All horses running in the Preakness Stakes on May 17 will be required to be on the grounds of Pimlico Race Course by noon of the Thursday prior to the race and will be subjected to additional security protocols, the track announced Tuesday.
Post-race tests on samples pulled from horses running in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday and the Kentucky Oaks on Friday at Churchill Downs were all negative for prohibited substances, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission said Tuesday.
Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona has signed a bill that would allow telephone betting on horse and dog racing in Arizona, opening the state up to account wagering seven years after Arizona’s legislature cracked down on the practice.
Wagering on U.S. horse races was down 6.1 percent in April compared with the same month last year, a decline that was coupled with a significant contraction in the number of race days during the month, according to figures released Monday by Equibase.
Betting on the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday was down slightly from last year, while overall betting on the 13-race card rose slightly, according to a side-by-side comparison of charts of the races.
Pennsylvania’s auditor general is in the midst of an audit of the state’s Race Horse Development Fund, which has distributed approximately $1.5 billion in slot machine subsidies to the state’s trainers, horse owners, and breeders over the past decade.
Though five owners and trainers in both the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby have signed a pledge to make their veterinary records available, that does not guarantee that the records will be released.
The Indiana Horse Racing Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved a set of medication rules that are designed to limit the number of regulated therapeutic medications allowed in racehorses, becoming the sixth state in the U.S. to fully adopt the rules.
Three U.S. testing laboratories have been accredited by the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium, a designation that aligns the laboratories with new rules in some states requiring accredited labs to perform drug tests on samples pulled from horses.
Gulfstream Park and Calder Race Course have reached an agreement that would end head-to-head racing between the two tracks, but the proposal has yet to be approved by local horsemen, officials of the groups confirmed Wednesday.
