Colonial: Claiming Crown preview set for Aug. 21
Colonial Downs will for the first time host a Claiming Crown Preview day on Aug. 21 featuring eight races run under starter allowance conditions.
Read Moreby Press Release | Apr 23, 2025 | Breaking, Business, Press release other, Virginia, Virginia Business | 0 |
Colonial Downs will for the first time host a Claiming Crown Preview day on Aug. 21 featuring eight races run under starter allowance conditions.
Read Moreby Frank Vespe | Apr 6, 2025 | Breaking, Business, Bylined Other, Virginia, Virginia Business | 0 |
Colonial Downs will host an August day of racing in which the races are automatic qualifying races for November’s Claiming Crown.
Read Moreby Guest Author | Jan 29, 2025 | Breaking, National news, Opinion | 0 |
The horseracing industry must oppose a Florida “decoupling” proposal to sever the racing-gaming connection, says HBPA chief Eric Hamelback.
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Damon Thayer — who championed racing during his tenure in the Kentucky General Assembly — will be the keynote speaker at the National HBPA Conference
Read Moreby Press Release | Jul 6, 2024 | Breaking, Business, National news, Press release other | 0 |
For the second time, the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled HISA unconstitutional, this time because of its enforcement mechanism.
Read Moreby Press Release | Jul 1, 2024 | Breaking, Business, National news, Press release other | 0 |
The National HBPA today called on HISA to adopt drug testing threshold levels below which no positive is called.
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The National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association (HBPA) will hold its annual conference July 23-26 at Iowa’s Prairie Meadows.
Read Moreby Frank Vespe | Sep 26, 2023 | Breaking, Business, National news | 1 |
New legislation set to be introduced in Congress will repeal HISA and replace it with an interstate compact governed by state racing commissions.
Read Moreby Frank Vespe | May 5, 2023 | Breaking, Business, National news | 0 |
A district court ruling that the amended Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) is constitutional likely sends the case back to the Fifth Circuit.
Read Moreby Press Release | Mar 31, 2023 | Breaking, Business, National news, Press release other | 0 |
A Texas judge on Friday stayed the new HISA drug rules for 30 days, with his ruling to apply nationwide, which was cheered by the national HBPA.
Read Moreby Frank Vespe | Mar 28, 2023 | Breaking, Business, Bylined Other, National news | 0 |
A flurry of dueling press releases heralded the onset Monday of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s (HISA) new drug rules.
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Ten members of Congress — five Senators and five Representatives – have urged the FTC to reject HISA’s proposed drug rules
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