A question almost sure to elicit a difference of opinion among avid racing fans is this: Which single race would you select as the one in which a horse looked impossibly beaten, yet somehow got up to win? If you could have wagered on who would win when the horses reached the final strides, how sure would you have [...]

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Some readers commented on this website and elsewhere online about last week’s post titled “How Well Managed is Churchill Downs, Inc.?” by conveying the view that CDI is pursuing advance deposit wagering and alternative gaming to the detriment of on-track racing. Following is my take on that understandable concern. This week brought several news items that once would have seemed highly [...]

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Like the upper management of all publicly traded companies, the top executives of Churchill Downs, Inc. (CDI) receive their share of criticism from a variety of sources. In the Internet age, anyone with access to a computer can have their say. The reality is that the facts paint a picture of a masterful job of shepherding [...]

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