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Wide-Open $100,000 Gun Runner Attracts Eight Derby-Dreaming Colts

POSTED: December 17, 2025

Liberty National leads a competitive field in Saturday’s Gun Runner, Courtesy Fair Grounds Race Course Fair Ground Press NEW ORLEANS —Led by Brookdale Racing and...

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NYRA announces stakes schedule for the 2026 Aqueduct winter meet

POSTED: December 17, 2025

NYRA Photo Pat McKenna The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced the stakes schedule for the 2026 winter meet at Aqueduct Racetrack, which...

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Banned on Paper, But Not in Practice? The CAW Question Racing Can’t Ignore

POSTED: December 13, 2025

Are CAWs in the pools they are supposedly banned from? That is a big question in my view — and not because I think tracks...

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Will The Real Sport of Kings Please Stand Up

POSTED: December 13, 2025

Formula 1, Not Horse Racing, Is the Real Sport of Kings We may cling to tradition, but the world has already crowned its champion For...

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2026 Kentucky Derby Radar, Episode 1

POSTED: December 12, 2025

Further Ado earns Kentucky derby points at Churchill Downs, Jenny Doyle, Past the Wire Episode 1 in what promises to be a great Kentucky Derby...

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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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