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The Sport of Kings Just Showed Horse Racing How a King Behaves

POSTED: June 12, 2026

Pierre Gasly crossed the finish line third at Monaco. Then two five-second penalties for pit lane speeding dropped him to seventh, and a driver who...

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If the NBA Can See It, So Can Horse Racing

POSTED: June 4, 2026

The case for AI officiating has arrived. It's time for racing to stop pretending the technology doesn't exist Adam Silver was sitting across from Pat...

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The Enforcement Problem HISA Can't Outsource Away

POSTED: May 27, 2026

Two enforcement failures. Two different arms of HISA's regulatory apparatus. One week. Neither failure is a close call. Neither involves disputed science, ambiguous evidence, or...

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The Stewards Looked At The Tape — And Said They Didn't See It

POSTED: May 24, 2026

On Friday, the Maryland Racing Commission stewards who oversaw the Preakness Stakes at Laurel Park issued their finding on Paco Lopez's winning ride aboard Napoleon...

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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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Two Sports. Two Standards. One Question.

POSTED: March 27, 2026

Paco Lopez, mocks HISA, skirts suspension, business as usual Sport of Kings, not so fast, pun intended Last week the FIA — Formula 1's governing...

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The Ethics Gap: Paco Lopez, Cockfighting, and the Selective Outrage of Horse Racing

POSTED: February 6, 2026

PETA 2 HORSE RACING 0 Almost everyone in the horseracing industry loves to bash PETA. I am not advocating for them here, but many will...

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Buccherino All Heart in Parx Sprint

POSTED: September 20, 2025

Buccherino and Paco Lopez win the $150,000 Parx Sprint Stakes. (Ryan Denver/EQUI-PHOTO) Paco Lopez scores four on the card Tom Law/Parx Racing BENSALEM, Pa.—Happy Tenth...

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