Derby Wars, the online contest site that recently reached a settlement with the major racetrack operator The Stronach Group, has negotiated revenue-sharing deals with a handful of racetracks, including the tracks operated by the New York Racing Association, the company said on Friday.

The New York Racing Association on Tuesday will add a late pick five to its betting menu that will be limited to New York customers and users of its account-wagering operation, with a potential bonus for those account-wagering customers, the association announced on Friday.

Eight backstretch employees at Indiana Grand Racing and Casino were arrested June 23 by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, multiple sources confirmed this week.

The arrests were restricted to allegedly undocumented workers who had outstanding legal matters such as DUI charges or failure to appear in immigration court.

The arrests were strictly targeted, sources said, and a more general sweep of the backstretch community was not undertaken. The arrested backstretch workers were transported to Chicago and are being held without bond.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Tuesday that it will hear an appeal by the state of New Jersey in its bid to legalize sports betting within its borders.

The New York Gaming Commission on Monday approved a rule formalizing a requirement that third-party veterinarians administer the legal raceday medication furosemide, but only after 10 minutes of discussion over whether the commission should reconsider measures that would restrict the use of the anti-bleeding drug.

The top officials of The Jockey Club, the North American International Cataloging Standards Committee, and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Associations have sent letters to the head of the Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission raising objections to a recent decision by the commission to treat the first- and second-place finishers of a 2016 stakes race as co-winners.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – In his lab at the University of California-Davis, Dr. Scott Stanley sorts through immense stores of data obtained from an analysis of blood samples collected from horses over the past year.

The data, he hopes, will one day give the racing industry a new way to combat illegal doping by giving racing labs the ability to compare markers in a racehorse’s blood or urine sample to the baseline data he is now collecting. Any markers that deviate substantially from the baseline could be a telltale signal that a horse has been doped.

The XBTV Aftercare Film Festival will launch July 1 as part of an ongoing industry effort to highlight the importance of aftercare in the Thoroughbred racing ecosystem.

The event, a collaboration between the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance and XBTV, will be open exclusively to students taking part in the Kentucky Equine Management Internship, the University of Arizona’s Race Track Industry Program, or Godolphin Flying Start.

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Tuesday voted to accept a settlement with former chief state steward John Veitch that will remove a one-year suspension from his record and end nearly a seven-year legal battle between the two sides, according to KHRC officials.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Churchill Downs plans to build a new stand-alone facility at its Trackside training center in Louisville to house 650 historical horse-racing machines, with a planned opening in the late summer or fall of next year, company officials said on Tuesday after receiving preliminary approval for the plan from the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.