Joe Frazier made a public appearance at the Saratoga Race Course in August, so I was surprised when I read about two months later that he was in a hospice for the liver cancer that took his life on November 7, 2011. Memories flooded my mind because Frazier and I are from the same generation and I can [...]

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Many professional sports team moguls like George Steinbrenner, Jack Kent Cooke, and Robert McNair have also been prominent owners and breeders of racehorses. They no doubt agreed with the observation that dealing with equine athletes is much easier than meeting the demands of human athletes. The ongoing labor unrest in the National Basketball Association is the best [...]

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American racetrack backstretches are largely kept going by grooms, hot walkers, and exercise riders from Latin American countries. Many of them are in the United States under the provisions of the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ H-2B visa program, which reads, in part: “The employer must establish that its need for the prospective worker’s [...]

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