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NYRA to increase purses at Belmont Park
The New York Racing Association will offer significant purse increases when Belmont Park opens for racing this September.
David GreningMay 21, 2026
The New York Racing Association will offer significant purse increases when Belmont Park opens for racing this September.
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Churchill Downs has doubled the purse of the June 27 Stephen Foster Handicap, making the Grade 1 mid-summer race for older horses worth $2 million, among the richest purses in the U.S.
An arbitrator has reduced a two-year suspension handed down to a Washington-based trainer to four months on the grounds that the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority failed to issue an adequate alert to horsemen about the possibility that a supplement contained a prohibited substance.
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The takeout for Monmouth's rolling pick 3s and daily doubles will be cut to 15 percent, the track said on Friday, effective with the Saturday card. The track had cut the takeout on both the late pick 3 and final daily double on every card at the beginning of the meet on May 9.
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The state of Maryland is considering whether to exercise an option that would allow it to match an $85 million deal made by Churchill Downs Inc. to buy a package of intellectual property rights related to the Preakness Stakes, according to officials with knowledge of the process.
Rick Baedeker, a former president of Hollywood Park and executive director of the California Horse Racing Board, announced his retirement from the sport at the racing board’s monthly meeting in Sacramento, Calif., on Wednesday.
Horses racing at tracks under the jurisdiction of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority had a fatality rate of 0.95 per 1,000 starts in the first quarter of 2026, HISA said in a quarterly report issued on Tuesday.
Ercel Ellis Jr., a jack-of-all-trades in the racing industry who hosted a racing radio broadcast for five decades, died on May 7 in Lexington at a veterans’ affair facility, according to his family. Ellis was 94.
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Regulatory veterinarians should take extra care in declaring horses fit to race and train when those horses have been placed on the vet’s list for unsoundness at any time in their careers, according to a health advisory issued by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority on Friday.
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three-week Los Angeles county fair meet at Los Alamitos this summer will offer the same three stakes presented in recent years.