All-sources handle in 2021 on races run at the New York Racing Association's three tracks – Aqueduct, Belmont Park, and Saratoga – was $2,373,772,916, a 12.6 percent increase over 2019 and the highest one-year handle figure since 2008, the company reported Thursday.
Lisa Lazarus, a former top official for the international governing body for equestrian sports, has been hired by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority as its first chief executive, the authority announced on Tuesday.
A hearing on Tuesday held by the New York Gaming Commission to discuss a rule that requires married jockeys in New York to be coupled for wagering purposes evolved into advocacy for eliminating all coupling requirements in the state.
The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation has issued a request for proposals to research the development of a vaccine against equine herpesvirus, the highly contagious disease that annually disrupts shipping and training schedules across the U.S.
NBC Sports, the network that currently holds the television rights to the Triple Crown races and the two-day Breeders’ Cup event, won its 24th and 25th Eclipse Awards as the winner in both television categories for 2021, it was announced Thursday.
New York residents will be able to place sports bets on their mobile devices beginning Saturday after the state gambling commission announced Thursday that four licensed platforms have “satisfied all statutory and regulatory requirements” to begin operations.
Kristian Rhein, an equine veterinarian based in New York who was indicted in March of 2020 with more than two dozen other people connected to horse racing, was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison and ordered to pay more than $700,000 in penalties and forfeit an additional $1 million in criminal proceeds, according to court documents.
Wagering on Thoroughbred races held at U.S. tracks topped $12 billion for the first time in more than a decade in 2021, according to year-end handle figures distributed by Equibase on Wednesday.
Fox Sports, the television network that has dramatically expanded live coverage of horse racing over the past five years through a partnership with the New York Racing Association, has secured the rights to broadcast NYRA's Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown, beginning next year, according to NYRA and the network.
The timely implementation of new national rules governing the racing industry’s medication and drug policies suffered a significant blow on Thursday when the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority announced that it had been unable to reach a contractual agreement with a private, non-profit company to enforce the policies.
