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Breeders Cup 2024 is Finally Here

November 1, 2024 — Before 1983, the U.S. thoroughbred horse racing industry used a subjective process to select its divisional champions. All of that changed in 1984 when the first Breeders Cup was run at Hollywood Pa...

The Breeders Cup Classic Has a Very International Feel

October 17, 2024 — With the Breeders Cup less than three (3) weeks away, horse racing enthusiasts are starting their handicapping efforts. The 2024 Breeders Cup will feature 14 races to be run at Del Mar Race Course ...

The Health of the Horse Racing Industry is Good

October 3, 2024 — Every year, approximately 10,000-12,000 thoroughbreds pass through U.S. auctions with a focus on yearlings and 2-year-olds in training. Every year, the health of the U.S. horse racing industry can b...

Road to the Derby Point System Adjusted for 2025

September 19, 2024 — With the Kentucky Deby field traditionally oversubscribed over the last couple of decades, Churchill Downs, home of the Derby, had to create a point system to prioritize entrants. That gave rise to ...

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds HISA's Constitutionality

September 6, 2024 — For many years now, the U.S. horse racing industry has been operating to clean the industry up. Leaders within the industry have long believed that the loss in customer participation has been due in...

Scylla - A Rising Star in the Older Fillies & Mares Division

June 14, 2024 — It was only a year ago that Idiomatic used the Shawnee Stakes at Churchill Downs as her coming-out party. Idiomatic won the race, which propelled her to eventual Eclipse honors as Older Dirt Female ...

The Coach Strikes Again in the Preakness Stakes

May 24, 2024 — D. Wayne "The Coach" Lukas is a world-renowned horse racing trainer and an inductee into the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame. He is also acknowledged as one of the very few trainers to also be inducted int...

Muth Gets His Chance to Shine

May 9, 2024 — The 150th running of the Kentucky Derby is now a matter of history. May 4, 2024, At odds of 18-1, Mystic Dan upset the Derby field to the delight of journeyman jockey Brian Hernandez and trainer Ken...

Muth Out of the Kentucky Derby

April 26, 2024 — With less than two weeks remaining until the Kentucky Derby, thoroughbred owner Amr Zedan of Zedan Racing Stables has exhausted all of his options to get top 3-year-old Muth into the Derby. The Arka...

Road to the Derby - Derby Points Finalized

April 12, 2024 — With the Kentucky Derby a little more than three weeks away, only one race remains where Kentucky Derby qualifying points will be awarded. That race is the Lexington Stakes, which is to be run at Ke...

Kentucky State Senate Passes New Racing Regulation Bill

March 29, 2024 — With the addition of online sports betting and the possibility of adding online casino gambling in the future, Kentucky's Horse Racing Commission has been under siege. It has been overwhelmed in its...

Jockey Frankie Dettori Still Clearing Milestones

March 14, 2024 — It's hard to believe that 35 years ago, the legendary jockey Lanfranco "Frankie" Dettori began what would become a historic horse racing career. What's not hard to believe is the level of success he...

An Update on the Derby Watch List

March 1, 2024 — At the start of every new year, top handicappers start tracking the top three-year-old colts and geldings in the U.S. They use this information to create a "Derby Watch" list, which is specifically ...

NYRA to Consider Using Artificial Racing Surfaces

February 15, 2024 — Saratoga Race Course was opened in 1863 in the Saratoga Spring New York area. It was followed by the Aqueduct Racetrack, which was opened in 1894 in Jamaica, Queens, New York. Belmont Park followed ...

How Smarty Jones Put Oaklawn Park on the Kentucky Derby Map in 2004

February 2, 2024 — For decades, Oaklawn was always considered a respectable race track. The problem for track ownership was the track often struggled to get the best horses, trainers, and jockeys. That left the race t...

Fixed-Odds Horse Race Betting Bill Filed in New York

January 19, 2024 — Most of the online gambling news coming out of New York seems centered on the filing of new online casino bills. While Governor Kathy Hochul has indicated she is not in favor of such legislation at ...

Big Year for Horse Racing's Female Trainers

January 5, 2024 — The 2023 racing season is officially in the books. It was a racing season that included a lot of parity with Mage winning the Kentucky Derby, National Treasure winning the Preakness Stakes, and Arca...

Woodbine Concludes a Strong 2023 Racing Season

December 26, 2023 — Woodbine Race Course in Ontario Canada runs one horse racing meet per year. It starts in the spring and concludes before the Christmas Holidays, a move designed to avoid the coldest months of the ye...

Tis the Holiday Horse Racing Season - Road to the Kentucky Derby

December 7, 2023 — For everyday Americans, the holiday season means hustle, bustle, family get-togethers, good food, and maybe a few presents. For U.S. horse racing fans, it means something completely different. At...

DraftKings launches first-ever racing product

April 7, 2023 — DraftKings has launched DK Horse, its first-ever horse racing product, in twelve states and expects to launch in additional stated by the Kentucky Derby on May 6. The standalone, DK Horse-brande...

Caesars Racebook goes live in Florida and Ohio

June 3, 2022 — Caesars Sportsbook, the official online wagering platform of the New York Racing Association (NYRA), has launched its new horse racing account wagering app, Caesars Racebook, in Florida and Ohi...

