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Holiday Shopping for Horse Racing Fans (About.com)
if you are looking for that perfect gift for the horse racing fan in your life, here are some places to shop that should make your shopping easier this Christmas....
More horse racing headed to Alameda County Fairgrounds (Contra Costa Times)
Meeting at UC Davis on Tuesday, the eight-member California Horse Racing Board unanimously approved the 2008-09 horse racing calendar, which includes an extra three racing days for the Pleasanton fairgrounds now and more weeks to follow in future seasons.
Horse tracks win race for your tax dollars (Chicago Sun-Times)
When a 10th casino opens in the Chicago area in the next few years, its competitors in the local horse racing industry could hit the trifecta. The horse racing industry, by state law, must be given 15 percent of whatever money the new casino rakes in -- a windfall of as much as $70 million a year.
Temporary casino eyed to get head start on racing purses (Small Town Papers News Service)
Horse Racing at Raton officials are considering opening a temporary casino to help build up purse money for the live racing that is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2010 at a planned south Raton racino....
California Racing Dates Approved for '09 (BloodHorse)
Golden Gate Fields will host a total of 181 racing days in 2009, including 29 during the summer on behalf of the California Authority of Racing Fairs, under a dates allocation plan approved by the California Horse Racing Board Nov. 18.
Pocket Jockey iPhone Game Simulates Horse Racing In Most Suggestive Way Possible [IPhone Apps] (Gizmodo)
Pocket Jockey simulates those carnival games where you have to propel your horse down a via any manner of hammer-bopping, ball-rolling or water gun-squirting—only here, the idea is to actually jump...
Senators want governor to put spurs to ailing N.J. horse-race industry (Asbury Park Press)
As state horse-racing regulators prepare to take on funding issues that threaten the operations of Freehold Raceway, state Sens. Jennifer Beck, R-Monmouth, and Richard Codey, D-Essex, on Tuesday called on Gov. Jon S. Corzine to put together a promised panel that will look at allowing slot machines at racetracks or come up with alternative ways to best prop up the ailing racing industry.
NJ Lawmakers Call for Racing Study Group (BloodHorse)
Two New Jersey lawmakers have taken a bipartisan approach in urging the governor to quickly form a committee to examine the state and future of the horse racing and breeding industry.
Unbeaten filly Zarkava wins Euro Horse of Year (Sports Illustrated)
LONDON (AP) -- Zarkava, the unbeaten filly who defeated the boys in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, was chosen Europe's Horse of the Year at the Cartier Racing Awards on Monday.
Horse racing: Welsh National Miko has Haydock option (icWales)
MIKO De BEAUCHENE could start back on the Coral Welsh National trail at Haydock this weekend.
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