Category: Pennsylvania

Penn National to suspend racing temporarily

by Press Release | Mar 16, 2020 | Breaking, Business, PA Business, Pennsylvania | 0 |

Penn National Race Course in Grantville, PA will suspend live racing as a result of the coronavirus, the track announced today.

Parx Racing suspended over coronavirus concerns

by Frank Vespe | Mar 14, 2020 | Breaking, Business, PA Business, Pennsylvania | 1 |

With fears of coronavirus shutting down most major sports, the show is going on in horseracing, except at Parx, which is shuttered.

Trainer Jamie Ness bags 3,000th win

by Frank Vespe | Feb 19, 2020 | Breaking, PA Racing, Pennsylvania, Racing | 0 |

With a combined total of five wins on Monday and Tuesday, trainer Jamie Ness reached the 3,000-win mark with a rush

Hands off Race Horse Development Fund, PA. racing folks say

by Tom De Martini | Feb 10, 2020 | Breaking, Business, PA Business, Pennsylvania, Top Stories | 0 |

More than 500 gathered at Equistar Farms (PA) Sunday to protest a proposal to fund college scholarships with money in the Race Horse Development Fund.

Parx riders, management strike deal, avert shutdown

by Doug McCoy | Feb 7, 2020 | Breaking, Business, PA Business, Pennsylvania, Top Stories | 0 |

A deal between Parx management and local jockeys to improve the jocks’ room and streamline background checks means Saturday’s card will take place.

Pennsylvania racing girds for key legislative fight

by Frank Vespe | Feb 4, 2020 | Breaking, Business, PA Business, Pennsylvania, Top Stories | 1 |

Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed 2020-21 budget would fund a $200 million college scholarship program by taking the money away Pennsylvania racing.

Hoppertunity sires first foal

by Press Release | Jan 22, 2020 | Breaking, Breeding, PA Breeding, Pennsylvania | 0 |

Hoppertunity, an earner of more than $4 million on the racetrack, sired his first foal, a filly out of a stakes-winning mare.

Hockey Puck slips by in PA Nursery score

by Frank Vespe | Dec 7, 2019 | Breaking, PA Racing, Pennsylvania, Racing | 0 |

Hockey Puck rallied from mid-flight to register a 13-1 upset in the Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes for two-year-old PA-breds at Parx Racing Saturday.

Firenze Fire blazes to Fabulous Strike score

by Frank Vespe | Nov 28, 2019 | Breaking, PA Racing, Pennsylvania, Racing | 0 |

Firenze Fire was a dominant — and popular — winner of the Fabulous Strike Wednesday at Penn National, plus a report on the two undercard stakes.

Firenze Fire headlines Fabulous Strike

by Frank Vespe | Nov 26, 2019 | Breaking, PA Racing, Pennsylvania, Racing | 0 |

Three weeks removed from a fifth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, Firenze Fire is favored in Wednesday’s Fabulous Strike at Penn National.

Pricey Autonomous looks for first stakes score in Blue Mtn.

by Frank Vespe | Nov 26, 2019 | Breaking, PA Racing, Pennsylvania, Racing | 0 |

Autonomous, a $300,000 yearling, will seek her first stakes win Wednesday in the Blue Mountain Juvenile Fillies at Penn National, and a Swatara preview.

66 nominated to Penn National holiday stakes

by Press Release | Nov 16, 2019 | Breaking, PA Racing, Pennsylvania, Racing | 0 |

There were robust nominations to Penn Natinoal’s Thanksgiving Eve stakes program, highlighted by the Fabulous Strike and Swatara.

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