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.
His name is synonymous with the muscular little stallion who molded the modern racehorse into his own image and rewrote the record books for 20th century Thoroughbred auctions. … He completely reorganized Canadian racing and built Woodbine into a model racetrack admired the world over. … And through the years, his breeding empire turned out more worldwide stakes winners than any other 20th century operation. Prior to his 1989 passing, Edward Plunket Taylor left his imprint on the sport of kings in no uncertain terms – permanently, indelibly, and globally.
In becoming the 98th jockey to be inducted to the Racing Hall of Fame, Alex Solis joins a whole bunch of riders who wonder what took him so long to get there.
In recent years, Gary Jones largely had abandoned the dream of being inducted into racing’s Hall of Fame. Each spring seemed to bring the disappointment that he had not been selected or did not appear on the ballot. Then his phone rang in April with the good news.
Either one of Curlin’s two seasons on the racetrack – as the champion 3-year-old and Horse of the Year in 2007 or as the champion older male and Horse of the Year in 2008 – would have made him a candidate for enshrinement in racing’s Hall of Fame.
Edward Riley Bradley’s circuitous path in life took him from the steel mills of Pennsylvania to the cover of Time magazine. He would pan for gold, befriend Wyatt Earp, open high-end hotels in Chicago, establish glitzy betting operations in Louisiana, speculate in Florida land, operate major racetracks, and breed champion racehorses. Upon his death, Bradley was a renowned capitalist, a beloved philanthropist, a gutsy gambler, and a true giant of the American turf.
Throughout a 21-race career, Ashado excelled at the highest levels, winning 11 graded stakes and two divisional Eclipse Awards. Those feats have earned her a place in the 2014 inducted into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame.
Buoyed by a successful Belmont Stakes Day card, all-sources handle was up 4 percent, while ontrack handle was up 8 percent, at the Belmont Park spring/summer meet, according to figures released Monday by the New York Racing Association.
