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Photo courtesy Arizona Downs The former Yavapai Downs horse track will reopen with a new name: Arizona Downs. The new ownership of the horse track in Prescott Valley has changed Yavapai Downs’ name to Arizona Downs. That was the name of a former racetrack in Phoenix that opened in 1951 at one site [...]
The Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP), Kentucky's equine economic advocate, announced today that it has partnered with the Kentucky Chamber Workforce Center's statewide Talent Pipeline Management™ (TPM) initiative. As one of three state chambers of commerce chosen by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation to pilot this initiative, the Kentucky Chamber Workforce Center project will [...]
The interactive, electronic version of The Horsemen’s Journal’s Summer 2018 issue is now available online. It is an enhanced version of our Winter issue, which is currently being mailed. To view it, click here. Features in the issue include: Alphabet Soup: Still Beating the Odds The Old Friends resident is benefiting from a new cancer treatment that is helping gray [...]
The eighth Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit, to be held on Wednesday, June 27, 2018, at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., will update the industry on findings in areas such as equine injury statistics and jockey safety as well as touch on other points of interest including the integrity of racing and the role [...]
EquiSport Photos Kentucky Downs is transferring $500,000 apiece to the purse accounts at Ellis Park, Churchill Downs and Keeneland in an unprecedented agreement with the Kentucky HBPA, which represents owners and trainers at the commonwealth’s five thoroughbred tracks. “This is jaw-dropping and unparalleled in horse racing, to have one track boosting purses paid [...]
Justify winning the Kentucky Derby - Photo by Coady Photography Guests at Churchill Downs will be able to get a glimpse of horse racing’s brightest star Saturday night when undefeated Triple Crown winner Justify is celebrated and paraded between races during an action-packed “Downs After Dark Presented by Budweiser” nighttime racing program. The [...]
Jon Miller - Photo courtesy NBC Sports Group Jon Miller, the president of programming for NBC Sports Group, will deliver the keynote address at the fifth Thoroughbred Owner Conference, to be held from October 30 through November 1, 2018, in Louisville, Ky. The conference leads into the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, which [...]
By Andrew M Roberts DVM You may have seen articles written by a Washington reporter about the Kentucky’s horse business, and federal legislation being promoted in Washington. It's a shame that these articles were presented in such a lopsided fashion. Hopefully, I can straighten some of this out. Would anyone describe an election result of [...]
Photo by Coady Photography Yavapai Downs took another important step toward bringing summertime horse racing back to Arizona as the Arizona Racing Commission unanimously approved a three-year temporary permit for the track’s new ownership group. Plans call for live racing to begin at Yavapai Downs in 2019, running from Memorial Day weekend through [...]
Photo by Coady Photography/Churchill Downs With Humberto Gomez aboard, Kentucky Derby victor Justify returned to the track Thursday morning for the first time since his 2 ½-length triumph Saturday in the 144th Run for the Roses. Owned by the partnership of WinStar Farm, China Horse Club, Starlight Racing and Head of Plains Partners, [...]