Wagering on Thoroughbred races at U.S. tracks plummeted in March by 12.4 percent, dropping from $931.2 million in the same month of last year to $816.2 million in March of this year, according to figures distributed on Monday by Equibase.
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Further Ado, the runaway winner of the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland who figures to be one of the favorites in the May 2 Kentucky Derby, closed at 17-1 in the final Kentucky Derby Future Wager pool.
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Trainer Jena Antonucci has been granted a stay of a 15-day suspension she recently received for a positive test for a controlled medication, according to racing officials.
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Mike Battaglia, the morning-line maker at Churchill Downs in Louisville since 1974, a span of 51 Kentucky Derbies, will retire prior to the opening of Churchill’s spring meet on April 26, according to an announcement released by Churchill on Friday.
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Trainer Jena Antonucci has appealed a 15-day suspension handed down to her on March 30 for a positive finding of the controlled substance lidocaine, arguing that her horse was accidentally contaminated with the drug by a worker in her stable.
A bill allowing Kentucky racetracks to offer fixed-odds betting on their races to Kentucky residents passed the state legislature late on Wednesday night. The bill also bans The Jockey Club from imposing a cap on the number of mares that can be covered by a stallion.
Equibase has begun adding the full gate-to-wire times of races to its official charts, the company announced on Thursday. The gate-to-wire times include the run-up, which is an often widely varying distance that horses must reach after breaking from the gate before the official time of the race starts.
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The New York Racing Association plans to add signals from top-tier tracks to its daily racing broadcasts on networks associated with FOX and is exploring the creation of a broadcast channel that would provide round-the clock coverage of racing, officials for NYRA said on Wednesday.
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A federal judge in Louisville has ruled that the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority violated its enabling legislation when it used a formula that included purses in determining a track’s dues to the organization.
Equibase has changed its formula for assigning ratings to horses in a way that will significantly boost the rating for a horse that breaks its maiden within its first two starts, the company said on Wednesday.
