Even though the Massachusetts Gaming Commission isn’t scheduled to award the sole destination resort casino license designated for the Greater Boston area until sometime in May, Suffolk Downs intends to host a live meet beginning sometime in the spring of 2014.
The fifth Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit will be held July 8-9 at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., the organizers of the conference announced Wednesday.
Representatives of Standardbred horsemen on Tuesday made their objections known to a set of medication rules that are being considered by the New York Gaming Commission to regulate both harness horses and Thoroughbred horses, complicating the efforts by Thoroughbred organizations to obtain final approval of the regulations.
The Dubai World Cup and five Grade 1 turf races for older horses will be among the 20 live stakes races broadcast on Fox Sports 1 this year as part of a partnership with the Jockey Club, the organizations announced Monday.
Business figures were mixed in the first three weeks of the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting, a span of ideal weather but lower-than-expected field sizes.
The New York Racing Association posted a 2.3 percent increase in average daily total handle in 2013 when compared to 2012, the organization announced Friday.
The California Horse Racing Board voted Thursday to relax part of a rule voiding claims on horses placed on the veterinarian’s list for unsoundness.
Rick Baedeker, the former president of Hollywood Park, has been named executive director of the California Horse Racing Board, the regulatory board announced Thursday.
Monmouth Park in New Jersey has reached a tentative agreement with the British-based company Betfair to offer exchange wagering on its races at the beginning of the track’s meet in May, officials said this week.
Dr. Scott Palmer, a past president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners and the head of a task force that examined a spate of equine deaths at Aqueduct racetrack in 2012, was named Monday as the first equine medical director for the New York Gaming Commission.
