Parx Racing canceled its Tuesday card due to lingering effects from the weekend winter storm and freezing temperatures.

There was training at Parx on Tuesday morning prior to the renovation break. The track crew then began grooming the track for the afternoon's races but the decision to cancel was ultimately made due to "some frozen clods in the track," according to David Osojnak, the track's director of racing.

"There is still a lot of moisture in the track from the storm," Osojnak said. "For the safety and health of our horses and riders, we decided to cancel."

Evening Attire, the popular Grade 1-winning multimillionaire, has died at Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue in Pawling, N.Y., where he spent his retirement. The Black Tie Affair gelding was 21.

Evening Attire was bred and raced by Thomas Kelly with longtime clients Joseph and Mary Grant. The gelding was initially trained by Thomas's son Tim Kelly before being taken over by another son, Pat Kelly, upon Tim's retirement. Over nine seasons of racing, primarily on the New York circut, Evening Attire put together a record of 69-15-16-9 and earnings of $2,977,130.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — A funeral service will be held Monday for prominent Ontario owner-breeder William (Bill) Graham, who died of cancer on Jan. 15 at age 81.

The owner of Windhaven Farm, Graham campaigned the Canadian champions Wavering Girl, Fantasy Lake and Cotton Carnival. He won the 1989 Canadian Oaks with Blondeinamotel, and took the Grade 1 Frizette with Proud Lou in 1981.

Graham won last year’s Grade 3 Mazarine with Tiz Breathtaking, who is a contender for the 2018 Sovereign Award as Canadian champion 2-year-old filly.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has indicated that he wants the state’s gambling regulator to press ahead and authorize sports betting at four upstate casinos, a plan that would, for now, leave a number of interested parties, including the state’s racetracks, on the outside looking in.

Phyllis Mills Wyeth, a noted philanthropist, conservationist, and breeder and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses, died at her Lookout Point Farm on the Pennsylvania-Delaware border Monday with her husband, famed painter Jamie Wyeth, at her side, according to the Longwood Funeral Home, in Kennett Square, Pa., which is handling the arrangements.

Churchill Downs Inc. has finalized its nearly $200 million purchase of Presque Isle Downs and Casino in Erie, Pa., a transaction that expands the company’s presence in jurisdictions that have recently authorized sports betting.

Churchill Downs reached an agreement to purchase the property last year from El Dorado Resorts in a deal that valued Presque Isle at $178.9 million. That deal also included an agreement to purchase a casino in Mississippi from El Dorado, but that part of the agreement was scuttled last year.

Churchill Downs Inc. has successfully pressed a Mississippi casino to cease taking future bets on the Kentucky Derby, citing federal law, in a development that could have ramifications throughout the burgeoning U.S. sports-betting market.

Churchill Downs confirmed Wednesday morning that it had pressed the Scarlet Pearl Casino’s sportsbook in D’Iberville, Miss., to take down the odds on Derby futures on Monday morning, shortly after the sportsbook had posted the odds on nearly 300 3-year-olds.

A newly released Justice Department opinion regarding the enforceability of the mob-era Wire Act has raised questions about the legality of some forms of interstate gambling, but will have no impact on horseracing’s current practices, according to Thoroughbred industry lobbying officials.

The Texas Racing Commission on Monday announced settlements for four individuals involved in two “program trainer” cases at Retama Park near San Antonio. The penalties ranged from fines between $500 and $4,000 and suspensions from 15 days to 12 months.

A “program trainer” or “paper trainer” is a licensed trainer whose name appears as the trainer of record in official entries, but the horse is not in their care and instead has been prepared for said race by another individual.

An exhibit of racing-themed photographs by professional and amateur photographers is scheduled to open on Jan. 20 at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the museum announced on Monday.

The exhibit features 45 photographs from 33 individual photographers, culled from a total submission of 159 photos received by the museum after requesting racing-themed photos last year for the planned showing. A panel of judges representing “both the racing and arts communities” selected the photographs that will appear in the exhibit, the museum said.