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.
Business was up substantially at the 21-day Churchill Downs fall meet that ended Sunday, according to figures released by the track.
Del Mar's second fall season since the closure of Hollywood Park was, as track president Joe Harper said Sunday night after the meet ended, “a tale of two meets.”
Betfair, the British-based owner of Television Games Network, has been granted a conditional license by New Jersey regulators to launch the first exchange-wagering platform in the U.S.
The mutuel field, the No. 24 or “all others” option, closed Sunday as the favorite in Pool 1 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager and in the Sire futures offered for the first time this year by Churchill Downs.
The 2015 Gulfstream Park West meet concluded Saturday showing big gains in average and overall handle compared to the previous year.
Stewards at Mahoning Valley Race Course near Youngstown, Ohio, have suspended the track’s horse identifier for 60 days and issued penalties to three other people for their roles in a mix-up at the track in which a winning gelding ran in a race restricted to maiden fillies and mares.
Turfway Park in Florence, Ky., has applied to the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission for a permit to operate “historical racing machines,” the devices in place at three Kentucky racetracks that closely resemble slot machines.
