THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COMPLICITY: What NBC’s Preakness Broadcast Reveals About Racing’s Deepest Malady
The Science of Looking Away What Psychology and Sociology Tell Us About the Participants — and the Institutions That Protected Them Today, as I watched the NBC national telecast of the Preakness Stakes, I witnessed a masterclass in corporate damage control. Deep into the broadcast, the production truck finally got around to addressing the radioactive elephant in the room: Irad Ortiz Jr. and Jose Ortiz. Two weeks ago, these two brothers engaged in a thrilling, heart-pounding stretch battle to finish one-two in the most exciting two minutes in sports, the...
The Bet They Won’t Take
Editors Note: Pimlico Jockey Room was corrected to read Laurel. Wagering Integrity, Regulatory Abdication, and the Questions Horse Racing Still Won’t Answer Six months ago, when Past The Wire first reported on the documented involvement of Irad Ortiz Jr. and Jose Ortiz in an illegal cockfighting ring in Puerto Rico, the industry’s response was a masterclass in collective amnesia. The strategy was simple: containment. Keep it inside the racing bubble, look the other way, and hope it faded. It didn’t. On Thursday, USA Today published a front-page national exposé with...
The Voice They Should Have Asked For
Louis Masry is funding this sport, studying it forensically, and fighting for the people at the bottom of its food chain. The industry’s response has been silence. That is going to change. Why Horse Racing should pay attention to Louis Masry So much of what defines a thoroughbred comes down to bloodlines. The old horsemen knew it instinctively, before the genomics, before the analytics, before the databases. They just knew that what a horse carried in its DNA told you something essential about what it would do when the moment...
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