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KTDF Revenue Decline of Concern to Panel

Members of an advisory committee that oversees the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund expressed concern June 8 over diminishing revenue for the program as well as one racetrack's suspension of full-card simulcasts.

 Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Flooding Delays Training at Ellis Park

Flooding Delays Training at Ellis Park

Ellis Park director of operations Bob Jackson said in spite of the Kentucky River flooding around the facility a week prior to the Kentucky Derby, simulcast numbers were not significantly affected.

 Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Ellis Gets OK on Dates, Keeneland on Purses

Ellis Gets OK on Dates, Keeneland on Purses

Ellis Park got the official OK to add five days of racing to its current meet, and Keeneland will be permitted to change the way it divvies up purses in each race.

 Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Picking Up the Pieces at Ellis Park

No call at 2 a.m. is good. Rodney Leibring, DVM, received one of those calls on Nov. 6. Leibring, a Thoroughbred racetrack practitioner, was asked by the male caller if he was at Ellis Park yet. Leibring, confused because he wasn't expected there until after 8 a.m., replied, "No why?" The man told Leibring that he needed to get there right away. A tornado had just hit the racetrack's stables, and it didn't look good.

 Friday, November 11, 2005