Everi acquires Intuicode Gaming

May 5, 2022 — Everi Holdings Inc. has acquired Intuicode Gaming Corporation, a privately-owned game development and engineering firm focused on Historical Horse Racing games (HHR). Last year, the Company genera...

Caesars Sportsbook to launch Caesars Racebook with NYRABets

March 14, 2022 — Caesars Sportsbook will launch a new horse racing account wagering app, Caesars Sportsbook, with NYRABets, the official online wagering platform of the New York Racing Association (NYRA). Availabl...

BetMGM Horse Racing mobile app live in Florida and Louisiana

December 23, 2021 — The BetMGM Horse Racing mobile app, already available in Ohio, is now live in Florida and Louisiana and allows users to watch-and-wager on premier Thoroughbred, Harness and Quarter Horse races at ...

Ohio to Join the Ranks of States That Have Approved Sports Betting

December 15, 2021 — It has been in the works for over a year. While the rumblings had died down in recent months, ut was just announced the Ohio state legislature has passed legislation that will allow Ohioans to bet c...

Racing at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club begins July 16th and ends September 6th

July 17, 2021 — Racing at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club begins July 16th and ends September 6th. The year 2020 held no in-person spectators because of the pandemic, but Del Mar's 82nd racing season will open up to ...

BetMGM enters partnership with NYRA Bets

June 1, 2021 — Market leading sports betting and digital gaming entertainment company BetMGM has signed a partnership with New NYRA Bets, the official online wagering platform of the New York Racing Association ...

Fixed Odds Horse Betting Coming to New Jersey?

April 26, 2021 — As online horse racing websites wage battle for every last customer they can find, there is a subtle change taking place in the undercurrents of the horse racing industry in America. It's called ”...

The Kentucky Derby Is Postponed, But Will Still Run

June 26, 2020 — The Kentucky Derby is the most viewed horse race of the entire year in the United States. It is considered the most storied and most prestigious of all of the horse races. However, it is always held...

Sports betting bill in New Jersey receives approval from NJ Senate

October 16, 2014 — The Garden State of New Jersey has approved a new bill that will bring peace to the sports betting industry. After many years battling against both federal government and other gambling monopolies...

Western Union crackdown takes online gambling payments systems down

October 10, 2014 — If there is anything successfully safe inside of the US online gambling and betting industry, that must be without no doubt the operators’ payment systems. The online gambling and betting operat...

The US Department of Justice against New Jersey sports betting proposal

October 8, 2014 — The US Department of Justice seems to be very concerned about New Jersey’s new proposal to offer sports betting inside of casinos and horse racetracks. In this case, DoJ has partnered with the m...

New Jersey receives proposition to tax sports betting

September 30, 2014 — State Governor Chris Christie is being one of the most popular politicians in the country at this time; his battle against practically any development in the Garden State, has led New Jersey citiz...

Sports betting to be authorized in New Jersey

September 9, 2014 — Sports betting is now permitted in the US state of the Garden State as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said last Monday that casinos and racetracks could now offer sports betting without fear o...

Senator Ray Lesniak to propose a new bill to legalize sports betting in New Jersey

May 23, 2014 — As the U.S. Supreme Court is unlikely to grand New Jersey a hearing in its appeal to overturn a federal law outlawing sports betting, Senator Raymond Lesniak is set to propose a bill to repeal...

Senator Raymond Lesniak to prepare a sports bill for casinos and racetracks

May 20, 2014 — State Senator Raymond announced on Monday at the East Coast Gaming Conference that he is preparing a bill to allow for private operation of sports betting at the state’s racetracks and casinos. ...

New Jersey is taking sport betting appeal to the Supreme Court

March 20, 2014 — New Jersey, the Garden State, is one of the main US states that has provided gambling since the early 1920s. The famous boardwalk located in Atlantic City has been the gaming icon for many Amer...

Illinois: lawmakers extend online betting law

February 3, 2014 — Illinois lawmakers approved an 11th-hour extension to an online betting law last week that will allow horse racing tracks to keep their racing schedules intact this year. The Illinois Senate v...

Webis and WatchandWager bring Thoroughbred racing to California

January 24, 2014 — WathandWager.com, deposit-wagering subsidiary of Webis Holdings, online casino and sports betting provider, has recently received the approval from the Thoroughbred Owners of California organiz...

Billionaire Warren Buffet offers $1bn to whoever calls the winners of all NCAA games

January 23, 2014 — While America is looking forward to the Super Bowl, things could rapidly change as billionaire Warren Buffet and his company, Berkshire Hathaway, in partnership with Quicken Loans, decided to of...

Sportech completes upgrade of Mywinners.com

January 20, 2014 — Sportech has completed an upgrade of its sportbetting and horse betting website Mywinners.com, the only website fully licensed by Connecticut and only one open to residents aged 18 or older in the...

Betfair US set to launch exchange betting in the Garden State

January 20, 2014 — Betfair US is set to sign a five-year deal with Monmouth Park track in New Jersey in order to offer online horse racing exchange betting to players in the Garden State. The New Jersey Racing Co...

Horse racing betting is the only legal form of Internet betting in the U.S.

December 1, 2013 — Horse racing betting is the only legal form of Internet betting in the United States; this has been the only sport that has enjoyed completed freedom in the United States. Horse racing bets a...

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