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Wyoming's first mile-long horse racing track, Thunder Plains Park, has been approved by the Wyoming Gaming Commission for 16 live race dates in 2025, as well as simulcasting and related activities. While the first racing season will feature temporary structures, the essential components, including barns, racing officials' tower, video patrol towers, and spectator areas, will be in place. The track, located 10 miles east of Cheyenne at Thunder Plains Park, will host its inaugural race day Friday, August 1 with additional race days to follow on August 2, 3, 8-10,...

Despite previously announcing that interstate simulcast wagering would resume Friday, Feb. 3, Sam Houston released a statement Friday morning postponing it. "We have determined that more time is needed to fully evaluate the many legal complexities surrounding recent court decisions and the HISA amendment enacted by Congress at the end of last year," the statement read. "While we are eager to export our signal across the country, our commitment to maintaining federal and state compliance remains our top priority. We will export our signal across state lines when we are...

A bid by The Stronach Group (TSG)'s simulcast signal brokerage company to keep the Arizona Department of Gaming (ADG) from enforcing a law requiring companies that provide off-track- betting signals to sell them to anyone in the state who wants to buy them got stymied by a federal appeals court ruling Aug. 20. A three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit United States Court of Appeals affirmed an earlier district court's denial of a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging whether a relatively new state statute or the federal Interstate Horseracing...