After their homebred Kitten’s Joy won the 2004 Eclipse as champion turf male, Ken and Sarah Ramsey gambled he would make a good sire. Their decision to breed many of their mares to him has paid off, and in 2011 they enjoyed their biggest successes with homebreds by the stallion Ken Ramsey has called “the family stallion.”

Eclipse Award-winning owner and breeder Frank Stronach has created six racing-stable companies that will sell shares to the public for $10 a share, according to documents filed in December with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The membership of the Thoroughbred Owners of California has approved changes to its bylaws allowing owner-trainers and their spouses the right to vote and permitting the organization to hold an election that could expand the number of owner-trainers on the board of directors.

Voting on the bylaw changes ends Wednesday, but a press release published on the organization’s website earlier this week stated that 95 percent of the 1,265 returned ballots approved the change, and that “it is clear that the ballot question will be approved.”

Bob Mayberger of Albany, N.Y., has won the 2011 Media Eclipse Award for photography for his panoramic picture of Thoroughbreds jumping over a fence during the A.P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase at Saratoga Race Course on Aug. 4, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form, and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters announced Friday. The photo appeared on the Sports Illustrated Snapshot web site that same day.

This is the first Eclipse Award for Mayberger, 58, a staff photographer for Eclipse Sportswire.

ESPN, HRTV, and Thoroughbred Times have won Media Eclipse Awards, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form, and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters announced Thursday.

ESPN won for television-live racing programming for its telecast of the Breeders’ Cup Classic at the 2011 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The one-hour program at Churchill Down on Nov. 5 culminated with the upset victory of Drosselmeyer over Game On Dude in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Jennie Rees and Claire Novak were announced Wednesday as winners of the Eclipse writing awards for 2011 by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, the Daily Racing Form , and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters.

The New York Racing Association said on Wednesday that it will lower its takeout on superexotic bets from 26 percent to 24 percent beginning on Dec. 28 to make up for an error that regulatory officials said could have cost bettors $8.6 million over the past 15 months.

The Jockey Club on Friday launched a public website allowing users to browse rulings issued against Thoroughbred trainers.

The website, located at www.thoroughbredrulings.com, allows users to search rulings by trainer, horse, racetrack, or racing jurisdiction. Ranges for queries can be narrowed by a range of dates or the amount of the fine levied.