The World Thoroughbred Rankings, published throughout the year and culminating in a year-end summation, attempt to quantify the performance level of horses throughout the world. The rankings, which began in 2004, are a product of an international panel of experts put together by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities, an organization with roots dating back to 1961.

It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly when the 6-year-old Australian mare Black Caviar crossed from the realm of the great into the land of the legendary. But it might have happened April 9, 2011.

A six-month suspension levied by stewards at Delta Downs to a Quarter Horse trainer for a positive finding of the pain-killing drug dermorphin has been referred to the Louisiana Racing Commission for additional penalties, the executive director of the commission said on Wednesday.

A bill giving New York politicians control over the New York Racing Association’s board of directors passed unanimously out of the state Assembly on Wednesday and was sent to the Senate, where it is expected to pass without any significant opposition before the legislature’s scheduled adjournment Thursday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – A Franklin Circuit Court judge Wednesday ruled that the state’s former chief state steward should be allowed to apply for a license if he presents evidence to the state racing commission that a racetrack intends to hire him, according to an attorney representing the former steward, John Veitch.

The Maryland Racing Commission on Tuesday voted unanimously to change the official time of the 1973 Preakness Stakes won by Secretariat from 1:54 2/5 to 1:53, a time that will give the two-time Horse of the Year the record in all three of the Triple Crown races.

The commission approved the change after two hours of testimony at a meeting at Laurel Park, the sister track of Pimlico Race Course, where the Preakness is held. Penny Chenery, the late horse’s owner, requested the hearing on the basis of analyses conducted by companies she had hired to review the videotapes of the race.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jockey John Velazquez was released Tuesday from Audubon Hospital and was headed home to New York after spending three nights in Louisville with a broken right collarbone he suffered in a frightening spill during the ninth race Saturday night at Churchill Downs.

John Veitch, the former chief steward for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission who was dismissed from his position last year, has filed a motion with Franklin Circuit Court in Kentucky seeking a new steward’s license from the commission.

A casino at Aqueduct in New York City generated more monthly slot-machine revenue than any other casino in the United States for the first time in May, according to data distributed by the casino’s operator Monday.

Slot-machine revenue at the casino, Opened last October and called Resorts World, was $57.5 million in May, according to the data, exceeding the one-month revenue at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut by $2.1 million. It was the first month since the Aqueduct casino opened in late October in which the casino posted the highest one-month slot-machine total in the United States.

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association sold approximately $600,000 worth of bonds in 2011 to cover a portion of its $11.3 million in expenses, according to financial statements released on Monday covering the 2011 fiscal year.