Ontrack wagering dipped slightly at the 2015 Oak Tree at Pleasanton meeting. Wagering on live racing was down 3 percent for the 12-day meeting at $4,847,743, compared with $4,987,884 for the 12-day meet in 2014.
Handle on all horse races in California rose by 3 percent in the first half of 2015, to $1,553,197,536, according to figures released by the California Horse Racing Board on Friday.
This year’s Claiming Crown event will be contested on Dec. 5 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Fla., and include nine races instead of eight, the organizers of the event have announced. The new race will be a five-furlong turf race for fillies and mares offering a purse of $110,000.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association had net operating income of $93,228 in the fiscal year ending in January, the third straight year the organization has posted a profit, according to financial statements released on Wednesday.
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Bone and musculoskeletal problems in North American Thoroughbreds are exacerbated by the near-universal practice of keeping racehorses in stalls, according to Dr. Larry Bramlage, one of the most well-known orthopedic specialists in the equine world.
Indiana’s primary testing laboratory failed to detect seven regulated or prohibited drugs during an analysis of 26 days of test results from this spring, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Indiana Horse Racing Commission.
Control of up to $15 million in bets made offtrack and online is now under the control of three horsemen’s groups following a Virginia Racing Commission meeting held Wednesday.
A bill to remove exercise riders from the state-sponsored New York Jockey Injury Compensation Fund failed to gain traction in either house of the New York legislature before the close of the 2015 session last week.
Brad Beilly, attorney for trainer Kirk Ziadie, said he filed a petition for emergency relief with the 4th District Court of Florida on Wednesday after the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering declined to act on his client’s license renewal before his existing license expired at midnight on Tuesday.
