Average viewership for NBC Sports Network’s broadcast of the Breeders’ Cup on Saturday afternoon and early evening was 376,000, according to the network, which said the figure represented a 20 percent gain over the average viewership for the same broadcast last year.

Editor’s note: This article on Eclipse Award-winning breeder Nelson Bunker Hunt, who died a few weeks ago, is a recollection of the childhood experiences of Daily Racing Form staff writer Mary Rampellini. She grew up on Hunt’s ranch near Dallas, where her father, Ralph Rampellini, developed his yearlings and served as racing manager for Hunt’s stable that competed in Europe and North America.

ROANOKE, Texas – Nelson Bunker Hunt’s influence on racing has been felt in a sweeping way over the past month.

Churchill Downs Inc. had net income of $3.5 million in the third quarter of 2014, a sharp decline from net income of $9.2 million in the third quarter of last year, as revenue from its racetracks and many of its casinos continued to weaken, according to financial documents released by the company on Wednesday.

Elisabeth Jensen wants to represent the state of Kentucky in Congress. In that respect, she is not like most people. Running for public office is not in the DNA of the average citizen.

But she is like tens of thousands of people in that she works in Thoroughbred racing, loves the sport, and wants to do more for it. She knows the daily struggles of those employed in racing, the challenges of owning and breeding racehorses, and the importance of racing and its agricultural infrastructure to the economy of Kentucky, as well as to the nation.

A federal judge has once again stepped between New Jersey and its plan to let state racetracks and casinos offer sports betting.

Judge Michael Shipp of the U.S. District Court in Trenton on Friday granted a request for injunction filed by major sports leagues that will prevent any New Jersey entity from offering sports betting until the leagues’ challenge of a recent law is heard. Shipp was one of two federal judges who had earlier struck down the state’s plan to offer betting last year, calling it a violation of federal law.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission does not plan any immediate action to sever its ties with its drug-testing laboratory in the wake of a meeting with the lab’s top management Wednesday, the commission’s executive director said Thursday.

Larry Uelmen, a Michigan-based trainer, breeder, and jockey’s agent, died Oct. 19. He was 66.

Uelmen, a native of Wisconsin and resident of White Lake, Mich., saddled 1,190 winners from 1976 to his retirement in 2012, with his charges earning a combined $9,677,103 during that time span.

Penn National Gaming Inc., the large racetrack and casino operator, had net income of $8.5 million in the third quarter of 2014 on net revenue of $645.9 million, according to financial statements released Thursday. The net-revenue figure was down 9.5 percent compared with the third quarter of 2013.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Keeneland Racecourse has abandoned its plans for an Instant Racing parlor on its Lexington property, even before the track turned a shovel of dirt on the project.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The two top officials of Kentucky’s racing regulatory commission will meet on Wednesday with the management of the privately held drug-testing laboratory that conducts the state’s post-race drug tests to discuss the lab’s persistent delays, officials said Tuesday.