GRAND ISLAND -- Fonner Park and the Nebraska Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association and the Nebraska Thoroughbred Breeders Association have announced a two-week trial period to conduct ...

A hero is a person admired for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. There are heroes throughout the horse racing industry and the Race Track Chaplaincy of America (RTCA) recognizes ...

An equine exercise wheel at Fonner Park is a lot like a merry-go-round, except that the horses traveling around the circle are real. The wheel allows horses to get exercise without going outside in ...

Outrider Bo Butler recently earned a national award for his actions last March at Grand Island's Fonner Park. Butler won the White Horse Award, an honor bestowed by the Race Track Chaplaincy of ...

A man convicted on a second-degree murder charge in the 2023 killing of a horseman at Fonner Park has been sentenced to more than eight decades in prison. A number of Nebraska news outlets reported ...

In many ways, David Ulch feels like he never left the rodeo when he works as a trainer at Fonner Park. Just like the rodeo, there’s plenty of cowboys and horses at the Grand Island track, which opens ...

Fonner Park has also begun protocol to routinely sanitize the paddock, the starting gate and other common areas for horses.” Fonner will use a three-stage quarantine process. During the first seven ...

Horse racing at Fonner Park will continue. Amid the COVID-19 breakout, the Grand Island track is putting in place a no-spectator trial period, which will begin Monday and run through April 1. Fonner ...

He was one of four — three jockeys and an outrider — who were injured two weeks ago during an on-track incident at the Grand Island facility. A horse clipped the heels of another horse and went down, ...

Some sights and sounds from the opening weekend of horse racing at Fonner Park in Grand Island. Horse-racing fans will have more chances to bet on live in-state racing this year as Nebraska tracks ...

Former Fonner Park CEO Hugh M. Miner Jr. died Oct. 4 at the Central Nebraska Veterans Home in Kearney, Neb., following a lengthy illness. He was 78. A graduate of Kearney State College, where he ...

The Nebraska Attorney General's Office sought to stop wagering on historical horse racing at Fonner Park from getting out of the gates Thursday. State horse racing regulators made an illegal decision ...