As Keeneland officials noted with a laugh, it couldn’t have been better scripted. But sometimes in horse racing, things have a funny way of coming together despite numerous factors. And on Friday, opening day at the Lexington racetrack, they did
Tax relief for the horse industry, not racetrack gaming, will be the focus of the Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP) during the 2007 General Assembly session, according to the chairman of the organization.
KEEP this year authored
You’ve heard the names: Cushion Track, Polytrack, Tapeta, StaLok. They are the trademark names of the major players in racing’s latest frontier: the new North American market to replace dirt tracks with synthetic ones.
Pardon the pun, but o
Demi Song bounced his way into Canadian Thoroughbred record books at Woodbine Aug. 30 when the gelding won the first race over the track’s new Polytrack surface.
Woodbine is only the second track in North America to hold a race meeting o
Woodbine Racetrack unveiled its state-of-the-art Polytrack racing surface for training today (Aug. 27).
Hundreds of horses galloped, jogged, or walked while 84 recorded timed workouts ranging from two furlongs to seven furlongs during th
Woodbine Entertainment Group has targeted Aug. 30 for its first race to take place on the Toronto track’s new state-of-the-art Polytrack surface.
“We expect to complete the installation of the Polytrack on top of the macadam (final
An allergy to hay and straw dust can be a tough sentence for a horse. But a black-and-white U.K. lesson horse with the problem is breathing more easily after a local community justice center and two magistrates’ courts began donating shredded
The Maryland Department of Agriculture received a $42,500 USDA grant on Friday (July 14) to conduct a feasibility study for an animal quarantine facility in proximity to Baltimore-Washington Thurgood
The Fair Hill Training Center in Elkton, Md., plans to install the Tapeta all-weather surface on its training track during the summer of 2006, it announced May 31.
The synthetic surface, designed by trainer Michael Dickinson and first
Woodbine Entertainment Group announced last Thursday (June 2) it has received approval from the Ontario Racing Commission to drop nine dates from Woodbine’s 2006 Thoroughbred racing schedule.
The altered calendar is to accommodate
Experts predicted that Eastern tent caterpillars (ETC) would begin showing up in greater numbers in Central Kentucky this spring, making it an especially important time for area horse farms to be implementing control strategies. One such strategy
A suspected case of neurologic equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) has led two West Virginia racetracks to issue an embargo on any horses from a horse farm in Ohio.
According to the Wheeling (West Virginia) Intelligencer, officials at
A fledgling group of owners and breeders in New York has launched a new effort to study a variety of issues affecting the safety of Thoroughbred horses, including whether some of the state’s racetracks should install alternative racing surfaces.
Some elements of an equestrian facility shouldn’t be taken for granted–solid fencing, sturdy shelter, and good arena footing among them. Then there are areas that sometimes get less attention than they deserve. Pathways around the farm often
If your indoor or outdoor arena is less than you hoped it would be, join the club.
The Keeneland Association board of directors gave its approval to install a synthetic surface known as Polytrack on the main racetrack during an April 19 meeting. Construction is scheduled to begin in May and the Central Kentucky track will be
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