The Association of Racing Commissioners International has approved language in its model rules defining “stacking” of painkillers and providing for new penalties for the practice, the RCI announced Wednesday.
All-sources handle is down 5.3 percent, while ontrack handle is flat, through the first 28 days of the 2014 Saratoga meet compared with last year.
Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colo., closed out its 38-date mixed meet Sunday with average daily handle on its live races running about even with last year and attendance up sharply. The track provided the numbers at the request of Daily Racing Form.
As The Jockey Club attempts to build support for the appointment of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to oversee the sport’s drug-testing programs, it will use the results of a recent study the organization commissioned to make the point that racing’s state-by-state approach to drug testing falls short in many ways.
Gulfstream Park, the South Florida racetrack owned by Frank Stronach, will begin to write races for 2-year-olds that will ban the raceday use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide beginning in the summer of 2015, officials for Stronach said on Wednesday.
The 338-acre parcel of land that is home to Fort Erie Race Track was recently sold to a partnership led by Buffalo, N.Y.-based developer Carl Paladino for an undisclosed price. The Fort Erie Live Racing Consortium, which operates live racing at Fort Erie, announced the sale Tuesday.
Participants on a panel entitled “NYRA Reorganization: Rounding the Far Turn,” held at the annual Saratoga Institute on Racing and Gaming Law Conference on Tuesday in Saratoga Springs, had few answers for what is in store for New York racing next year, when NYRA is set to “revert back to private majority control,” as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office said when the state took control of the association’s board back in 2012 by legislative fiat.
Just past the halfway point of the 2014 Saratoga meet, ontrack business is strong, while all-sources handle is down compared with the same period last year.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey has vetoed a bill that would have allowed sports betting at the state’s racetracks and casinos, citing a federal ruling that has already deemed the practice illegal in the state.
Eddie Donnally, the former jockey and journalist who is now an ordained minister and chaplain, will be the keynote speaker at the New York Chaplaincy Fundraiser on Wednesday in the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.,according to the organization.
