The Dubai World Cup and five Grade 1 turf races for older horses will be among the 20 live stakes races broadcast on Fox Sports 1 this year as part of a partnership with the Jockey Club, the organizations announced Monday.
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ARCADIA, Calif. – Business figures were mixed in the first three weeks of the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting, a span of ideal weather but lower-than-expected field sizes.
Through Sunday, the 13th day of the 69-day meeting, ontrack average handle and attendance were up 5 percent, according to track president George Haines. But all-sources handle, including simulcasting in California and nationwide and through account-wagering providers, was down 6 percent.
The New York Racing Association posted a 2.3 percent increase in average daily total handle in 2013 when compared to 2012, the organization announced Friday.
However, due to a reduction in racing days and the lack of a Triple Crown opportunity to promote for the Belmont Stakes, total handle and attendance were down compared to 2012.
Average daily total handle at NYRA’s three tracks – Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga – was $9,198,298, up from $8,990,691 in 2012. NYRA conducted 239 racing days in 2013, compared to 245 in 2012.
ARCADIA, Calif. - The California Horse Racing Board voted Thursday to relax part of a rule voiding claims on horses placed on the veterinarian’s list for unsoundness.
Under the rule change, unanimously approved by the racing board, owners and trainers can designate prior to submitting a claim to accept a horse even if the claimed horse is placed on the vet’s list for unsoundness after a race. The designation would be made by checking a box on the claim slip submitted 15 minutes before scheduled post time.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Rick Baedeker, the former president of Hollywood Park, has been named executive director of the California Horse Racing Board, the regulatory board announced Thursday.
The racing board met in a private executive session before its scheduled meeting on Thursday to approve Baedeker’s appointment unanimously, according to chairman Chuck Winner. The position has been vacant since last summer, following the death of Kirk Breed from an illness.
Monmouth Park in New Jersey has reached a tentative agreement with the British-based company Betfair to offer exchange wagering on its races at the beginning of the track’s meet in May, officials said this week.
Dr. Scott Palmer, a past president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners and the head of a task force that examined a spate of equine deaths at Aqueduct racetrack in 2012, was named Monday as the first equine medical director for the New York Gaming Commission.
Two Daily Racing Form reporters, Marty McGee and Marcus Hersh, and the New York Times were named as winners of Media Eclipse Awards on Friday by the organizers of the awards.
Both McGee and Hersh were selected for their first Eclipse Awards. McGee, 54, has worked for the Daily Racing Form for 21 years, while Hersh joined the publication in 1999.