Wagering on U.S. races during the month of August increased 11.6 percent compared to wagering during August of last year, according to figures released Wednesday by Equibase, but the jump was tempered by a nearly equivalent rise in race days.
Frank Stronach, the billionaire Thoroughbred owner and breeder who owns some of the most prominent racetracks in the United States, has announced that he will form a political party in his native Austria seeking the country’s withdrawal from the euro zone.
The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will award grants totaling $290,000 to Thoroughbred aftercare programs through the ASPCA’s Million Dollar Rescuing Racers Initiative.
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has overridden a recent decision by a state legislative committee to strike down several new medication rules and a ban on adjunct bleeding medications and a reduction in the permissible level of the painkiller phenylbutazone will go into effect on Sept. 4
A decision by a Kentucky legislative committee to strike down new medication rules in the state has been targeted for additional criticism by both the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association.
The New York State Racing and Wagering Board on Thursday approved the certificate of incorporation of a group that has said it would seek to obtain the state’s last remaining harness track license.
Regulations set to take effect in Kentucky on Sept. 6 that would have banned all raceday medications other than furosemide and lowered the threshold level for the allowable amount of the painkiller phenylbutazone in postrace tests were struck down on Tuesday by a state legislative committee.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would have allowed the state’s racetracks to operate slot machines as part of a major casino expansion, but lawmakers have vowed to attempt to override the veto later this year or craft new legislation addressing the governor’s concerns.
Ontario’s minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs, Ted McMeekin, announced Friday that an interim report from the horse racing transition panel agrees with the government’s decision to end the racetrack slots programs.
Nevada’s casinos and the provider of bet-processing services for the casino’s racebooks have reached an agreement on a short-term extension of a contract, averting a potential shutdown of parimutuel betting on one of the bigger racing weekends of the year.
