A portion of a broadcast late on Saturday afternoon featuring American Pharoah’s victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic drew a 2.6 overnight rating and six share, the highest rating and share for the race since 2010, according to NBC Sports, which broadcast the Friday and Saturday Breeders’ Cup races on its family of networks.
The signal from Churchill Downs will be broadcast this fall on Television Games Network for the first time in nearly a decade, according to officials for the track.
Del Mar track officials are hopeful entries for the second week of the five-week meeting, beginning Thursday, will have stronger support,
Churchill Downs Inc. had net income of $4.2 million in the third quarter, up $700,000, or 19 percent, over the same quarter last year, even as revenue for the company in the quarter jumped 61 percent to a record $279.8 million, according to financial documents released Wednesday.
Breeders' Cup Staff Picks for Saturday's races.
Pennsylvania racing interests and state lawmakers are engaged in discussions over how to fund regulation of the horse racing industry in the wake of threats from the governor that he would issue an order to shut down the state racing commission as early as next week.
The New York Racing Association plans to reduce its live winter racing schedule at Aqueduct by about 12 days in 2016, going to a four-day race week from January through March, according to Chris Kay, NYRA’s chief executive officer and president.
Entries for the Innovator’s Circle, a contest being held in conjunction with the University of Arizona Global Symposium on Racing and Gaming, are due by Nov. 2, the contest organizers announced this week.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has asked the public for information about an “an object” that was found in a blood-sampling barn at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, but commission officials would not comment on what they believe the object is.
