The owners of Gulfstream Park have tried several ways to lure a young and well-heeled crowd to the Pegasus World Cup over its five-year existence — most of which had little to do with horse racing.
Mike Brunker
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Mike Brunker is an assistant city editor working with reporters covering land use and environment, health care and immigration. He also writes a weekly horse racing column. Before joining the Review-Journal in August 2016, Brunker worked in various reporting and editing capacities for NBCNews.com, msnbc.com and the San Francisco Examiner.
Contract dispute between state’s parimutuel association and Churchill Downs prevents wagering on Fair Grounds’ fixture, one of the year’s first stakes races for 3-year-olds.
This year’s Eclipse Award ballot provides a much needed refresher in a year when our attention was so often diverted from the track.
Against all odds, the watershed Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act is now law. Here’s what comes next and what it could mean for horseplayers.
Nevada recorded 2,470 new cases of COVID-19 and 47 deaths from the disease over the preceding day, according to state data posted Wednesday.
State biostatistician Kyra Morgan addressed the governor’s COVID-19 task force on a day in which 1,747 new cases of the disease and 46 deaths were reported.
Santa Anita’s winter-spring meeting begins Saturday with an 11-race card chock-full of stakes races, with six on the card, five of them graded.
The Orange County track is putting on quite a show during the 11-day winter thoroughbred meeting that ends Sunday, in part because of Golden Gate Fields’ closure for COVID-19.
Nevada on Wednesday reported 57 deaths from the disease over the preceding day, as 2,366 additional cases were below recent levels.
The spike in coronavirus cases in Nevada is pressuring hospitals, especially in Southern Nevada where a record 90 percent of licensed beds were full as of Friday.
The Bob Baffert-trained colt tested positive for scopolamine after winning the Santa Anita Derby, but the case was quietly dismissed and he went on to sweep the Triple Crown.
Both reported zero fatalities at recent meets, a sharp contrast to last year when critics were literally at the gates of both facilities after a spate of horse deaths.
The Classic features one of the most accomplished fields assembled for the 1¼-mile race for 3-year-olds and up, with eight of the 10 entrants having earned more than $1 million.
Figures posted by the Department of Health and Human Services raised the case total for the state to 74,595, while fatalities increased the death toll to 1,506.
New cases were well below the daily average of nearly 277 for the preceding week, while fatalities were slightly below the daily average of nearly 13 for the period.
