The Jockey Club announced plans on Wednesday to launch a system this August that will send alerts to racing offices when a horse that is deemed to be at high risk of an injury is entered in a race.
Foal and stallion nominators to the Breeders’ Cup have elected 16 individuals to serve as the organization’s members, including eight individuals who won re-election.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has revised a proposal to phase-out the raceday use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide so that the phase-out would begin one year later than the previous version of the rule.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Wednesday is expected to approve a regulation that would phase out the raceday use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide before stakes races beginning in 2013.
The Ontario Government announced Thursday that it will provide up to $50 million for three years of transitional funding to help the province’s racetracks cope with the loss of slot machine revenue.
Twinspires.com, the largest account-wagering company in the U.S., has adjusted the account balances of its customers who were affected by the incorrect takeout rate that the New York Racing Association applied to many of its superexotic wagers.
Opponents of a proposal to phase out the raceday use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide outnumbered supporters by a count of 17-1 during a town-hall style meeting held Tuesday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Handle on U.S. races during the month of May slipped slightly from betting during the same month last year, according to figures distributed by Equibase on Monday.
Exchange betting will not be implemented in California in 2012, and TVG and HRTV have been given the go-ahead to negotiate an agreement to televise each other’s California races in decisions reached by the board of directors of the TOC at its monthly board meeting on Friday.
A New York Supreme Court judge on Friday denied a motion to prevent the New York State Racing and Wagering Board from enforcing an indefinite suspension it issued last week to harness trainer Lou Pena, according to one of Pena’s attorneys.
