SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority submitted a highly modified batch of rules dealing with its anti-doping and medication control program to the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday night.
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Louis Cella, president of Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., has been elected to the nine-member Board of Stewards of The Jockey Club, according to the organization.
Cella, who is part of the third generation of his family to run Oaklawn, will fill the seat on the Board of Stewards previously filled by C. Steven Duncker. Cella was first named a member of The Jockey Club in 2017, and he also is on the Management Committee of Equibase, the data company co-owned by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Racing Associations.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Fixed-odds betting on U.S. horse races could be a major business for sports-betting sites, provided the racing industry can work with regulators and other racing constituencies to smooth the way for its launch, racing and sports-betting officials said on Wednesday at a panel at the Racing and Gaming Conference in Saratoga Springs.
Wed, 08/17/2022 - 14:41
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority will continue to face administrative, logistical, legal, and political hurdles before it can win the trust of the racing constituencies that it is intended to regulate, officials of HISA and other racing organizations said on Wednesday at the Racing and Gaming Conference in Saratoga Springs.
Tom Rooney, who was hired as the chief executive of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association in October of last year, is a familiar face on Capitol Hill. He served five terms in the House of Representatives before retiring in 2019, representing a Central Florida district as a moderate Republican. The relationships he made in Washington, D.C., were a major reason the NTRA board embraced his candidacy for the job, which requires lobbying on behalf of the interests of Thoroughbred racing and breeding.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Mired in four current legal challenges and beset by critics, the fledgling Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority will take center stage on Sunday morning at The Jockey Club Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing in Saratoga Springs.
The New York Racing Association has acquired a 49 percent share in United Tote from Churchill Downs Inc., marking the first time NYRA owns a piece of a tote company and a move it hopes will expedite its presence onto sports-wagering platforms.
The deal, announced in a press release issued Thursday afternoon, is expected to close by the end of 2022, pending the usual regulatory approvals.
Tue, 08/09/2022 - 13:56
The California Horse Racing Board will begin to require full-time horse racing journalists to be licensed in order to access the backstretches of racetracks as of the end of August, according to a notice the CHRB distributed on Monday.
The licensing requirement is the first in the country for journalists. Typically, journalists are issued press credentials by the racetrack, which gives them various levels of access to the grounds, including the backstretch. The license will cost $75 and require a criminal background check.
The Fifth Circuit of Appeals has issued a stay of an injunction that had prevented the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority from enforcing most of its rules in Louisiana and West Virginia, pending HISA’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling.
In a ruling issued on Monday afternoon, the Fifth Circuit extended a stay that it granted late last week in response to an injunction ordered by a lower federal court in Louisiana. The Fifth Circuit ordered that the stay be enforced until the case could be deliberated by the court on an “expedited basis.”