Horse Racing News

With the Oaklawn Park racing surface failing to thaw out fast enough following a Sunday snowstorm, track officials have called off Friday's nine-race opening-day card. Oaklawn is expected to race on Saturday.

A high-profile trainer, Jones is making his comeback during the Oaklawn Park meet that opens on Friday. He had retired in November 2009, but after clearing up a complex health issue that had dogged him for a while.

The New Jersey Senate and Assembly passed legislation late on Monday night that would direct $30 million over the next three years from a newly created state casino fund to the New Jersey Racing Commission, according to reports.

Wickedly Perfect, winner of the 2010 Alcibiades at Keeneland, brought a session-leading $800,000 bid from Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm Monday afternoon at Keeneland's January yearling sale.

In the wake of a poor response from medical personnel to a jockey who was injured in the paddock at Aqueduct on Saturday, the New York Racing Association on Sunday implemented several new procedures designed to better serve the riders.

Joe Bravo was beaming as he came into the Gulfstream Park winner's circle after capping a sweep of Grade 3 turf stakes Sunday aboard longshot Justaroundmidnight in the ninth running of the $100,000 Marshua's River at Gulfstream Park.

May Day Rose didn't exactly win as a 1-20 shot should, but she managed to defeat two seemingly overmatched rivals as the heavy favorite in the Grade 3, $92,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes on Sunday at Santa Anita.

Though it still has a long way to go to recoup the handle lost from the closure of NYC Off-Track Betting Corp., NYRA officials have been encouraged by the increased handle through its Internet and telephone wagering platforms in the last month.

Trainer Al Stall is about to swing into stakes action at Fair Grounds and Louisiana points beyond, but Grade 1 winner J.B.'s Thunder will not be among the stable's participants, Stall said Friday.

The New York Racing Association is looking into a breakdown in communication that led to an injured jockey being left unattended to in the paddock for several minutes and nearly prompted the cancellation of the final 3 races on Saturday at Aqueduct.