Barbara Banke, the California-based owner of Stonestreet Farm, and Dan Pride, the chief operating officer of Darley in central Kentucky, will fill two of the six open seats on the Breeders’ Cup board of directors.
Trainer Naipaul Chatterpaul was suspended for 60 days and fined $5,000 by the New York State Gaming Commission due to four medication violations.
The California Horse Racing Board will not seek out individuals who are pooling their funds to make bets on state races despite its recent ruling that such common practices are illegal, an official of the board said this week in response to questions about its recent determination that account-wagering companies were violating the law when they pooled bets from their customers.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Wednesday approved the disbursement of $1 million to the state’s racetracks from a legislative appropriation, with part of the money being used to cover a shortfall in the purse fund at Churchill Downs.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission is close to determining a threshold level for illegal administrations of cobalt, the naturally occurring mineral that is believed to be in use in racing as a blood-doping agent, the commission’s equine medical director said at a meeting of the commission on Wednesday.
The head of the National Football League’s media division will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing on Aug. 10 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the administrator of the conference, The Jockey Club, announced Tuesday.
Television Games Network and the New York Racing Association have reached a multiyear extension to an existing contract giving TVG the rights to broadcast and offer betting on NYRA’s races over a variety of platforms, the two sides said Tuesday, four days before the opening of the summer meet at NYRA’s Saratoga Race Course.
Breeders’ Cup announced on Monday a multi-year partnership with the aviation company Sentient Jet, making the company the exclusive private aviation partner of the two-day World Championships and the name-in-title sponsor of the Grade 1, $2 million Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.
Brad Cummings, the co-founder of the website the Paulick Report, is attempting to find support for a horse-racing wager that would be offered through lottery-ticket vendors like convenience stores and automated terminals, Cummings said this week.
Ongoing research into the maintenance of dirt tracks is increasingly pointing to the importance of water content in keeping the surface consistent throughout the oval and on an hour-to-hour, day-to-day basis, according to Dr. Mick Peterson, an expert on measuring track surfaces who is the executive director of the Racing Surfaces Testing Laboratory.
