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The Phantom Income Trap: When Washington Decides You “Won” Money You Never Kept

POSTED: December 9, 2025

The utter absurdity of the new tax code just when we thought they fixed the broken old one, what's next? It was new tax laws...

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Trust Us and Just Bet

POSTED: December 8, 2025

Nothing Is on the Level: The View From Someone Who’s Played the Game and Beat It I never went to that Arizona Racing Symposium despite...

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Cigar Mile, Demoiselle, Remsen leave behind rich legacies at the Big A

POSTED: December 4, 2025

Cigar, Coglianese/NYRA Brien Bouyea Saturday will mark the final time a trio of Aqueduct Racetrack’s most storied races are held at the Big A. The...

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Horses Are Like Starfish: It Matters

POSTED: December 4, 2025

AFTERCARE: The First Fix, the Only Fix, and the Moral Line Horse Racing Can’t Keep Pretending Doesn’t Exist It's harder to buy a new Ferrari...

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The NYRA Jockey Walkout is Ridiculous

POSTED: November 30, 2025

The Jockey Room Is Not a Daycare, and Racing Is Not a Family Sport — It’s a Gambling Sport Gambling and the rapid exchange and...

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The Hong Kong Jockey Club Partners with Equine MediRecord to Implement Platform to Ensure Equine Welfare Protocols Followed by International Horses Racing in Hong Kong

POSTED: November 25, 2025

Equine MediRecord Chief Executive Officer Pierce Dargan with Equine MediRecord Head of Japan Toshi Onikubo attending horse racing in Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong,...

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The Bob Hope Didn’t Get Canceled Because of California or Bob Baffert

POSTED: November 25, 2025

They canceled the Bob Hope Stakes at Del Mar. A Grade 3 at a premier meet—gone because it couldn’t fill. Predictably, the finger-pointing started. California....

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It's All About the Horse but What About the Cock

POSTED: November 24, 2025

Whips, Cockfights, and Racing’s Selective Outrage I have always enjoyed, poor choice of words here, starting an article with a quote or two I like....

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HISA AND HIWU: STUMBLED OUT OF THE GATE, STILL LOOKING FOR THE WIRE

POSTED: November 20, 2025

Horse racing finally got what everyone said we needed: a national authority, uniform rules, one rulebook instead of fifty. On paper, HISA and HIWU were...

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