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Badasses Don’t Torture Animals and Ignore Federal Felonies

POSTED: June 10, 2026

Megyn Kelly called Mike Repole a big man and Irad Ortiz a hero. She had sixty seconds and one question that would have made both...

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The Standard That Racing Wrote — And Chose to Forget

POSTED: June 7, 2026

On June 2, a Kentucky hearing officer issued a recommended order that trainer Maria Borell be granted a license by the Kentucky Horse Racing and...

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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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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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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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Six Months of Silence

POSTED: May 14, 2026

Updated May 15, 2026: This article has been updated to include specific details regarding the timeline and scope of the TDN’s coverage. Horse Racing Knew....

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