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During a decade-plus career in racing operations at Canterbury Park, Andrew Offerman helped revitalize business at the seasonal Minnesota track. After working a year behind-the-scenes at the New York Racing Association, Offerman is now front and center as part of the team that is charged with advancing the future at NYRA.
Tina Marie Bond, a horse owner, the president of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, and the wife of trainer H. James Bond, was elected president of the National Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association at the organization’s annual meeting in Florida this week.
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Jockey Declan Carroll will retire from riding, but will remain in the Thoroughbred industry, he announced on social media Wednesday night.
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Supporters of a bill that would require Maryland to issue $400 million in bonds for the reconstruction of Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore assured members of the House of Delegates Ways and Means Committee that the bill would lead to positive outcomes for the neighborhood surrounding the track at a hearing on Tuesday.
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Junior Alvarado, who has won such major races as the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and Saudi Cup in recent months, has been honored with the 2024 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in a ballot of riders nationwide.
Equibase, the official data supplier of Thoroughbred racing in the U.S., will make a full year of its racing data available for research and evaluation purposes, the company announced on Monday.
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Two trainers who are members of a horsemen’s advisory group to the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority advocated for HISA to extend its jurisdiction to 2-year-old sales on Monday during a livestreamed “town hall” meeting with HISA’s chief executive officer.
The Florida legislature on Friday passed a tax bill that will remove a sunset provision on more than $30 million in subsidies and tax credits for the racing industry that were first authorized last year.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority has dropped the University of Kentucky Equine Analytical Testing Laboratory from its list of accredited labs after its director, Dr. Scott Stanley, was removed from his position in the midst of a “ongoing personnel investigation,” HISA confirmed on Tuesday.
Total betting on U.S. Thoroughbred races in February was down slightly compared to the same month last year, though the average bet on each race was statistically even with last year, according to figures distributed by Equibase on Tuesday.
