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Twenty Years. One Amendment. The People Who Finally Got It Done.

POSTED: May 23, 2026

A House committee passed the Van Drew-Titus Amendment, embedding a horse slaughter transport ban inside major infrastructure legislation. The SAFE Act has been introduced in...

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THE STANDARD THAT RACING FORGOT

POSTED: May 22, 2026

Every Major American Sport Has Faced This Question. Every One of Them Answered It the Same Way. Not Horse Racing The Kentucky Horse Racing and...

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Six Months Later, They Finally Had To

POSTED: May 20, 2026

The Paulick Report found the Ortiz cockfighting story today, we found it last November. On May 20th, 2026, the Paulick Report published a piece by...

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Whose Money Is It, Really?

POSTED: May 20, 2026

Horses Need Help Today, Aftercare is Not a Success, There is Nothing to Celebrate Here “When you celebrate an epic fail while the horses still...

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BELIEVE THEM

POSTED: May 19, 2026

What Six Months of Industry Response Reveals About Who Actually Controls the Narrative in Horse Racing The Record Needs to Be Stated Clearly Past The...

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Lopez Wins Preakness — And Appears To Have Done It Breaking The Same Rule That Got Him Suspended

POSTED: May 19, 2026

“Whip rules were adopted and promoted as evidence that racing had modernized its welfare standards. Their credibility depends not merely on drafting rules, but on...

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COMPLICITY: What NBC’s Preakness Broadcast Reveals About Racing’s Deepest Malady

POSTED: May 16, 2026

The Science of Looking Away What Psychology and Sociology Tell Us About the Participants — and the Institutions That Protected Them Today, as I watched...

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The Bet They Won’t Take

POSTED: May 15, 2026

Editors Note: Pimlico Jockey Room was corrected to read Laurel. Wagering Integrity, Regulatory Abdication, and the Questions Horse Racing Still Won’t Answer Six months ago,...

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They Knew

POSTED: May 15, 2026

Is Racing Media part of the Problem or Solution? After Past The Wire published its piece on the Ortiz brothers and the cockfighting video, someone...

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