A study examining juveniles that raced on the Nov. 1 and 2 Breeders’ Cup cards at Santa Anita has contradicted a previous study showing that the legal raceday medication furosemide is effective in mitigating the incidence and severity of bleeding.

Ray Paulick, the editor and founder of the online Paulick Report racing news site, was selected for the Stan Bergstein Writing Award and its $25,000 prize last week by the sponsor and creator of the award, Team Valor International, a racing partnership.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Chuck Winner, a longtime Thoroughbred horse owner and the founder of a marketing and crisis management firm in Beverly Hills, Calif., was elected chairman of the California Horse Racing Board on Thursday.

Winner, 73, replaces David Israel, whose term on the board expires next month. Israel was chairman through 2013 following the resignation of Keith Brackpool last January to become chief executive of Santa Anita.

TUCSON, Ariz. – Racing lobbyists expect to closely monitor several bills dealing with gambling or racing legislation over the next 10 months, even though action on many of the bills is unlikely, an expert on federal racing legislation said during the final panel of the University of Arizona Symposium on Racing and Gaming on Thursday.

The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance on Wednesday used the symposium as a stage to announce the recipients of $1 million in grants to 23 aftercare organizations that have been accredited by the organization.

Madeline Auerbach, a horse owner and the chair of the California Retirement Management Account, made the announcement during a Wednesday morning panel examining out-of-competition testing.

TUCSON, Ariz. – Track superintendents in the United States are more willingly sharing the tricks of their trade and applying new scientific methods to maintenance procedures, a panel of superintendents said Wednesday in the final afternoon session of the University of Arizona Symposium on Racing and Gaming.

TUCSON, Ariz. – Out-of-competition testing will likely become more prevalent in U.S. horse racing jurisdictions as the next frontier in combating illegal drug use, but efforts to implement the programs continue to be haunted by issues involving privacy, jurisdiction, and the breadth of drugs that can be considered a positive, racing officials said Wednesday during the second day of the University of Arizona Symposium on Racing and Gaming.

TUCSON, Ariz. -- A perennial question raised at the University of Arizona Symposium on Racing and Gaming, the largest conference of its kind in the U.S., is how the industry should market to its current and potential fans, and this year was no exception. That question has taken on more urgency since 2008, when handle numbers cratered immediately after the recession, and even though handle numbers have stabilized over the past two years, annual wagering on U.S. races is still nowhere near the 2003 highwater mark of $15.2 billion (it was $10.9 billion last year, unadjusted for inflation).

TUCSON, Ariz. The New York Racing Association’s new marketing strategy of focusing on the “guest experience” at its three tracks is working and the association’s board remains on target to restructure and “reprivatize” the non-profit by late 2015, NYRA’s new chief executive, Chris Kay, said during a speech opening the University of Arizona Symposium on Racing and Gaming on Tuesday morning in Tucson, Ariz.

Wagering on U.S. races in November was up 4.4 percent compared to wagering during the same month last year, when many betting outlets in the Northeast were still feeling the impacts of Hurricane Sandy, according to figures released on Wednesday by Equibase.