The state budget proposed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer includes a proposal for 4,500 video lottery terminals at Belmont Park according the reports from Albany – a blow to anyone who regards the site of the final leg of the Triple Crown and more Grade I races than any track in the world, a place where more racing...

A showdown would have been better. A showdown would have made public Sen. Joe Bruno’s nonsensical, irrational stance on franchise issue. Drop the gloves. Lock the gates at Aqueduct. It appears, though, that the politicians have rallied in the eleventh hour and deal is at hand, though it will not be final...

Having paused for the trip over the river and through the woods, we return to confront squarely the eleventh hour of racing in New York. This is where the political ego and the prospect of new frontiers of patronage and kickbacks trump the good of the state and its people, who are trampled as the power...

After a week of racing as it ought to be in Asia, the welcome home email contained links and references to dozens of stories concerning the still-unsettled racing franchise, none more bizarre than a piece published while labeled “opinion” by the New York Sun authored by Austin Shafran, a venomous political...