It has been almost two years since the last thoroughbred horse race in Massachusetts and state regulators on Monday approved a change to shift a greater share of gaming revenues towards the world of ...

More bounced checks to Standardbred horsemen and alleged failure by the Chicago-area track to secure bonds for 2026 prompted ...

The National Standardbred Horse Show will be held Sept. 19 to 21, 2025, at the Horse Park of New Jersey, bringing together elite retired Standardbreds to showcase their talents off the racetrack.

Ontario Racing announced Dec. 14 a reallocation of the Horse Improvement Program purses between Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing, which will commence in April 2019. The HIP program purse budget, ...

Noah Shachtman’s long-stemmed piece in The New York Times about the state of horse racing in the United States did precisely what disappointing opinion pieces generally do. It makes a deep argument by ...

Fraser Downs, a Standardbred track in Surrey, British Columbia, was closed, effective immediately, on Aug. 15. A notice sent to horsemen on Aug. 15 said the City of Surrey, landlord and owner of the ...

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WKY Development—a joint venture between Churchill Downs Inc. and Keeneland Association—filed an application Sept. 4 with the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission requesting live Standardbred racing dates ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X At Silver Springs Ranch, a world class Standardbred horse facility near Harveys Lake, every day is ...

Churchill Downs and Keeneland released an artist’s rendering of their proposed track in Oak Grove, which was approved Friday. Churchill Downs owns 95 percent WKY Development with keeneland owning 5 ...

Molly D’Agostino’s family had a harness racing stable in upstate New York where she grew up, so when someone sent her the picture of one of her former Standardbred race horses in a kill pen at an ...

Standardbred racehorses, once the stars of one of the most popular sports in the Chicago area, are now an endangered species. In 2016, for the first time in the 71-year history of betting on harness ...