Churchill Downs Inc. has asked the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission for approval to add devices resembling slot machines to its flagship racetrack in Louisville, according to an agenda distributed by the commission on Monday.

For the first time since 2011, the Golden Gate Fields winter-spring meet showed increases in both attendance and ontrack handle, the track reported.

The 99-day meet concluded Sunday with a 5.65 percent increase in attendance, led by a 13 percent increase on the popular Dollar Day Sundays, and a 3.44 percent increase in ontrack handle.

Abel Cedillo won the jockey championship with 89 victories in the first extended meeting of the post-Russell Baze era.

It is far from the best of times for California racing as the sport returns to its roots beginning Thursday, when the Northern California fair racing season starts with the Oak Tree at Pleasanton meeting.

The 12-day Pleasanton meeting runs through July 9 and is followed by fair meetings at Sacramento, Santa Rosa, Ferndale, a fall Oak Tree at Pleasanton meet, and Fresno.

Derby Wars, an online racing contest operator, will begin seeking consent from racetracks to use their races in its contests as a result of a settlement the company reached with The Stronach Group, a large U.S. racing company, the chief executive and founder of Derby Wars said on Thursday.

The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. June 2-year-olds and horses of racing age sale rebounded in impressive fashion during its 2017 renewal, showing healthy growth in average and median sale prices after a down year in 2016.

A total of 428 juveniles and racing-age horses changed hands over the course of the two-day sale for revenues of $15,293,900, down 15 percent from last year’s four-day auction when 635 horses brought $18,077,400.

Viewership of Saturday’s Belmont Stakes broadcast on NBC and its digital platforms was down sharply from last year, according to figures provided by the network, as the race’s lack of star power took its toll.

Total viewership of the broadcast was 4.9 million, NBC said, down 15.6 percent from last year’s 5.8 million. The number counts those watching on television and on digital devices such as phones.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Equestricon, LLC., announced today that Soledad O’Brien, award-winning documentarian, journalist, philanthropist and CEO of Starfish Media Group, a multi-platform media production company, will kick off festivities at Equestricon 2017 by delivering a keynote speech focused on Thoroughbred aftercare. 

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodbine Entertainment announced on Tuesday it will invest over $10 million in its Mohawk Racetrack so it can used for Standardbred racing year round. Woodbine Racetrack, which currently races Standardbreds in winter, will race only Thoroughbreds.

Equibase, the racing industry’s data collection agency, has issued a new chart for the 2016 Parx Oaks that declares the second-place finisher as the sole winner of the race while also giving the first two finishers credit for the win, in deference to an unprecedented ruling by Pennsylvania regulators.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Although the winning ticket that scooped the $898,568 pick six single-ticket jackpot on Saturday at Santa Anita had not been cashed as of late Sunday, the wheels already are in motion regarding parimutuel handling of recently gelded horses such as final-race winner Fly to Mars.