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Better Late Than Never: NYRA Finally Draws a Line on CAW

POSTED: December 10, 2025

A Little Can Mean a Lot in Horse Racing My Symposium Take on the CAW Issues There are plenty of things I’ll take a racetrack to...

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Charting: The Lost—and Maybe Rediscovered—Art Behind the Tote Board

POSTED: December 10, 2025

A Late Odds and Price Drop Theory This is not the first time I have written and talked about Charting. Horseplayers love to romanticize the...

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Solving the CAW Problem Without Killing the Game:

POSTED: December 9, 2025

Simplicity, Transparency, and Level Pools Horse racing loves to turn simple problems into complicated ones. We study them, debate them, fight over them, write white...

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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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Weigh the Risks looks strong in Listed Go for Wand

POSTED: December 7, 2025

Two Surface Winner Weigh the Risks, NYRA Photo Christian Abdo Klaravich Stables’ Weigh the Risks is 3-for-4 this year and in top form entering Saturday’s...

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Paladin aces first stakes test with G2 Remsen win

POSTED: December 6, 2025

Paladin up late to win the Remsen, NYRA Photo Brian Bohl For impressive juvenile Paladin, it could soon be a case of “have run, will...

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Road to the BCBC: Week 3

POSTED: December 4, 2025

Kevin Gazzale Welcome to week 3 of my journey to the 2026 BCBC. We go to Aqueduct for this week’s $20 qualifier. I am writing...

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Patricia Ann looks to add first stakes score to ledger in $150K Garland of Roses

POSTED: December 4, 2025

Patricia Ann, NYRA Photo Mary Eddy After two game runner-up finishes in stakes company, Blue Devil Racing Stable’s Patricia Ann looks to finish one better...

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