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by Patrick Battuello | Jun 15, 2016 | Horseracing Business, Racinos: Corporate Welfare
Highlights from a recent report by the New York State Comptroller’s Office: In October 2011, Resorts World New York City Casino (Resorts) opened adjacent to Aqueduct Racetrack. According to NYRA’s Franchise Agreement (Agreement), a percentage of Resorts’ Video...
by Patrick Battuello | Jun 2, 2016 | Horseracing Business, Recommended, Whipping
Although I am loath (and loathe) to give Ray Paulick, one of Racing’s more notorious hacks, “clicks” or “hits” (for I know he counts them), this short clip was too good to pass up. Speaking in the wake of the duo kills at Pimlico, Paulick...
by Patrick Battuello | Apr 4, 2016 | Horseracing Business, Racinos: Corporate Welfare, Recommended, Tracks
From the Les Bois Park website: Dear Les Bois Park Fans, As you may be aware, we will be closing our Turf Club Bar & Grill and Simulcast Facility, effective end of day on Sunday, March 20th. After being granted the simulcast license in December, Treasure Valley...
by Patrick Battuello | Mar 29, 2016 | Horseracing Business, Recommended
Last week, The Jockey Club gleefully boasted of progress on the “breakdown” front: “An analysis of data from the Equine Injury Database…has shown a 14 percent decrease in the frequency of fatal injury…from 1.89 per 1,000 starts in 2014 to...
by Patrick Battuello | Jan 26, 2016 | Horseracing Business
Blood-Horse reports that “Grade I winner Somali Lemonade [below] died Jan. 23 from complications of foaling.” The foal (her first) also died. The 6-year-old was whip-raced 24 times (most recently October ’14) before being turned into a reproduction...
by Patrick Battuello | Sep 4, 2015 | Horseracing Business, Recommended
There is, of course, practically zero accountability in the racing world: A horse who shatters his leg while heading for home is said to have “taken a bad step”; a horse who snaps his neck after colliding with another is called the victim of an unfortunate...
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