I would like to commend Kelsey Riley on her initiative as a journalist in going to South America to get the information required to write her sensational piece about South America's push to rid racing of drugs (Following South America's Lead On Lasix). I agree with John Fulton on every point he made. He is [...]

In Response to Bill Finley's Dec. 7 Op/Ed: Times Have Changed: Eclipse Awards Need Rules What really should happen, but it probably won't because that's just the way it is, champions in each division should be determined as they are in every country in Europe, by the rating assigned by a designated handicapper or group [...]

Legislation to install USADA to oversee drug policy and enforcement in American racing very well may come to a head by year's end. If a bill can be enacted into law, the entire sport has a wonderful opportunity to succeed. If not, the game as we have come to know it will likely split into [...]

Regarding T. D. Thornton's Op-Ed Sept. 19: in a sport that sees weekly (if not daily) flaunting of current rules in which arrogant trainers appear to be using the known illegal drug EPO to gain an edge, I for one find it nothing short of comical that we are all up in arms over this [...]

Ten years ago, in an Op-Ed written for The Blood-Horse, I strongly suggested that only by installing USADA to oversee drugs in American racing could our game hope to restore its lost credibility as a sport played on a level playing field, thereby giving our industry its best chance to regain alienated horseplayers and a [...]

This week, Federal legislation–the Thoroughbred Horseracing Integrity Act of 2015 (THIA)–was introduced by a coalition of industry groups headed by The Jockey Club that, if enacted by Congress, will install USADA as the entity to oversee drug policy, testing and enforcement in Thoroughbred racing. The prospect of having USADA in charge of drugs, both legal [...]

There is a popular notion that if horseracing somehow managed to have a league office running the show, our troubled game would be saved. [...]

Ten years ago in an Op/Ed written for The Blood-Horse, I suggested that only an independent agency like USADA (United States Anti-Doping Association) was capable of bringing order to our sport by cleaning it up, as it had done with Track & Field and subsequently with Cycling. [...]

While researching a book I wrote a dozen years ago about Swaps, I chanced upon a curious euphemism uttered by the late Southern California veterinarian Dr. Jock Jocoy. [...]

To hear some tell it, I have been biting the hand that feeds me for more than 40 years. This has been pointed out to me over the years by a diverse group that includes Daily Racing Form publisher Mike Sandler, my DRF overseer Joe Hirsch, my current friend Ray Paulick back in an unenlightened [...]

Ogden Mills (Dinny) Phipps, in his position at The Jockey Club, has a degree of power, but what he really has is influence. Because of that, a lot of people take what he says seriously. But in the last few weeks I have ceased to take him seriously at all. [...]

Over the past few seasons, as racing has contracted, much discussion has taken place among the game's stakeholders as to which of these entities is most necessary for survival of the sport. [...]