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Can CAW Players See Unplayed or Open Pick 6 Combinations

POSTED: December 12, 2025

Do CAW Players See Unplayed Multi-Race Combinations? One of the most persistent — and emotionally charged — questions in horse racing today is whether CAW...

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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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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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