The Minnesota Racing Commission on Tuesday voted 5-1 to approve the operation of historical horse racing machines at Canterbury Park and a Minnesota harness track, in a decision that is wrapped up in a longstanding dispute between the tracks and the state’s Indian tribes and a current legislative effort to authorize sports gambling.

There will be a pick three wager offered on the major Kentucky Derby prep races being run on Saturday.

Called the Big 3 Pick 3, the bet, with a base wager of $3 and a 19 percent takeout, will be offered on the Grade 2 Wood Memorial from Aqueduct, the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes from Keeneland, and the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby from Santa Anita.

The fields for the Wood and Santa Anita Derby were to be drawn Wednesday. The field for the Blue Grass was to be drawn Tuesday.

The $1 million purse of the 2018 Santa Anita Derby, won by Horse of the Year Justify, was formally redistributed by a board of California stewards on Saturday after the California Horse Racing Board reached a settlement approved by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge earlier this month.

Justify won the 2018 Santa Anita Derby and later swept the Triple Crown.

Robertino Diodoro, a trainer who is currently second in the Oaklawn Park standings, has been provisionally suspended by the Horseracing Integrity and Wagering Unit for possession of levothyroxine, a banned substance that can stimulate thyroid function, according to a ruling posted on the HIWU website on Friday afternoon.

Diodoro declined to comment on the suspension when reached on Saturday morning. 

The Kentucky House passed a bill late on Thursday that would abolish the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission and pass its duties on to a newly formed state corporation that would regulate all forms of gambling in the state other than the lottery.

The bill passed in the Senate on Tuesday and has been sent to Gov. Andy Beshear, who has not yet given an indication of whether he will sign the bill. The legislation was supported by Republicans, who have a veto-proof majority in both chambers of the legislature.

The Kentucky Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would create a government corporation that would assume the functions and responsibilities of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.

Wagering figures for the recently concluded Fair Grounds meet in New Orleans surged by more than 20 percent, according to an analysis of betting figures conducted by Daily Racing Form, on the strength of increased field size due in large part to the track ironing out problems afflicting its beleaguered turf course last year.

The three major sales companies in the U.S. have agreed on a set of new protocols that are designed to increase oversight of medication use and prohibit the administration of certain drugs, the companies announced Tuesday.

The New York State Gaming Commission on Monday voted to uphold a hearing officer’s recommendations to sustain a 14-day suspension handed down to the Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher due to a 2022 overage of the regulated painkiller medication phenylbutazone.

Emerald Downs in Auburn, Wash., will eliminate breakage at its upcoming 2024 meet and pay all winning wagers to the nearest cent, the track announced on Monday.

Emerald will become the first track outside of Kentucky to drop the practice of rounding payoffs to the nearest nickel or dime, a holdover from the days when payouts were distributed in the form of cash and tellers needed to quickly redeem winning wagers. Emerald said in a release that it has estimated that the decision will lead to an additional $400,000 distributed to winning bettors this year.