ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Touch Gold, winner of a particularly memorable running of the Belmont Stakes in 1997, will have a contingent of Team Stronach supporters on hand Thursday when he is inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
The Mississsauga Convention Centre again will be the site of the annual induction ceremonies and fund-raising dinner for the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, a dual-breed facility that is located here at Woodbine.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Jockey Club’s commitment to underwrite a television series in 2012 and pay for the launch of a social-networking game and mock-wagering Internet site was welcomed by racetrack executives on Monday, one day after the organization announced the projects at the Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Officials for the New York Racing Association outlined their long-term plans to return the association to profitability during a sometimes contentious meeting on Monday with an oversight board that has lately expressed concerns about NYRA’s financial condition.
Meeting in Albany, the New York Franchise Oversight Board, headed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s chief of staff, Robert Megna, asked NYRA officials to present the association’s long-term plans after requesting detailed financial statements from the association earlier this year.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Jockey Club will underwrite the production of a national television series on racing in 2012 as part of a multi-million-dollar effort to implement the recommendations of a report it commissioned to study strategies to reverse racing's declining popularity, officials said Sunday. The effort was announced at the annual Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing.
Eighty years ago this week, a future Hall of Fame rider was born at home near rural Fabens, Texas. He was a month premature and weighed less than three pounds.
The doctor placed the infant on the bed and told his mother he wouldn’t make it through the night.
As the jockey explained in his second autobiography in 1988, his grandmother didn’t want to accept that, so she wrapped the baby in a blanket, turned on the stove, and placed him on a pillow on the open oven door – an improvised incubator.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - It was Ladies’ Day at Saratoga on Friday morning, with Open Mind, Safely Kept, and Sky Beauty all inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
But the lady most on the mind of trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, another inductee, was not his Kentucky Oaks winners Blind Luck, Lite Light, and Pike Place Dancer, nor Tuscan Evening, but his wife and assistant trainer, Janet, who has been instrumental in Hollendorfer’s success, but was unable to attend the ceremonies owing to the lingering effects of a brain tumor.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – New York’s politicians have indicated they will push for expanded casino gambling in the state in the next legislative session, an effort that could present competition to the state’s racetrack casinos.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the latest politician to join the call, saying at a news conference Tuesday that his administration would consider a measure to expand the state’s network of casinos, which are currently limited to Native American reservations and racetracks. Aqueduct racetrack is scheduled to open a casino by the end of October.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Jockey Club will release a commissioned report on Sunday at its Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing that is expected to recommend strategies the sport should pursue in order to put a halt to the precipitous declines plaguing the industry over the past three years.
The co-host of the New York Racing Association’s simulcast wagering show, he also co-hosts the prerace "Talkin’ Horses" handicapping segment as well as the "National Racing Report" and "Trips and Traps."
Birthdate: June 11, 1962, in Princeton, N.J.
Family: Single
Got into racing because . . . My dad loved the track, and once he took me to Saratoga Race Track I knew I was home, and I never left.
How tall are you? Not as short as some people think, but not as tall as a regular adult.
