TDN Writers' Room Podcast, Episode 33: April 22, 2020 with guest Joe Appelbaum

In this week's TDN Writers' Room presented by Keeneland, NYTHA president Joe Appelbaum joined the crew as the Green Group Guest of the Week to talk about when we can expect to see racing again in New York, the efforts to help Belmont backstretch workers, his personal betting strategies and much more.

“The situation on the backstretch has improved considerably, not unlike the rest of the situation in New York City,” Appelbaum said. “In Nassau County, we're functioning. We have close to 1,500 horses there. They're training six days a week. We've been meeting with a combination of NYRA, NYTHA, the Racetrack Chaplaincy, BEST. So yes, we've had a couple dozen positives. We're now actually seeing people coming out of quarantine. We've been using a, a very strong prophylactic quarantine program. So not just people who are testing positive or being quarantined, but others who may have been exposed to them, and we think that's been pretty successful.”

Elsewhere on the show, in the West Point News of the Week, the writers recapped a big day of racing at Oaklawn and lamented the inability of racetracks to coordinate post times, even now when there are only two or three tracks running.

Read full synopsis on the TDN.