Dollars & Sense with Frank Angst looks at how Woodbine and NYRA are partnering with technology companies to provide new handicapping and wagering tools for horseplayers.
The July 20 Hawthorne Race Course bankruptcy hearing provided a triple whammy for horsemen: Racing is over; there is no money to pay some $1 million in purses due to them; and they have to clear out from their backstretch home by Aug. 31.
The 2026 Autumn Meet at Santa Anita Park will feature 26 stakes races that includes seven "Win and You're In" events for this year's Breeders' Cup. Santa Anita's 19-day Autumn Meet opens Sept. 25 and runs through Nov. 1.
On the July 20 episode of BloodHorse Monday: Lindsay Schultz on winning the Haskell Stakes (G1) with Baby Vino, Umberto Rispoli takes us through Journalism's San Diego Handicap (G2), and Atlantic Six's Jay Briscione on the honor of Book'em Danno Day.
Mizdirection won the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1) in 2012 and 2013, and retired with more than $1.7 million in earnings. She would sell later as a broodmare prospect for $2.7 million. She was the second stakes winner produced by Deceptive.
The Hong Kong study involving 2,924 horses found a modest connection between daily treatments of the gastric treatment and preventative omeprazole and increased risk of exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhaging, known commonly as bleeding.
Woodbine Entertainment announced the E.P. Taylor Turf Course is scheduled to return to racing use Aug. 8—several weeks ahead of the original Sept. 1 reopening target.