Horse track in Corbin after a struggling harness track in the state filed suit to delay discussions of the proposal.
Plans for offtrack stabling in Southern California for 2016 were left in chaos on Monday evening after an apparent agreement reached last weekend among area racetracks and horsemen’s organizations collapsed, according to Chuck Winner, the chairman of the California Horse Racing Board.
