I contend that every race day at every major racetrack in North America a trainer cheats by sending out a horse for competition in an illegally enhanced state. [...]

When I worked at The Blood-Horse in the winter of 1970, I remember how excited everybody was about publication of the Experimental Free Handicap. When I edited The Thoroughbred of California in the early 1970s, I remember how excited we were to see how the California-based and -bred juvenile would be treated in the weights [...]

I, along with some 300 other invited guests, attended The Jockey Club Round Table last weekend in Saratoga. Many of Thoroughbred racing's stakeholders had a seat at the Round Table. [...]

Eight and a half years ago, I wrote an Op-Ed piece for The Blood-Horse in which I urged the racing industry to strongly consider using the United States Anti-Doping Association as a national watchdog for horse racing. [...]

California has become the battleground in the national debate among horsemen, vets and owners over Lasix. Thanks to funding, energy and passion from the Thoroughbred Owners of California (which also has trainers on its board of directors) and Dr. Mark Dedomenico, the debate about whether to continue to use Lasix or ban it is reaching [...]

Rick Dutrow has officially been banned from the game for a decade. Interestingly, like the notorious American miscreant Al Capone, Dutrow was knocked off his perch not by what people suspected he did, but by technicalities. Capone was not sent to prison for murder, but famously for tax evasion. Dutrow has not been suspended for [...]

Racing needs to wean itself off race-day medication. Various reasons have been proffered for the elimination of drugs on race day, but there is one rarely mentioned that encompasses another major problem hurting the well-being of our industry–a lack of owners willing to play to game. [...]

Patrick Neely (Thoroughbred Daily News, July 9) took to task Arthur Hancock for a previous Op-Ed (Alternative to Slots, July 2) on behalf of KEEP, an organization for which he works. The focus should not be on Mr. Hancock, but on KEEP, its founders and leaders, and on the Democrats in Kentucky led by the [...]

I will leave it up to analysts more qualified than me to figure out whether Polytrack is safer than dirt, even though the initial evidence suggests that the synthetic surface has already saved the lives of many of our equine warriors. From my narrow perspective, however, if somebody can tell me the good part about [...]

Survival of Thoroughbred horse racing on the scale we have known it may be in greater jeopardy than usual because of a confluence of events that is being fueled by the current economic crisis. Those of us who derive our incomes solely from the industry have come to fully realize horse racing is not an [...]

Last week I challenged Kentucky Thoroughbred interests not to pursue alternative gaming (VTLs). I promised to show how a positive change to the racing environment through the introduction of a new bet would serve to get racing's fan base pumped up on a regular basis. My concept is far from original, yet proven in popularity. [...]

Bill Finley penned in the January 17 TDN an editorial that is the most chilling piece of racing journalism in a long time. For import and vision, the only comparison I can make was a piece Jimmy Kilroe wrote for “Sports Illustrated” in 1967, when he said one day nobody would go to a track [...]