Blood-Horse Winter weather didn't just force cancellations of race days this week, it also forced the Virginia Racing Commission to postpone its regular meeting that had been scheduled Thursday, March 5, when it had hoped the future of racing in the state would be shaped through a compromise between horsemen and Colonial Downs. VRC executive [...]

Blood-Horse Judging by the final results of Fasig-Tipton's Florida sale of 2-year-olds in training at Gulfstream Park March 4, the sales company's decision to return its select offering to South Florida was clearly a winning one. A total of 89 head changed hands (43 failed to sell), generating gross receipts of $20,095,500, compared to total [...]

Blood-Horse For the first time in five years there will be no major changes in Florida's Thoroughbred racing calendar. In filings made to the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering, Gulfstream Park has selected racing dates for the July 1, 2015-June 30, 2016 fiscal year that are almost identical to its 2014-15 schedule. The annual deadline [...]

The Racing Biz Legislation that would have eviscerated West Virginia’s Thoroughbred industry appears to be “mostly dead,” sources said. A pair of bills — Senate Bills 543 and 563 — would have represented “the beginning of the end” for the state’s Thoroughbred racing and breeding industry, said Joe Funkhouser of West Virginia Racing United, a [...]

Blood-Horse Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots has announced a 10% increase in overnight purses, effective March 7, for the remainder of its143rd Thoroughbred racing season that concludes March 29. The New Orleans track said the increase is a result of an uptick in pari-mutuel handle, and increased slots and video poker revenue in 2015 [...]