A licensed groom at Belmont Park drove a Nissan Rogue into the south side of Barn 31 – the barn of Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher – just before 9 p.m. Saturday night, resulting in damage to the structure but no injuries to any horses that reside there.

A documentary co-produced by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association about the National Horseplayers Championship will debut on March 6 on a streaming site, the NTRA announced on Friday.

The owners and the breeders of a horse who finished second in a November allowance race at Churchill Downs have sued the horse’s jockey, alleging breach of contract due to the rider easing up on the horse in late stretch.

The Humboldt county fair board of directors voted on Monday to proceed with a license application for a late summer race meeting at its venue in Ferndale, Calif.

Humboldt may be the lone fair meeting to operate in California this year.

On Wednesday, the Big Fresno fair announced that it would not pursue a 2025 race meeting, according to a press release. The statement cited concern over the lack of available horses, and financing issues as two primary reasons.

All-sources handle at all racing venues in California declined 7 percent in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to statistics presented at Thursday’s California Horse Racing Board meeting.

Business at Northern and Southern California Thoroughbred tracks, the harness meeting in Sacramento, and the yearlong mixed meeting of Quarter Horses and lower-level Thoroughbreds at Los Alamitos reached $2.82 billion last year, down from $3.02 billion in 2023.

John Banno, the track superintendent at Thistledown in Northeast Ohio for the past 22 years, has been hired by the Maryland Jockey Club as its director of racing surfaces, the government-owned MJC said on Friday.

Banno, who began working in track maintenance more than 30 years ago, will be responsible for oversight of the racing and training surfaces at Laurel Park, Pimlico Race Course, and a new training center planned for the Shamrock Farm property, the MJC said.

A Michigan District Court judge in a ruling on Wednesday granted Churchill Downs a preliminary injunction that will allow TwinSpires.com to operate in the state, in a case that is being closely watched by the racing industry.

Judge Hala Jarbou of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan ruled that Churchill Downs had “demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits” of its case, which argues that the Michigan Gaming Control Board does not have the authority to prohibit account wagering on horse racing in the state when the race occurs outside of Michigan.

The overall fatality rate for horses running at tracks under the jurisdiction of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority in 2024 was 0.90 per 1,000 starts, HISA said on Thursday, a 27 percent decline compared to the rate in 2023 at HISA tracks.

1/ST Technology, a division of Santa Anita and Gulfstream Park parent company 1/ST Racing and Gaming, will offer parimutuel betting on NASCAR events under an agreement to make 1/ST the exclusive parimutuel wagering partner of the stock car racing organization.

Churchill Downs has budgeted nearly $1 billion to three major construction projects that are slated to be completed by the 2028 Kentucky Derby, the company announced on Wednesday afternoon, a signal that the company believes that it can continue to leverage the most prominent Thoroughbred race in the U.S. for the next several decades.