Dr. Scott Stanley, who heads California’s equine drug-testing laboratory at the University of California-Davis, has accepted a position at the University of Kentucky in Lexington as the professor of analytical chemistry at the Maxwell G. Gluck Equine Research Center, according to the universities.

Parx Racing and Laurel Park both had brisk business at the betting windows last Saturday.

The Parx card, which included the Pennsylvania Derby and Cotillion, had all sources handle of $8.96 million, a 12 percent increase over the $8 million bet in 2017.

The record Pennsylvania Derby Day handle is the $10.39 million bet in 2014 when Bayern won the Pa. Derby and California Chrome finished sixth. Untapable won that year’s Cotillion.

In 2016, Pennsylvania Derby Day handled $9.61 million. Connect beat Gun Runner that year and Songbird won the Cotillion.

The New York Gaming Commission on Monday approved a proposed set of rules that would allow the New York Racing Association to offer a jackpot-type pick six bet, a wager that has become increasingly prevalent at U.S. tracks.

The New York Gaming Commission will vote on Monday on a proposed set of new rules that would allow Thoroughbred tracks in the state to offer jackpot-type wagers that have proved popular but controversial at other tracks in the U.S.

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Wednesday posted a notice on its website stating that it was accepting applications for “new and renewal association licenses” in the state, at a time when some gambling interests are eyeing the two available racetrack licenses allowed under law.

Average daily handle for the eight days of racing conducted at Suffolk Downs in East Boston, Mass., this year fell 21.2 percent when compared with the same figure for the eight days of racing last year, according to figures supplied by the track.

CHICAGO – The Illinois Racing Board rubber-stamped a 2019 racing schedule previously agreed upon by the state’s three remaining regular racing venues during the board’s annual dates-awards meeting Tuesday in Chicago.

By a vote of 9-0, the board approved a schedule very similar to the 2018 racing calendar, with the main change being the absence of a winter harness meeting at Hawthorne, which conducts Standardbred racing under the banner of Suburban Downs.

Finalists for the Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards for those working in racing and breeding have been announced, along with the program's Community Award winner. The awards will be presented on Wednesday, Oct. 31, in a ceremony at Churchill Downs in partnership with Breeders' Cup week. 

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Legislation that would allow Kentucky racetracks to offer betting on sports will likely be introduced during the legislature’s 30-day session in 2019, Kentucky’s Senate Majority Leader, Damon Thayer, a Republican, said at a sports-wagering conference on Thursday afternoon held at Keeneland Racecourse.

Jerome “Jed” Doro has been named director of racing for Oaklawn Park, the Hot Springs, Ark., track announced Thursday. Doro, who for the past 10 years has been a racing official at Delaware Park, will begin his new duties Sept. 24.

Doro takes over from David Longinotti, the longtime director of racing for Oaklawn who earlier this year was named director of Oaklawn Anywhere, the track’s account-wagering platform. Pat Pope remains the racing secretary at Oaklawn.