With the Jockey Club announcement on Sunday that it intends to press for federal oversight of racing, the industry is likely to find itself going down two separate, highly complex paths over the next several years to reach the same end – uniform rules on medications, drugs, and penalties.
The Jockeys’ Guild and Churchill Downs Inc. have renewed for three years an agreement that requires Churchill to provide funds for the Guild’s programs, the organizations announced Monday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, aside from the length of the agreement.
Judy Wagner, the winner of the 2001 National Handicapping Championship, has been elected to the board of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association to represent horseplayers, the association announced on Friday.
Once again, the question of resolving what the industry plans to do about uniform drug policy and federal oversight is the focus of the Jockey Club Round Table in Saratoga Springs.
Legislation that does not have the full support of an entire industry, such as the controversial bill that would give the federal government oversight of racing, is extremely unlikely to pass before the current congressional session ends, federal lobbyists said Thursday night during a briefing near Saratoga Race Course.
Gretchen Jackson, a partner with her husband in Lael Stables, has been named the president of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., by the museum’s executive committee, the museum announced Thursday, one day before its 2014 induction ceremony.
Although a law allowing for account wagering went into effect two weeks ago in Arizona, the practice won’t likely be available to residents of the state until early 2015, according to officials at the Arizona Department of Racing.
Almost four years after New York City Off-Track Betting closed, the New York Racing Association is hoping to re-enter the market by placing self-betting machines at select bars and restaurants throughout Manhattan.
The U.S. Treasury Department has told Congress that it will review a proposed reinterpretation of a tax rule that would be favorable to horseplayers, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, which conducts federal lobbying efforts on behalf of the racing industry, said Wednesday.
Frank Stronach, the billionaire owner-breeder and racetrack owner, has sent a letter to racetracks calling for collective action to ban the race-day use of furosemide, the diuretic known as Lasix that is widely used in North America to treat bleeding in the lungs.
