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The Cheap Trick: How a Sentence You Never Said Can Become the One Everyone Remembers

POSTED: July 22, 2026

Jon Stettin Mark Twain is often credited with saying, "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."...

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Locks on an Aging House: What Racing Actually Fixed After the Fix Six

POSTED: July 21, 2026

"Change the locks" Jon Stettin Who Can Fix The Tote System? Twenty-four years ago, a computer programmer named Chris Harn did something that should have...

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HISA Asked for Comments on Its $74 Million Budget. Here Are Mine

POSTED: July 20, 2026

Jon Stettin The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority has released its proposed 2027 budget and invited the public to comment before the proposal is sent...

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Everything Is a Bet

POSTED: July 20, 2026

Stop Pretending It Isn't Gambling Warren Buffett recently suggeted America has a gambling problem. Coming from perhaps the greatest investor of our time, I understand...

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The Good Old Days of Las Vegas

POSTED: July 19, 2026

When Las Vegas Casino Hosts Had Clout The Good Old Days were not restricted to the '70s and '80s of horse racing, though those two...

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Protect the Brand, Not the Asset: The Playbook Every League Is Running

POSTED: July 15, 2026

Crude Velocity wears down Englishman in the stretch to take the Pat Day Mile, Courtney Snow/Past The Wire Jon Stettin I've spent years around this...

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Spa Tuesdays: July 11th Weekend Recap

POSTED: July 14, 2026

Recapping a great weekend of racing on a weekly basis Kevin Gazzale Another weekend in the books at Saratoga and it was a frustrating one...

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The Facts Point At The Riders, Not NYRA, Not Saratoga and Not The Stewards

POSTED: July 13, 2026

Nobody has been harder on this sport's governance and accountability than I have. That has been true since Allemuese, a horse wrongly disqualified at Saratoga...

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Brown looks for unprecedented 11th score in Saturday’s G1 Dunkin’ Diana

POSTED: July 13, 2026

Chad Brown, a five-time Eclipse Award winner, sends out four led by Grade 1 winner Portfolio Duration as he chases a record-extending 11th Diana at...

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The Cheap Trick: How a Sentence You Never Said Can Become the One Everyone Remembers

Locks on an Aging House: What Racing Actually Fixed After the Fix Six

HISA Asked for Comments on Its $74 Million Budget. Here Are Mine

Everything Is a Bet

The Good Old Days of Las Vegas

Protect the Brand, Not the Asset: The Playbook Every League Is Running

Spa Tuesdays: July 11th Weekend Recap

The Facts Point At The Riders, Not NYRA, Not Saratoga and Not The Stewards

Brown looks for unprecedented 11th score in Saturday’s G1 Dunkin’ Diana

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