Saratoga Springs, New York Race replays were restored to the New York Racing Association website on Friday after having been halted by a nonsensical edict from the State Racing and Wagering Board. The general assumption was that what was available before the board interjected itself without real purpose...

Saratoga Springs, New York Two days of rain and a marketing misjudgment have put the New York Racing Association so far behind its early 2007 figures that the meeting is unlikely to recover over by Labor Day. The first two days of the 2007 meeting at Saratoga drew 62,123, a figure inflated by a bobble...

At the end of a prolonged period of abject stupidity during which the New York State Racing and Wagering Board ordered the New York Racing Association to deny Internet access to replays to its patrons, prohibition is over. Replays will, according to NYRA, return to the website on Friday.

With no air conditioning in the basement jockeys quarters -- there was no air operational conditioning in most of the building -- the final card of the spring-summer meeting was canceled on Sunday at Belmont Park. A transformer fire on Saturday, the latest evidence of crumbling infrastructure and neglected...

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...

From NYRA The New York Racing Association announced a program that will increase purses for open company route races on the dirt and turf at Saratoga Race Course, based on the number of horses in a race. The revamped purse structure begins on Wednesday, July 23, opening day at Saratoga. For dirt races...

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...

STATEMENT FROM SARATOGA FACILITIES MANAGER CHARLIE WHEELER: At approximately 8:30 a.m. today (Thursday), six carpenters were renovating Barn 50 at the Oklahoma training facility at Saratoga Race Course to install new barn walls. As is routine procedure, the workers were raising the roof of the barn utilizing...

The New York Racing Association reported a net loss before reorganization items related to bankruptcy and a one-time income tax settlement of $17.86 million for the year ending 2007 compared to a net loss of $16.02 million for 2006, an increase in net loss of $1.84 million or 11.5 percent. Two major...