Racing and the social networks

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@SIDFERNANDO (18 October 2011 - Issue Number: Issue 22)

Reducing the Carbon Hoofprint

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KEN SNYDER (17 October 2011 - Issue Number: Issue 22)

Work visa changes and the threat to trainers

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BILL HELLER (17 October 2011 - Issue Number: Issue 22)

Building on the night racing brand

Some people would say the Marx Brothers had it right when they called it A Day at the Races and left evening entertainment to A Night at the Opera.However, a lot has changed in our beloved sport in 70 years, and while racing lends itself to appreciating athletic activity in the sunny outdoors, nowadays working people make up the core racing audience of the 21st century.

By K.T. Donovan


First Published (20 April 2011 - Issue Number: Issue 20)

The French Model - Keeping ahead of the racing game

“The best system in the world” has been one of the many compliments used to describe the success of the French model by professionals and enthusiasts across the globe in recent times.

By Isabel Mathew


First Published (20 April 2011 - Issue Number: Issue 20)

California dreaming - the hopes for 2011

Steve Schuelein asks Santa Anita and Del Mar racing secretary Rick Hammerle, trainer Howard Zucker, bloodstock consultant Gayle Van Leer, owner-breeder John Harris, and professional horseplayer-handicapper Jimmy Allard about their hopes for 2011.

By Steve Schuelein 


First Published: (02 February 2011 - Issue Number: Issue 19)

The racing industry in Florida - the outlook’s getting brighter in the sunshine state

The dark cloud of bad economic news the last couple of years hit Florida Thoroughbred racing like a hurricane. However, the people in the Sunshine State are resilient to storms, and they know that hurricanes don’t last long. Most people in Florida have put the damage in the past to focus on how bright and sunny Florida really is.

By K.T. Donovan

First Published: (02 February 2011 - Issue Number: Issue 19)

Texas - at the crossroads

It wasn’t that long ago, 1987 in fact, after the Texas legislature passed The Racing Act, that some pressbox wag in Louisiana said: “Last horseman out, turn off the lights.” That was the expectation in those days: that horses and horsemen from around the country would flock to Texas once the state allowed pari-mutuel racing. Texas, after all, was widely considered to be horse racing’s “promised land.”

By Gary West

First Published (02 February 2011 - Issue Number: Issue 19)