Horse industry, take note
In Frankfort lingo, as committee meetings are announced in the legislative chambers, the presiding officer often ends with the admonition: “Members, take note.” Well, horse industry, take note Tuesday....
View ArticleADW tax bill, take 2 or 3 or 4
UPDATED WITH VIDEO (This is my maiden race, so be gentle.) (This is a longer, more detailed version of a brief that will be posted elsewhere at courier-journal.com.) The effort to tax Internet wagering...
View ArticleTracking the track bills
Two bills of interest to racetracks are moving along, but now it will get really interesting to see what happens to them. Most notably, HB 189, which would tax bets by Kentucky residents through...
View ArticleAccount wagering tax bill dead in Kentucky session
The latest effort to tax bets made by Kentucky residents through account wagering companies like Churchill Downs Inc.’s TwinSpires.com is dead, leaders in the General Assembly said Monday. House Bill...
View ArticleTVG dropping wagering fees
Betfair’s TVG account wagering service announced Friday it is dropping wagering fees. The fees were mocked in advertising by TVG competitor TwinSpires.com, which is the ADW of Louisville-based...
View ArticleAccount wagering’s stake in Kentucky
Days after the latest failure of a bill to tax Kentucky residents’ wagers made through account wagering services like Churchill Downs Inc.’s TwinSpires.com, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission...
View ArticleIllinois horsemen roll out the welcome mat for CDI poobahs
Illinois horsemen’s groups rolled out the welcome wagon Monday to the Churchill Downs Inc. board, which is set to hold the Louisville-based company’s annual meeting today at Arlington International...
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Peace in the Prairie State
Louisville-based Churchill Downs Inc.’s Arlington International Racecourse(aka Arlington Associated Press file photo Park) and the Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association both announced in short...
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Kentucky Derby broadcast numbers up, as well as Churchill Downs Inc.’s Derby...
NBC Sports announced Sunday that its Kentucky Derby race broadcast drew a 10.4 Kentucky Derby winner Orb heads to the winner's circle. overnight Nielsen Co. rating, equaling the 2010 broadcast as the...
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New Haskell Invitational sponsor might be more interested in betting off the...
In announcing the new sponsorship deal where the Haskell Invitational at MonmouthPark becomes the William Hill Haskell Invitational, Joseph Asher, the U.S. CEO for William Hill, didn’t hide the...
View ArticleBreeder apologizes to Churchill official
Bill Landes, a member of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission’s advisory committee for the state-bred purse incentive program, apologized Wednesday to a Churchill Downs Racetrack official for a...
View ArticleAccount wagering bill in Illinois advances as adjournment approaches
Is the Illinois General Assembly the hardest working legislature in the republic, passing legislation on a Sunday of a holiday weekend? Or is it just the final days of a session kicking things into...
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Churchill Downs Inc.’s slots hopes in Illinois fail again, but account...
The Illinois General Assembly adjourned Friday without the House taking a vote on the casino bill that would have put slots at Louisville-based Churchill Downs Inc.’s Chicagoland racetrack. That would...
View ArticleAccount wagering back in Illinois after five-month stoppage
The people of the Prairie State can bet at home again — or wherever their mobile devices take them — online after Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill allowing account wagering to resume. Louisville-based...
View ArticleKentucky gets $6 million in online poker case settlement
Kentucky officials announced Wednesday that the state is receiving $6.075 million in an online poker case settlement. Kentucky officials filed a lawsuit in 2008 to seize 141 domain names that it...
View ArticleFederal ruling means Churchill-harness tracks ADW case headed for trial
U.S. District Judge John F. Grady’s 38-page ruling earlier this month definitively decided little in the two-year-old dispute between Louisville-based Churchill Downs Inc. and two Illinois standardbred...
View ArticleTwinSpires’ handle from Kentuckians grew nearly 10 percent in first quarter
As Churchill Downs Inc.’s second quarter earnings report is readied for its July 31 release, here’s one more first-quarter statistic. Several weeks ago, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission released...
View ArticleThere’s an app for that (just not in the store)
Stumbling through my Safari browser this morning, I noticed that the TwinSpires.com mobile site has a new version. A colleague, who saw my tweet about the roll out, immediately asked why they don’t...
View ArticleRemember exchange wagering?
The long-in-development plan for exchange wagering in California could get final approval this month. The California Horse Racing Board approved exchange wagering regulations last year, but the...
View ArticleExchange wagering coming to a Golden State near you
Now it gets interesting. California regulators gave final approval to the California Horse Racing Board’s revised rules for exchange wagering, the CHRB announced this week, setting up what could be...
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