Centaur Holdings, an Indiana-based casino company that owns Hoosier Park, has closed a deal to buy Indiana Downs, a development that will allow the company to use Indiana Downs exclusively for Thoroughbred racing.
It’s hard to find anyone who thinks it’s a good idea for Gulfstream Park and Calder to run competing race dates this summer. Yet that’s what may happen.
The Maryland Racing Commission on Tuesday voted to endorse a proposed set of medication rules that are being pushed by a handful of national and regional racing organizations seeking to align the rulebooks in all 38 U.S. racing jurisdictions.
Keeneland Racecourse is seeking to buy a troubled harness track in eastern Kentucky in order to raze the facility and relocate the license to Corbin, Ky., where it will open a casino with hundreds of Instant Racing machines, officials said on Friday.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Wednesday approved the funding of a study designed to determine the regulatory parameters for a corticosteroid that officials say is increasingly being administered to Thoroughbred horses.
Planning for Ontario’s Horse Improvement Program, which will provide funding of up to $30 million for the province’s Thoroughbred and Standardbred sectors, is moving forward for 2013, the Ontario Racing Commission announced Friday.
A hearing officer in Kentucky has upheld a decision by the licensing committee of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to deny a racing license to the embattled trainer Richard Dutrow Jr.
Handle on U.S. races in the month of January was down 2.0 percent compared with the same month in 2012, according to figures released by Equibase on Monday, in large part because of a 7-percent contraction in race days during the month.
The Jockeys’ Guild has embarked on a campaign to put pressure on the racing industry by releasing a list of the “top ten” racetracks that it says do not currently contribute to its funding.
The Jockeys’ Guild has endorsed a proposed set of medication rules devised and supported by the Jockey Club, in a statement that specifically referenced the rules’ allowance for the continuing raceday use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide.
