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The Conscience of Thoroughbred Racing
Knocking a horse someone else likes is a low percentage play. You could end up looking foolish and maybe wind up losing friends. However, sometimes
Weekends without a significant Kentucky Derby prep are a rarity once the calendar turns into January. This past weekend was one of the exceptions. With
The babies became the big kids on the block Wednesday. It’s Derby season and it isn’t taking long to kick into gear. Before the new
The quietest week of the racing year as well as the last few days before we welcome 2020 is a perfect opportunity to look back
Not a lot of suspense or controversy in this year’s Eclipse voting, so I’m going to detour to a new award I’ve created. Racing Person
Multiple Breeders’ Cup winning trainer Peter Miller and his veterinarian have strongly urged that Stormy Liberal, back-to-back winner of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint in
Maximum Security gets a final opportunity in the Cigar Mile Saturday to lock down what should have been his months ago. A victory will eradicate
Gulfstream Park is opening its 2019-20 winter season by taking the opposite approach of the most grating cliché of contemporary times. It is doing things
The creation of the Thoroughbred Safety Coalition this week is a commendable step in the right direction to deal with racing’s myriad problems. The alliance
Racing is facing an existential crisis. But as distressing and intolerable as the number of equine deaths is, the abolition of racing is, at least
The management of Santa Anita, in association with horsemen, should demand an end to the state’s grandstanding with respect to racing. “Work with us. Recognize
I’ve scoffed at the hysteria that thoroughbred racing is facing an existential crisis, except maybe in California. Horse racing is too entrenched in the culture
The Breeders’ Cup has something in common with afternoon delight. Even when they are not terrific, they are still pretty darn good. Only a publicist
The first phase of Breeders’ Cup 2019 is only days away. Preliminary entries are due Monday. Four standouts, who have virtually locked up Eclipse Awards—Sistercharlie,
The latest figures on sports betting in New Jersey released this week are record-breaking and revealing. Bettors sent in $445 million on games, the highest
