Bally Technologies Inc., the gambling and entertainment conglomerate, has signed a contract with Magna Entertainment Corp. to manage the slot-machine casino scheduled to open at the Magna-owned Gulfstream Park this fall.

The agreement calls for Bally to supervise the casino's revenue accounting, create a bonus program for players, and provide a wide variety of gaming machines at Gulfstream. The track is expected to open its slots complex with 500 machines in October.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - James McIngvale, the Texas-based Thoroughbred owner, has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that bloodstock agents J.B. McKathan and Kevin McKathan received kickbacks on a horse McIngvale purchased at auction in 2003.

The Kentucky Horse Racing Authority is considering whether to use an expensive new test designed to verify the presence of the blood-enhancing drug erythropoeitin in postrace samples, the executive director of the authority, Jim Gallagher, said Friday.

James McIngvale, the Texas-based Thoroughbred owner, has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that bloodstock agents J.B. McKathan and Kevin McKathan received kickbacks on a horse McIngvale purchased at auction in 2003.

A blackout of Arlington Park's races on Television Games Network continued for a second day Thursday, after horsemen objected to TVG's exclusive contract for the Hawthorne meeting that begins Sept. 15.

Trevor Denman, the longtime Southern California race caller, has been hired by ESPN to call the races for its 2006 Breeders' Cup telecast, the network announced Wednesday.

Denman, who calls the races at Del Mar and Santa Anita, will call the Breeders' Cup races on a national broadcast for the first time. The Breeders' Cup will be held this year on Nov. 4 at Churchill Downs.

Trevor Denman, the longtime Southern California racecaller, has been hired by ESPN to call the races for its 2006 Breeders' Cup telecast, the network announced on Wednesday.

Denman, who calls the races at Del Mar and Santa Anita, will call the Breeders' Cup races on a national broadcast for the first time. The Breeders' Cup will be held this year on Nov. 4 at Churchill Downs.

Denman is a native of South Africa and began his career there 35 years ago. He moved to the U.S. in 1984 to call the races at Del Mar.

The Jockey Club has elected eight new members, including its first two members from Arab countries, the organization announced Thursday.

Four groups - Capital Play Ltd., Empire Racing Associates, Excelsior Racing, and the New York Racing Association - submitted bids by a Tuesday afternoon deadline in pursuit of the franchise to operate New York's three most popular Thoroughbred racetracks, beginning in 2008.

The bids were submitted to the Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Racing, a state panel that is overseeing the process and that issued a request for proposals in June.

The Ohio State Racing Commission has approved a plan to test for the illegal blood-enhancing drug erythropoietin and will send postrace blood samples to a laboratory in Pennsylvania that has developed a new test to detect the drug.

The approval came at a commission meeting last week. Erythropoietin, commonly referred to as EPO, can help horses increase the oxygen-carrying capacity of red blood cells.