Barbara D. Livingston’s best photos and year in review
Photographer Barbara D. Livingston shares her favorite photos from 2014 and offers a year in review.
Photographer Barbara D. Livingston shares her favorite photos from 2014 and offers a year in review.

Los Alamitos concluded its 12-day December Thoroughbred meeting on Sunday as well as its first year of conducting Thoroughbred racing following the closure of Hollywood Park in 2013. Los Alamitos averaged $5,640,866 a day in all-sources handle during the December meet, slightly lower than during its 11-day September meeting but higher than during its summer meeting.
There has been a resolution to the workmens’ compensation insurance issue that threatened to shut down racing in New York on Jan. 1.
A dispute over workmens' compensation pricing could threaten to shut down New York racing beginning Jan. 1.

Old Friends Equine Retirement will be honored with a Special Eclipse Award for contributions to the sport, the organizers of the Eclipse Awards announced Friday.
The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium has declined a proposal to merge with the Association of Racing Commissioners International, citing “the importance of maintaining an independent and apolitical” organization to conduct medication research.

Tom Durkin, the longtime announcer for the New York Racing Association who retired earlier this year, has been selected to receive the Eclipse Award of Merit, the organizers of the Eclipse Awards announced Thursday.
New York regulators on Wednesday tabbed three casino proposals in upstate locations for licensing while rejecting all applications for a casino in the location approved by legislators that was closest to New York City.
Terry Finley, the New York-based owner who narrowly lost a recent election for president of the state’s horsemen’s group, will have until Jan. 5 to prepare a challenge to the election result under a four-step process adopted by the group’s board Monday, the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association said.
The Association of Racing Commissioners International, an umbrella group for state racing commissions, has voted to ask an embattled independent medication research and advisory group to merge with it, the organization announced Tuesday.