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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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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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The Crown Prince Cup Weekend

POSTED: December 4, 2025

Oisin Murphy at King Abdulaziz Racecourse, Credit: Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia //Ali AlZenaidi Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia British Champion Jockey Oisin Murphy in...

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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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The Demoiselle, Remsen, and Cigar Mile with a Thorograph Bonus

POSTED: December 4, 2025

Locked at the top of the stretch of the 2024 Cigar Mile, Dom Napolitano Photo Past The Wire TV A "high level look" at 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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