With the start of the 2023 live racing season at Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino fast approaching, horsemen planning to compete at the Altoona, Iowa facility this season should take note of a ...

Horse racing has long been a loss leader at Prairie Meadows, America's first racino. But new leader says it's time to give it another chance ...

Live horse racing returns to Prairie Meadows Casino, Racetrack, & Hotel on Friday, April 30 when the Altoona, IA, facility opens its 32nd season of Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse action. On Thursday, ...

Hooves hit dirt, clip-clopping an easy rhythm, and early summer sunshine wasn’t so hot with the breeze in my face. I was sitting in the sulky with Mike Wilder, a career harness racing driver, as ...

The Meadows Racetrack & Casino has announced the extension of the suspension of live racing through Feb. 23. The track previously announced the suspension would last through Feb. 6. During the ...

A regular at Prairie Meadows since it opened in 1989, George Markley has watched the scene at the racetrack change over the years. There's less live music between races, and only one food vendor ...

The end of thoroughbred racing at Bay Meadows racetrack has arrived. The historic horse-racing venue, built in 1934, will be razed for commercial development later this year. The next week and a half ...

A harness driver died after a serious accident during a horse race at The Hollywood Casino at The Meadows in Washington County. Twenty-seven-year-old Hunter Myers died Thursday morning "after a tragic ...