USADA is Scary
This week, Federal legislation–the Thoroughbred Horseracing Integrity Act of 2015 (THIA)--was introduced by a coalition of industry groups headed by...
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Opinion and perspective articles.
Dean Towers Op/Ed: Converting the New Viewer and Fan
Sunday's Women's World Cup soccer final between the United States and Japan was a roaring success. 25.4 million people watched...
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Op/Ed: The Time for Change is Now
by Hal Handel Over the course of the past 40 years, I have seen the sport of Thoroughbred racing encounter...
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Slot Revenue is Falling Due to Decreased Demand, So It's Time to Tack Back the Skill-Game Gambling Market
Back in 2009, I was presenting on a panel at the Canadian Gaming Summit. Along with me on the panel...
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Stopping Cheaters
In the Olympic annals of Track and Field, for every Jesse Owens and Babe Didrikson there has been a Ben...
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My Belief: Crops Should Not be Banned
The new TDN Topics feature (click here to read TDN Topics: Should the Crop Be Banned?) creates a great opportunity...
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When the Sideshow Trumps the Headliner, the Sport of Horse Racing Loses Out
I watched Golf Channel's Feherty the other day when the host, David Feherty, was interviewing the CEO of the PGA...
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We Must Dream
About two-and-a-half hours after American Pharoah won the 2015 Kentucky Derby, a mare we own in partnership lay down and...
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The 3/4 Sibling Debate
Twice in recent editions of Thoroughbred Daily News there has been mention of a foal being a three-quarter sibling to...
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Ensuring Integrity
There is a popular notion that if horseracing somehow managed to have a league office running the show, our troubled...
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Australia's Racing Media In a Right Mess
Anyone who has studied Australian history shouldn't be surprised that the premier states of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria...
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When Is Public Private?
I was more than a little intrigued by the Op-Ed piece published this week in TDN penned by John Fulton....
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