LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jockey Robby Albarado was arrested Friday morning and is off his mounts at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Oaks Day.

Albarado was arrested at 9:15 a.m. Eastern Friday at his Louisville home, said Carl Yates, spokesman for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department. He was arrested on a warrant for fourth degree-assault domestic violence, the spokesman said.

Later in the day, Albarado was suspended indefinitely by Churchill Downs stewards.

New York State's attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, filed suit Thursday against the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, the nation's largest non-profit retirement group for Thoroughbred racehorses, alleging that the group's board "put horses in danger and [TRF] finances in ruin."

The retirement foundation's chairman, John C. Moore, said Thursday afternoon that he had not seen the complaint but denied its allegations as reported by news outlets.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – At some point, the little boy grows up and establishes his own identity, his own family, his own mark on the world. Dale Romans doesn’t mind being known as the kid who grew up in the south end of Louisville tagging along with his daddy to the races at Churchill Downs, but he is far more interested in being recognized as a highly accomplished professional horse trainer who long ago left his childhood behind.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that one of his priorities for the remainder of the state legislative session would be the New York Racing Association, which earlier this week suspended its president and its general counsel after a state report challenged claims by the association late last year that it was unaware it was incorrectly applying higher takeout rates to some bets.

The New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association met on Wednesday morning at Belmont Park for 90 minutes to discuss the organization’s opposition to the proposed phase-out of the raceday use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide, the association’s president said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Patrick MacMurchy and jockey John Dewhurst will be this year’s inductees in the “Legends” category for the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

MacMurchy, born in Scotland in 1895, moved to the United States in 1905, and worked with some of the larger racing stables in New Jersey and Kentucky before achieving success on the Ontario circuit in the years following World War II.

Only six months ago, the future of the New York Racing Association seemed bright. Revenues from the operation of a casino at Aqueduct promised to put an end to the association’s stubborn financial problems and boost purses to levels that would solidify New York’s position as the best racing circuit in the U.S.

But despite that success, a handful of other developments have darkened NYRA’s prospects, including the suspension on Monday of Charles Hayward, the association’s president since 2004, and Patrick Kehoe, NYRA’s legal counsel since 2002.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The top older sprinter Sean Avery, who was injured following his upset victory in the Grade 1 Vanderbilt Handicap last summer at Saratoga, went back into training on Tuesday and could be ready to defend his Vanderbilt title this summer, trainer Allen Iwinski said Tuesday morning at Churchill Downs.

The New York Racing Association suspended its president and its general counsel without pay Monday after the release of a state report challenging claims by the association that it was unaware late last year that it had been incorrectly applying a higher takeout rate to its trifecta and superfecta bets. 

LEXINGTON, Ky. – A Thoroughbred former racehorse, Parklane Hawk, won the prestigious Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event Sunday at Lexington’s Kentucky Horse Park.

The event, which combines dressage, cross-country jumping, and showjumping, is the only annual three-day event in the Western Hemisphere to receive a four-star designation. It also featured selection trials to choose the United States three-day eventing team for this year’s Olympic Games in London. There were 21 off-track Thoroughbreds slated to take plart in the event.