Brother Derek, winner of 2006 Santa Anita Derby (gr. I), will miss the Santa Anita Handicap (gr. I) at Santa Anita Park due to a chip in his left ankle. ???It???s a recurring problem that probably will require four months,??? trainer Dan Hendricks said Sunday morning.
Louisiana Downs unveils its 2007 stakes races schedule with the Super Derby day worth $1.3 million, and a new Super Derby prelude day, Louisiana Downs champions day, and the richest prep race in the nation for the new Breeders??? Cup Juvenile Turf. This year’s race season is worth more than $3.4 million in purses.
Fair Grounds Race Course canceled the final four races of its Mardi Gras Day card Tuesday after a fire broke out in the men’s restroom on the east end of the second floor of the grandstand.
Puerto Rican jockey Manuel Caraballo has died after being trampled during a race, authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands said Monday. Caraballo, a jockey with more than 40 years experience who was semiretired, fell from his horse Emilin on Sunday in front of about 2,000 spectators in St. Croix.
AP) — The Pennsylvania Derby will be worth $1 million when it returns to Philadelphia Park on Labor Day after a year off. The Sept. 3 race was canceled last year to allow conversion of some facilities to a slot machine casino. In 2005, it was run for a purse of $750,000.
Rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs in horse racing is not only a threat to the unsuspecting doped-up animals but to the industry itself.
That is the impassioned view of Woodbine Entertainment Group chairman David Willmot, a longtime crusader for cleaning up the sport.
“We talk to our bettors, (drug cheating) is a big issue,” Willmot, who runs [...]
In a lawsuit filed in New York, a North Dakota off-track horse betting outlet accuses the New York Racing Association of failing to pay off winning bets by illegally including owed pari-mutuel payouts in its bankruptcy creditor list.
Lien Games Racing said NYRA violated New York law by not protecting pari-mutuel funds it owed the Fargo, [...]