Horse racing in the United States is largely ignored by newspapers except during the Triple Crown season in the Spring of the year. The great turf writers of the past are long gone and most major newspapers do not have a full-time reporter assigned to horse racing. The vast majority of the writers that cover [...]

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Having fathers and daughters as entrepreneurs is not all that unusual. Part of the reason is genetics and part is due to the environment in which the daughter grew up. However, it is not often that the father and daughter become as prosperous as Bobby and Bethenny Frankel in totally separate business pursuits and with little [...]

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When the late racehorse owner Merv Griffin created the television game show Jeopardy in 1964, he could not have imagined what recently transpired on the program when an IBM computer decisively defeated two of the best human players in Jeopardy’s history. One of the contestants had won 74 straight games hosted by Alex Trebek, another [...]

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