Op/Ed

Opinion and perspective articles.

RETHINKING THE CLAIMING GAME

It was a while back that Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella came up with an idea to help protect...

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This is the most important week to the Kentucky Thoroughbred industry since 1902, when Colonel Matt Winn and a group...

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Riddle: Who among us performs the most difficult job in the industry while bringing widespread added value to our sport...

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I'm a simple guy. I swear. My Mom said I never understood why my sister took forever to decide what...

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As a populist horseman, it makes me smile when a relatively obscure horse comes out of the hinterlands and beats...

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I will leave it up to analysts more qualified than me to figure out whether Polytrack is safer than dirt,...

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Tomorrow starts the Masters golf tournament. Millions of people will watch this great show and then go out and increase...

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Pondering the possibility that Mafaaz could make the Kentucky Derby while Dunkirk is left in the cold, I have dusted...

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Don't you just hate politics? Seems like politics creeps into everything today. Banks, real estate, autos, you name it and...

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A year ago, fractional clockings for the 1 1/8 mile Fountain of Youth S. appeared suspiciously slow, and the suspicions...

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Survival of Thoroughbred horse racing on the scale we have known it may be in greater jeopardy than usual because...

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Last week I challenged Kentucky Thoroughbred interests not to pursue alternative gaming (VTLs). I promised to show how a positive...

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