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.
With an influx of $5.3 million from the state's casinos and horsemen, Laurel Park and Pimlico Racecourse in Maryland cut their losses in 2011, according to financial statements filed with the Maryland Racing Commission on Monday. The combined 2011 loss - $5.3 million - is a significant improvement from 2010, when the two tracks lost a combined total of $20 million.
The New York State Racing and Wagering Board passed a rule on Monday that will void a claim for any horse that is euthanized on the track.
The Jockey Club on Friday morning released an updated version of rules it is seeking to have adopted by state racing commissions. The changes include stronger penalties for trainers whose horses repeatedly positive for medications violations.
A funeral reception will be held at Woodbine on Tuesday evening for Dr. Michael Colterjohn, who died at Orangeville’s Headwaters Health Care Centre at age 55 on Wednesday morning.
The New York State Racing and Wagering Board plans to make its injury data for the past three years at New York racetracks available to the public through the launch of a searchable database next week.
A New Jersey state assembly committee plans to hold hearings later this year on whether the legislature should approve casino gambling at the Meadowlands.
John Ward, the Kentucky Derby-winning trainer who was recently appointed executive director of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, has asked the state to push back his official start date from April 1 to April 16.
