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.
Elisabeth Jensen wants to represent the state of Kentucky in Congress. In that respect, she is not like most people. Running for public office is not in the DNA of the average citizen.
A federal judge has once again stepped between New Jersey and its plan to let state racetracks and casinos offer sports betting.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission does not plan any immediate action to sever its ties with its drug-testing laboratory in the wake of a meeting with the lab’s top management Wednesday, the commission’s executive director said Thursday.
