More than 200 people living or working on-site at Golden Gate Fields have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a release sent out late Friday night by the track and the city of Berkeley (Calif.) Public Health department.
Racing has been suspended at Golden Gate for more than a week following a COVID-19 outbreak at the track, where the stable area is located in the city of Berkeley. The grandstand sits in the city of Albany.
Golden Gate Fields, which has been closed since Nov. 13 because of a spike in COVID-19 cases, announced Wednesday it would remain closed for racing at least through November to address an outbreak of COVID-19 in the backstretch area. Golden Gate had hoped to reopen on Thursday.
Testing was done of all employees and backstretch personnel with a number of positives, many asymptomatic, discovered among backstretch personnel. No one in the racing office tested positive.
FanDuel, the fantasy-sports and gambling company that shares a parent company with TVG, has reached a deal to provide money to renovate Fairmount Park in Collinsville, Ill., and open a sportsbook at the track, the two companies announced on Monday.
The agreement will allow FanDuel to capitalize on the location of Fairmount Park, which sits just over the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. Sports betting is legal in Illinois, while it remains prohibited in Missouri. St. Louis is Missouri’s largest metropolitan area.
Frank Generazio Jr., a former stakes-winning trainer who along with his wife, Patricia, became a prominent owner and breeder, died Saturday in Florida after battling a number of health issues, according to trainer Christophe Clement. He was 91.
According to Equibase statistics, Generazio won 370 races in a 16-year training career that spanned 1991-2006. He campaigned several stakes winners, including graded winners Unreal Turn, Concorde’s Gold and Play It Again Stan.
Great Canadian Gaming Corporation, which owns and operates Hastings Racecourse in Vancouver and 22 gambling facilities across Canada, including a casino at Woodbine outside Toronto, has agreed to be acquired by funds managed by the publicly traded investment company Apollo Global Management, the two companies announced on Wednesday.
Mahoning Valley Racecourse in Youngstown, Ohio, will go on hiatus until Nov. 23 after a track employee tested positive for COVID-19, the track announced Tuesday.
Mahoning said in an announcement that it was ceasing operations “out of an abundance of caution” after a “racetrack operations employee” tested positive. The track said that simulcast operations and the adjacent casino will remain open during the live-racing hiatus.
The Jockeys’ Guild has filed a civil appeal of a rule passed earlier this year by the New Jersey Racing Commission that would prohibit riders from using a whip “except for reasons of safety,” the guild said Tuesday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Handle on the 14 Breeders’ Cup races, held Friday and Saturday at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Ky., was down 7.4 percent compared to the event’s record handle last year at Santa Anita in Southern California, according to charts of the races.
Federal prosecutors have added charges to an indictment that accused a web of racing individuals, including the high-profile trainers Jason Servis and Jorge Navarro, of participating in an illegal scheme to manufacture, distribute, and administer illegal substances to Thoroughbred and Standardbred racehorses, according to a superseding indictment filed Thursday in New York federal court.
