The New York Racing Association has acquired a 49 percent share in United Tote from Churchill Downs Inc., marking the first time NYRA owns a piece of a tote company and a move it hopes will expedite its presence onto sports-wagering platforms.
The California Horse Racing Board will begin to require full-time horse racing journalists to be licensed in order to access the backstretches of racetracks as of the end of August, according to a notice the CHRB distributed on Monday.
The Fifth Circuit of Appeals has issued a stay of an injunction that had prevented the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority from enforcing most of its rules in Louisiana and West Virginia, pending HISA’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling.
Flightline, the undefeated 4-year-old who is pointing to the Sept. 3 Pacific Classic at Del Mar, closed at 2-1 odds as the favorite in the first Breeders’ Cup Classic parimutuel future wager, but not without some confusion.
Total wagering on U.S. Thoroughbred races in July was up 3.9 percent compared to the same month last year, according to figures released on Friday by Equibase.
A federal court of appeals has granted a stay of a lower court’s ruling preventing the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority from enforcing its rules in Louisiana and West Virginia.
Jessica Hammond of the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association has been honored with the Dr. J. David "Doc" Richardson Community Award sponsored by Churchill Downs, it was announced this week along with the finalists for the other 2022 Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards in America.
Lisa Lazarus, the chief executive of the embattled Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, will be the keynote speaker at the Aug. 14 Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the organizer of the conference, The Jockey Club, announced on Wednesday.
The Jockeys’ Guild, a national organization that represents the vast majority of riders in the U.S., has asked a federal judge in Louisiana to hold the top official of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority in contempt for applying HISA’s rules to Guild members in the wake of a controversy over the geographic extent of a preliminary injunction issued last week.
The Massachusetts legislature has approved a bill that will make 15 sports-betting licenses available in the state, including to the former owners of Suffolk Downs, which closed in 2019.
