Cancellations

After being delayed due to punishing winter weather in January and February, and with continued overnight cold extending into March, turf racing will return Thursday, Apr. 16 at the Big A, NYRA announced Sunday afternoon. The eight-race card has four turf contests slated to go at Aqueduct and will still commence earlier than both 2024 and 2025 despite the two-week delay. A six-furlong maiden sprint on the outer turf for fillies and mares will inaugurate grass racing in Race 4 and sophomore fillies will run a mile maiden special in...

Live racing has been canceled at Laurel Park for this coming Saturday, Mar. 14 due to insufficient entries, the track announced Monday morning. With the impending meeting at Colonial Downs set to kick off Thursday, Mar. 12, and two Points races for the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks scheduled for Saturday, Mar. 14 at that venue, Laurel Park will move all originally scheduled races for Saturday to Sunday, Mar. 15 as overnight extras. There will be live racing Friday, Mar. 13 with an eight-race program with first post at 12:00pm...

Live racing has been canceled at Aqueduct Racetrack by the New York Racing Association, Inc. due to a powerful winter storm forecast to bring heavy snowfall and extremely high winds to the region.   The National Weather Service has placed New York City under a blizzard warning beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern and continuing through Monday at 6 p.m. Aqueduct will also be closed for simulcasting on Sunday. Online wagering is available via www.NYRABets.com.

Racing at Aqueduct was cancelled Wednesday through Friday by the New York Racing Association (NYRA) in advance of forecasted arctic temperatures and extremely low wind chill values hitting the New York metro area. NYRA, in consultation with the Jockeys' Guild, New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association (NYTHA) and New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. (NYTB), will request formal approval from the New York State Gaming Commission (NYSGC) to conduct live racing on Wednesday, Feb. 4 with additional make-up days to be determined at a later date. Aqueduct Racetrack will be closed to...

The live racing card at Woodbine set for Thursday, Dec. 11 will begin one hour earlier to accommodate the new card after the Dec. 4 program was cancelled following one race, Woodbine Entertainment has announced. The 10-race Thursday card will start the final week of live racing for the 2025 season at the venue, and will now kick off at 4:30pm local time. Cold weather bringing plenty of snow rolled through the area earlier in the week, and the cancellation was agreed upon by the Jockeys' Guild, the HBPA, and...

With inclement weather affecting much of the country, Del Mar will cancel the entirety of its card on Saturday, Nov. 15, the track said in a press release on Thursday. Friday's 8-race card is expected to proceed as scheduled, however, first post has been moved up to 12 p.m. PST. Track officials have not yet made a determination regarding Sunday's racing program. Once a decision is reached for the remainder of the weekend, Del Mar will release additional information outlining plans to make up cancelled races as appropriate. Saturday's cancellation...

Sunday's eight-race card at Aqueduct was abandoned due to 'unacceptable noise levels' from an event being held at the neighboring Resorts World Casino, the New York Racing Association (NYRA) announced via press release. The 'March Madness Auto and Bike Show' reportedly generated noise levels which would potentially create unsafe racing conditions, and despite repeated attempts from NYRA to rectify the problem, the casino was unable to make the necessary adjustments to allow racing to continue. There was no advance notice that the event could become an issue. As a result,...

As a result of the severe storms which moved through the area, and are still making their way through large parts of the country, high winds and corresponding electrical issues have forced Fair Grounds to cancel live racing Saturday. The nine-race card had six main track and three turf contests scheduled for the day, but power loss in the area forced the track to abandon the card. Live racing is scheduled to resume Sunday with a first post of 12:45 p.m. CT.

With training on the main track remaining limited to joggers Saturday morning at Santa Anita due to the rainstorms during the week, the synthetic training track saw 76 horses record timed workouts over the course. Most notable on the list was SW & GSP Miss Lizzy (Classic Empire), who worked five panels in 1:00.80 (11/32), and who was one of nine workers for trainer Doug O'Neill. The filly was most recently seen running fourth in the GIII Las Cienegas Stakes Jan. 19 and who had claimed her first stakes victory...

With the recent winter weather-related cancellations, Parx Racing, in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association (PTHA), will offer live racing on Thursday, Jan. 30 in an effort to reschedule days which have been lost due to adverse conditions, the groups announced jointly Friday afternoon. The long-term goal is to add race days in the coming weeks to assist horsemen who have been impacted by the card cancellations. Days will be added in the future using 10-day weather outlooks to determine the best dates, but in the interim, Parx will...

Due to the storm that will impact the Mid-Atlantic region, officials at Laurel Park made the decision to cancel their scheduled nine-race program for Sunday, the Maryland Jockey Club announced via press release. Laurel and the MJC OTB network will remain open for simulcasting. Live racing is due to return Friday, Jan. 24 with a nine-race program. The first post is scheduled at 12:25 p.m.

With a forecast that calls for more than two inches of rainfall Sunday, officials at Santa Anita Park have preemptively canceled live racing scheduled for that afternoon. The program was to feature the GIII $100,000 Las Virgenes S. for 3-year-old fillies and the GIII San Marcos S. for older male turf horses. Those two races have been rescheduled for next Saturday, Feb. 10, with the races to be redrawn Wednesday, Feb. 7. Saturday's forecast calls for no such inclement weather and racing will go on as planned. Four graded contests...