Gulfstream Park and Calder Race Course in South Florida are in the midst of discussions over future racing dates at the two facilities, six months after the tracks began racing head-to-head for the first time, officials for both tracks said on Monday.
Average daily handle at Charles Town Races in West Virginia was down 1 percent in 2013 for 219 race cards, compared to 227 race cards held in 2012, according to figures released by the track.
A gamble by Penn National Gaming Inc. on Rosecroft Raceway, a struggling Maryland harness track, appears to have suffered a fatal blow with the state’s award of a casino license to MGM Resorts International a few miles from the track.
Hope remained alive for the continuation of live racing and breeding in New England after Mohegan Sun and the city of Revere, Mass., reached a host community agreement that would fill the city’s coffers with up to $30 million annually and include an upfront payment of $33 million from a proposed destination resort casino at Suffolk Downs.
Entries are being taken for the eighth annual Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, a competition recognizing excellence in writing in the Thoroughbred industry, and the deadline for submissions is Dec. 31, 2013.
Churchill Downs Inc., the racetrack and casino owner, has joined the board of the American Gaming Association, the lobbying group announced Tuesday.
A study examining juveniles that raced on the Nov. 1 and 2 Breeders’ Cup cards at Santa Anita has contradicted a previous study showing that the legal raceday medication furosemide is effective in mitigating the incidence and severity of bleeding.
Ray Paulick, the editor and founder of the online Paulick Report racing news site, was selected for the Stan Bergstein Writing Award and its $25,000 prize last week by the sponsor and creator of the award, Team Valor International, a racing partnership.
Chuck Winner, a longtime Thoroughbred horse owner and the founder of a marketing and crisis management firm in Beverly Hills, Calif., was elected chairman of the California Horse Racing Board on Thursday.
Racing lobbyists expect to closely monitor several bills dealing with gambling or racing legislation over the next ten months, even though action on many of the bills is unlikely, an expert on federal racing legislation said during the final panel of the University of Arizona Symposium on Racing and Gaming on Thursday.
