The California Horse Racing Board voted unanimously on Monday to approve a multi-point plan implemented by Los Alamitos for enhanced safety and greater veterinary oversight following a series of equine fatalities in recent months.

In an 80-minute meeting held via teleconference, the racing board voted 6-0 to permit Los Alamitos to continue its year-round evening meeting for Quarter Horses and lower-level Thoroughbreds without disruption.

Curtis Sampson, a Minnesota telecommunications entrepreneur who with his son Randy purchased Canterbury Park and turned the track into a popular local destination, died Thursday, according to the track. He was 87.

Two-year-olds running in Maryland will not be allowed to be administered furosemide within 48 hours of a race through 2023 under an agreement reached between the owner of the state’s Thoroughbred tracks and its horsemen, according to officials for both sides.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Richard Dutrow, the trainer who began serving a 10-year ban handed down by New York regulators in 2013, withdrew his license application to the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Tuesday after a committee of the commission indicated it would not rule on the application.

The committee, meeting via teleconference due to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, voted unanimously to allow Dutrow to withdraw the application after hearing from Dutrow, his attorney, and several witnesses speaking in support of the trainer.

Laurel Park in Maryland will no longer allow outside jockeys to compete at its meet, starting with the resumption of racing on Friday, unless the rider self-quarantines for 14 days and tests negative for the novel coronavirus, the track announced Tuesday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Florent Geroux, who most recently rode at Keeneland in Lexington, Belmont Park in New York, and Indiana Grand in Shelbyville, Ind., has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the top rider said in a social-media post Tuesday morning.

Geroux becomes the sixth rider in the last week to learn that he has tested positive for the virus. Geroux rode at Keeneland and was isolated there with other riders who had recently ridden at Indiana Grand, one of whom also tested positive.

Richard Dutrow, the New York-based former trainer who was banned in 2011 for 10 years by New York regulators, has filed a license application with the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission and will have the application discussed Tuesday in front of the commission’s License Review Committee.

According to Marc Guilfoil, executive director of the KHRC, Dutrow’s attorney has “been petitioning for four or five months” to have a license application reviewed by the commission.

“The committee is set up to meet, so he’s on it along with five other individuals,” Guilfoil said.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Gambling devices at Kentucky casinos that provide rich subsidies for racing generated nearly as much handle in June of this year as the same month of last year despite being opened for fewer days and operating at reduced capacity, according to figures tracked by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Keeneland Association, the Central Kentucky not-for-profit company that conducts high-profile race meets and auctions, has barred owner, breeder, and consignor Tom VanMeter from its premises as it conducts a review of VanMeter’s conduct, the association announced Wednesday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Tom VanMeter, the Central Kentucky owner, breeder, and consignor whose racist comments on social media drew widespread attention Monday, has issued a statement saying that his words were “unjustifiable” and that he is “disgusted” by his actions.