National HBPA Summer Convention Kicks Off Aug. 6

NHBPA The National HBPA’s annual Summer Convention will commence on August 6 and run through August 9 at the Grand Hyatt Denver in Colorado. The meeting of North America’s largest horsemen’s association is being hosted by the Colorado Horseracing Association. The first full day of the convention on Friday will include a legislative affairs forum [...]

2015-12-01T15:37:42+00:00

Second Massachusetts Horsemens Group Forms

Blood-Horse The sizable faction of owners and trainers dissatisfied with the leadership of the New England affiliate of the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association has splintered to form the new Massachusetts Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association. "We filed all of the paperwork with the office of the Massachusetts Secretary of State yesterday," said Billy Lagorio, who was [...]

2016-11-03T12:43:03+00:00

WVRC Votes to Hire New Drug-Testing Lab

Blood-Horse The West Virginia Racing Commission voted July 28 to hire a new equine drug-testing laboratory when the contract with its current lab ends at the end of August. West Virginia is one of four states in the Mid-Atlantic region that employs Truesdail Laboratories of California; the others are Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. The [...]

2015-12-01T16:15:42+00:00

FL: CDI Plans to Demolish Calder Grandstand

Blood-Horse Calder Casino & Race Course is said to be planning to demolish its seven-story grandstand/clubhouse building beginning in December after a two-month meet operated by Gulfstream Park. Calder parent company Churchill Downs Inc. hasn't commented on the development. "(Calder officials) told us that they plan to start tearing down their building right after the [...]

2016-11-03T12:43:03+00:00

Virginia horses to race in Maryland this year

Richmond Times-Dispatch Virginia Thoroughbreds will race this fall in Maryland. Meanwhile, horsemen here are pressing forward on a plan to bring racing back to Virginia in its entirety as early as next year. The venue for Thoroughbred racing next year won’t necessarily be at the Colonial Downs race track in New Kent County, which surrendered [...]

2015-12-01T16:16:47+00:00

Action on Suffolk Racing Dates Delayed Again

Blood-Horse Though Suffolk Downs had published a condition sheet for races Aug. 8, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission July 23 delayed action on the track's application for three live racing dates this year. The two-week delay stems from the possibility that The Stronach Group, which owns major racetracks throughout the United States, could execute a lease [...]

2016-11-03T12:43:03+00:00

Amoss Settles Indiana Case, Accepts Penalty

Blood-Horse Trainer Tom Amoss and the Indiana Horse Racing Commission have entered into a settlement agreement in a complex case involving a one-nanogram medication positive at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino in 2011. Amoss, who has fought the IHRC over the positive reading for the Class 4 drug methocarbamol for about three years, was suspended [...]

2016-11-03T12:43:03+00:00

Hazel Park Meet to End 10 Days Early

Blood-Horse The Michigan Gaming Control Board has, at the request of Hazel Park Raceway, ordered an early end to the track's meet, given the track's lack of financial resources. The meet was scheduled to end Sept. 12. Under the new schedule, 10 of 40 scheduled days will be lost at Hazel Park, which offers two [...]

2015-12-01T16:20:55+00:00
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