Attorneys for Bob Baffert and the New York Racing Association on Friday morning gave closing arguments in a five-day hearing that was called by NYRA to consider a ban of the Hall of Fame trainer.

Multiple stakes winner Averly Jane has been disqualified from her win in last year’s $150,000 Kentucky Juvenile Stakes at Churchill Downs and her trainer Wesley Ward will serve a 15-day suspension because the horse tested positive for metformin, a diabetes drug that lowers blood sugar in humans, according to a ruling by Kentucky stewards.

NEW YORK – A Standardbred trainer and a Thoroughbred trainer testified Thursday at the trial of Seth Fishman that they raced horses on illegal performance-enhancing drugs that came from the accused veterinarian and salesman.

Bob Baffert, the embattled Hall of Fame trainer, took the stand on Thursday in a hearing called by the New York Racing Association and categorically denied that any of the medication positives underlying NYRA’s effort to ban him were attempts to gain an edge in a race.

NEW YORK – Daily Racing Form, a leading provider of premium data and authoritative editorial coverage to horse racing and sports enthusiasts in North America, announced Jan. 25 the launch of its first online sportsbook in Iowa.

The sportsbook, which is powered by DRF Bets™, one of America's fastest-growing online and mobile wagering platforms, is the latest milestone in DRF's ambitious plans to scale its sports betting offering and meet growing customer demand.

NEW YORK – It was nearly two years ago when former Standardbred trainer Ross Cohen was among 27 trainers, veterinarians, and others charged with conspiring to distribute or administer illegal substances to horses that wouldn't show up in post-race testing.

In a New York courtroom Wednesday, Cohen was on the stand as a key government witness against Dr. Seth Fishman – the first of those arrested in the case in March 2020 to go to trial on charges of conspiring to violate adulteration and misbranding laws.

A number of witnesses called by the New York Racing Association in its hearing to consider a ban of Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert implied during testimony on Wednesday that the controversy surrounding the trainer threatened their business prospects, despite, as Baffert’s lawyers pointed out, recent wagering records at the association’s tracks.

Earle I. Mack, who has bred and raced Thoroughbreds for nearly 60 years and been one of the sport’s most prolific benefactors, has been selected to receive the Eclipse Award of Merit, considered the sport’s highest honor, the administrators of the award announced on Wednesday.

Mack, 83, will join a distinguished roster of racing titans who have been selected for the Award of Merit, which is not awarded every year. The Award of Merit has not been awarded since 2018, prior to the pandemic.

NEW YORK – The jury in the federal trial of Seth Fishman on Monday heard a portion of an FBI wiretap in which Fishman discusses whether the drugs he sold to horse trainers involved “doping.”

"Any time you give something to a horse, that's doping," said Fishman, who ran several businesses that marketed performance-enhancing substances to horsemen. The conversation was recorded by the FBI on April 5, 2019. "Whether or not they test for it is another story."

Several new witnesses testified on Tuesday in the hearing called by the New York Racing Association to consider a ban of the Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, as attorneys for both sides clashed over the significance of the trainer’s recent medication positives.

Tuesday was the second day of the hearing, and it opened with continuing testimony from the first day’s only witness, Rick Goodell, a former longtime official at New York racing’s regulatory agencies.