The New York Racing Association and state regulators agreed to make substantial changes in veterinary and medication practices after the release Friday of a task force’s report that said some of the deaths of 21 horses during the Aqueduct inner-track meet last winter could have been prevented.
The 2013 Illinois racing calendar will mirror this year’s, but the Illinois Racing Board shifted several hundred thousand dollars worth of simulcast host commissions from Arlington to Hawthorne during its annual racing dates award meeting on Tuesday in Chicago.
Churchill Downs Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Kentucky Downs seeking a court order that would require the track’s majority ownership to buy out Churchill’s 10-percent stake in the track.
Anne Walker, a graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College, has been appointed as a member of the Ontario Racing Commission for a two-year term, effective Oct. 12.
Churchill Downs Inc. filed a federal lawsuit on Friday seeking to block the Texas Racing Commission from enforcing a prohibition on telephone and Internet betting by state residents on horse races, according to court filings.
Bill Thomason, president and chief executive officer of Keeneland Association, was named to the board of directors of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association during a meeting of the organization’s board Friday, the NTRA said Monday.
The California Horse Racing Board has approved a set of rules allowing for exchange betting in California, even though the new wager is far from ready to be implemented.
Thoroughbred Times, the bimonthly magazine that had a more than 100-year history through its predecessor, the Thoroughbred Record, was shuttered on Saturday, and the company has entered Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Ellis Park and Kentucky Downs remain supportive of Instant Racing despite less than stellar numbers so far. To the tracks and the horsemen, any new revenue is better than no new revenue.
A committee of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Wednesday unanimously voted to recommend that the commission approve the sale of 30 percent of Ellis Park in Henderson to an ownership group associated with Saratoga Harness and Casino.
