Blood-Horse With the large concentration of graded stakes scheduled for spring and summer, The Jockey Club is reminding regulatory authorities and racetracks that it has budgeted another $250,000 in grants for out-of-competition testing to supplement the efforts of racetracks. The Jockey Club said the funding is designed to encourage more out-of-competition testing for the presence [...]

Blood-Horse Legislation for the fiscal 2016 state budget in West Virginia is calling for another reduction in video lottery terminal and table games revenue that goes to purses at Thoroughbred and Greyhound tracks. Last summer, in the final hours of a special session, the legislature shifted 10% of revenue that goes to purses to pay [...]

Louisville Courier-Journal The controversial question of whether horses should not receive medication on days they race — as is the rule in most of the world except North America — is about to be a battle again for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission. The commission, which dropped prior efforts to ban race-day medication in certain [...]

Blood-Horse The Illinois Racing Board March 17 approved a drastically reduced stakes schedule for the summer meeting at Arlington International Racecourse, putting five graded events "on hiatus." But the Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association argued the cuts in stakes purses are not deep enough, given the hard economic times facing the state's industry. ITHA executive director [...]

Paulick Report On March 14, 2015 riders at Parx, as well as jockeys from other tracks in the surrounding areas, began notifying the Parx Racing Secretary, as well as the Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission Stewards at Parx, that they will not accept mounts on or after March 19, 2015, unless Parx unconditionally guarantees to them [...]

Blood-Horse With field size an issue as winter turns to spring, two racetracks located about 45 minutes apart are reinforcing policies designed to keep horses on the grounds. Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course in Ohio and Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort in neighboring West Virginia on their overnight sheets are referring horsemen to [...]

Blood-Horse Trainer Jeff Greenhill remembered one winter several years ago when he decided to move his stable to Florida to enjoy the sunshine and warmth at Tampa Bay Downs. "For those purses at Tampa, those races are really tough," he said. "I've told people, 'I went to Tampa for the winter and all I got [...]

Daily Racing Form Will Rogers Downs near Tulsa, Okla., launches its 30-date Thoroughbred meet on Monday with a restructured calendar, a twilight racing series, and packed stable area. The season runs through May 26. Will Rogers is opening its meet a week later this year to flow better with the recently-concluded meet at Sam Houston, [...]

Daily Racing Form Ogygian, a multiple Grade 1 winner, prominent sire, and the oldest resident at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky., was euthanized Saturday due to complications from colic. He was 32 years old. A son of Damascus, Ogygian was bred in Florida by Tartan Farms Corp. and raced as a homebred for [...]

Blood-Horse The Muckleshoot Tribe March 13 received unanimous approval from the Washington Horse Racing Commission to operate Emerald Downs, the state's premier Thoroughbred racetrack. The tribe has owned the property on which the racetrack sits since 2004, and has been supplementing purses at Emerald Downs for years. The racing operation had been owned by Ron [...]