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The owner of Kentucky Downs and a partner have reached an agreement to purchase Wyoming Downs and all of its off-track betting parlors, the parties announced on Monday. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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Prominent owner and breeder Marty Wygod, breeder of this year’s Kentucky Derby candidate Resilience, died in his sleep Thursday night at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, Calif., near his home in Rancho Santa Fe. He was 84.
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Society Man will have some new owners when he runs in the Kentucky Derby, trainer Danny Gargan said Thursday. Dean and Patti Reeves, who own Reeves Thoroughbred Racing, and Carl and Yurie Pascarella have bought part interest in the gelding who finished second at 106-1 in last Saturday’s Grade 2 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct.
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The Maryland legislature on Monday approved a bill that will result in state ownership of Pimlico Racecourse in Baltimore and the creation of a non-profit company to run Thoroughbred racing in the state.
Lorenzo Ruiz, a trainer based at Los Alamitos in Southern California, has been suspended a total of seven years and ordered to pay fines and costs of $95,000 for violations related to the finding of the banned vasodilator diisopropylamine in three of his horses last year, according to the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit.
Total wagering in March on U.S. Thoroughbred races reversed recent month-over-month declines, posting a 1.0 percent gain despite a slight decline in the number of races held, according to figures distributed by Equibase on Friday.
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The New York Racing Association has reached a sponsorship agreement with DraftKings that will make the sports-betting company an “official betting partner” of Saratoga Race Course and that track’s Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, as well as the presenting sponsor of the Grade 1 Travers Stakes on Aug. 24.
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The 3-year-old filly Intricate came out of her disappointing fourth-place finish in the Fair Grounds Oaks with mucus in her upper-respiratory system and is currently in a holding pattern.
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Trainer Steve Asmussen said following Track Phantom’s fading fourth-place finish in the Louisiana Derby that he planned to try blinkers on the colt in the Kentucky Derby, and Track Phantom has been getting accustomed to the new equipment in daily gallops.
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The Minnesota Racing Commission on Tuesday voted 5-1 to approve the operation of historical horse racing machines at Canterbury Park and a Minnesota harness track, in a decision that is wrapped up in a longstanding dispute between the tracks and the state’s Indian tribes and a current legislative effort to authorize sports gambling.
