http://www.raceday360.com/wire/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss R30 dana@superterrific.org http://www.anddownthestretchtheycome.com/2012/1/14/2706205/technology-in-horse-racing-part-iii-statistics-and-data via Pinboard - Horse racing, perhaps more any other sport, is an industry built on numbers and data. Odds, time, distance, weight, pace fractions, parimutuel payouts, pool handles; every year huge amounts of data is generated within the industry. But while tons of data exists in the horse racing industry much of it,… ]]> Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:00:00 -0800 http://www.anddownthestretchtheycome.com/2012/1/14/2706205/technology-in-horse-racing-part-iii-statistics-and-data http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/cultivating-new-bettors-7897.htm Horse Racing Business - Steve Byk, the informative host of At the Races on SiriusXM, recently had an on-air discussion with the knowledgeable Andy Serling of NYRA about the long-term process required to get new bettors up to speed on handicapping. They were of the opinion that racetracks should not “dumb down” their offerings… ]]> Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:00:00 -0800 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/cultivating-new-bettors-7897.htm http://blog.twinspires.com/2011/12/racing-is-cool.html via Pinboard - Through the misfortune of my son being sick I've had the good fortune of meeting a lot of great people. Small talk with nurses, therapists of various sorts (respiratory, occupational, speech, etc.), social workers, doctors, security guards, Ronald McDonald House-mates, and a whomever else happens to be in proximity helps… ]]> Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:05:00 -0800 http://blog.twinspires.com/2011/12/racing-is-cool.html http://www.thorotrends.com/news-and-views/50-blog/97-2012-the-mayan-prophecy-and-horse-racing via Pinboard - Did you watch the pilot episode for HBO's highly anticipated new horse racing drama Luck Sunday night? Without an HBO subscription I could not. The reviews have me quite interested though as no one, inside or outside racing, seems to quite know what to make of Luck or what direction… ]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:30:00 -0800 http://www.thorotrends.com/news-and-views/50-blog/97-2012-the-mayan-prophecy-and-horse-racing http://fmitchell07.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/lean-times-making-some-changes-in-the-stallion-market/ Bloodstock in the Bluegrass - The retrenchment in the bloodstock markets resulting from the world economic depression touched all segments of Thoroughbred breeding, even the relatively insulated stallion market. Not only have stallion prospects been harder to sell in the prevailing economic situation, but stallion farms have had to make cuts in fees and services,… ]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:07:00 -0800 http://fmitchell07.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/lean-times-making-some-changes-in-the-stallion-market/ http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/turf-sports-7775.htm Horse Racing Business - Media reports about the global business of golf are full of references to its diminishing fortunes. The gloomy tone should be familiar in horse racing circles. Golf, Inc. magazine lamented: “The dark economic clouds that have long threatened the golf industry are now fully upon us. The unemployment and financial… ]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:00:00 -0800 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/turf-sports-7775.htm http://pullthepocket.blogspot.com/2011/12/moving-away-from-racing-10-is-very.html Pull the Pocket - "It's not my job"I've had a busy day here. I worked at a real job, I bet two races (1 for 2 with a positive ROI for the first time - in what feels - since the Bush administration), I chatted with a professor of finance about computer teams, takeout… ]]> Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:09:00 -0800 http://pullthepocket.blogspot.com/2011/12/moving-away-from-racing-10-is-very.html http://www.thatsamorestable.net/blog/?p=431 That's Amore Stable - Today’s Blood-Horse (here) asks, in a headline, if horse ownership is “more about love than money.” Well, as the kids say, duh. Anyone who’s owned horses for any period of time can tell you that, from an economic perspective, the numbers in racing simply don’t work.  Sure, some horses make… ]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:48:00 -0800 http://www.thatsamorestable.net/blog/?p=431 http://www.horseracingnation.com/blogs/zatt/Making_the_Grade_123 Horse Racing Nation NewsWire - Recently I have felt like a college student all over again. No, not keggers and dormitory life, I’ve been waiting for the grades to come in, and this time it wasn’t on Mrs. Kenny’s Chemistry final, but rather from The American Graded Stakes Committee. Today’s the day. They reviewed the… ]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:26:00 -0800 http://www.horseracingnation.com/blogs/zatt/Making_the_Grade_123 http://pullthepocket.blogspot.com/2011/11/theres-one-spot-left-to-grab-edge-at.html Pull the Pocket - This morning we've got a huge surge in the stock markets. But it did not look that way early on.As Keith McCullough writes today in his market update, the use of twitter has changed the way we think and act. As a result, the markets are extremely fast, and efficient… ]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:56:00 -0800 http://pullthepocket.blogspot.com/2011/11/theres-one-spot-left-to-grab-edge-at.