With the announcement of the Eclipse Award winners late Monday night, the extension of the New York Racing Association franchise due to expire on Wednesday, the remote possibility of a settlement of negotiations between the hostile partisan factions of philistines in Albany, the more likely additional...

It appears that differences on a handful of inconsequential differences stand between the current uncertainty in which the New York Racing Association is operating on time borrowed by politicians and the relative calm that will accompany the moment at which the issue is put to rest. Foremost is the configuration...

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...