Op/Ed

Opinion and perspective articles.

How 'Bout Them Owners?

Rick Dutrow has officially been banned from the game for a decade. Interestingly, like the notorious American miscreant Al Capone,...

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I read with interest Charlotte Weber's letter that appeared in the TDN on Dec. 21. That same day I also...

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This Swahili phrase means, “The journey, it has blown apart.” I write these words because my own journey in the...

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When the Breeders' Cup debuted in 1984 it was a revolutionary concept. The fertile mind of the late John R....

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Where one lives can change one's perspective. Six years ago we moved from Lexington, Kentucky to the Tennessee county with...

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Where one lives can change one's perspective. Six years ago we moved from Lexington, Kentucky to the Tennessee county with...

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Thoroughbred owner Jack Wolf, Darley President Jimmy Bell, and Jockey Club President James Gagliano deserve accolades for pulling together the...

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My Op/ed of September 27th detailed the fact that breeders lost more than $100 million in this year's Keeneland September...

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Orfevre, 2011 Japanese Horse of the Year and Triple Crown winner, is the likely favorite for Sunday's Qatar G1 Prix...

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So Andrew Cuomo wants to privatize NYRA, sell it to the highest bidder, which he figures will be any one...

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The Keeneland September sale is now in the record books and the dust is settling. How it went pretty much...

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In 1994 the Thoroughbred industry was in recovery mode. After reaching then-record heights in the mid-1980s, bloodstock lost about 35%...

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