We know far more about the libidinous quirks and reckless sexual practices of the departed Eliot Spitzer and the adulterous history o his successor, David Paterson, and his wife than we imagined only a few weeks ago. What we don’t know is when the details of racing’s future will be settled amidst the...

Note: This report, detailing the dire position in which the New York Racing Association faces in the weeks ahead, appears in Saturday’s editions of The Saratogian. It is reproduced here because we feel that the resignation of Charles Wait from the NYRA board is a significant development and a loss to...

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...