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.
The California Horse Racing Board issued a statement Friday, warning horsemen that a readily available feed supplement – Finish Line Iron Power – has a concentration of cobalt close to the permitted level allowed in post-race tests.
The Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission on Thursday approved dates for 2016, according to Kelly Cathey, the agency’s interim executive director. The calendar is similar to the race dates in place for 2015.
The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium has sent a report to Truesdail Laboratories outlining concerns arising from a recent site inspection but has not yet made a decision on whether the lab’s accreditation is in jeopardy, according to the head of the RMTC.
Four therapeutic medications should be added to a list of medications that can be legally administered to racehorses, an influential horseracing group, the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium, has recommended.
The full Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has agreed to rehear a case involving sports betting in New Jersey, citing the possibility that previous rulings contained conflicting language that failed to resolve federal questions critical to the case.
The New York state comptroller issued a report on Wednesday that was critical of the New York Racing Association’s long-term planning for capital-improvement projects, citing specifically the estimated overruns attached to the building of a simulcast parlor at Aqueduct.
The backstretch at Parx Racing, under quarantine since last Friday, has been closed to ship-ins because there are no more stalls available, according to Sam Elliott, the track’s director of racing.
