Total handle, attendance up at Belmont fall meet
All-sources handle was up while ontrack handle was down at the 2015 Belmont Park fall meet, according to statistics released Friday by the New York Racing Association.
David GreningNov 06, 2015
All-sources handle was up while ontrack handle was down at the 2015 Belmont Park fall meet, according to statistics released Friday by the New York Racing Association.
This has been a year of change in Maryland racing, and on Nov. 20 the Maryland Jockey Club will hold a town hall meeting at Laurel Park to discuss its future plans.
Betting on Thoroughbred races at U.S. tracks was $970.3 million this October, according to figures released by Equibase on Wednesday, but a comparison to the same figure last October is invalid because of the scheduling of the Breeders’ Cup.
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.