LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission plans to press ahead with a discussion over the possible phase-out of the raceday use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide in stakes races with a town-hall style meeting in early June.

Citing a "continued failure to act in the best interest of racing" by the New York Racing Association, state racing regulators said Tuesday that they had instructed the state lottery to immediately suspend payments NYRA receives from a casino at Aqueduct racetrack and that they were exploring the revocation of NYRA's racing franchise.

ELKTON, Md. – Animal Kingdom, the 2011 Kentucky Derby winner, will begin jogging under tack next week in his Fair Hill training center barn as he attempts a second comeback to the races later this year.

On Monday, Animal Kingdom was vanned from Fair Hill to the New Bolton Center and underwent a bone scan that showed no signs of the injury that forced his connections to cancel a scheduled trip to the $10 million Dubai World Cup in March.

Peter Fuller, the only owner of a Kentucky Derby winner to be disqualified after finishing first, died on Monday at the age of 89, according to multiple reports.

Fuller, a New England car dealer whose father was a United States Senator and governor of Massachusetts, was the owner of Dancer’s Image, who won the 1968 Kentucky Derby but was disqualified from the race after postrace drug tests revealed the presence of phenylbutazone, the popular painkiller, which, at the time, was illegal to appear in postrace tests.

INGLEWOOD, Calif .- Creative Cause jogged and galloped more than two miles at Betfair Hollywood Park on Sunday morning, showing enthusiasm that trainer Mike Harrington said he lacked for a few days after a fifth-place finish in the Kentucky Derby on May 5.

“He was pretty much himself this morning,” Harrington said.

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Tiger Walk and Zetterholm, both of whom are scheduled to run in the 137th Preakness Stakes on Saturday, each worked Sunday morning at Pimlico in their final drills for the second leg of the Triple Crown.

Tiger Walk worked a half-mile in 47.60 seconds for trainer Ignacio  Correas, while Zetterholm was timed in 1:01.40 for five furlongs.

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Went the Day Well has been playing catch up since he arrived in this country and was remanded to quarantine for nearly two weeks. He has certainly made up for lost time – he nearly gave his connections a second straight victory in the Kentucky Derby on May 5 – and he still appears to have plenty of upside, which is one reason why he is being wheeled back in the 137th Preakness Stakes next Saturday at Pimlico.

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I would like to take some issue with the April 15 letter to the editor headlined "Shedding baggage can help business." I have a unique perspective when it comes to what was written, since I am the announcer at Turf Paradise and Lincoln Race Course.

Ohio’s horsemen could be eligible to receive as much as 11 percent of the revenue from racetrack casinos in the state under language added to a Senate bill passed Thursday.

The language creating the possibility of directing the revenue to horsemen was not included in an earlier version of the bill that passed the state’s House. The differences between the two bills will need to be ironed out in conference committee.

Ajax Downs, the Quarter Horse racetrack located some 35 miles east of Woodbine, will begin its 40-day meeting on Tuesday.

Formally known as Picov Downs, Ajax Downs began its current incarnation in 2009 and has boomed because of the presence of some 800 ontrack slot machines.

The future of that operation now is in jeopardy as the slots at Ajax, along with those at other Ontario racetracks under revenue-sharing agreements with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, are slated to be phased out by March 31, 2013.