Average daily all-sources handle at Hawthorne’s fall-winter meet fell 7 percent from last year, but that drop came mainly because fewer races were run this season.
Hawthorne averaged $1,679,785 per day during last year’s fall-winter meet and $1,564,655 during the meet that began Oct. 7 and ended Dec. 31. But the 2015-16 fall-winter meet had 47 races days and 408 races compared with this season’s 42-day meet with only 363 races.
A horse at Fair Grounds returned a positive test Tuesday for the so-called “wild” strain of the equine herpesvirus, or EHV-1.
That marks the fifth EHV-1 positive at Fair Grounds since a horse housed in barn 14 who had been euthanized after becoming neurologic tested positive for the virus Dec. 26. Another horse in barn 14 tested positive Dec. 31 after getting sick. Both of the horses in barn 14 were positive for the neuropathogenic strain of EHV-1, which far more often results in neurologic symptoms, severe illness, and fatalities than the milder wild-type strain.
ESPN, the sports television network, has been named the winner of the Media Eclipse Award for Television, Feature Programming, for a story that aired on its E:60 news magazine program about racehorses and their companion animals, the administrators of the awards announced on Tuesday.
The story, called “Barnyard Buddies,” aired on ESPN on May 3, in the week prior to the Kentucky Derby. For the program, the producers traveled to racetracks in California, Kentucky, and New York to document the roles that stable animals such as goats and chickens play in racehorses’ lives.
NBC Sports has been named the winner of the Media Eclipse Award for Television, Live Racing Programming, for a broadcast featuring this year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic, the administrators of the Eclipse Awards announced on Tuesday.
The 2016 award is the network’s 13th for Live Racing Programming. NBC Sports televises all of the Triple Crown races, the Breeders’ Cup two-day event, and a handful of other nationally televised races.
One of the two horses at Fair Grounds who ran fevers Monday and were tested for the equine herpesvirus was confirmed to have a form of the virus.
The horse tested positive for the so-called “wild” sub-strain of the EHV-1 virus, becoming the fourth horse at Fair Grounds with a confirmed EHV-1 case. The horse has been moved to an isolation area on the backstretch but was stabled in the receiving barn along with the rest of the small string trained by Chris Davis. The receiving barn was placed under a 14-day quarantine period starting Monday.
Fair Grounds announced Monday that it was putting its entire backstretch under quarantine because of an equine herpesvirus outbreak at the New Orleans track.
Three horses have tested positive for the EHV-1 virus, which first was confirmed at the track Dec. 26. The first two cases were in barn 14, but on Sunday a horse housed in barn 36 also tested positive for EHV-1.
ARCADIA, Calif.- Monday’s pick six at Santa Anita will begin with a carryover of $18,918 in the single ticket jackpot pool.
Sunday, the $2 pick six was hit for $32,222 by three ticketholders. Because there were multiple winning tickets, the single ticket portion of the pool went into effect, creating the single ticket jackpot carryover.
The winners of Sunday’s pick six races were Basinca ($6), Got Even ($15.40), Infobedad ($7.60), Squared Squared ($21.60), Midnight Storm ($3.20), and Bobby G ($13.80). Basinca and Midnight Storm were favored.
A third horse has tested positive for the equine herpesvirus at Fair Grounds, this one in a different barn than the first two cases.
The track, though, in a press release Sunday night, said the most recent test showed a slightly different strain of the virus than the one for which the first two horses tested positive. That information implies that that the virus, which can be highly transmissible, had not necessarily spread across the backstretch.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Arrogate, the winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Nov. 5, will be withdrawn from Sunday's $200,000 San Pasqual Stakes at Santa Anita because of track conditions, trainer Bob Baffert said in a text message Sunday morning.
Santa Anita's racetrack sustained nearly an inch of rain Friday and Saturday. There was no main track training at Santa Anita on Sunday for the third consecutive morning.
As of 7:45 a.m., no official scratch paperwork had been submitted to the racing office.
