Handle during the 76-day mixed meet at Sunland Park in New Mexico dropped 8.5 percent this year despite the track drawing almost nine horses per race, one of the strongest figures in the country.
The chairman of The Jockey Club released a statement Monday calling for trainers of horses entered in the Triple Crown events to make the horses’ veterinary records publicly available beginning 14 days before each of the three races.
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Attendance was up slightly, but handle was down sharply on Saturday’s Wood Memorial card at Aqueduct, possibly owing to the lack of turf racing.
Betting on U.S. Thoroughbred races declined nearly 2 percent in March compared to the same month last year even though race days did not decline, according to figures released by Equibase on Saturday.
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A federal bill that reinstates several recently expired tax advantages to owners of racehorses and breeding stock has been passed out of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and is headed to the Senate floor, lobbyists for the racing industry announced on Thursday.
Data have shown synthetic surfaces succeeding in the very area they were supposed to most urgently address – reducing racing fatalities. But there have been problems with just about everything else. Synthetics may be no safer for daily training than a well-kept dirt surface, and they have cost racetracks millions of dollars to install and maintain during an economic downturn.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved applications by both Keeneland and the Red Mile to operate hundreds of slot machine-like devices at separate facilities at their Lexington locations.
Major account-wagering providers had nothing definitive to say on Tuesday about how they would pay for a new 0.5 percent tax levied by the Kentucky legislature on wagers made by Kentucky residents through their operations.
