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.
Donna Barton Brothers, the former jockey and current racing television analyst, has been hired by the racehorse partnership group Starlight Racing as its new chief operating officer.
Tuesday’s passage of the Liberal Government’s Ontario 2012 budget confirmed the end of the racetrack slots program operated by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation as of March 31, 2013.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky Court of Appeals expects to issue a ruling in four to six weeks over a challenge to the legality of Instant Racing machines, the slot machine-like devices installed at Kentucky Downs in Franklin, Ky., that use the results of previously run horse races to generate payouts.
