Judge rules against New Jersey sports betting plan
A federal judge has once again ruled that a plan by New Jersey to allow racetracks and casinos to offer betting on sports would violate a 1992 federal ban on the practice.
Matt HegartyNov 22, 2014
A federal judge has once again ruled that a plan by New Jersey to allow racetracks and casinos to offer betting on sports would violate a 1992 federal ban on the practice.
A clocker at Penn National Race Course who was indicted late last year by federal prosecutors for allegedly falsifying workout times was sentenced to one year’s probation and a $2,500 fine on Wednesday, according to court records.
The Louisiana Racing Commission has formally begun a process to adopt a set of new medication rules that are being supported by a number of national racing organizations as a way to align the country’s racing jurisdictions.
Dissatisfaction among veterinarians and trainers with Kentucky’s effort to comply with uniform rules on medication use boiled over at a meeting on Wednesday of an advisory group to the state’s racing commission, with some members of the group threatening to push for the state to craft its own rules on widely used therapeutic medications rather than adopt recommended revisions to the uniform rules.
A district court in Austin, Texas, has ruled that the Texas Racing Commission does not have the authority to allow slots-like betting terminals at the state’s tracks, according to published reports and to lobbyist Steve Bresnen, who works with charitable bingo interests opposed to the betting terminals.
A public memorial service for late champion Cigar will be held at the Kentucky Horse Park near Lexington on Friday, Nov. 14 at 2 p.m. Eastern.
The Arkansas Racing Commission has passed a new rule concerning administration of the diuretic Lasix, and it will go into effect for the upcoming season at Oaklawn Park.
Average viewership for NBC Sports Network’s broadcast of the Breeders’ Cup on Saturday afternoon and early evening was 376,000, according to the network, which said the figure represented a 20 percent gain over the average viewership for the same broadcast last year. The NBC broadcast of the Classic, which was helped by the presence of Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome, had a 1.8 rating, up 20 percent over last year’s prime-time broadcast.
Nelson Bunker Hunt’s influence on racing has been felt in a sweeping way over the past month. It was Hunt who purchased a yearling named Palace Music, the sire of recently deceased Cigar, the horse remembered for capturing a nation back in 1995-96. And it was Hunt who served as confidant to the late John Gaines when Gaines began to formulate a concept that would become the Breeders’ Cup.
Churchill Downs Inc. had net income of $3.5 million in the third quarter of 2014, a sharp decline from net income of $9.2 million in the third quarter of last year, as revenue from its racetracks and many of its casinos continued to weaken, according to financial documents released by the company on Wednesday.