The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Tuesday approved a full slate of 2015 dates for the state’s racetracks, including a bloc in September that required an agreement between Churchill Downs and Kentucky Downs to resolve a dispute that had led Churchill to threaten to withdraw its September dates requests.

Disregarding a federal challenge lodged by major professional sports leagues, Monmouth Park in New Jersey will begin offering betting on sports Oct. 26, the track said Friday.

The New York Racing Association has submitted a letter to state regulators in support of a long-delayed set of rules that would align New York’s medication regulations with many other states on the Eastern seaboard.

NYRA’s pledge of support comes about halfway through a 60-day public-comment period on the rules, which would allow for the use of 24 therapeutic medications by establishing threshold levels for the drugs. In substantially similar form, the same rules have already been adopted in Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Massachusetts.

The unionized employees of the soon-to-be-shuttered Suffolk Downs are headed to the courtroom.

On Thursday, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, local 103, which represents 145 Suffolk employees, filed suit in Boston, arguing the Massachusetts Gaming Commission broke the law when it awarded the lone Boston-area casino license to Wynn Resorts instead of to Suffolk’s gaming partner, Mohegan Sun, on Sept. 16.

LEXINGTON, Ky.  – A racing advisory group is recommending that state regulators adopt rules that would require additional labeling of compounded medications and bar the use of any compounded medication that has an FDA-approved alternative, the group said Thursday.

This weekend, the New York Racing Association will give fans a two-day preview of its new high-definition website, one that will be available to mobile-device users, as well as those who use a computer.

The website will offer live streaming of NYRA’s races in high definition from several different camera angles, including a head-on and stretch view. When fully up and running, the stretch camera will allow fans and owners to view last eighth of a mile of morning workouts over Belmont’s main track.

Kentucky Downs and Churchill Downs have reached an agreement over September race dates in 2015, with each track dropping one or more dates in the month to preserve a two-track schedule, according to information provided by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on Wednesday.

The second and final day of the industry-sponsored Thoroughbred Ownership Conference wrapped on Wednesday with discussions focused on the care of horses during and after their racing careers, and the younger generation of racing professionals.

The event was held at the Keeneland sales pavilion in Lexington, Ky., and was organized and hosted by OwnerView, an information resource developed jointly by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association.

The owner of Colonial Downs in Virginia surrendered the track’s racing license Tuesday at a meeting of the Virginia Racing Commission and said the track and its seven off-track betting parlors would close as of Nov. 1.

Representatives from a wide spectrum of the Thoroughbred industry advised new and potential owners on Tuesday during the Thoroughbred Owners Conference, conducted inside the sales pavilion at Keeneland Race Course. The conference was organized and hosted by OwnerView, an information resource developed jointly by The Jockey Club and Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association.