Kentucky News - Page 11

News Brief: Rep. Tom Burch said yesterday he will file a bill for next year's legislature to allow up to 18,000 slot machines across the state, including at eight licensed racetracks.

News Brief: Ellis Park owner Ron Geary said last night that he is closing the 86-year-old Henderson, Kentucky, racetrack, which was scheduled to open its summer meeting tomorrow.

News Brief: Churchill Downs has been named the top 'wonder' in Louisville in a contest co-sponsored by Louisville Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson, the Louisville Historical League and LouisvilleMojo.com.

News Brief: Larry Jones still cannot fathom how the filly he trained was at one moment crossing the finish line in second place and then in the next, she was gone.

A joint project has been announced that will re-energize the recycling program at the historic racetrack in time for the Kentucky Oaks and Derby races.

News Brief: Ellis Park owner, Frank Geary, remains confident Ellis Park will move closer to attendance and revenue goals this summer, but he admits the outlook for the 2009 meet suddenly couldn't be worse

Schiffer explains how to win $100,000 playing blackjack, an LCD TV and $10,000 playing slots; all just by doing a little gambling on the river.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

Churchill Downs has been selected as the final resting place for 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, who was euthanized one year ago today after a lengthy battle with laminitis.

News Brief: The potential financial windfall that casinos at racetracks could bring their owners won't mean that horse racing will be abandoned, track officials say.

News Brief: Churchill Downs track president Steve Sexton said today the company is open to operating a casino at an off-track location if that's what legislators prefer.

News Brief: Ellis Park owner Ron Geary said he would put a casino in Owensboro, Kentucky, to move it away from competition in Indiana.

News Brief: The Kentucky Horse Racing Authority could decide before the end of the year whether to grant the state’s last racetrack license to Sprint Racing Partners’ proposed quarter-horse facility near London, Kentucky.

Kentucky stands to be the last state bordering Ohio to add expanded gambling, at horse race tracks and other locations, following the Tuesday victory of gubernatorial candidate Steve Beshear.

Governor Ernie Fletcher's election-year decision to oppose a statewide referendum on the issue of casino gaming in the commonwealth has drawn the ire of the state's poker players, as Fletcher's position includes opposition to poker rooms.

New Brief: Nonprofit organizations hit the jackpot last year with charitable bingo and other games, pumping a net sum of almost $2 million into their coffers, according to the Kentucky Office of Charitable Gaming.

News Brief: In the Kentucky campaign, Beshear and Gov. Ernie Fletcher, the Republican incumbent, are both putting forth arguments whether to allow casino-style gambling at racetracks.

News Brief In the campaign commercial, Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher highlights Aurora's Hollywood Casino, although not by name, as a poster child of sorts for what happens to good communities when casinos come in.

News Brief: Kentucky Democrats running for governor aggressively challenged rival Steve Beshear for overpromising benefits derived from expanded gambling, at a statewide debate.

News Brief: Calvin Borel rode Street Sense slowly back to the winner’s circle with the same patience he demonstrated while taking the dark bay colt to first place during the Kentucky Derby.