The Horseplayers Association of North America (HANA) has named Keeneland as the No. 1 racetrack in North America for 2013. Keeneland has earned the aw...

800x600 Betfair Hollywood Park will continue to offer the Players’ Pick 5 at the reduced takeout rate of 14% when the Spring/Summer meet begins Thurs...

The tax-code changes passed last week by both houses of the U.S. Congress would have sent American horseplayers flying off a fiscal cliff had it not c...

Kentucky Downs has announced a reduction in takeout rates for all wagers during the six-day all-turf meet at the Franklin, Ky. track that begins Sept....

Takeout on all Pick 3 and Pick 4 wagers at Canterbury Park will be reduced to 14% effective opening day, Friday, May 18, track officials announced tod...

In “The Balmoral Park Takeout-Rate Experiment” of May 11, 2012, I wrote that the inordinately high average or blended takeout rate in pari-mutuel wag...

Pari-mutuel wagering in North America (USA, Canada, and Puerto Rico) has been in trouble for nearly a decade. The amount wagered on horse racing peak...

One of the things we've noticed this year in U.S, thoroughbred racing, is that handles seemed to have bottomed. Wagering is up so far in 2012, and we...

Remember the ad from the 1980's "This is your brain on drugs?".Well, "this is your industry on raising takeouts"The results of the takeout increase in...

The bean-counting should get interesting starting Friday in the Southern California thoroughbred racing world. Santa Anita trumpeted huge wagering gai...