Merv Peters, a member of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, died on Tuesday after a long illness at 91. Peters was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame as a builder in 1993.
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The California Horse Racing Board approved contracts between the California Thoroughbred Trainers and Del Mar and Golden Gate Fields for autumn race meets on Thursday, ending more than two years of negotiations between the horsemen and the tracks over when trainers can be prevented from racing horses or evicted from track property.
A real-estate company headed by the chairman of the New York Racing Association will partner with Caesars Entertainment to pursue a casino license in Midtown Manhattan, the two companies announced Thursday.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority informed state racing commissions this week that it will be seeking a total of $72.5 million for its operations in 2023, the first full year in which all the authority’s operations, including drug testing and investigations, are expected to be in place.
Eden Davis Stephens, the deputy director of the Kentucky Office of Administrative Hearings, has been assigned to be the new hearing officer in an appeal by the trainer Bob Baffert of a 90-day suspension he served earlier this year related to the disqualification of Medina Spirit from last year’s Kentucky Derby, according to a spokesperson for the KHRC.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority has named 19 individuals to its Horsemen’s Advisory Group, a committee that was formed earlier this year in the midst of immense pushback from the training and veterinary community.
Godolphin, the international racing and breeding operation of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, honored seven employees of U.S. trainers, racetracks, and farms on Friday as winners of its Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards.
The U.S. government plans to issue an additional 64,000 H-2B visas this fiscal year to qualifying employers, the Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday, vastly expanding a program that is heavily relied on by trainers.
The New York Racing Association on Wednesday announced the appointment of Andrew Offerman as vice president and general manager of operations of its three facilities -- Aqueduct, Belmont Park, and Saratoga.
