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Ran into my pal the usher the other day at Laurel.
That is, the ex-usher.
Because Laurel — besieged by nearby tracks with slots-infused purses and battling the collapsing national economy — no longer needs ushers on normal days. And so my...
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In the last two installments of our now, thankfully, about-to-end “Less ain’t more” series, I’ve disputed the contention made by some that we should slash the number of races run in this country. To summarize my points: The market...
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In my last post, I responded to the notion that, in the words of Steve Crist, “We run way too many races in this country,” and to the related suggestion, advanced by Jeremy Plonk at ESPN, that racing adopt a strict, top-down system limiting...
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There’s an article, by Jeremy Plonk of ESPN (read it, here, if you must) that seems to be in somewhat wide circulation in the racing world. Which I define as, “I’ve seen it linked to on two or three blogs.”
The central thesis of...
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The future arrives pretty much on schedule without any help from us. That, of course, can be either a good thing — for example, while waiting for President Bush to become an ex-President — or a bad one. Say, when you’re watching horse...
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The problem with having too much to do at the moment is that the world — discourteously — continues to spin on its axis whether I blog about it or not. As a result, a variety of racing news of some import has come and gone without me.
The...
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The idea of a commissioner (or, in some circles, czar) of racing has gained major traction in recent months among many who bemoan racing’s myriad problems.Indeed, it’s become somewhat of a holy grail, a catch-all solution for everything that...
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It’s somehow typical of horse racing — the sport characterized by decentralization, not to say disarray — that, after years of fans suffering in silence, there are suddenly not one but two groups aiming to give voice to the long-suffering...
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T.S. Eliot wrote that the “greatest treason [is] to do the right thing for the wrong reason.” Racing, in its stop-and-start initiative to control drugs, will likely be forced to do the right thing for the right reason — the health and...
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