Greg Avioli resigns as Breeders' Cup CEO
Greg Avioli, the president and CEO of Breeders' Cup Limited, resigned on Friday to take a position with a new racing and gaming company, according to a release from Breeders' Cup.
DRF StaffMar 04, 2011
Greg Avioli, the president and CEO of Breeders' Cup Limited, resigned on Friday to take a position with a new racing and gaming company, according to a release from Breeders' Cup.
An operator error at a data center in Sacramento, Calif., caused betting to continue at some California simulcast locations for five minutes after the first race at Turf Paradise in Phoenix, Ariz., on Jan. 26, although no bets placed after the start of the race were honored, the California Horse Racing Board said in a statement released on Tuesday.
Gulfstream Park and Calder Race Course averted a potentially disastrous dates conflict at the 11th hour when they amended their dates applications with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation on Monday afternoon.
Hialeah Park has filed a lawsuit alleging that Calder Race Course and a nearby dog track have conspired against the track’s efforts to open a casino.
Calder Race course late Saturday morning lifted the restrictions it had imposed earlier this week on horses stabled in its barn area that ship to race at Gulfstream Park. The announcement came after five Calder-based trainers had scratched their horses out of races on Saturday’s program at Gulfstream.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey plans to ask private companies to submit bids to lease the state’s Monmouth Park for the 2011 racing season, the governor announced late on Friday.
Officials of Suffolk Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation in New York are expected to decide over the next several days whether the company will pursue the protection of bankruptcy, a spokeswoman for the company said Friday.
Minus the takeout, winning bettors in one bet-type pool always get all the money from the losing bettors in the same pool. Are bettors ready for that system to change? A Wall Street company hopes so.
Tapizar, one of the top 3-year-olds in California this year, has been diagnosed with a bone chip in a knee and is off the Kentucky Derby trail, trainer Steve Asmussen said on Tuesday.
The Kentucky Senate late on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that would allow Kentucky to join with other states in passing regulations affecting Thoroughbred racing, according to state legislative records.