The New York Racing Association and New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association are jointly sponsoring an awards program for Thoroughbreds competing in the Empire State’s 10-horse trials and three-day events this year.
Ken McPeek, one of two trainers who have are scheduled to give testimony to a federal congressional hearing on Monday, said on Wednesday that he plans to ask legislators to consider the needs of horsemen if the federal government passes a bill to regulate the sport.
If you’re looking for evidence that ex-racehorses, even ones that couldn’t win at lower claiming levels, can be stars in second careers, take a look at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event’s entry list.
Jamie Haydon, the Jockey Club’s manager of industry initiatives since 2008, has been hired by the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium as its interim executive directo.
A subcommittee of the House of Representative’s Committee on Energy and Commerce has scheduled a hearing for April 30 to examine health and welfare issues surrounding the racing industry, according to a notice from the committee.
Following reports that a deal was in the works to sell historic Calumet Farm privately to billionaire Thorougbred owner Brad Kelley, the chairman of Calumet's advisory board said that no deal has been consummated yet.
An attempt to override Gov. Dave Heineman’s veto of the legislative bill that would allow Nebraska's racetracks to install Instant Racing machines, failed in the session’s closing day on Wednesday.
A regulation that would phase out the raceday use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide in Kentucky over the next three years failed by the slimmest of margins on Monday when the 14-member Kentucky Horse Racing Commission split the vote, causing the measure’s defeat.
The Kentucky Racing Commission Monday failed to pass a recommendation from its raceday drug committee to ban the anti-bleeding medication furosemide when a vote of the full commission ended in a 7-7 tie.
A committee of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission will likely call for an up or down vote on the prohibition of the raceday administration of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide at a meeting on Monday.
