The Big A: A Lifetime of Memories From Aqueduct
Some personal memories of the Big A, also known as Aqueduct Racetrack New York City Doesn't Have a Racetrack Anymore, It Has a Casino Aqueduct, or the Big A as we always called it, was almost like a second home. I grew up around all three NYRA racetracks but Aqueduct was just a few exits down the Belt Parkway, and it literally felt like my backyard. I can't even imagine how many days I spent there. The freezing ones, where the parking lot was black ice and it was harder...
TDN, Please Stop. Or At Least Change The Name.
Four Installments In, A Pattern Has Emerged. It Is Not A Good One. I said I rarely read racing articles. I meant it. When the TDN's new series, Racing's Biggest Problem, And The Solution, crossed my eyes last Wednesday, I read it anyway. David Ingordo's installment bothered me enough that I felt compelled to respond. I wrote that response and published it here at Past The Wire. I thought I was done. I assumed it was a one off, one man's blind spot, one missed opportunity, one article. Then the...
X and Y: What This Story Has Actually Taught Us
The Real Edge Was Never the Vet Data. It's Knowing What a Barn Won't Tell You. Y is worth considerably more than X A confession first, because it earns the rest of this piece the right to be taken seriously. Long before any of this, before I even heard of InCompass, before EquiTAPS, before anyone was building custom past performances with embedded proprietary figures I was sitting at my kitchen table with a printed past performance sheet and a pen, and my wife Blondie was reading me Thorograph numbers off...
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