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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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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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The Bob Hope Didn’t Get Canceled Because of California or Bob Baffert

POSTED: November 25, 2025

They canceled the Bob Hope Stakes at Del Mar. A Grade 3 at a premier meet—gone because it couldn’t fill. Predictably, the finger-pointing started. California....

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It's All About the Horse but What About the Cock

POSTED: November 24, 2025

Whips, Cockfights, and Racing’s Selective Outrage I have always enjoyed, poor choice of words here, starting an article with a quote or two I like....

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HISA AND HIWU: STUMBLED OUT OF THE GATE, STILL LOOKING FOR THE WIRE

POSTED: November 20, 2025

Horse racing finally got what everyone said we needed: a national authority, uniform rules, one rulebook instead of fifty. On paper, HISA and HIWU were...

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Be Careful Crowning a “Great Crop” — The Real Class Emerged Last Year

POSTED: November 20, 2025

The real "great three-year old crop" is not the one they all thought it was People in this game love to be premature. They see...

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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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