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Wagering Insecurity: Suspicious Alerts This is Part 9 of the Thoroughbred Idea Foundations (TIF) series “Wagering Insecurity.” Faced with remarkable competitive pressure from the rise of legal sports betting, horse racing is at a crossroads. Confidence amongst horseplayers and horse owners is essential to the future sustainability of the sport. Efforts to improve the greater North American Thoroughbred industry will fall flat if its stakeholders fail to secure a foundation of integrity, alo...

Sponsored by: Jose Santos and girlfriend Carson McCord Jose Santos became famous for winning races as a jockey. His son wants to become famous for winning races as a jockey agent. The winning formula for Jose “Joe” Santos Jr. is to try and revolutionize the profession through strength in numbers, eventually creating a corporate-like business model. Santos, 26, represents five riders at four tracks. The bulky roster briefly reached six earlier this year and included two for most of...

Oklahoma Attorney General Files Lawsuit Challenging HISA Monday, April 26, 2021 at 5:30 pm | Back to: Top News Updated: April 26, 2021 at 7:07 pm Dustin Orona Photography A federal lawsuit spearheaded by the state of Oklahoma to try and get the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) voided for alleged constitutional violations was filed Monday, meaning there are now two active legal challenges in the United States court system attempting to derail the regulatory powers of the HISA “Autho...

The State of Oklahoma, joined by the U.S. Trotting Association, Hanover Shoe Farms, the State of West Virginia and others, filed a federal lawsuit in the Eastern Division of Kentucky U.S. District Court challenging the constitutionality of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act on Monday (April 26). Other plaintiffs in the complaint filed for a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief are the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission, West Virginia Racing Commission, Oklahoma Quarter Horse Racing As...

Top Oklahoma-Bred Welder Preparing For Rare Out-Of-State Appearance At Oaklawn Park Sponsored by: Trainer Teri Luneack and her star sprinter Welder at Ra-Max Farms in Claremore, Okla. Oaklawn will run two $1 million races Saturday (Apple Blossom and Oaklawn Handicap) and have a millionaire running in an allowance event when Welder makes a rare appearance outside Oklahoma for trainer Theresa Sue Luneack and owner Ra-Max Farms LLC. Oklahoma-bred Welder is the 2-1 program favorite for t...

CLAREMORE – For the 12th consecutive year, top thoroughbred contenders will compete at Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs for the lead position in more than 270 races scheduled between March 22 and May 26. Those 270 races include eight stakes races with six exclusively for Accredited Oklahoma-Breds. Races begin at 1 p.m. 
“As one of only a few tracks running last spring, we are now very rehearsed in conducting a safe race meet under pandemic restrictions and CDC guidelines,” ...

Without a Kentucky Derby prep this week, racing presents a sampler platter of subjects, including the delayed start to the season for would-be Derby favorite Essential Quality.

Speedy Elle Z Takes Off-The-Turf Edition Of Mardi Gras Stakes Sponsored by: 2/16/2021 - Elle Z with jockey Mitchell Murrill captures the 78th running of the $75,000 Mardi Gras Stakes at Fair Grounds. Hodges Photography / Jan Brubaker There were no fans in the stands, the temperatures were frigid, and beads were scarce, but as always, the traditional Fat Tuesday card at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots was highlighted by the 78th running of the Mardi Gras Stakes, and M Bar Os Elle Z...

Welder Earns Third Straight Oklahoma Horse Of The Year Title Sponsored by: Trainer Teri Luneack and her star sprinter Welder at Ra-Max Farms in Claremore, Okla. Welder, the millionaire Oklahoma-bred Thoroughbred that has earned endless records racing in Oklahoma, added another award to his record book the size of the novel “War and Peace.” He has added, for the third year in a row, Oklahomas All-Breeds Horse of the Year, presented by the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission. The now ...

Sponsored by: Hunka Burning Love wins the 2020 Jeffrey A. Hawk Memorial at Remington Among the best claims of the 2020 Oaklawn meeting occurred last April when owner/trainer Karl Broberg took Hunka Burning Love for $32,000 out of a seventh-place finish in a 1 1/8-mile event for older horses. Broberg didnt have to shake for the gelding, either. All Hunka Burning Love has done in 10 starts for Broberg is win eight races, including four stakes, by a combined margin of more than 43 length...