Brent Reitz has announced his resignation as general manager of Thistledown in North Randall, Ohio, and plans to assume the duties as the vice president of operations at Northfield Park, a harness track located approximately six miles from Thistledown.
The owners of Old Forester and Bold Executive both have collected $50,000 for the 2010 accomplishments of their Ontario-based stallions.
The Jockey Club announced Thursday morning that Uncle Mo has been assigned 128 pounds atop the Experimental Free Handicap for colts and geldings of 2010, marking the highest impost in 13 years, while Awesome Feather has been named the 123-pound highweight in the filly division.
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge has approved a request by the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation to have its bankruptcy case dismissed, a decision that will effectively shutter the company for good.
Biofuel, undefeated in four starts at Woodbine Racetrack this year, heads the list of 2010 Sovereign Award finalists announced by the Jockey Club of Canada late Wednesday afternoon.
Fifth Third Bank has filed suit against prominent breeder Gulf Coast Farms, its principals Jerry Bailey and Lance Robinson, and others, alleging loan defaults totaling about $15 million.
The Jockey Club’s Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing has been scheduled for Aug. 14 this year at the Gideon Putnam Resort in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the Jockey Club announced Tuesday. The Round Table typically features a wrap-up of the Jockey Club’s activities over the past year and presentations on topics considered important to horse racing.
Subsidies provided by Indiana casinos to the state’s Thoroughbred horsemen through purses and breeders’ funds would drop 23 percent in 2012 under a proposed budget introduced by Gov. Mitch Daniels, according to a fiscal impact statement distributed by the state.
Churchill Downs Inc. has reached a five-year extension to an agreement that made Yum! Brands the “presenting sponsor” for the Kentucky Derby, the two companies announced late on Thursday.
With the highly anticipated announcement for Horse of the Year just days away, the co-owner of Zenyatta, and the trainer of Blame, both said they would be “disappointed” if their horse was not named Horse of the Year, but the difference in their level of discomfort was stark.
