Tampa Bay Downs has applied to extend its current meet an additional eight racing days, vice president of marketing and publicity Margo Flynn advised on Friday.
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Fri, 05/15/2020 - 10:49
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Ky., is in discussions with Ellis Park in Henderson over an agreement that would allow Keeneland to run a number of live racing dates in July, according to Robert Elliston, the vice president of racing and sales at the track.
Elliston would not provide specific dates targeted by Keeneland, but he said that the dates would be run in July. Ellis Park has been awarded all of the live racing dates for that month, but Keeneland is hopeful that Ellis would agree to give up some dates in order to allow Keeneland to run.
Prairie Meadows will not open for live racing in the foreseeable future, despite state government approval to do so, the track said in a statement released late Thursday.
The decision to remain closed is a disappointment for some horsemen based in the Midwest who had been hopeful that the track would open its backstretch at a time when tracks in several surrounding states have begun making plans to restart racing.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Following Thursday’s announcement regarding horse racing without fans being part of the phase one reopening of Ontario’s economy, Woodbine Entertainment CEO Jim Lawson confirmed an early June start for both Thoroughbred racing at Woodbine and Standardbred racing at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Horses formerly trained by trainers Jason Servis and Jorge Navarro – both indicted by federal authorities on horse-doping charges – could soon be permitted to be entered by their new trainers, according to Mike Lakow, Gulfstream’s vice president of racing operations.
Trainer Tim Hills said his longtime client Larry Foggle died earlier this week at the age of 80 following a long illness.
“I trained for Larry since Rockingham Park reopened in 1985,” Hills recalled. “He claimed a lot of hard-knocking mares from up there over the years and bred them to Concorde’s Tune and got nothing but runners, mostly speed horses like the stakes winner Melody of Colors. We were together until 2017. He loved coming to the races, he loved his horses, and he really loved the game.”
The last of nearly 50 horses to work at Gulfstream Park on Thursday was the most noteworthy of the group, track-record holder and multiple turf sprint stakes winner Pay Any Price, who returned to the tab for the first time in several months. Pay Any Price breezed an easy half-mile in 49.34 seconds with his trainer, Georgina Baxter, aboard.
The Ohio State Racing Commission on Thursday approved a measure that would allow Belterra racetrack in Cincinnati and Thistledown racetrack in the Cleveland area to open for live racing as early as May 22, consistent with an announcement just a short time later by the state government.