The New York Racing Association is challenging the methodology used by the New York Times in a March 25 article that reported a high incident rate of injury at Saratoga Race Course.
Clenbuterol, a bronchodilator that also is sometimes used to build muscle, may be prohibited for raceday use in Thoroughbreds in California as early as this summer, according to discussions at the California Horse Racing Board track safety and medication committee meeting on Wednesday.
A Kentucky judge has granted former Kentucky chief state steward John Veitch a stay of a Kentucky Horse Racing Commission ruling that prevented him from seeking a racing license for one year.
After winning narrow approval in the legislature last week, a bill which would authorize Instant Racing machines at racetracks in Nebraska, has been vetoed by Gov. Dave Heineman.
Jambalaya never won a Sovereign Award, but he has been accorded an honor which has eluded many, many Sovereign winners as he is among the 2012 inductees to the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
A dispute over the sale of a 4-year-old filly named Ohbabyobeyme highlights the perils of the unregulated world of private horse sales.
The vote for Canada’s 2011 Horse of the Year couldn’t have been any closer. But, when the top three choices of 37 Sovereign Award voters had been tallied, the older turf mare Never Retreat was the winner by a 98-96 margin over Inglorious.
Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs has launched an interactive website for its in-house Thoroughbred retirement program, partly in hopes that it will become a central source of information about all Thoroughbred industry adoption and retirement programs.
The Breeders’ Cup has approved a rule change that will ban trainers from participating in its year-end event if they have served a penalty for a horse testing positive for a Class 2, Category A drug in the past 12 months, effective with this year’s event.
Handle and purses at U.S. racetracks soared in March compared to the same month last year, continuing a string of unlikely monthly improvements for a sport that has suffered serious declines over the past three years.
