Reports of the demise of the horse racing industry are entirely premature if recent events at the Hong Kong Jockey Club are any indication. Players pushed the turnover at the recent G1 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee S (Royal Ascot) to $66.2 million HK ($8.46 million USD), a new record for the World Pool. Saturday's huge…
The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has issued a polite, but firm, rejection of an offer from the animal rights group Animal Rising to debate the merits of their sport on live television. Animal Rights offered the debate in exchange for a promise to stop disrupting horse racing events with protests aimed at pointing out the…
Churchill Downs is suspending all races until July 3 as it investigates a wave of 12 mysterious horse deaths at the fabled track. The suspension of races at Churchill Downs is the latest blow to an industry that's had its fair share of bad luck, and other unexplained horse deaths, in recent months. Previous investigations…
The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), a British gambling industry trade group, is using the return of Britain's Grand National horse race as a platform to rail against some impending regulatory changes. In a statement posted on their website, BGC officials celebrated the vaunted race's value to the British economy, but warned that proposed changes…
When the State of New Jersey moved to overturn The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PAPSA) in 2009, part of the idea was that regulated sports betting would help lift other sectors of the gaming business that were on life support. Now, 13 years later, that exact dynamic is playing out in…
Daily Racing Form (DRF), the leading name in horse racing information since 1894, is getting ready to launch two new mobile betting site DRF Bets and DRF Sports. The new sites will feature localized sports betting content and could make DRF a competitive player in the booming regulated US sports betting industry. DRF Bets, and…
GVC Holdings is selling off its on-course bookmaking operations at horse racing tracks across the United Kingdom. It's a move that portends a grim future for UK track operators and is just another guy kick from the ongoing trauma that we know as 2020. According to a recent report in the UK Guardian, GVC Holdings…
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson hit the UK horse racing industry with a bit of the old good news/bad news this week. On the good news side, the PM will allow the races to go on (sort of) as planned. But that news was combined with the gut-wrenching news that all proposals to have fans…
The British horse racing industry took another big hit this week when health officials reinstated restrictions on how many in-person attendees can be at tracks for live racing. As it stands today, spectators are allowed at the tracks, but only six at a time. That number is now so small that the tracks might as…
Gambling regulators in Maine have approved a measure that would allow online wagering on horse races. It's a big move for a state that's been slow to expand gambling options and shows exactly how much the worldwide COVID-19 lockdown is impacting and expanding gambling markets. Wagering on harness racing has long been legal in Maine,…
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