The Marshall Gramm saga has brought a lot of things into the light, or perhaps more accurately, back into the light. One of them is an old debate in horse racing that sounds remarkably easy until you ...

Okay, the “reporting” is on hold for today, let’s go unfiltered. For many years I have closed my articles with a movie scene or quote. Sometimes it is a song, sometimes an image. It is probably the ...

I have criticized HISA when I thought they deserved it. I have questioned their rules, their decisions, their priorities, their budgets and at times their judgment. I will undoubtedly do it again.

For weeks I have been fascinated by the leaked past performances containing veterinary information that was never supposed to be in the hands of bettors. Not because every horse receiving an injection ...

The Racing and Gaming Conference debated whether casual bettors, serious horseplayers and computer-assisted wagering operations can coexist. The better question is why one pari-mutuel pool has been ...

There are 1000 ways to lose a race, and only one way to win it, or is there? When we talk about doping in horse racing, almost everything revolves around the same premise. Somebody is trying to make a ...

Churchill Downs Incorporated and the New York Racing Association stood in front of cameras this week and called it a gift to the sport. Six races. Five months. A five million dollar bonus pool.

It was difficult to watch Cornucopian pull up injured while making what appeared to be a winning move in the Bing Crosby at Del Mar. A victory would have sent him to the Breeders Cup Sprint, a race ...

Kalshi and Polymarket volume has gone from under $5 billion a month to roughly $24 billion in under a year — and the insider trading cases are stacking up right along with it. Jon runs through the ...

The Saratoga angles show already cashed early — now it’s Del Mar’s turn. Jon shares the barns that point for this meet every year, the tell hiding in Bob Baffert’s odds, and why deep closers are in ...

Someone once said, Oh the Humanity, I’m going with Oh the Absurdity. Every time I go looking for a reason to believe the people running this sport are building something for the sport, they hand me ...

Paco Lopez has been handed a 30 day suspension by the New York State Gaming Commission for what officials described as gross careless riding during the Wild Applause Stakes on Saratoga’s opening day.