With no clear date for racing to return announced, Penn National announced that its annual marquee event, the Penn Mile, would be canceled this year.
Penn National Race Course in Grantville, PA will suspend live racing as a result of the coronavirus, the track announced today.
With fears of coronavirus shutting down most major sports, the show is going on in horseracing, except at Parx, which is shuttered.
With a combined total of five wins on Monday and Tuesday, trainer Jamie Ness reached the 3,000-win mark with a rush
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.
A deal between Parx management and local jockeys to improve the jocks’ room and streamline background checks means Saturday’s card will take place.
Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed 2020-21 budget would fund a $200 million college scholarship program by taking the money away Pennsylvania racing.
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 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.
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.