Twinspires keeps you update on the latest US track closures due to COVID-19. Please support these few available race/betting opportunities for the sake of our horseman and all of our wonderful athletes. The link below will keep you informed:
TWINSPIRES: Tracking coronavirus COVID-19 impact on horse racing
A twelve horse field enters the gate for the 750K CURLIN FLORIDA DERBY today at Gulfstream Park, Hallendale Florida. Tiz the Law is the morning line favorite at 6-5, with Ete Idien (4-1) and Independence Hall (9-2) following respectively. Today’s winner recieves 100 points towards this year’s Kentucky Derby, to be now run the first Saturday in September.
Follow CBS SPORTS for the full field and notes to ponder:
CBS SPORTS – FLORIDA DERBY AT GULFSTREAM PARK
photograph Gulfstream Park homepage: gulfstreampark.com
Current headlines sound the alarm as racing now falls the latest victim to COVID-19. Unlike other sports where players simply take to the bench, horseman scramble to find resources to keep their horses safe and fed until the smoke clears. Tracks not only opt to close, but by rule of governing bodies, are forced to evict backstretch workers and horses normally stabled for full racing meets. Here are just a few articles from headlines across the United States:
Jockey Javier Castellano test positive for COVID-19 – Kentucky.com
COVID-19 Impact Costing Racing Millions of Dollars = The Bloodhorse
News concerning racing in the following states:
New Orleans | New Jersey | New York | Kentucky
The Bloodhorse continually reports on the tireless work those in our racing industry continue to do in the face of COVID-19. Read about Adiclere Evans and Lexington-based Bloodline Products. The maker of jockey silks, among other Thoroughbred racing-related items, has now shifted its resources to begin making two different types of surgical masks along with hospital gowns for doctors and nurses.
Amid sports nationwide enforcing season delays or shut-downs for the foreseeable future, there remains a final sport that withstands the crisis sans the roar of its enthusiastic spectators: horse racing.
Coronavirus doesn’t deter horse racing at US tracks
By Eric Olson and Beth Harris
Associated Press, The Spokesman
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