Marketing to attract and retain fans was brought up in all four topic-related panels on Tuesday, the opening day of the three-day University of Arizona Symposium on Racing and Gaming.
The New York Racing Association’s new marketing strategy of focusing on the “guest experience” at its three tracks is working and the association’s board remains on target to restructure and “reprivatize” the non-profit by late 2015, NYRA’s new chief executive, Chris Kay, said during a speech opening the University of Arizona Symposium on Racing and Gaming on Tuesday morning in Tucson, Az.
Wagering on U.S. races in November was up 4.4 percent compared to wagering during the same month last year, when many betting outlets in the Northeast were still feeling the impacts of Hurricane Sandy, according to figures released on Wednesday by Equibase.
Senate Bill 66, which would resolve the Illinois Racing Board funding issue that continues to imperil the 2014 Illinois racing season, was not called for a vote during a session of the Illinois legislature on Tuesday.
A committee of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame has selected Andy Beyer, Kent Hollingsworth, and George F. T. Ryall for induction into the hall’s Media Roll of Honor, the organization announced on Tuesday.
A committee of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame has selected Andy Beyer, Kent Hollingsworth, and George F. T. Ryall for induction into the hall’s Media Roll of Honor, the organization announced on Tuesday.
Regulations governing the use of anti-inflammatory corticosteroids and the bronchial dilator clenbuterol should be the same for both Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds, the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium said on Tuesday after releasing two papers examining the effects of the drugs in both breeds.
Florida’s racing regulatory agency has proposed a modification to its rules that would require tracks to run at least three days a week in order to qualify as host tracks and be able to sell simulcast signals in the state.
Betfair, the British exchange-wagering company that owns Television Games Network in the U.S., had net income of $44.1 million in the first six months of its fiscal year, a sharp turnaround from the first six months of the prior fiscal year, when the company lost $106.3 million after taking a $132.2 million impairment charge.
A Congressional subcommittee hearing called to discuss a bill that would grant a federally designated agency the power to enforce racing’s drug rules did not produce a clear indication of whether the bill would find support in a legislature that is split philosophically on the role the government should play in regulation.
