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From Claiming Crown news release Posted: 7/19/16 Claiming Crown Limited announced on Monday that Kentucky Downs and Laurel Park will host automatic qualifying races for the 2016 Claiming Crown at Gulfstream Park on December 3, 2016. The host tracks will pay nomination fees and provide a travel stipend for the winners to compete in the [...]
Miner's Escape, who ran in the 2009 Belmont Stakes and upon his retirement was retrained for a second career as a pleasure horse. (Courtesy Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance) From Ellis Park News Release Posted: 7/13/16 Ellis Park is teaming with the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance to promote the industry-wide venture that provides funding for rehabilitation [...]
Eddie Olczyk (Photo by Anne E. Eberhardt) Thoroughbred owner and NBC Sports horse racing and hockey analyst Eddie Olczyk will deliver the keynote address at OwnerView’s third Thoroughbred Owner Conference at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., on Wednesday, November 2, 2016. OwnerView, the Thoroughbred owner resource developed by The Jockey Club and [...]
National HBPA CEO Eric Hamelback penned an op/ed in the July 7 edition of Thoroughbred Daily News. The article begins: Everyone wants what is best for horse racing and especially for the Thoroughbred racehorses that make our industry possible. That is why many of us are stunned by The Jockey Club leadership’s latest attempt to [...]
From Coady Photography News Release Posted: 7/7/16 Coady Photography, America’s premier professionals for shooting racetrack pictures, is searching the globe to find the best amateur horse-racing photographer. The inaugural Coady International Amateur Horse Racing Photography Contest will be judged by an all-star panel of photojournalist experts. The free competition is open to amateur photographers at [...]
From TOBA news release Posted: 7/7/16 The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA) announced the launch of a new www.toba.org, a website that has been re-designed to deliver a more personal and informative experience to owners and breeders and fans with greater information and functionality across all digital devices. “Digital and social media with real [...]
From Bowling Green Daily News Posted: 7/6/16 After 26 years of being the only European-style race course in North America, Kentucky Downs owners and management have decided to upgrade the Franklin attraction. The construction project plans to make dramatic changes to the facility through expansion and renovations of the exterior and interior designs to create something [...]
From RTIP news release Posted: 7/5/16 The University of Arizona’s Race Track Industry Program today announced that registration is open for the 43rd Annual Global Symposium on Racing & Gaming to be held December 5-7, 2016. The event will again be at the popular Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, which recently completed an extensive [...]
Chance Moquett (son of 2016 Derby trainer Ron Moquett) and Bailey Romans (daughter of 2016 Derby trainer Dale Romans) on WHAS-11 last Kentucky Oaks Day with prominent Louisville radio and TV personality Tony Vanetti. (Photo by Jennie Rees) From Kentucky HBPA news release Posted: 6/29/16 #KyDerbyKids - the acclaimed social-media initiative where the [...]
From Jockey Club news release Posted: 6/29/16 The seventh Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit concluded late Tuesday afternoon at the Keeneland Sales Pavilion in Lexington, Ky., following 12 reports on topics ranging from racing surfaces, equine injuries and rider safety to nutrition, biosecurity, and respiratory health for horses. There were also reports on [...]