The "decoupling" proposal, filed by Rep. Adam Anderson, R-Palm Harbor, would erase a requirement that Florida's two thoroughbred tracks hold live races to be able to operate cardrooms.

A bill in the Florida House would erase a requirement that Gulfstream Park and Tampa Bay Downs hold live races to be able to operate cardrooms and, in the case of Gulfstream, slot machines.

Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar, Fla., has quarantined a pair of barns after one horse tested positive for the neurologic strain of Equine Herpesvirus type 1. The affected horse was sent to the University ...

Tampa Bay Downs has imposed a quarantine on barns 25 and 26 after a horse was confirmed to have the neurological form of equine herpesvirus type 1, also known as EHV-1, a contagious virus that causes ...