http://www.raceday360.com/wire/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss R360 info@raceday360.com http://leftatthegate.blogspot.com/2009/01/like-its-2009.html Left at the Gate - Wanted to go back to this post, entitled HANA 2.0 - Like it's 1999, from last week on the HANA (Horseplayers Association of North America) blog. It's an interesting comparison between the plight of the music industry when it was first faced with the onslaught of MP3 and file-sharing services,… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:36:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8026/like-its-2009 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GatheringTheWind/~3/504738986/honor-system.html Gathering the wind - Marketplace had a story yesterday on when people are inclined to cheat. Apparently, if mixed with a group of peers, they find cheating acceptable if other members exhibit those qualities. If, however, they are with a group dissimilar to their own identified group, they have a tendency to walk the… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:50:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8025/the-honor-system http://youtube.com/?v=xZNseVg2GMA YouTube :: Videos by partymanners - Race replay ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:35:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8018/2001-dubai-world-cup-captain-steve http://pullthepocket.blogspot.com/2009/01/awful-numbers.html Pull the Pocket - Wagering on all North American racing fell below $14 billion in 2008, a loss of over 1 billion of handle. In inflation adjusted terms, our handle fell below $10 billion. We bet about $2B more in 1996, before internet betting was even invented. In contrast, all is not overly peachy… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:28:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8017/awful-numbers http://youtube.com/?v=_r3XSZD4Z6g YouTube :: Videos by partymanners - Race replay ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:10:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8016/2000-carter-handicap-grade-i http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/qwoj/~3/504640397/ntraa-waldrop-buckle-up.html Paul Moran at the races - National Thoroughbred Racing Associaion president Alex Waldrop on the sport's rather bleek economic news: "The fourth quarter was an extremely challenging one due in large part to the worldwide economic slowdown and other internal factors. Results in December were strongly compromised by a major drop in racing days brought about… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:08:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8019/ntras-waldrop-buckle-up http://www.thatsamorestable.net/blog/?p=143 ThatsAmoreStable.net - Not too long ago, we had a horse -- call him Bob -- with a problem. Bob's problem was not a lack of talent; unlike many horses, he had some of that. Bob's problem was mental. He had, shall we say, an aversion to winning. Bob would track the pace,… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:50:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8015/presence http://www.paulickreport.com/blog/did-stakes-row-cause-hughes-to-leave-bc-board/ Paulick Report - B. Wayne Hughes has stepped down from the Breeders' Cup board of directors less than three weeks after the board was involved in the controversial decision to suspend and later reinstate the 2009 stakes supplement program. A self-made billionaire who founded and chairs Public Storage company, Hughes, 75, is a… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:49:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8011/did-stakes-row-cause-hughes-to-leave-bc-board http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/truenicks/archive/2009/01/06/tomorrows-thoroughbred-pedigree--nick-today-milwaukee-brew-and-holy-bull.aspx BloodHorse - Alan Porter has written previously about Holy Bull and his sons... he's written about Milwaukee Brew's stud career -- today, it all comes together as Alan predicts a future pedigree affinity between these two sires... ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:41:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8012/tomorrows-nick-today-milwaukee-brew-and-holy-bull http://maryforney.blogspot.com/2009/01/zap-of-week-interview-with-euroglide.html Mary Forney's Blog - Okay... this is just too fun! Euroglide is quite a character, or is it the interviewer? Zap may have created a whole new genre in horse racing videos. Euroglide is looking very self-confident, almost cocky, for a horse entered to run in a couple of days. Anyway, makes for a… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:30:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8013/zap-of-the-week-an-interview-with-euroglide http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/qwoj/~3/504570225/maryland-2008-figures-nosedive.html Paul Moran at the races - The Maryland Jockey Club concluded the 2008 racing season with average wagering figures 22.5% lower than 2007. All sources handle totaled $668.1 million as compared to $875.8 million the previous year. Racing 14 fewer days in 2008, the daily handle decreased from nearly $3.8 million to just over $2.9 million… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:29:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8020/maryland-2008-figures-nosedive http://youtube.com/?v=sKftpxOLMeg YouTube :: Videos by kentuckyderby - A profile overview of 2009 Kentucky Derby contender, Beethoven. ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:17:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8010/beethoven-contender-profolie http://twitter.com/raceday360/statuses/1100115774 Twitter / raceday360 - ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:11:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8009/raceday360-sort-of-related-superterrific-news-sling-is-expected-to-announce-iphone-app-at-macworld-imagine-this-streamed-live-httpisgdeihv http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/qwoj/~3/504518679/nbc-sports-wins-national-tv-eclipse.html Paul Moran at the races - The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers Association today announced that NBC Sports has won the Media Eclipse Award for National Television - Live Programming for its telecast of the 2008 Preakness Stakes. This is the eighth consecutive year that NBC Sports has… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:21:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8021/nbc-sports-wins-national-tv-eclipse http://handride.blogspot.com/2009/01/second-coming.html Handride - Nicanor, brother to Barbaro, could possibly make a start in under three weeks. To say interest in this will be high is like saying you think the Yankees have a good chance this year. If he goes off at more than even money I'll be shocked. Even if he still… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:30:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8008/the-second-coming http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/qwoj/~3/504445473/adena-springs-again-tops-us-breeders.html Paul Moran at the races - Adena Springs tops the list of leading individual breeders in North America in 2008 with earnings of $19,217,703, according to statistics released today by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc. (TJCIS). In topping the list for the sixth consecutive year, Adena Springs bred the winners of 603 races from 3,671… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:48:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8022/adena-springs-again-tops-us-breeders http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/wgoh/archive/2009/01/06/Going-Green.aspx BloodHorse - During most of the past 200-plus years, the Kentucky General Assembly convened for only 60 days every two years. To poke fun at the lawmakers, a group of Frankfort, Ky., citizens once printed bumper stickers calling for the group to instead meet two days every 60 years. Now, the Kentucky… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:28:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8005/going-green-by-dan-liebman http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/finalturn/archive/2009/01/06/Words-on-a-Page.aspx BloodHorse - Had you told me at the start of the last season that I would begin this one as a free agent, I would never have believed you. I expected to work in Lexington, fulfilling my aspirations to make it big as a Turf writer, for the next 25 years or… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:23:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8006/words-on-a-page-by-claire-novak http://kennedyscorridor.blogspot.com/2009/01/kentucky-derby-top-10.html Kennedy's Corridor - Every Tuesday, barring unforeseen circumstances, I'll be updated my Derby Top 10 right up to the Tuesday after the last major preps are run. The Triple Crown Trail is lots of fun and I'd encourage everyone to make their own lists and follow along. This is one of the most… ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8007/kentucky-derby-top-10 http://www.ntra.com/content.aspx?type=news&id=37143 Delicious - "Two rocket ships will be launched at Gulfstream Park on Thursday, and don’t be surprised if a few of the passengers wind up landing in Louisville on the first Saturday in May." (Steve Haskin) ]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:56:00 -0800 http://www.raceday360.com/wire/items/view/8004/kentucky-derby-trail-thursday-thrills