The Eclipse Awards ceremony will have a new location next year.

After eight straight years of being held at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. (last year’s event was virtual due to the pandemic), the ceremony will be held in 2022 at Santa Anita Park in Southern California, the organizers of the ceremony announced. The date of the ceremony will be Feb. 10, a Thursday.

Both Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita are owned by 1/ST, the company formerly known as The Stronach Group. The Eclipse Awards ceremony was held at Gulfstream from 2013-20.

Barbara Banke, owner of Stonestreet Farms, was elected as board chairman of the Breeders' Cup at a board of directors meeting Friday night.

Banke, who was elected to serve a two-year term, becomes the first woman to chair Breeders' Cup Limited. She succeeds Fred Hertrich III, who served as chairman from 2017 until Friday. Antony Beck of Gainesway Farm was elected as vice chairman to serve a two-year term with Banke.

Trials related to the indictment of 27 individuals last year on charges of drug adulteration and misbranding connected to Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing will not begin until next year following decisions made on a status conference conducted on Wednesday.

Scott Mangini, one of 27 individuals indicted last year on charges related to the illegal administration of substances to racehorses, was sentenced to 18 months of prison and three years of supervised release during a sentencing hearing on Friday.

The New York Racing Association said it has adopted protocols to conduct hearings against licensed racing individuals and has issued notices of hearings under the new rules to trainers Bob Baffert and Marcus Vitali.

Steve Asmussen, the trainer who recently set the all-time wins record in U.S. Thoroughbred racing, has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor requiring him to pay $563,800 in back wages and penalties for failing to pay overtime wages to grooms and hotwalkers during a four-year period from 2016 to 2020, according to court records.

Kentucky Downs and the New York Racing Association have been unable to reach an agreement on a simulcasting contract for Kentucky Downs’s races, an impasse that will shut out NYRA patrons from the track’s signal and also result in a partial blackout of NYRA’s Saratoga signal in Kentucky, officials for both sides said Thursday.

A committee of The Jockey Club has revised its recommended guidance on voided-claims policy to allow for the practice if a horse is placed on the veterinarian’s list within one hour of a race.

The revised recommendation from the Thoroughbred Safety Committee grew out of findings from the decade-long effort to collect data on racing injuries through the Equine Injury Database. Those findings have suggested that racing jurisdictions with voided-claim policies show statistically significant lower rates of fatalities, The Jockey Club said.

Former members of racing commissions in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana stressed in a “friend of the court” briefing filed on Wednesday that they believed the implementation of a national regulatory structure for racing would protect and improve the U.S. racing industry.

Greg Colvin, a former executive with a company that manages Instagram accounts, has been hired as the chief executive officer of 1/ST Content, the television and simulcast wagering unit of the company formerly known as The Stronach Group.

According to a release, Colvin will work with Jason Wilson, the chief operating officer of 1/ST Content, “to further develop and support the ongoing transformation of the 1/ST Content brands into a modern and cohesive entity to attract and retain a new group of consumers.”