Gray Lyster, a lifelong participant in all aspects of Thoroughbred breeding and racing, has been elected to the Breeders’ Cup Board of Directors alongside three other directors who were re-elected to their seats.
Wagering handle and the number of races run in the U.S. were down marginally during both the second quarter of 2022 and in June, although purse payouts were up double digits when compared to the same time frames of 2021.
Sal Sinatra has resigned from his role as president and chief operating officer of Equibase, the official Thoroughbred database announced on Friday.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority takes its place Friday at the head of a limited new national regulatory scheme for horse racing in the United States, but it's still in danger of being cut off at the legs.
Four U.S. Senators have sent a letter to the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority and its federal overseer, the Federal Trade Commission, asking the agencies to provide answers to a series of questions regarding its pending launch, including whether HISA would want its statutory deadlines to be delayed to a later date.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association, which conducts federal lobbying efforts on behalf of Thoroughbred racing and breeding constituencies, has hired Jordan Bonfitto to the newly created position of Director of Government Affairs as it continues to shore up its presence in Washington, D.C.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority on Thursday issued several clarifications of its rules, including a one-day change in the requirement for registration to be eligible to start in races.
Data collected through positron emission topographical [PET] scanning of racehorse limbs has begun to bear fruit in identifying horses that may be at high risk of a catastrophic injury of the fetlock or sesamoid bones, according to the administrator of a program at the University of California-Davis that has been using a new version of the machine to conduct lower-limb scans.
Wearable devices gathering data on horses’ vital signs and the characteristics of their strides have begun demonstrating promising new avenues to determine horses at risk of injury, according to speakers at the Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit on Wednesday.
A spike in the rate of 2-year-old fatalities in 2020 that has since receded was most likely attributable to a change in training patterns caused by the disruptions affecting the industry during the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic, officials said on Wednesday at the Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit.
