Stewards at Indiana Grand have suspended jockey Didiel Osorio indefinitely for the alleged possession of an electric device in the fifth race on Aug. 10 there.
Osorio rode Deep Explorer to victory in the $16,000 turf claiming race for trainer Donald Habeeb, who co-owns the horse with Michael J. Thomas and Jeff W. Allen. Deep Explorer took heavy betting just before the start of the race and won by two lengths as the 7-10 favorite.
A request by Kentucky Downs to offer its races this September on a New Jersey betting exchange has been removed from the agenda of an Aug. 15 meeting of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, likely scuttling the plan for this year.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Among the legal experts, there is no consensus about whether the Supreme Court will throw out a federal law that largely prohibits states from offering gambling on sports, an issue that is being closely watched by the horseracing industry.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Lawmakers supportive of the New York Racing Association expect to push for legislation giving the association greater power over the composition of its board and its future, the legislators said during a panel on the Saratoga Institute on Equine Racing and Gaming Law conference on Tuesday in Saratoga Springs, New York.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y - All-sources handle on the first 16 days of the 2017 Saratoga meet is up 5.6 percent while ontrack handle is up 2.3 percent compared to the same time period in 2016, according to figures provided by the New York Racing Association.
Through Monday, all-sources handle was $279,099,864, compared to $264,332,983 through the first 16 days of 2016. Ontrack handle was $63,463,693, compared with $62,040,659 a year ago.
Despite an additional day of racing, ontrack wagering and all-sources live handle wagering for the 11-day 2017 California State Fair meet at Sacramento declined over the 10-day 2016 meet totals.
Ontrack wagering on live races fell 6 percent and all-sources handle, including out-of-state and account wagering, declined 16 percent.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – A committee of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission voted on Tuesday to recommend approval of a plan by Kentucky Downs to allow New Jersey customers of an exchange-wagering company to bet on the track’s races, but not before the plan satisfied three requirements.
New Mexico has barred three Quarter Horse trainers who were recently suspended by the Texas Racing Commission for Class 1 racing positives, including the trainer of an early favorite for the upcoming All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs in the state.
Ismael Trejo, the executive director of the New Mexico Racing Commission, said he notified trainer Judd Kearl on Monday that the commission was honoring the Texas suspensions under the state’s reciprocity doctrine, which requires racing commissions to recognize rulings in other states.
Penn National Gaming Inc., the owner of 29 racetracks and casinos across the U.S., had net income of $17.1 million in the second quarter of 2017, according to financial statements released Thursday, as interest payments on a large debt continued to take a chunk out of its bottom line.
Total revenue during the quarter was $796.5 million, up 3.5 percent from $769.4 million in the second quarter last year. Operating expenses were $661.4 million, up 6.7 percent, while interest expenses were an additional $116.8 million, according to the financial statements.
The Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission has upheld a decision by Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pa., to ban trainer Eduardo Rojas, who is married to a trainer who recently was convicted on 14 charges of misbranding drugs and conspiracy related to horses she trained.
Penn National issued the permanent ban in early July, several days after a jury returned a guilty verdict against Murray Rojas, Eduardo Rojas’s wife, on the misbranding and conspiracy charges. The charges were based on actions by Murray Rojas involving horses that raced at Penn National in 2013.