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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.
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Called the Big 3 Pick 3, the bet, with a base wager of $3 and a 19 percent takeout, will be offered on the Grade 2 Wood Memorial from Aqueduct, the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes from Keeneland, and the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby from Santa Anita.
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The $1 million purse of the 2018 Santa Anita Derby, won by Horse of the Year Justify, was formally redistributed by a board of California stewards on Saturday after the California Horse Racing Board reached a settlement approved by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge earlier this month.
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Robertino Diodoro, a trainer who is currently second in the Oaklawn Park standings, has been provisionally suspended by the Horseracing Integrity and Wagering Unit for possession of levothyroxine, a banned substance that can stimulate thyroid function, according to a ruling posted on the HIWU website on Friday afternoon.
