Tickets for Equestricon, a horse racing convention, fan festival and trade show, will go on sale Friday at the event website. Equestricon will be held at the Saratoga Springs City Center from Aug. 13-15, and includes more than 45 panels, seminars, workshops and events.
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Frank Stronach will be presented with the E.P. Taylor Award of Merit for his longtime involvement in Thoroughbred racing in Canada at this year’s Sovereign Awards ceremony.
Stronach, an 84-year-old native of Austria, has been a member of the Jockey Club of Canada for over 20 years. He owns Adena Springs Farms in Kentucky, Florida and Ontario, and is the founder and honorary chairman of The Stronach Group Inc., which owns host of racetracks, most notably Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita.
Stall applications are now available on the Monmouth Park website and in the track’s administration building for this season’s meet. They are due by March 16.
The New Jersey Racing Commission has approved a 71-day Thoroughbred season for 2017, which includes 56 race days at Monmouth and 15 turf-only cards at the Meadowlands.
The Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie, the top race of the Laurel Park winter meet, and the feature race on this Saturday's Winter Festival program, on Wednesday drew a field of eight, including five last-out stakes winners.
The seven-furlong Fritchie, a $300,000 race for fillies and mares, is one of six consecutive stakes that will be run at Laurel on Saturday. The stakes are slotted as the final six events on the 10-race card, and will make up the 20-cent Rainbow 6 and the pick five with a 12 percent takeout.
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s ruling throwing out allegations that an upstart maker of historical racing machines infringed on the patents of a competitor owned by The Stronach Group, according to court documents.
Federal prosecutors in Louisiana have charged a veterinarian and a Nebraska online pharmacy with conspiracy related to their alleged roles in providing an illegal painkiller, dermorphin, to Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse trainers in Louisiana in a case stretching back more than five years.
ARCADIA, Calif. - One winning ticket in Sunday’s pick six at Santa Anita was worth $148,205, a payoff that included the single ticket provision of the $2 bet.
Gianis ($69) won the ninth race, an $8,000 claimer for fillies and mares. Gianis was the only horse in the field of nine that could have produced a single ticket payoff.
If any of the others had won, there would be a carryover into Thursday in the single ticket pool.
Track officials said the winning ticket was purchased for $256 at a racebook location in Laughlin, Nev.
ARCADIA, Calif .- The single ticket jackpot carryover for the Santa Anita pick six has reached $33,967 after multiple tickets correctly selected the sequence on Saturday.
Saturday’s pick six paid $3,144. Consolation tickets with five winners paid $21.60.
The single ticket jackpot carries into Sunday’s card. The single ticket provision is paid out only if there is one winning ticket.
All barns that were quarantined at Turfway and Keeneland after the discovery of the equine herpesvirus were released Friday by Kentucky Agriculture officials after clean tests were returned following a 14-day isolation period.
The horses who resided in the barns, one barn at Turfway and two at Keeneland, are now eligible to train and race with the general horse population.
An influential racing policy group has recommended that racing commissions adopt threshold levels for the prohibited medication glaucine, citing evidence that the substance can be ingested by horses through environmental contamination.