Blood-Horse The Arkansas Racing Commission voted Aug. 18 to formally oppose pending federal legislation that would shift the regulation and enforcement of medication use in horse racing to either the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) or an USADA not-for-profit affiliate to be called the Thoroughbred Horseracing Anti-Doping Authority (THADA). Arkansas Racing Commission chairman Cecil Alexander [...]

ksat.com SAN ANTONIO - A letter from the Texas Racing Commission makes clear that it will not be approving any simulcasting agreements after Sept. 31, which is when its funding through the Legislative Budget Board runs out. For racetracks like Retama Park in Selma, that is a frightening thought because without racing regulation, there may [...]

Blood-Horse Delta Downs Racetrack Casino & Hotel will offer 32 stakes races, worth combined purses of $4.6 million, during its 86-day season that runs Oct. 16, 2015-March 12, 2016. The highlight of the season will be Saturday, Nov. 21, Jackpot Day, anchored by the $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot (gr. III) for 2-year-olds competing at [...]

Blood-Horse Upset with the level of care after a valet was seriously injured in the paddock at Delaware Park Tuesday, Aug. 18, jockeys took off their mounts, forcing cancellation of the final four races. The race cancellations followed a paddock accident in which valet William Hollick, a former jockey at Delaware, was severely injured. According [...]

Paulick Report Joe Morris, president of Thoroughbred Owners of California, said horsemen’s groups throughout North America are united in opposition to federal legislation that would create one agency to regulate medication rules, drug testing and enforcement throughout the United States. The various organizations (national and local affiliates of the Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, Horsemen’s Benevolent and [...]

Paulick Report Colonial Downs in Virginia has filed an application with the state racing commission to conduct one day of all-turf racing – Dec. 3. It’s a move that Frank Petramalo, the executive director of the Virginia Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, called a “sham”. According to a report in the Daily Racing Form, the [...]

Sheridan Press SHERIDAN — Whitey Kaul’s 100-acre YO Equine Ranch features beautiful racing horses grazing on vast fields. There is a prominent brown barn, a house perched atop a hill and a lake, with the Bighorns serving as the backdrop for an idyllic scene. The property could not seem any further from the inside of [...]

Blood-Horse For the second consecutive year, a panel at the Saratoga Institute for Equine, Racing, and Gaming Law conference focused on immigration and labor laws, and their implications for the horseracing industry. While the 2014 panel relied heavily on positive anecdotes of a major shift toward compliance in New York state with regard to labor [...]

Blood-Horse A co-sponsor of federal legislation that would authorize oversight of equine medication and drug-testing said he believes members of Congress could schedule a committee hearing on the bill this fall, and that he's open to hearing from racing industry stakeholders. "We're looking at having as expeditious a process as possible," said United States Rep. [...]

Blood-Horse The new makeup of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association's American Graded Stakes Committee was announced Aug. 12 during the association's annual members meeting held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. J. David Richardson, chairman of the AGSC, and Mike O'Farrell were both re-elected to three-year terms, while Pete Willmott is stepping down after nine years [...]