November 30, 2011:

It has been reported that Scarborough Downs has narrowly avoided a race-date cut for its 2012 season of live racing. "I agonize over making this recommendation," Maine Harness Racing Commission Executive Director Henry Jackson has been quoted as saying. "But every year I sit at this table and outline to the commission my concerns about a depleting horse supply."

February 24, 2011:

Freehold Raceway today announced that the condition sheet being released today will reflect a 25 per-cent reduction in purses

December 3, 2010:

After a meeting of the Ontario Harness Horse Association Board of Directors on Wednesday, December 1, OHHA has taken the position that it cannot support any further reduction of live racing dates in Ontario for 2011 from their

November 29, 2010:

Management of Tioga Downs today announced mixed results from their across-the-board takeout reduction in 2010. While handle increased by 7.8 per cent, wagering revenues fell from 2009

November 22, 2010:

After having slashed the number of thoroughbred race dates in New Jersey from 141 in 2009 to 71 in 2010, racetrack operator New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority has announced that the almost 50 per cent date reduction has resulted in a $122.5 million increase in handle