A six-person Jefferson District Court jury in Kentucky on Thursday convicted jockey Robby Albarado of one misdemeanor count of assault, a charge that may put the rider’s immediate career in jeopardy.
A Jefferson District Court jury found jockey Robby Albarado guilty of fourth-degree assault July 12 after hearing evidence about an incident involving a former girlfriend, Carolina Martinez.
Claimed horses that do not win the races in which they were claimed will be eligible to race within 25 days at the same level after a regulatory amendment approved by the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) goes into effect July 25.
Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Doug O'Neill said he will drop his appeal of a 45-day suspension in California stemming from a carbon dioxide overage in one of his horses in 2010 and will serve the suspension from Aug. 19-Sept. 27.
A woman who pleaded guilty in April to stealing $463,636 from the University of Louisville Equine Industry Program was sentenced Monday to 37 months in prison.
The Florida Division of Administrative Hearings ended a four-day hearing June 29 without issuing a ruling on whether Gretna Racing LLC can continue to use a Quarter Horse racing license to hold pari-mutuel barrel racing.
There are a myriad of interesting topics to write about this week. Walter Case Jr. will likely find out his future driving fate when the Massachusetts Racing Commission renders their decision on his appeal, world record holder Googoo Gaagaa and his ineligibility for the Hambletonian, and the stellar crop of 3-year-olds this season head my top three.
A Circuit Court judge has told John Veitch to obtain a letter of interest for his services from a Kentucky racetrack and then re-submit his license application to the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
A Franklin Circuit Court judge Wednesday ruled that the state’s former chief state steward should be allowed to apply for a license if he presents evidence to the state racing commission that a racetrack intends to hire him, according to an attorney representing the former steward, John Veitch.
John Veitch, the former chief steward for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission who was dismissed from his position last year, has filed a motion with Franklin Circuit Court in Kentucky seeking a new steward’s license from the commission.
With the Triple Crown behind him, trainer Doug O'Neill seems more determined than ever to fight a 45-day suspension for an elevated level of total carbon dioxide in a horse he raced at Del Mar in 2010.
In the stables at a prominent Quarter Horse racetrack in New Mexico, workers quietly nicknamed Jose Trevino Morales’s stables as the “Zetas’ stables” and say they often saw people show up with bags of cash to buy the horses.
On Tuesday, June 5, the Ontario Racing Commission released its rulings in regard to the appeals of horsemen Doug McNair, Marc St. Louis and Brandon Campbell.
The West Virginia Racing Commission has proposed lowering the threshold level for phenylbutazone (Bute) to match the recommendation of the Association of Racing Commissioners International model rule.
Kentucky stewards have taken disciplinary action against two licensees in connection with a horse running under an incorrect trainer's name and suspended the trainer involved for a medication positive for the same horse.
After a full-scale investigation, the Louisiana Racing Commission suspended nine Louisiana trainers for six months, after 11 racehorses tested positive for dermorphin.
Trainer Eric Heitzmann has been fined $1,000 by Louisiana Downs stewards for being the aggressor in an altercation in the Louisiana Downs paddock last Thursday afternoon.
The brother of the alleged leader of a Mexican cocaine-trafficking cartel used Bank of America Corp. accounts to invest the organization’s drug proceeds in U.S. racehorses, a FBI agent said.
An Irish jury unanimously found a former aide to U2 bassist Adam Clayton guilty of embezzlement after she spent more than 2.8 million euros (US$3.6 million) of the musician's savings on items that included 22 Thoroughbreds.
British online gambling operator William Hill will launch its US operations once it completes three acquisitions this week, after the Nevada Gaming Commission awarded it its long-awaited license.
After investigating the timing of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat's Preakness Stakes, the Maryland Racing Commission voted unanimously to change the official time from 1:54 2/5 to 1:53, a stakes record.
Racing regulators have issued the first ruling stemming from a recent outbreak of positive tests for the powerful, pain-killing drug dermorphin at Louisiana tracks.
An Indiana judge has found in favor of the former executive director of the Indiana Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association in his ongoing battle with the state's racing commission.
Authorities dismantle illegal Arizona horse track, The Arizona Department of Gaming is investigating a suspected unlicensed horse-racing operation near Picacho after authorities raided the makeshift track this past weekend.
Trainer Doug O’Neill, who won this year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness with I'll Have Another, plans to a contest a 45-day suspension issued by the California Horse Racing Board last month after one of his starters tested in excess of the permitted level of total carbon dioxide in 2010.
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