Parx Racing, which slashed live racing days from 210 to 153 in 2016, will add 17 back next year to reach 170.
Controversial trainer Ramon Preciado — currently appealing eight recent clenbuterol positives — will lose his training license, per a state Racing Commission ruling issued today.
Trainer Richard Vega got the 1,000th win of his career today at Parx Racing — but not before sweating out an objection against his horse.
Saturday’s Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes went to Downhill Racer after he and rider Andrew Wolfsont found room along the inside.
Bug boy Luis Ocasio, 19, doesn’t talk much while learning the English language. But his riding skill say plenty and have him in the hunt for an Eclipse Award.
Shayjolie, a multiple graded stakes-placed stakes winner, is favored in a $54,000 allowace this afternoon at Parx Racing.
Candip won the Fabulous Strike last night at Penn National — one of three stakes on the night in which favorites were defeated.
Jockey Trevor McCarthy won five times at Parx Racing yesterday — for five different trainers, with none of the winners shorter than 7-2 odds.
La Vitesse won a Parx allowance last out by 14 lengths. She’ll look to validate that Wednesday in the Blue Mountain Juvenile Fillies at Penn National.
Wednesday’s Swatara Stakes at Penn National has drawn a full field of 10, headlined by West Virginia-bred Charitable Annuity.