horse races

A Dunlap woman is back home in Illinois after taking part in one of the world’s most grueling endurance horseback races on a different continent.

Laurie Kaplan started riding horses when she was 5. She told her mother she was interested and her mom got to work finding a barn in her hometown of East Lansing, Michigan.

The Illinois Racing Board has advanced a proposal to allow video gambling on past horse races despite the board's attorney warning that the move would be…