Backers of a casino project near Foxboro Stadium in the Boston area have abandoned their plans, handing the lead for the sole casino license for the area to a partnership that includes Suffolk Downs in East Boston.
Churchill Downs Inc. had net earnings of $1.35 million in the first three months of 2012 on record first-quarter revenue of $138.2 million, according to financial statements released on Monday.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission will not call for a vote on a proposal to phase-out the raceday use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide prior to stakes races run in the state at its upcoming May 16 meeting.
Bob Elliston, the president of Turfway Park since 1999 and the executive chairman of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s board of directors, has been hired as the new chief operating officer of Breeders’ Cup Ltd.
David C. Parrish Jr., a highly decorated Army Air Force veteran and former president of the prominent Indian Creek breeding operation in Paris, Ky., died May 2 in Paris of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 90.
Wagering and race days during the month of April at U.S. tracks declined significantly compared to the same month last year, ending a brief string of encouraging figures in a sport that has been wracked by declines over the past three years.
The New York State Racing and Wagering Board adopted an emergency rule on Monday that prohibits racetracks from offering a purse that is more than double the claiming price in the race, while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the consideration of a rule that would ban the use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide on raceday.
Members of the racing industry who support the passage of federal legislation to regulate the sport and ban the raceday use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide made their cases on Monday in front of a House subcommittee hearing held at a school in Pennsylvania.
John Sabini, the chairman of the New York State Racing and Wagering Board, was sworn in on Friday to as the new chairman of the Association of Racing Commissioners International, an umbrella group for U.S. state racing jurisdictions.
With Arlington’s race meet set to begin May 4, the racetrack and the local horsemen’s group, the Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, are embroiled in a contract dispute that is becoming increasingly bitter.
