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Del Mar to host back-to-back Breeders’ Cups in 2024, 2025
Del Mar, which is already set to host the 2024 Breeders’ Cup, also will host the 2025 Breeders’ Cup, it was announced via press release Wednesday afternoon.
David GreningNov 08, 2023
Del Mar, which is already set to host the 2024 Breeders’ Cup, also will host the 2025 Breeders’ Cup, it was announced via press release Wednesday afternoon.
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The Arizona Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association is scheduled to vote on Friday on whether to extend an agreement with Turf Paradise allowing the track to import full-card simulcast signals, according to Arizona HBPA officials and the track.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority will seek to collect $77.5 million in fees from state racing commissions and racetracks in 2024 for its operating budget, according to documents HISA posted on its website Monday night.
Betting on Thoroughbred races held at U.S. racetracks plummeted 9.3 percent in October compared to the same month last year, according to figures released Monday by Equibase.
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Total wagering on the five Breeders’ Cup races held on Friday at Santa Anita Park in Southern California was down 8.9 percent compared to the record amount of wagering on the five races at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., last year, according to charts of the races.
Chris Merz, the senior director of racing operations at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minn., has resigned from his position and has moved to Maryland to “pursue other opportunities” in racing, Merz said on Tuesday.
A jockey who is thrown from a horse or falls while riding will need to be examined by a medical specialist for possible concussion symptoms prior to being allowed to return to riding under a protocol released on Thursday by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority.
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Beginning in 2026, New York Racing Association will increase purses for maiden New York-bred 2-year-old races to be equal to that of open company maiden races, NYRA announced Wednesday.
The Horseracing Integrity and Wagering Unit has created a sub-category of its banned-substances list that includes drugs of human abuse such as cocaine and methamphetamine, a designation created to provide a layer of protection to trainers whose horses test positive for the substances from contamination.
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Lieutenant Dan, a six-time stakes winner who was second in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar in 2021, was recently retired and sent to the central California ranch of owner-breeder Nick Alexander.