Officials involved in racing investigations for all three major horse racing breeds stressed on Thursday morning during panels at the Association of Racing Commissioners International conference that the most important benefit of successful prosecutions is driving “cultural change” in the sport.
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Radical change regarding how the racing industry deals with computerized automated wagering will be difficult to implement due to the industry’s financial difficulties and the theoretical nature of the benefits to other horseplayers, according to speakers on a panel dealing with CAWs at the Association of Racing Commissioners International conference in Indianapolis on Wednesday.
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Right to Party, runner-up in last Saturday's Grade 2 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, was one of five 3-year-olds who were made late nominees to the Triple Crown for a fee of $6,000, it was announced Tuesday.
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.
