Hialeah files suit over casino effort
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.
Matt HegartyFeb 28, 2011
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.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed legislation on Tuesday that could direct $30 million from Atlantic City casinos to horseracing purses, but it remains unclear if the money will ultimately find its way to the state’s racetracks. The bill would send $15 million to the New Jersey Racing Commission this year to be distributed to racetracks for purse subsidies, along with $10 million in 2012 and $5 million in 2013.
Groups representing the majority shareholders in MI Developments have agreed to vote in favor of a proposal that would transfer all of the company’s gambling assets to the controlling shareholder, Frank Stronach.
Penn National Gaming Inc., the casino company that has been on a buying spree as of late, won an auction on Friday to purchase Rosecroft Raceway, a harness track in Maryland, with a bid of $10.25 million.