Kentucky Racing

On Wednesday, February 10 in Kentucky, the House Agriculture and Small Business Committee voted in favour of a piece of legislation that calls for taxes on agricultural items related to the horse raci...

Kentucky Horse Racing Commission Chairman Robert ‘Bob’ Beck announced today that he will step down from his post effective December 7, 2015.

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission met Monday (October 26) and approved a traditional schedule of racing for the Red Mile for 2016.

Officials with the Red Mile characterized the opening of the track’s Instant Racing facility this past Saturday (September 12) as a soft opening, but have stated that the first day of operation went w...

Keeneland Race Course has filed a request with the state's Horse Racing Commission to move its simulcasting to The Red Mile. There has been no Thoroughbred simulcasting at The Red Mile since the late ...

On Monday, March 23, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission voted 8-4 in favour of allowing racetracks in the state to card races in which participating horses will not be allowed to be given race-day a...

It has been reported that a Kentucky bill that calls for the exemption of the pari-mutuel tax on wagering on live races during the two-day Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland this October has been signed into ...

Earlier this week, the Senate State & Local Government Committee in Kentucky passed a bill that calls for members of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to adhere to the state’s executive ethics ...

There are currently a handful of horse racing-related bills in Kentucky that are of interest to those in the industry, and a story by The Courier-Journal gives an overview of each of them.

On Friday, February 13, the Kentucky Senate approved Senate Bill 74 – a piece of legislation that calls for the alteration of existing state lottery laws to allow a ‘shared lottery game’ – by a vote o...

On Tuesday, February 10, Kentucky’s Senate Licensing, Occupations and Administrative Regulations committee passed SB74 – a bill that calls for the alteration of existing state lottery laws to allow a ...