The in-game interview is a fairly recent development in sports TV. In theory, it transports fans inside an event when a broadcaster interviews a coach or manager while the game unfolds. In reality, the responses from the participants are frequently bland, pushing fans away from the heart of the matter.
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The Maryland Jockey Club and the state’s horsemen are engaged again in a dispute over the appropriate number of racing dates at the MJC’s two racetracks, Pimlico Race Course and Laurel Park, with the two sides far apart on a schedule for 2012.
The dispute has reemerged 10 months after the two sides reached a state-brokered agreement to run 146 dates in 2011. Now, the MJC is insisting again that its two tracks cannot support that number of dates, with horsemen resisting any effort to pare the schedule.
Seventeen racetracks have agreed to participate in a mystery mutuel voucher promotion offered by Breeders’ Cup that could award someone a $500,000 payout, according to the organization.
The racetracks are Aqueduct, Belmont, Canterbury Park, Charles Town Races, Emerald Downs, Gulfstream Park, Hollywood Park, Keeneland, Laurel, the Meadowlands, Monmouth, Penn National, Pimlico, Santa Anita, Saratoga Raceway harness track, Suffolk Downs, and Sunland Park, Breeders’ Cup said.
Matt Lutz, chief operating officer of Breeders’ Cup Ltd., has notified the organization that he will leave at the end of the year, Breeders’ Cup confirmed Wednesday.
Lutz’s departure, first reported on the racing website Paulick Report, was said to be voluntary. Following his resignation, Lutz will take a position with the Beck family of Gainesway Farm. Antony Beck, the owner of Gainesway, is a board member of Breeders’ Cup, and the family has extensive business holdings worldwide, including in South Africa, the family’s native country.
Awesome Gem will not make a fifth straight appearance in the Breeders' Cup.
Awesome Gem, an 8-year-old gelded son of Awesome Again, has been taken out of training because of a hind end issue that will force him to be given 60 days off, according to Terry Finley, president of West Point Thoroughbreds, the owners of Awesome Gem. That means Awesome Gem will be forced to miss next month's Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs. Awesome Gem was being considered for either the Classic or the Dirt Mile.
Larry Saumell, a former rider and representative for the Jockeys’ Guild, died in his sleep Monday night in Maryland at the age of 54.
Saumell served as a regional manager for the Jockeys Guild following his retirement from the saddle in 1999 and was working as an agent for jockey Gary Bacchas at Laurel at the time of his death.
The New York Racing Association had higher gross and net wagering revenue during the third quarter of this year than it did last year, when New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation was still operating, according to figures provided on Monday by NYRA officials to members of a state oversight board.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – A racing official will be assigned to monitor television broadcasts and all internal radio communications among racing and regulatory personnel at this year’s Breeders’ Cup on Nov. 4-5 at Churchill Downs as part of a plan to avoid incidents like the one last year involving Life At Ten, the last-place finisher in the Ladies Classic.
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Richard Dutrow Jr., facing a 10-year revocation of his trainer’s license, was given a reprieve Monday morning when a New York State Supreme Court judge issued a 30-day stay of the New York State Racing and Wagering Board’s penalty handed down last week.
At the conclusion of a 30-minute hearing, Judge Richard Giardino issued the 30-day stay, saying he didn’t feel “it would undermine the integrity of the system to allow the stay.” Had the judge denied the stay, Dutrow would have been banned from the grounds of New York tracks beginning Tuesday.