CDI submits proposal for Indiana casino
Churchill Downs Inc. has submitted a proposal to Indiana regulators seeking an open casino license for a location near Terre Haute, Ind., the company said on Wednesday.
Matt HegartySep 22, 2021
Churchill Downs Inc. has submitted a proposal to Indiana regulators seeking an open casino license for a location near Terre Haute, Ind., the company said on Wednesday.
Six states, including Arkansas, Idaho, Nebraska, and Ohio, have filed a “friend of the court” brief contesting the constitutionality of legislation passed late last year that authorizes a federal regulatory body for racing. The amicus curiae brief was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, where a number of states, breed organizations, and racetrack owners filed the initial challenge to the lawsuit.
Bank of America, the second-largest bank in the United States, with 66 million customers, began approving debit-card transactions with account-wagering companies in August, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association said Wednesday.
The Eclipse Awards ceremony will have a new location next year.
Barbara Banke, owner of Stonestreet Farms, was elected as board chairman of the Breeders' Cup at a board of directors meeting Friday night.
Trials related to the indictment of 27 individuals last year on charges of drug adulteration and misbranding connected to Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing will not begin until next year following decisions made on a status conference conducted on Wednesday.
Scott Mangini, one of 27 individuals indicted last year on charges related to the illegal administration of substances to racehorses, was sentenced to 18 months of prison and three years of supervised release during a sentencing hearing on Friday.
The New York Racing Association said it has adopted protocols to conduct hearings against licensed racing individuals and has issued notices of hearings under the new rules to trainers Bob Baffert and Marcus Vitali.
Steve Asmussen, the trainer who recently set the all-time wins record in U.S. Thoroughbred racing, has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor requiring him to pay $563,800 in back wages and penalties for failing to pay overtime wages to grooms and hotwalkers during a four-year period from 2016 to 2020, according to court records.
Kentucky Downs and the New York Racing Association have been unable to reach an agreement on a simulcasting contract for Kentucky Downs’s races, an impasse that will shut out NYRA patrons from the track’s signal and also result in a partial blackout of NYRA’s Saratoga signal in Kentucky, officials for both sides said Thursday.