Charles Town HBPA Posted: 10/24/15 President: Raymond (Randy) Funkhouser Owner Raymond (Joe) Funkhouser Naomi Long James Miller Mark Russell Tony Stehr Trainer-Owner/Trainer Leslie Condon Jeff Runco John McKee Lee Couchenour James H. Starkey Owner Alternates Harry (Joe) Painter Richard Knapp Tracy Willis Trainer-Onwer/Trainer Alternates Victor Espinosa Tim Grams James Casey

Blood-Horse Led by Triple Crown winner American Pharoah and two-time Breeders' Cup champion mare Beholder a total of 200 horses, including 32 from overseas, have been pre-entered for the 2015 Breeders' Cup World Championships. The 32nd Breeders' Cup, consisting of 13 grade one races with purses and awards totaling $26 million, will be held for [...]

The Horsemen's Daily Laurel Park on November 1 will host nine “Win and You’re In” races as a preview to the December 5 Claiming Crown at Gulfstream Park. Entries for the preview day at Laurel close October 29. Each race winner receives an automatic berth into the Claiming Crown at Gulfstream with free shipping included. [...]

Blood-Horse Thoroughbred Owners of California announced Tuesday, Oct. 20 that Nick Coukos has accepted the position of president. Coukos is stepping down as vice president racing/corporate affairs at Ajax Downs, a privately owned Quarter Horse racetrack and slot facility near Toronto. Prior to that he was executive director of Horsemen's Benevolent & Protective Association Ontario [...]

Blood-Horse The ownership groups of Suffolk Downs and the Brockton Fairgrounds, which has not hosted Thoroughbred racing since 2001, have filed applications with the Massachusetts Gaming Commission for live racing dates in 2016. The application of Sterling Suffolk Racing, which asked for and was granted three dates—Sept. 5, Oct. 3, and Oct. 31— this year, [...]

Blood-Horse The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium, which met Oct. 13, cited progress in state-by-state adoption of components of the National Uniform Medication Program and also added four drugs to the Controlled Therapeutic Substances Schedule. The uniform medication program calls for adoption of the therapeutic medication schedule; administration of furosemide, also called Lasix or Salix, [...]

Omaha.com LINCOLN — Backers of expanded gambling in Nebraska are launching their initiative petition drive with donations exceeding $250,000. Almost all of the money has come from Ho-Chunk Inc., the economic development wing of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, according to the petition group’s first campaign finance report. The group, Keep the Money in Nebraska, [...]

Blood-Horse United States Representative Andy Barr of Kentucky has reintroduced two bills that would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to benefit racehorse owners. Barr's office Oct. 12 said the two bills are designed to make the tax changes permanent. Over the years they have been extended as part of other pieces of tax [...]

Kent Stirling, who has served as executive director of the Florida Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association since 1995, will transition out of the position through the end of this year, the organization announced Oct. 9. His contract term expires Dec. 31. The Florida HBPA said it will seek a replacement for Stirling during the transition [...]