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Recent Posts:
- ECLIPSE AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING TRAINER, JOCKEY, AND HORSE OF 2020
- SHOULD TV BETTING ANALYSTS HAVE “SKIN IN THE GAME”?
- WORLD-CLASS HORSE RACES TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN WINTER 2021
- OVERLOOKED ATHLETES TURN INTO STARS
- A YEAR OF DISRUPTION
- RACING TRADITION AT THE REAL DOWNTON ABBEY
- GREAT POTENTIAL FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN TRAINING AND RACING
- CHOOSING AN ONLINE WAGERING SITE
- PREMIER BRITISH AND AMERICAN HORSE RACES TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2021
- HORSE RACING’S BUSINESS MODEL SAVED THE DAY IN 2020
- RAMPED-UP RISK OF BETTING DURING COVID-19
- OUTLOOK FOR HORSE RACING IN 2021
- SUPER-DUPER WHALES AT RACING AUCTIONS
- NEW EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE CASTS DOUBT ABOUT WHIP USAGE IN HORSE RACING
- WILL PETA HAVE BOARDROOM ACCESS TO LOBBY FOR ITS PROPOSALS?
- A DESERVED SIGH OF RELIEF AT SANTA ANITA PARK
- A BILL HIRSCH VIGNETTE: AN ARGUMENTATIVE MLB MANAGER AND A HORSE NAMED CIGAR
- THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY?
- A BILL HIRSCH STORY ABOUT “MONEY TALKS”
- THE GENETICS OF AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB 140 RULE (BY ROBERT LOSEY, Ph.D. AND THOMAS LAMBERT, Ph.D.)
- THE 2020 PREAKNESS IS AN INSPIRING UNDERDOG STORY FOR MULTIPLE REASONS
- A TALE OF A HOF HORSE, HIS HOF TRAINER, AND A MARIJUANA-SELLING GROOM
- AN INTRIGUING STANDARDBRED-TO-THOROUGHBRED RACING TRANSITION
- WEALTHIEST AMERICAN RACEHORSE OWNERS IN 2020
- ECONOMICS OF THE AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB 140-MARE LIMIT by ROBERT L. LOSEY, PH.D.
- FACTS AND THOUGHTS ABOUT THE 2020 KENTUCKY DERBY
- DO MODERN-ERA KENTUCKY DERBY WINNERS MEASURE UP HISTORICALLY?
- THE LINDA RICE AND MAX PLAYER EPISODE
- WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE SPORTS TEAMS COMPARED TO CHURCHILL DOWNS AND PENN NATIONAL GAMING
- CALUMET FARM AND THE KENTUCKY DERBY
- WILLIAM R. TRAVERS
- ONLINE SPORTS BETTING AND ESPORTS
- SARATOGA 2020
- THE FEDERAL PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM WAS POPULAR WITH HORSE-RACING BUSINESSES AND NON-PROFITS
- BOOK REVIEW OF “THE GREATEST GAMBLING STORY EVER TOLD”
- WHY A 2020 KENTUCKY DERBY WITH SPECTATORS IS ILL-ADVISED
- A NEW VEHICLE FOR INVESTING IN PREMIER ONLINE BETTING AND SPORTS WAGERING COMPANIES
- THE APOLITICAL ATTRACTION OF HORSE RACING IN AN INCREASINGLY PARTISAN WORLD
- CURRENT OUTLOOK FOR A 2020 KENTUCKY DERBY WITH ON-TRACK SPECTATORS
- ABOUT THE CAREER-ENDING INJURY TO NADAL
- ACCOMPLISHED WOMEN PURSUING THE FAMILY BUSINESS OF HORSE RACING
- THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN KENTUCKY DERBY HORSE OWNER
- QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NEW JOCKEY CLUB RULE CAPPING STALLION BOOKS AT 140 MARES PER YEAR
- POSSIBLE OUTCOMES FOR THE 2020 SARATOGA MEET
- A KENTUCKY DERBY FROM THE TWILIGHT ZONE
- 2020 IS THE MOST ABNORMAL YEAR EVER FOR SPORTS
- RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS HELP OFFSET THE CARNAGE FROM A PANDEMIC
- IS LIVE RACING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPERILING JOCKEYS AND THEIR MOUNTS?
