Less than 2 weeks to the Belmont and the headline news in New York is not the race, but the possible shuttering of three New York thoroughbred tracks and the New York City OTBs.
Maryland´s no better:
Bloodhorse - Day To Day in Maryland
California´s worse:
Bloodhorse - CHRB Chairman Rips MID
Bloodhorse - Charles Resigns As President of Santa Anita
Haines Appointed Santa Anita Interim president
Http://www.drf.com/news/article/113184.html
Bloodhorse - Haines Takes Reins
Aren´t all coaches interim coaches?
Kenny Schinkel
Oh! Ohio:
Bloodhorse - Thistledown on Auction Block
Kentucky Turmoil
Bloodhorse - Amid Turmoil Kentucky Looks for BC
Monmouth Opens
Http://www.drf.com/news/article/113134.html
Bloodhorse - Monmouth Entry Box Full
Bloodhorse - Monmouth Meet A Game Changer
Horse Race Insider - Monmouth By The Numbers
Bloodhorse - Monmouth Attendance, Handle Way Up
DRF - Monmouth Attendance, Handle Up
http://www.drf.com/news/article/113202.html
NJ Business - Atlantic City Casinos Down
Hastings Purses Cut
http://www.drf.com/news/article/113099.html
Consolidation to one Vancouver area track?
Woodbine understands
Standardbred Canada - Eaves - Takeout - Race Dates
In Alberta the shill´s still got the mute button on while the thoroughbred handle has slipped so far I´ve seen bigger pots when we´re pitching quarters against the wall.
Faced with the choice between changing one´s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Thoroughbred racing is not suffering badly globally and not suffering in all jurisdictions in North America. Only in the jurisdcitions where it´s mismanaged.
Maybe the Big Ruskie´s right:
A: MRMC explained to "60 Minutes," "I don´t use a computer. We have too much information and it´s really impossible to filter it."
You know what? He´s not necessarily wrong. Do we REALLY need all this information? Like, right now -- you´re reading this column and hopefully enjoying it, but ultimately, could you have survived the weekend if you missed it? I say yes. Just about everything online fits that mold -- you have to sift through loads of bad writing and irrelevant information to find the occasional entertaining/funny/interesting thing, and even then, it´s not something that´s making or breaking your week. Ever been on a vacation and had little-to-no Internet access that week? You survived, right? Maybe the big Russian is on to something.
MRMC - Bill Simmons
Horse Race Insider - Place Your Bets
Horse Race Onsider - Single Issue Manifestos
Horse Race Insider - Challenges Beyond Reason
NY Times: The Rail - Busy Day For NYRA
NY Daily News - NYRA Says It Will Close 3 On June 9
NY Times: The Rail - Business of Racing
NY Times Video - The Economics Of Racing
Bloodhorse - Paterson Says NYRA Will Get State Bailout
Thoroughbred Times - NYRA Gives Employees Notice
Bloodhorse - NYRA Sends Out Layoff Notices
Thoroughbred Times - Saratoga Meet Will Go On
Horse Race Insider - Saratgoa Still In Hot Water
NYRA needs $17 million
http://www.drf.com/news/article/113038.html
Bloodhorse - NYRA Could Close After Belmont Stakes
Thoroughbred Times - Comptroller Suggests OTB Changes
Bloodhorse - Audit Shows Decline At NY OTBs
Thoroughbred Times - Officials Respond to Auditor
The casino, first authorized in 2001, is expected to generate at least $600 million in net revenue a year from 4,500 slot machines. The New York racing industry is counting on a 13 percent cut from the casino revenue to subsidize the New York Racing Association´s operations and purses at NYRA´s three tracks.
NYRA would be happy with 13% while HRA keeps pissing away 4 times that.
The question is in which jurisdictions can thoroughbred racing hold on through the Night?
Prognosis for Alberta´s not good unless there´s a major change in who´s running the show. You´d have to be an absolute idiot to think that a bit of T and A, a few more dreary OTBS, a couple of cheap beers and hot dogs can cure decades of marketing malaise.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Deming
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Phil still thinks El Sid was the best name, but would an American breeder name a horse after the Canadian Hockey player who scored the goal to beat the Americans at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and give Canada la Medaglia d´Oro.
Winstar Announces Name Contest Winner
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Bloodhorse - Mid - Atlantic Was An Incredible Sale
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At Old Friends, Rekindling Memories
NY Times: The Rail - Anecdotes
NY Times: The Rail - Another Kind Of Lucky
NY Times: the Rail - Homebred Success
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You know what luck is? Luck is believing you´re lucky, that´s all... To hold a front position in this rat-race, you´ve got to believe you are lucky
Stanley Kowalski
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Information is only useful if you know how to analyze it and use it. Crist´s analysis is crisp, but will be mouldy before it´s ever acted upon.
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Stop bringing home the bacon.
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Ten things about Stanley.
Chicago Tribune - 10 Things About Stanley
What Canuck fans know about Stanley:
Pat Quinn may get his Stanley Cup.
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It was a great feeling to be drafted No. 1, but then all of a sudden you realize, man, you´re going to the worst team in the league.
Mike Modano
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Cubs town
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NY Times: The Rail - I Am A Horse
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Bloodhorse - Spangled Star In, New Madrid Out
NY Times: the Rail - Fly Down Dude
NY Times: The Rail - Ten Aiming For Belmont
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OK To Criticize, But Let´s Be fair
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick
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Nice ring.
Who´s making the cake?
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
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Bloodhorse - Breeders Cup Nominated For Sports Event Of The Year
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Stay out of the video until one hour after your steak or burger.
Gotta agree with the comment that the US banning slaughter for human consumption, but not banning slaughter totally and not banning transport of horses to Canada and Mexico for slaughter is typical US hypocrisy.
What do they large carnivores at most of the American zoos eat? Not beef or chicken, but horse meat that is legally slaughtered or imported into the US not for human consumption.
NY Times: The Rail - Raising Awareness
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
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ASHA´s done a great job updating their website. They should pass the business card on to thehorses.com. ASHA understands that their website promotes the harness industry in Alberta, not someone´s ego.
Phil asked Fred Gillis for some information on Lacombe and had a response within 24 hours. Thanks Fred.
Looks like HRA´s plan to focre Alberta Downs down our throats as a solution isn´t making anyone sleep easy. I´d be heading back to Grande Prairie on bended knee before we end up with another Stampede situation.
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The idiot´s guide to Mutant Russian Mark Cuban
MRMC on succeeding in business: "I´ve never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed."
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Can we convert the Christmas and Easters into weeklies?
NY Times: The Rail - Beyond The Triple Crown
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NY Times - The Rail - Bookshelf - Equine ER
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If the Queen is coming to Canada for Canada Day shouldn´t Sarkozy and his wife be invited to Quebec for La Fête de la St-Jean?
The Star - Queen is Coming To Canada
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You´re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can´t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Malcolm X
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Manslaughter Verdict In Death Of Jockeys
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Thoroughbred Racing In North America had better take some quick decisive action on drugs before the US Congress does.
Bloodhorse - Blame Trainers For Lack Of Triple Crown Winner
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut
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I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
Learned Hand
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Why you need Porn Buddy.
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Phil M Stockmen
