Revenue from Churchill Downs Inc.’s three main business segments – racing operations, casinos, and online betting – were all up in the first quarter of 2014 compared with the first quarter last year, but the company still posted a small loss for the period, according to financial documents released Wednesday.
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The Louisiana Racing Commission on Tuesday deferred a decision on whether to renew the license for Churchill Downs’s Fair Grounds racetrack in New Orleans, according to reports, a maneuver that heightens the pressure on the company in the face of harsh criticism from horsemen over its management of the facility.
Eighteen of the major preps giving horses an automatic berth in a Breeders’ Cup race will be televised live on NBC or NBC Sports this summer and fall under a new agreement between Breeders’ Cup Ltd. and the network’s parent company, according to an announcement by both parties Monday.
Daily Racing Form photographer and two-time Eclipse Award winner Barbara D. Livingston has been honored with the Charles W. Engelhard Award by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders (KTOB) and Kentucky Thoroughbred Association (KTA).
The award, voted on by the KTOB/KTA board of directors, is presented annually to a member of the media for outstanding coverage of the Thoroughbred industry. The award was presented on April 17 with other honors at the annual Kentucky-bred champions awards luncheon in Lexington, Ky.
ARCADIA, Calif. – The Oak Tree Racing Association, which operated autumn race meetings at Santa Anita and Hollywood Park from 1969 to 2010, is planning to operate the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton this summer.
Oak Tree officials have submitted a license application to the California Horse Racing Board seeking to operate the fair meeting at the Northern California track from June 19 to July 6. A hearing on the application will be conducted by the racing board at its next meeting at Golden Gate Fields on April 25.
Dozens of owners and trainers have pledged to make the veterinary records of their horses publicly available for graded stakes run in the United States, The Jockey Club announced Thursday, several days after the chairman of the organization called on the owners of Triple Crown horses to do the same.
Handle during the 76-day mixed meet at Sunland Park in New Mexico dropped 8.5 percent this year despite the track drawing almost nine horses per race, one of the strongest figures in the country, according to numbers provided by the track.
The average daily handle on the track’s races fell from $797,279 to $729,654. Most of the decline occurred in the out-of-state market, with offtrack handle dropping 9.3 percent from last year’s meet. Both meets had 76 live racing days.
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The chairman of The Jockey Club released a statement Monday calling for trainers of horses entered in the Triple Crown events to make the horses’ veterinary records publicly available beginning 14 days before each of the three races.
In 1967, a seven-year-old boy watched chaos unfold on a black-and-white television, as some two-dozen horses came to sudden grief at the 23rd fence of Aintree’s Grand National Steeplechase. Moments later, amidst the pandemonium of milling, riderless horses and stunned jockeys, a shadowy dark speck appeared at the far left of the screen, almost as an afterthought. The horse heaved itself over the 4-foot, 6-inch hedge and galloped off into the history books, an unfathomable 100-1 longshot by the name of Foinavon.