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TDN, Please Stop. Or At Least Change The Name.

POSTED: June 27, 2026

Four Installments In, A Pattern Has Emerged. It Is Not A Good One. I said I rarely read racing articles. I meant it. When the...

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THE ARCHITECTURE OF INDIFFERENCE

POSTED: June 26, 2026

When the Sport of Kings Can't Account for Its Queens A brief disclosure before we begin. The story that prompted this piece appeared on Horseracing...

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Nothing Was Broken. So Why Did They Fix It?

POSTED: June 25, 2026

The Latest Jockey Club Press Release Doesn't Quite Pass the Smell Test The Jockey Club issued an update Thursday afternoon on its investigation into the...

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Racing's Real Problem Isn't The Pipeline

POSTED: June 25, 2026

A Response to David Ingordo in TDN I rarely read racing articles anymore. I prefer to keep the noise out of my head. I rarely...

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Words Have Consequences Until Apparently They Don't

POSTED: June 24, 2026

The Kevin Bond Settlement, the Baffert Precedent, and What Racing Still Refuses to Understand About the Law There is a legal framework that governs what...

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X and Y: What This Story Has Actually Taught Us

POSTED: June 21, 2026

The Real Edge Was Never the Vet Data. It's Knowing What a Barn Won't Tell You. Y is worth considerably more than X A confession...

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A Discrepancy That Doesn't Hold Up

POSTED: June 20, 2026

Checking the Leaked Deterministic PP Against the Horse's Own Record — and Finding a Problem or a Deep Fake CORRECTION — June 20, 2026: This...

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The Angle Nobody Has Said Out Loud Yet

POSTED: June 20, 2026

What If the Customer Isn't a Wagering Operation at All Every theory chased so far in this story has pointed in the same direction: a...

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The Jockey Club Finally Speaks. They Just Didn't Answer Anything.

POSTED: June 20, 2026

A Statement Arrives. The Questions Don't. After days of silence silence Past The Wire noted directly in our last two pieces on this story, The...

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Welcome to Past The Wire, home of Jonathan Stettin’s column on all that is horse racing, the Sport of Kings! We hope you enjoy  Past The Wire where you will find articles and with tons of insight written by Jonathan Stettin. Jonathan shares his many years of experience as a player, owner and agent in the sport of horse racing with you. Jonathan has a unique approach on the game as we know it today coupled with a keen sense of what is going on in the Sport Of Kings on the daily.

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