Michael Shiffman, a former senior producer at ESPN, has been hired to be the senior vice president and executive producer for FanDuel TV, the channel formerly known as TVG that currently devotes the vast majority of its live sports coverage to horse racing.
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The purses of two claiming races at Los Alamitos in September and October have been ordered redistributed after jockey Barrington Harvey was twice cited for excessive use of the whip.
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All-sources handle at venues throughout California showed a decline of 6 percent through October compared to the corresponding period in 2023, according to figures presented at Thursday’s California Horse Racing Board meeting.
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In a continuing effort to consolidate daytime Thoroughbred racing in California to the state’s Southern circuit, a senior executive with the parent company of Santa Anita told the California Horse Racing Board on Thursday that the track is exploring ways to offer racing opportunities for Northern California-based horses in coming months while financially supporting training in that part of the state.
Equibase, the company that controls data collection at North American racetracks, began publishing an updated glossary of terms on its website on Thursday that standardizes the definitions used in chart footnotes and comments, the company announced.
Roberts Communications Network, the racing video and data distribution company, will offer a livestream of the panels at the University of Arizona Global Symposium on Racing this year, with proceeds from the feed going to the university’s Race Track Industry Program, the company announced on Thursday.
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Steven Wells, a 51-year-old bar owner from North Dakota and veteran tournament horseplayer, has been certified as the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge, the largest live-money handicapping tournament in the U.S., Breeders’ Cup announced on Wednesday.
Racing has been canceled at Pleasanton, Calif., on Friday because of a forecast of inclement weather, according to Tom Doutrich, the track’s racing secretary.
Allegations of an “ongoing criminal enterprise” made by a former regulatory veterinarian against Hawthorne Racecourse in a lawsuit filed earlier this year should be dismissed, the track and other plaintiffs have argued in a response to the lawsuit.
Paul Valery, a trainer from Venezuela who has 11 wins from 55 starts over the past two years, has been issued a series of suspensions that will ban the trainer for the next nine years after two of his horses tested positive for multiple drugs, including synthetic anabolic steroids.
