By Jenny Kellner/ NYRA After 69 starts, $2,977,130 in purses won, and nearly 80 miles of dirt and turf, the finish line for Evening Attire finally arrived last month with the announcement of his retirement. To honor the hugely popular 10-year-old gelding’s great career, the New York Racing Association...

Not that it has a great deal at stake in terms of lost revenue but the New York Racing Association will do something many horseplayers have long espoused when Aqueduct opens at month’s end. With the shift of racing from Belmont to South Ozone Park, NYRA will eliminate admission and parking fees – something...

Following the recommendation of the Thoroughbred Safety Committee of The Jockey Club, toe grabs with a height greater than two millimeters (.07874 inches) on front horseshoes will be banned from all horses racing at Saratoga Race Course, Belmont Park, and Aqueduct Racetrack. The limitation takes effect...

Interesting that a pamphlet – Guest Service Tool – distributed to employees of the New York Racing Association is written in both English and Spanish. Cultural diversity and political correctness aside, why would NYRA hire non-English speaking people for jobs that require verbal interaction with a predominantly...

After having taken of few days off before the annual pilgrimage to the Spa, returned news of funeral plans for Luke Kruytbosch, who was not only an extreemely talented race caller but a genuinely nice man and disturbing reports of the dismissal of Larry Stewart and Bob Mieszerski by the Los Angeles Times...

Contrary to upstate news reports, there will be no synthetic surfaces at Belmont, Aqueduct and Saratoga in the foreseeable future, which includes the lifetimes of your great grandchildren. That’s the good news. From the New York Racing Association’s perspective, there was a bit of more important news...

Chernobyl's Hero made his nineteenth start in the Aqueduct nightcap on Thursday, another attempt to escape the state-bred entry-level allowance condition, another opportunity to earn some money for Russian children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. Since the beginning of the four...

Life in the cradle of political pathos is never quite serene. It goes from one potentially chaotic doomsday scenario to the next, sometimes, as is now the case, week to week. The lawmakers of New York blinked last week when faced with a shutdown of racing at Aqueduct and finally fashioned an agreement...

From San Jose, Costa Rica Seven years ago, a couple of friends, one of whom owned a mare, and I agreed that it would be a good idea to breed a horse, specifically a New York-bred. If we were fortunate and the resultant horse had enough ability to race competitively in New York, the state-bed program...

With the announcement of the Eclipse Award winners late Monday night, the extension of the New York Racing Association franchise due to expire on Wednesday, the remote possibility of a settlement of negotiations between the hostile partisan factions of philistines in Albany, the more likely additional...