Daily Racing Form The Association of Racing Commissioners International is considering a rule that would allow racing commissions to penalize horsemen if their horses test for an “excessive” amount of any substance, according to the RCI. A draft of the rule has been posted to the RCI’s website for public comment for a period at [...]

Blood-Horse Trainer Bob Baffert said May 11 he was pleased with the morning activity of American Pharoah and Dortmund at Churchill Downs as they prepare for the May 16 Xpressbet.com Preakness Stakes (gr. I). Baffert was at Churchill to check on Zayat Stable's American Pharoah and Kaleem Shah's Dortmund, first and third, respectively, in the [...]

Blood-Horse Keeneland received approval from the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission May 6 to offer Thoroughbred simulcasts at The Red Mile, the Lexington harness track that is constructing a facility for historical race wagering machines in partnership with Keeneland. There have been no Thoroughbred full-card simulcasts at The Red Mile since the late 1990s, when it [...]

Blood-Horse The Department Homeland Security and Department Labor have issued a final interim H-2B temporary guest worker program rule and a final wage rule. This final interim H-2B rule is almost identical to a 2012 H-2B program rule that has been blocked by a federal court since its release and was opposed by the American [...]

Blood-Horse With five victories from nine starters since April 25, Jamie Ness entered Tampa Bay Downs' May 3 card on one of those mini-hot streaks that have propelled him to the top of the track's trainer standings eight years in a row. With 46 victories at the Oldsmar, Fla. track's current meet, the 40-year-old Ness [...]

Daily Racing Form LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland Racecourse has asked the state racing commission for permission to transfer its year-round simulcasting operations to the Red Mile harness track near downtown Lexington, according to records made available by the commission on Monday. Under the plan, Keeneland would shutter its year-round simulcasting operations “except on days when [...]

Daily Racing Form PHOENIX, Ariz. – Az Ridge looks to stamp himself the horse of the meet as he leads a field of six in the $35,000 Hasta La Vista Handicap at Turf Paradise on Tuesday. The 1 7/8-mile grass event is the traditional closing-day fixture as the Phoenix track brings down the curtain on [...]

National HBPA "The National HBPA would like to address the recent announcement released by Sen. Tom Udall and Rep. Joe Pitts. On behalf of our 30 affiliates and close to 30,000 individual members within North America, the National HBPA strongly opposes any legislation that seeks to repeal The Interstate Horse Racing Act. The National HBPA [...]

Blood-Horse Two members of Congress, on the eve of two of Thoroughbred racing's biggest days, announced introduction of legislation that would end interstate simulcasts—and effectively cripple the pari-mutuel business—to encourage racing to end what they allege is widespread doping and cheating. It's not the first time such legislation has been introduced in Congress, or the [...]

Blood-Horse Belterra Park will open its 2015 live race meet May 1 but it will do so without a contract with the Ohio Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association for video lottery terminal revenue. Belterra Park, the former River Downs, began operating VLTs about a year ago, and under Ohio statute was to have a deal [...]