LOS ANGELES — The dispute between California and Santa Anita Park over the use of a new betting machine was ratcheted up Wednesday when four major trade unions sent a letter to Rob Bonta, the California attorney general, urging the state to return the terminals it confiscated on Saturday. Santa Anita filed suit against the state on Tuesday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The fight over whether Santa Anita Park can legally have Racing on Demand machines at its facility moved to its next step on Monday when the track filed a writ of mandate seeking relief from the California Department of Justice.

The 52-page complaint, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, offered new details on the confiscation ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Santa Anita's experiment of placing a similar version of Historical Horse Racing at the race track on Thursday came to an abrupt halt on Saturday afternoon when law enforcement officials physically removed the machines after racing ended.

Two officials at Santa Anita confirmed that representatives of the state Department of ...Read more

The fight over horse racing tracks' right to legally install slot-machine-like terminals in their facilities to allow betting on past races hit the boiling point on Thursday when Santa Anita installed 26 Racing on Demand machines at the track on the ground floor of the grandstand. They will be in operation after 11 a.m. on live racing days.

At ...Read more

DEL MAR, Calif. — Japanese horse racing has been on the precipice of breaking through on the U.S. scene. It seemed like it was almost there in 2021 when it won three Breeders' Cup races. But after that it leveled off.

Through 10 races at this year's Breeders' Cup, horses from Japan underperformed. But in the 11th, the most important race in ...Read more

DEL MAR, Calif. — Sometimes the toughest part of owning a horse is deciding what to name it. If you own a bunch of horses, you run out of logical names pretty quickly. You can only do a play on the sire’s name so many times. And if you name it after a living person, you need permission from that person.

But every once in a while ...Read more

She didn’t grow up riding horses, no. It might have been the family business, but as a kid, she danced. Played some soccer. Went to USC and studied business while working toward an acting career. Did some commercials. Some theater. Eventually got burned out.

Only then did Britney Eurton’s career get on track – at the racetrack, naturally....Read more

DEL MAR, Calif. — John Sadler has had his share of Breeders' Cup failures, going 0 for 41 starts before he won his first Breeders' Cup race with Accelerate in the 2018 Classic. Then things changed, especially with his training of Flightline, a once-in-a-generation horse who ran only six races before being sent off to a lucrative career as a ...Read more