The proposition advanced in this discussion is that the winner of each race in the Breeders’ Cup World Championships should automatically earn the Eclipse Award for his or her division. This procedure would remove the voting–and therefore the politics and subjectivity–from the Eclipse Awards, except for Horse of the Year, which would continue to be [...]

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In the final week of December, 2008, a newspaper headline was ominous: “Retail experts predict more store closings, bankruptcies, layoffs in 2009.”

Will pari-mutuel retailer Magna Entertainment Corporation (MEC) be among the casualties?

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