- WHY THE GLOBAL THOROUGHBRED ENTERPRISE SHOULD IMMEDIATELY MANDATE AI BREEDING
- THE JOCKEY CLUB SAFETY NET FOUNDATION
- KENTUCKY DERBY TICKETS: FORCE MAJEURE
- OFF TOPIC: COPING DURING A PANDEMIC
- A MORE SELECT KENTUCKY FIELD AND A WEAKENED TRAVERS FIELD IN 2020
- HORSE RACING LIFTED FANS’ SPIRITS DURING THE PANDEMIC OF 1918-1919 AND IS DOING SO AGAIN IN 2020
- 27 INDICTMENTS, JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE
- CORONAVIRUS FEARS WHACK CHURCHILL DOWNS AND PENN NATIONAL GAMING VALUATIONS
- CHALLENGING SPRING BECKONS FOR TIGER ROLL, HIS TRAINER, AND OWNER
- INBREEDING IN THOROUGHBRED HORSES IS INTENSIFYING
- CORONAVIRUS AND THE 2020 TRIPLE CROWN
- GUIDANCE ON WAGERING ON CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL RACES
- TOWARD VASTLY REDUCING U. S. HORSE FATALITIES IN RACING AND TRAINING
- THE AINTREE GRAND NATIONAL IS COMING UP ON APRIL 4, 2020
- IS THE HORSERACING INTEGRITY ACT WORTH PASSAGE INTO LAW?
- MY FIRST HANDICAPPING CONTEST
- ONLY ONE MONTH TO THE CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL
- PENN NATIONAL GAMING PURSUES A YOUNGER CUSTOMER DEMOGRAPHIC VIA BARSTOOL SPORTS
- WALK IN THE MILL TO LAND IN THE 2020 GRAND NATIONAL
- DRAFTKINGS, FANDUEL, SPORTS BOOKS AND THEIR THREAT TO PARI-MUTUEL WAGERING
- THE SANTA ANITA CONUNDRUM
- WHY MARY HIRSCH BELONGS IN THE HALL OF FAME
- CHELTENHAM 2020 RACES
- A REVEALING LOOK AT NO-LASIX RACING AND AMERICAN HORSES
- BUSINESS OUTLOOK FOR AMERICAN HORSE RACING IN 2020
- ON SANTA’S GIFT LIST FOR AVID RACING FANS: “TALL TALES AND STRAIGHT TALK FROM THE BACKSIDE”
- DEFECTIVE RACING HALL OF FAME SELECTION?
- AMERICAN RACING’S WORST EMEMY IS ITSELF
- CLEANING UP AMERICAN HORSE RACING’S DRUG PROBLEM
- BUILDING BLOCKS FOR TURNING AROUND AMERICAN HORSE RACING
- TRUE GRIT
- NOSTALGIA
- 2019 BREEDERS’ CUP: SOME GOOD METRICS AND SOME CONCERNING POST-EVENT OMENS
- RIGHTING THE SHIP
- IF MAX SCHERZER HAD BEEN A RACEHORSE
- BREEDERS’ CUP COMPARED TO CHAMPIONS DAY AT ASCOT
- PROFESSIONAL SPORTS-TEAM OWNERS INVOLVED IN HORSE RACING
- HOW MUCH U. S. EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT AFFECTS U. S. PARI-MUTUEL HANDLE
- 2019 MELBOURNE CUP
- PETA CAN’T BE ACCOMMODATED
- THE FIRST-EVER MILLION-DOLLAR STANDARDBRED AUCTION YEARLINGS
- SOCIAL-CLUB RACING PARTNERSHIPS
- A LETHAL COMBINATION: TIN EARS, BAD DECISIONS, AND POOR OPTICS
- A FACTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE JUSTIFY SCOPOLAMINE POSTIVE IN THE SANTA ANITA DERBY
- THE PARALLEL UNIVERSES OF THE NY TIMES EXPOSE AND KEENELAND: FOLLOW THE MONEY
- DEVELOPMENTS IN LEGAL SPORTS BETTING IN THE UNITED STATES
- RISK AVERSION AND LOSS AVERSION
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAN ASSIST STEWARDS TO MAKE DQ DECISIONS FASTER AND MORE ACCURATELY
- 2019 TRAVERS STAKES
- EAST/WEST COASTS ON AUGUST 17: THE ALABAMA AND THE TVG PACIFIC CLASSIC
- HARNESS RACING IS ERRONEOUSLY GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION WITH “HORSE RACING”
- AVID RACING FANS LOOK FORWARD TO THE “DOG DAYS OF SUMMER”
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