Plans for a new quarter-horse racing facility, located on State Road 40 west of Ocala, will be unveiled Sunday at a news conference, with an opening planned for the fall of 1987. The Classic Mile ...

Classic Mile Park was issued a quarter-horse racing permit Sunday, paving the way for construction of Florida’s first new race track in 15 years.Bob Rosenberg, director of the state division of ...

And thousands annually pack Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. every March for a single day of thoroughbred racing in Marion County, even though the event is held on a Monday afternoon and there is no ...

The board of directors for the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association has formulated an ambitious legislative agenda that would bring live racing to Ocala and get video lottery ...

A festival-like atmosphere surrounded Marion County’s single day of pari-mutuel thoroughbred racing on Tuesday, ... it was their first time at the event held at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales track.

For 364 days a year, management and staff at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company operate a sales company in central Florida. For one day of the year, though, they become racetrack operators.

But thoroughbred events have not occurred at the Ocala Breeders' Sales track after it appeared that a multi-week meet there would conflict with the track's intertrack wagering permit.

He and others around Ocala point out that a track opened recently in Birmingham, Ala., which has a metropolitan population of more than 900,000, compared with Marion County’s 170,000.