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/sports/horse-racing-draws-line-at-licensing-chechen-leader.html via Pinboard - Thoroughbred racing has always attracted a mix of royalty and rogues. Blue bloods like the Whitneys and the Vanderbilts have long been owners. So, too, have mischief-makers like the mobster Arnold Rothstein, who won the 1921 Travers at Saratoga with a racehorse named Sporting Blood. ]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:00:00 -0800 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/sports/horse-racing-draws-line-at-licensing-chechen-leader.html http://blog.horseplayersassociation.org/2011/11/henderson-churchill-downs-inc-toc.html Horseplayers Association of North America - Industry watcher and gambling expert Hartley Henderson wrote a hard-hitting article this week about (primarily) horse racing. In the article he examines what companies are doing to grow in the tough economy and compares it to racing. "[Other] businesses are doing whatever they need to in order to attract new… ]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:43:00 -0800 http://blog.horseplayersassociation.org/2011/11/henderson-churchill-downs-inc-toc.html http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/the-nba-players-and-lance-corporal-schmidt-7831.htm Horse Racing Business - 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… ]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:52:00 -0800 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/the-nba-players-and-lance-corporal-schmidt-7831.htm http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/staffing-problems-for-racehorse-trainers-7733.htm Horse Racing Business - 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… ]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:00:00 -0800 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/staffing-problems-for-racehorse-trainers-7733.htm http://www.ocala.com/article/20111118/ARTICLES/111119643?p=1&tc=pg via Pinboard - In a small North Florida town of fewer than 2,000 people, a firestorm is brewing over the future of Florida horse racing and the hundreds of millions of dollars it generates annually. In mid-October, the Florida Division of Pari-mutuel Wagering granted a license to Gretna Racing to hold a first-of-its-kind… ]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:05:00 -0800 http://www.ocala.com/article/20111118/ARTICLES/111119643?p=1&tc=pg http://www.drf.com/news/lasix-demystifying-drug-methods-training-without-it via Pinboard - Soon after leaving the service in the mid-1940s, Mel Stute went to work as a groom for trainer Yorkie McLeod at the old Tanforan Racetrack near San Francisco. McLeod had a funny way of trying to prevent his horses from the age-old problem of bleeding. He would ask his young… ]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:02:00 -0800 http://www.drf.com/news/lasix-demystifying-drug-methods-training-without-it http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/american-horse-racing-in-2031-7488.htm Horse Racing Business - Dateline 2031. The horse racing enterprise in the United States has evolved dramatically in the past twenty years. About half the American racetracks that were in business in 2011 are no longer holding live racing; some are now exclusively simulcasting facilities and others are defunct. The foal crop is about… ]]> Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:00:00 -0800 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/american-horse-racing-in-2031-7488.htm http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/veterans-day-2011-7746.htm Horse Racing Business - Horse Racing Business pays tribute today to all of the men and women, living and dead, who have kept America free by serving in the U. S. Military. Many current and past participants in horse racing have also heeded the call of their country in times of peace and war. A small… ]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:00:00 -0800 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/veterans-day-2011-7746.htm http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7202943/the-decline-horse-racing via Pinboard - Damon Runyon never had these problems. Not at the racetrack, anyway. There were guys, and there were dolls. And if you happened to see a gent, paying all kinds of rent, for a flat that would flatten the Taj Mahal, you and your elaborate backwards syntax could be pretty sure… ]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:20:00 -0800 http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7202943/the-decline-horse-racing http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/cdi-and-pngi-are-wealth-creators-7495.htm Horse Racing Business - Economic Value Added or EVA is a metric developed by Stern Stewart & Company that depicts how effectively a company is creating wealth for its stockholders. EVA is used by investors and some of the world’s premier firms. EVA analyses show that Churchill Downs, Inc. and Penn National Gaming, Inc.… ]]> Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:00:00 -0700 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/cdi-and-pngi-are-wealth-creators-7495.htm