Daily Racing Form Despite canceling its entire opening weekend this year due to wintry weather, Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., posted slight gains in average and total handle for the 2015 meet that closed Saturday, according to figures distributed by the track. Average daily all-sources handle for the 52 days of the meet was [...]

Blood-Horse A Virginia group aiming to conduct race dates in the state in 2015 said negotiations with the owner of Colonial Downs, to lease that property for racing this year, have ceased. The Virginia Equine Alliance said April 10 that efforts to lease Jeff Jacobs' Colonial Downs property to conduct racing ended after the track [...]

Richmond Times-Dispatch Colonial Downs and its online betting company withheld $419,351 in payments to the Virginia Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association over the past five months, arguing that the Thoroughbred group should no longer get a cut of online gambling revenues because it no longer has a contract with the New Kent County racetrack. The [...]

Paulick Report Citing legislation currently working its way through the 2015 Virginia Legislative Session which will deny Colonial Downs approximately $2 million of operating funds annually, Colonial Downs announced today the immediate shutdown of all its remaining pari-mutuel venues. Senate Bill 1097 will reallocate funds previously used to offset Colonial Downs live racing expenses towards [...]

Blood-Horse The Arizona Department of Racing is looking into a possible cause for abnormal test results involving seven different racehorses that were euthanized during the current Turf Paradise 2014-15 meet, officials said April 7. Officials said that during the current meet, more than 1,000 routine post-race blood samples have been tested by an independent laboratory [...]

Blood-Horse Turfway Park recorded increases in all-sources and average daily pari-mutuel handle during its recently concluded 2015 winter/spring meet. According to statistics provided by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, total handle on live races for 37 racing programs was $63,463,760. That's an increase of 34.2% from $47,276,928 for a 30-day meet in 2014. Turfway this [...]

Daily Racing Form Earlier this year, Texas racing lost its bid in court for historical racing – the electronic parimutuel game that plays like a slot machine – but for one night at least, Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, has hit a jackpot. For opening night Thursday, riding at the track is Hall [...]

Daily Racing Form HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Oaklawn welcomed an old friend back to the winner’s circle last week when 98-year-old former jockey and trainer Frank A. Kurinec was part of a race presentation April 1. Kurinec has resided at an assisted-living facility in Hot Springs in the seven years since a car accident forced [...]

Blood-Horse Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter has vetoed legislation that would have made roughly 250 Instant Racing betting machines illegal. But Otter did put a moratorium on any new Instant Racing machines in the state and asked the legislature to join him in appointing a special investigator to assess the legality of the machines that [...]

Blood-Horse Racing industry officials in late March and early April said they again expect to see federal legislation filed this year that would authorize the United States Anti-Doping Agency to oversee equine medication and drug testing procedures. Last summer The Jockey Club at its Round Table conference indicated it would advocate for federal involvement in [...]