The California Horse Racing Board has banned horses from Turf Paradise racetrack from being shipped to California racetracks after the viral disease vesicular stomatitis was detected in a horse based at the Phoenix racetrack.
Jockey David Flores was reinstated to resume riding by Santa Anita stewards on Thursday, reversing a March decision by stewards in Singapore to suspend the veteran rider for a year for failing to obtain the best possible placing in a race in that country in February.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Wednesday approved a 24-hour threshold level for furosemide, a move that was made necessary by the commission’s decision earlier this year to allow tracks to write races that would include as a condition of entry a prohibition on the race-day administration of the drug.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved a plan by Keeneland to shift its year-round simulcasting operations to the Red Mile, a harness track near downtown Lexington.
Daily Racing Form announces the expansion of SirePowered Results™, which combines race results and sire lines to instantly follow Thoroughbred stallions and their racing offspring in real-time, in 25 countries around the world. SirePowered Results™ now includes racing results from the U.S., Canada, England, Ireland, France, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong.
NBC Sports reported that its coverage of the Kentucky Derby averaged 16 million viewers, up 4 percent from 15.3 million who viewed California Chrome last year. According to final data provided by The Nielsen Company, the telecast posted a 9.6 national rating with a share of 23, up from 9.4 and 22 last year.
Handle on U.S. races rebounded in April despite a slight drop from last year in the number of races held during the month, according to figures released by Equibase on Tuesday.
Dan Farley, an award-winning turf writer and former president of the National Turf Writers Association, died Friday at a Mechanicsville, Va., hospital. He was 72.
Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pa., has issued a second ejection notice to Juan Vazquez, claiming that the trainer violated a state racing rule by “attempting to gain favorable treatment through payment of a gratuity to a racing official,” according to a Penn National official and Vazquez’s attorney.
The Ohio State Racing Commission has approved funding to conduct studies on the effects of cobalt on a horse, a decision that likely will delay significantly any rule in the state regulating the administration of the substance.
