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Technology In Horse Racing: Part III - Statistics And Data
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…
January 14 2012, 11:00am | Visit source ›
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Steve Byk, the informative host of At the Races on SiriusXM, recently had an on-air discussion with the knowledgeable Andy…
December 23 2011, 4:00am | Visit source ›
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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,…
December 22 2011, 11:05am | Visit source ›
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2012: The Mayan Prophecy and Horse Racing
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…
December 14 2011, 1:30pm | Visit source ›
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Lean times making some changes in the stallion market
The retrenchment in the bloodstock markets resulting from the world economic depression touched all segments of Thoroughbred breeding, even the…
December 9 2011, 6:07am | Visit source ›
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Media reports about the global business of golf are full of references to its diminishing fortunes. The gloomy tone should…
December 9 2011, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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Moving Away from Racing 1.0 is Very Difficult
"It's not my job"I've had a busy day here. I worked at a real job, I bet two races (1…
December 8 2011, 1:09pm | Visit source ›
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Accountants and the deep doo-doo of racing
Today’s Blood-Horse (here) asks, in a headline, if horse ownership is “more about love than money.” Well, as the kids…
December 7 2011, 7:48am | Visit source ›
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Recently I have felt like a college student all over again. No, not keggers and dormitory life, I’ve been waiting…
December 2 2011, 7:26am | Visit source ›
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There's One Spot Left to Grab an Edge: At the Track
This morning we've got a huge surge in the stock markets. But it did not look that way early on.As…
November 30 2011, 7:56am | Visit source ›
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Horse Racing Draws Line at Licensing Chechen Leader
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…
November 29 2011, 8:00am | Visit source ›
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Henderson: Churchill Downs Inc, TOC & Others are Making a Big Mistake
Industry watcher and gambling expert Hartley Henderson wrote a hard-hitting article this week about (primarily) horse racing. In the article…
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Horseplayers Association of North AmericaNovember 29 2011, 6:43am | Visit source ›
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THE NBA PLAYERS AND LANCE CORPORAL SCHMIDT
Many professional sports team moguls like George Steinbrenner, Jack Kent Cooke, and Robert McNair have also been prominent owners and…
November 21 2011, 6:52am | Visit source ›
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STAFFING SHORTAGES FOR U. S. RACEHORSE TRAINERS
American racetrack backstretches are largely kept going by grooms, hot walkers, and exercise riders from Latin American countries. Many of…
November 19 2011, 5:00am | Visit source ›
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Firestorm brewing over future of Florida horse racing
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…
November 18 2011, 1:05pm | Visit source ›
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Lasix: Demystifying the drug, methods of training without it
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…
November 17 2011, 5:02pm | Visit source ›
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Dateline 2031. The horse racing enterprise in the United States has evolved dramatically in the past twenty years. About half…
November 12 2011, 4:00am | Visit source ›
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Horse Racing Business pays tribute today to all of the men and women, living and dead, who have kept America…
November 10 2011, 10:00pm | Visit source ›
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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…
November 7 2011, 12:20pm | Visit source ›
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CDI AND PNGI ARE WEALTH CREATORS
Economic Value Added or EVA is a metric developed by Stern Stewart & Company that depicts how effectively a company…
November 5 2011, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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Keeneland announced they had a 9.3% increase in all source handle for the meet that concluded this weekend.Is there a…
October 31 2011, 8:20am | Visit source ›
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WHAT HAS BECOME OF HORSE RACING’S CUSTOMERS?
Pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing in the United States has been in a downward spiral. Some of the attrition in…
October 28 2011, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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More Protection as a Business Model - Texas to Ban Out of State ADWs
Hurting industries often do curious things. "The Texas Racing Commission has begun informing out-of-state wagering companies that it's now illegal to…
October 27 2011, 7:38am | Visit source ›
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Horse Racing Needs Rats To Help Clean The Game Up
Former backstretch employee T.Y. Faulkner wrote a piece on The Paulick Report, A Bounty For Cheaters, that seems to have…
October 26 2011, 8:16am | Visit source ›
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Tax Deductions for Yearling Thoroughbreds
Even the shrewdest Thoroughbred racing professional might balk at thinking of his prized racehorses the same way that he thinks about his tractor, but United States tax law suffers no…
October 17 2011, 6:45am | Visit source ›
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After listening to the Google earnings call last night I was amazed by some of the new, fresh ideas, in…
October 14 2011, 1:26pm | Visit source ›
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A Knife in the Back for Players Everywhere
HANA has learned that an RFP (Request For Proposal) in the form of a .PDF Doc has been sent out…
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Horseplayers Association of North AmericaOctober 14 2011, 10:54am | Visit source ›
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Lots of trees, or at least pixels, have given and will continue to give their lives in service of analyzing…
October 7 2011, 11:21am | Visit source ›
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Coming to a Track Near You - Barrel Racing?
At least in Florida it is if a quarter horse permit owner in Gretna, Florida gets their way. In a…
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View From the Racetrack GrandstandOctober 7 2011, 6:07am | Visit source ›
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Stronger market raises optimism despite little change in profitability for breeders
In a pleasant and unforeseen change, the Keeneland September yearling sale was a boon by every macroeconomic criteria. Gross receipts,…
September 28 2011, 2:46pm | Visit source ›
