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.
Officials with the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit urged local horsemen and regulatory personnel to establish lines of communication to the agency in order to improve their investigations of illegal doping during a panel on Wednesday morning at the Global Symposium on Racing in Tucson.
Hall of Fame trainers Bob Baffert and Todd Pletcher both appeared together on a panel at the Global Symposium on Racing five years ago, when the symposium organizers first launched a series featuring racing personalities in a quasi-intimate question-and-answer session. They were back in the same setting Tuesday morning, and, as the moderator, 1/ST Racing’s Amy Zimmerman, noted right off, wow, what a five years it has been.
The overall fatality rate for horses racing at U.S. tracks is expected to drop for the first time to a rate below 1 horse per 1,000 starts at the end of 2024, according to figures provided by Lisa Lazarus, chief executive of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, during an opening address at the Global Symposium on Racing in Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday morning.
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Churchill Downs Inc. and the New York Racing Association, the two largest contributors to the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, are currently in arrears to HISA for a total of $5.8 million, according to documents posted on HISA’s website on Friday.
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Wagering on U.S. races in November was up slightly compared to the same month last year, but a relatively larger jump in the number of races held during the month drove the average betting per race down, according to figures distributed Friday by Equibase.
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Churchill Downs Inc. and the New York Racing Association have filed a joint lawsuit against the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority alleging that the organization has not adhered to its own rule determining funding assessments.
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Total handle on races held at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Southern California during the 16-day meet that concluded Sunday, including the two-day Breeders’ Cup event, was $283.9 million, according to an analysis by Daily Racing Form, compared to $301.7 million in handle at a 15-day meet in 2021, when the track last hosted the Breeders’ Cup.
