The Jockey Club Roundtable

As it has in virtually every conversation that involves horse racing over the past year, safety played a central role at the 72nd annual Jockey Club Round Table Conference in Saratoga Springs, New York Thursday.   California: Safety and Collaboration In two presentations focusing on California, Gary Fenton, Chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners of California and a managing partner of Little Red Feather Racing, spoke from a TVG set in the Del Mar paddock about the importance of California racing to the overall racing ecosystem, while Dionne Benson, the Chief...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - A panel on computer-assisted wagering (CAW) and its pros and cons, and another on trainers' reactions to the new Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) regulations, took center stage at the 2023 Jockey Club Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing held in Saratoga Springs, New York on Thursday. Patrick Cummings, the moderator of the panel on CAWs, is the Executive Director of the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation, a racing-industry think tank. Cummings took the panel through a brief history of parimutuel wagering and the changes...

The Jockey Club's Annual Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing will be held Sunday, Aug. 14, at 10 a.m. ET and hosted for the first time at the Saratoga Springs City Center in Saratoga Springs, NY. It will be conducted as an in-person event in 2022 after being held virtually in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference will also be streamed live at The Jockey Club's website and on its Facebook page. The full agenda and biographical information of all speakers at the conference...