Churchill Downs, Inc. is traded on Nasdaq under the symbol CHDN. For purposes of reporting EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization), the company groups its businesses into five segments-racing operations, on-line business, gaming, other investments, and corporate. An entertainment division was added in 2009. Churchill Downs, Inc. owns four Thoroughbred racetracks: Churchill Downs [...]

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1. David Logan, the chief executive officer for USA Track and Field since July 2008, recently was the featured speaker at the convention of the dietary and healthy foods industry. His speech, titled “Braiding the Noose,” was a blistering attack on performance-enhancing drugs and the people who provide them. Much of what Logan said could [...]

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Whenever the sport has experienced low points like the tragedies of Barbaro and Eight Belles, it has tended to react by heaping on more and often emotionally-charged publicity with negative connotations of its own.

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