A study commissioned by Ontario’s ruling Liberal Party to address means of reducing the province’s budget deficit on Wednesday recommended ending horse racing’s share of the racetrack slots program.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission will help fund a study that could help catch horsemen who reportedly are injecting morphine directly into joints
The New York Racing Association will seek to install parimutuel machines in as many as 40 restaurants in the five boroughs of New York City over the next three years.
Hagyard Equine Medical Institute has closed its hyperbaric chamber in order “to complete an extensive review of our safety protocols and procedures with the assistance of the manufacturer,” the Lexington, Ky., veterinary hospital said.
Churchill Downs has purchased a multimedia poker company, along with the company’s registered domain sites, in a transaction that signals the company will move more aggressively in lobbying to support a federal proposal to legalize online poker.
A federal judge in Lexington has declined to alter a November ruling in favor of Lane’s End Stallions in a lawsuit that Jerry Jamgotchian’s KNC Investments filed over a share in the stallion Lemon Drop Kid.
With legislation that would advance the legalization of casino gambling imminent, Churchill Downs Inc. has purchased an additional 5 percent stake in Kentucky Downs.
A group of industry organizations has launched a non-profit company that will serve as an accrediting body for so-called “aftercare organizations” that provide homes for horses that have been retired from racing, the organizations announced Thursday.
A budget prepared by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has proposed that the state use $72 million in casino subsidies to the racing industry in each of the next three years to pay for agriculture projects.
Organizations representing New York’s Thoroughbred horsemen and breeders have joined with harness and agriculture associations to lobby for their interests in an increasingly pro-gambling environment in the state.
