LOS ANGELES — The dispute between California and Santa Anita Park over the use of a new betting machine was ratcheted up Wednesday when four major trade unions sent a letter to Rob Bonta, the California attorney general, urging the state to return the terminals it confiscated on Saturday. Santa Anita filed suit against the state on Tuesday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The fight over whether Santa Anita Park can legally have Racing on Demand machines at its facility moved to its next step on Monday when the track filed a writ of mandate seeking relief from the California Department of Justice.

The 52-page complaint, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, offered new details on the confiscation ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Santa Anita's experiment of placing a similar version of Historical Horse Racing at the race track on Thursday came to an abrupt halt on Saturday afternoon when law enforcement officials physically removed the machines after racing ended.

Two officials at Santa Anita confirmed that representatives of the state Department of ...Read more

The fight over horse racing tracks' right to legally install slot-machine-like terminals in their facilities to allow betting on past races hit the boiling point on Thursday when Santa Anita installed 26 Racing on Demand machines at the track on the ground floor of the grandstand. They will be in operation after 11 a.m. on live racing days.

At ...Read more