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.
The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance on Wednesday used the symposium as a stage to announce the recipients of $1 million in grants to 23 aftercare organizations that have been accredited by the organization.
Track superintendents in the United States are more willingly sharing the tricks of their trade and applying new scientific methods to maintenance procedures, a panel of superintendents said Wednesday in the final afternoon session of the University of Arizona Symposium on Racing and Gaming.
Out-of-competition testing will likely become more prevalent in U.S. horse racing jurisdictions as the next frontier in combating illegal drug use, but efforts to implement the programs continue to be haunted by issues involving privacy, jurisdiction, and the breadth of drugs that can be considered a positive, racing officials said on Wednesday during the second day of the University of Arizona Symposium on Racing and Gaming.
