Matt Hegarty

Barbara D. Livingston Despite rain and a sloppy track, Churchill Downs announced that more than 107,000 people attended Friday's Kentucky Oaks card. Wagering on the Oaks was $21.7 million, down 3 percent from 2023.

Total commingled wagering on the Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville set a record and was up 10.1 percent over the record betting last year, according to charts of the races.

Emily Shields Wyoming Downs was recently bought by the owners of Kentucky Downs and the Clairvest Group.

The Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit has lifted the provisional suspension of George Weaver for a positive for metformin following a recommendation that the use of the substance in horses be studied further.

The Louisiana Racing Commission on Tuesday afternoon voted unanimously to rescind two rules that would have significantly relaxed the regulations governing the administration of clenbuterol, a bronchial dilator that has been widely abused in racing, and a potent corticosteroid that is typically injected into sore joints.

The racing fatality rate at racetracks under the jurisdiction of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority was 0.83 per thousand starts during the first three months of the year, HISA reported on Wednesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal of a U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding the constitutionality of the federal legislation that established the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority.

Horses trained by Greg Foley and James Lawrence II have become the latest to test positive for metformin, the banned diabetes drug that is being studied by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority for its potential to contaminate drug-testing samples.

Races from the Belmont at Aqueduct meet run by the New York Racing Association began to be blacked out on Thursday on FanDuelTV and its online horse racing betting company TVG after the two sides could not agree on a new contract, according to NYRA and FanDuel.

The New York Racing Association and FanDuel have reached an agreement that will restore NYRA's signal to the company's betting platforms, just hours prior to the opening race at NYRA's immensely popular Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York.