Op/Ed

Opinion and perspective articles.

Red Card For Stewards

"Well, if Bayern holds on to win, he will come down," I said just a few seconds into the running...

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In comments in the TDN this week, both Dr. Larry Bramlage and Arthur Hancock took the position that Lasix needs...

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Most of you have never heard of Mike Mayo. When I tell you that Mike did as much for the...

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Recently completed research regarding the use, or non-use, of Lasix in Thoroughbred racehorses adds some pertinent new facts to the...

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Ten years ago in an Op/Ed written for The Blood-Horse, I suggested that only an independent agency like USADA (United...

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Welcome Home. Those words from Keeneland=s President Bill Thomason underscored the feelings of many of my friends and neighbors--both inside...

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The North American racehorse competes on a plethora of medications for the most basic and obvious reason: their owners believe...

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Suppose that Daily Racing Form columnist Charles Hatton had not first described Gallant Fox's victories in the 1930 Kentucky Derby,...

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It was inevitable. With a--shudder the thought--Cal-bred going for the Triple Crown, it figured "they" would come out of the...

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While researching a book I wrote a dozen years ago about Swaps, I chanced upon a curious euphemism uttered by...

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To hear some tell it, I have been biting the hand that feeds me for more than 40 years. This...

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It was refreshing listening to Adam Silver Tuesday afternoon. The NBA had a problem, and it needed to deal with...

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