Category: Industry News

Oklahoma Training Track to re-open in May following major renovation SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced that Saratoga Race Course will open for spring training at 6 a.m. on Saturday, April 17. The barn area at the Oklahoma Training Track will open to horsemen on Thursday, April 15. To…
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By David Grening Courtesy Daily Racing Form Barbara D. Livingston The 2020-21 Aqueduct winter meet was conducted without fans and only a limited number of owners in attendance. The 2020-21 Aqueduct winter meet generated all-sources handle of $349,962,356, an increase of 17.2 percent over the 2019-20 winter meet, according to figures released Tuesday by the…
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OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Winchell Thoroughbreds and Willis Horton Racing’s multiple stakes-winner Bankit seeks a third consecutive trip to the winner’s circle against stakes company in Sunday’s sixth running of the $100,000 Haynesfield, a one-turn mile for New York-bred older horses at Aqueduct Racetrack. The Haynesfield honors Turtle Bird Stable’s eight-time stakes winner who won…
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Saratoga | Sarah Andrew Courtesy ThoroughbredDailyNews.com FOX Sports and the New York Racing Association, Inc. have announced an expanded partnership agreement that establishes FOX Sports as the official wagering partner of NYRA Bets and the leading media provider for elite Thoroughbred racing through the next decade. The prior FOX Sports/NYRA media rights agreement provided a FOX Sports…
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OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainers Jim Chapman, Saffie Joseph, Jr. and Brittany Russell are among a number of conditioners that will have a presence at Belmont Park for the first time at the upcoming 48-day Belmont Park spring/summer meet that runs from Thursday, April 22 through Sunday, July 11. The spring/summer meet will offer its…
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40-day meet offers 20 Grade 1s, including seven BC WAYI events; G1 Jockey Club Gold Cup and G1 Flower Bowl to anchor Closing Weekend SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced the stakes schedule for the 40-day summer meet at historic Saratoga Race Course, which will feature 76 stakes…
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By Bill Heller Watching the $1 million Grade 1 Haskell at Monmouth Park on TV by himself in his Saratoga apartment on July 18th, Brian Culnan could scream as loud as he wanted for Ny Traffic (pronounced as “New York” Traffic), the three-year-old New York-bred colt he bred. As the mile-and-an eighth Haskell developed, Ny…
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By Bill Heller By definition, breeders are patient optimists. They get their mare in foal, wait 11 months for her to produce a foal, wait months more to see the foal turn into a yearling and then, if it is not sold as a yearling, wait at least another year hoping the foal, if not…
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By Bill Heller Twin Creeks Farm’s Randy Gullatt and Steve Davison, lifelong friends since kindergarten in Rustin, Louisiana, traveled a lot of miles and endured a difficult loss before becoming the breeders of the Belmont Stakes winner on June 20th. That’s when Sackatoga Stable’s Tiz the Law became the first New York-bred in 138 years…
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Bill Heller, who has been covering New York racing since the Ice Age – actually since 1974 – is ranking the top ten moments in New York-bred history from the last 46 years. The ranking is completely subjective – just one person’s Top Ten. They’ll be presented here in David Letterman’s Top Ten style, beginning…
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