Equibase, the racing data company owned by a partnership of racetracks and The Jockey Club, has entered into a partnership to help develop wearable technologies for racehorses with Stable Analytics, a company that is currently testing out a biometric sensor, the two companies announced on Thursday.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority has appointed 16 veterinarians to its new Veterinary Advisory Committee, which will begin meeting early in 2025 to provide feedback to the authority’s executives and other standing committees.
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The American Turf Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile grass race restricted to 3-year-olds at Churchill Downs, will be run as a Grade 1 in 2025, while the Alfred G. Vanderbilt, a six-furlong dirt race at Saratoga, was downgraded from a Grade 1 to a Grade 2 for next year, according to a list distributed on Wednesday by the American Graded Stakes Committee.
A face-to-head collision with a loose horse prior to Sunday’s second race at Los Alamitos forced starter Gary Brinson to the sidelines – but only for several hours. Brinson missed the remainder of the Los Alamitos afternoon program, but was back at the track, and back on the job as a starter, after the second race of the evening meeting, which concluded with the $1.8 million Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity for Quarter Horses.
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The end of the Golden State Racing meeting at Pleasanton on Wednesday, and the absence of racing dates in Northern California for the foreseeable future, has led veteran trainer Steve Specht into retirement.
The racing-fatality rate at racetracks under the jurisdiction of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority during the third quarter of this year was 0.93 per 1,000 starts, according to figures published by HISA on Tuesday.
The New York State Gaming Commission has approved a plan to migrate Catskill OTB’s existing wagering accounts to Suffolk OTB, commission officials said at a meeting on Monday.
Thoroughbred racing officials in Texas are confident that they will be able to re-apply for $2.5 million in purse bonuses available to statebred horses in 2025 after a request for the money was rejected on Wednesday at a Texas Racing Commission meeting.
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Trainer Eddie Truman was warmly remembered in the racing community on Wednesday after his death early that morning. On Tuesday evening, Truman hosted a card party at his home in Sierra Madre, Calif., according to his friend and fellow trainer Jay Nehf, who confirmed Truman’s passing.
The organization founded by Thoroughbred owner Mike Repole to press for change in racing is holding discussions with racing constituencies to put in place mandatory funding mechanisms for aftercare efforts, the executive director of the organization, Pat Cummings, said during a panel at the Global Symposium on Racing on Wednesday.
