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 [...]

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 [...]

NHBPA President: John Wainwright Executive Director: Lanny Brooks Owners: Bill Duncan Robert Martinez John Moroney Bret Rosendohl Ron Rujawitz Trainers: Eddie Essenpreis Jerry Hammond Steve Manley Tom Trione John Wainwright

The Racing Biz A late game application for a single day of racing is serving as a legal placeholder for Colonial Downs and impedes forward motion to reopen off-track betting in Virginia. The application was made on the morning of a Virginia Racing Commission meeting on July 29th. The Commission was already looking at an [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]