The Virginia Equine Alliance, a partnership between the state’s horsemen and breeders, has scheduled six Thoroughbred turf races to be held at Great Meadow in The Plains, Virginia, for Sept. 20, the group has announced.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Tuesday approved a raft of amendments to its medication rules and penalties schedule in an attempt to address a recent court case and move the state further toward adoption of a uniform rules policy for horse racing.
Everett Dobson, a prominent owner and breeder, has been appointed to the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, according to the organization, replacing David Willmot, who was required to step down from the committee after nine years under term-limit bylaws.
Kelly Cathey was named interim executive director of the Oklahoma Racing Commission at a special meeting in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, according to the commission’s personnel director, Bonnie Morris. Constantin Rieger, who for the past 10 years has served as the organization’s executive director, submitted his letter of resignation last Friday, and it was accepted at the meeting Wednesday.
Despite a fabulous start to the 2015 Saratoga meet, New York Racing Association officials don’t expect the good times to roll all summer long.
Conflict over a federal bill that would install the United States Anti-Doping Agency as the overseer of U.S. racing’s drug policies spilled out into the open on Tuesday at the Saratoga Institute on Equine, Racing, and Gaming Law Conference in Saratoga Springs.
Leroy Gessmann, the president of the Iowa Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, was elected president of the National HBPA at the organization’s summer convention last weekend in Denver, according to the organization.
Stuart Janney III, The Jockey Club’s vice chairman since 2010, was elected the chairman of the organization at a board meeting Saturday, filling the spot vacated by Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps, who announced his resignation earlier this year, effective with the Saturday meeting.
Last year on Aug. 18 in an exhibit room at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Travis Tygart, the chief executive officer of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, appeared before a roomful of people gathered by the Water Hay Oats Alliance to give a presentation about a possible role in Thoroughbred racing for his company, known as USADA. Near the end of the presentation, and just after listening to complaints from audience members about the need for racing to adopt a new structure to combat what some at the meeting alleged to be widespread doping, Tygart told them, “You’re on the side of the angels here.”
New York’s five offtrack betting corporations have terminated a simulcasting contract with Churchill Downs Inc. and dropped the signals from the tracks controlled by the company, officials for the corporations said on Thursday.
