Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Three Years After Arrests, Racing Plots Path Forward
Phil has a question:
With wrestling applying to permit betting on their pre-determined match outcomes do you think that it’s integrity or entertainment value that is racing’s biggest problem.
TDN – Letter to the Editor: Be Better
TDN – Clippinger – Letter to the Editor: Nonsense
Bloodhorse – Donk to Support Belmont Park Modernization at Rally
Paulick Report – Newsday: New York State Is Right To Help In Belmont Renovation
The media counterpoint to the attack on horse racing was slow and feeble.
The media point to the attack on horse racing was swift and powerful.
“Why is New York state loaning money for a brand-new luxury racing facility when the tracks they are replacing have atrocious attendance records? Over just the last four decades Belmont’s attendance has fallen 88% and Aqueduct’s has dropped an astounding 94%,” said an analysis prepared for a coalition of animal rights and education advocacy groups.
The End Horse Racing Subsidies Coalition includes New Yorkers for Clean, Livable, and Safe Streets, People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, Alliance for Quality Education and NY Communities for Change.
Intelligencer – Louis – Kathy Hochul Is on the Brink of 3 Wars With Her Own Party
You can make a “cultural heritage” case for keeping New York’s horse-racing industry alive, even though the free market would execute it.
But don’t insult the public by pretending the state can reap a windfall by burning more taxpayer cash on this money pit.
The Empire State faces a dire budget future; if it’s going to turn the economy around, it needs to put broad tax reduction far ahead of special-interest giveaways.
NY Post – Time to douse NY’s horse- racing ‘burn pit’
Phil has a question:
Which side wins the current political battle over slots dollars.
Which side wins the current media battle for the hearts and minds of the voters.
Which side wins the war over slots dollars.
Do horseman realize that the movement from the back 40 family farm to massive corporate agribusiness will slowly but surely erode rural voting power.
Do horsemen realize that it’s only a matter of time before the politicians smell more votes behind the urban economic analysis than the rural cultural heritage plea.
What does a vote smell like.
Phil has a question:
Is there anyone capable of steering the horse racing Titanic away from its inevitable collision with the iceberg.
Does declining wagering coupled with increasing purses sound like a sustainable business model to you.
Canada’s National Observer – Bloomfield – Huge investors are driving small farmers off the land
TIF – TIF Reports: American Racing’s Sustainable Future
Illustrious Adena Springs Farm to Sell By May 15
This Week’s Stop on the Road to the 2023 Kentucky Derby 149
March 11, 2023
DRF – McGee – 2023 Kentucky Derby: Pope has patience; Tapit Trice may have other plans
DRF – Free – Arabian Knight gets back to work with eye on Kentucky Derby points
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Pletcher Favored to Win His Sixth Tampa Bay Derby
Paulick Report – Pletcher Has Solid Duo In Quest For Sixth Tampa Bay Derby Triumph
Phil’s Flick n a Drink
The Ringer – Joyaux – How to Fix the Oscars, Once and for All
The Guardian – Parkin — Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Country Living – Woodford Reserve Distillery Is The Best Distillery In Kentucky
TDN – Woodford Reserve Derby Bottle Celebrates Secretariat Anniversary
Phil has found the Woodford Reserve Derby Bottle at Wine and Beyond
Bob Appetit – Sommelier Tries 10 Whiskeys Under $50
Paulick Report – Pedulla – In Their Own Words: Turcotte’s Unforgettable Ride Aboard Secretariat
TDN – Secretariat’s Legacy Available Online
Bloodhorse – Arabian Knight Joins Forte in Derby Future Wager Pool 5
TDN – Forte Tabbed as Morning Line Favorite for KD Future Wager Pool 6
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Derby Dozen
TDN – Thornton – The TDN Derby Top 12: Forte Crowns Himself The New Kingpin
TDN – Bill Finley – Kentucky Oaks Top 10: Strange Year Continues
FiveThirtyEight – Planos – The College Basketball Storylines You Should Know Before March Madness
ESPN – Gasaway – The 355 men’s college basketball teams that won’t win 2023 March Madness
ESPN – Lunardi – 2023 NCAA Tournament Bracketology
ESPN – Men’s Tournament Challenge
Front Office Sports – Greenberg – Massachusetts Online Sports Betting Goes Live
Los Angeles Times – James – California plans to capture floodwaters to recharge depleted groundwater
Paulick Report – Stearns – The Pandemic And Horses In Need – What Are The Facts?
The Ringer – What You Need to Know About the Panthers’ Trade Up for the No. 1 Pick
The Ringer – The Ringer’s 2023 NFL Draft Guide
Sports Business Journal – NCAA men’s basketball viewership rebounds in 2022-23
Bloodhorse – HBPA Conference: Fixed Odds in Racing is Coming
ESPN – Shilton – Report: Senators sale could eclipse $900M, set NHL record
Canadian Thoroughbred – Great Canadian Casino Resort Toronto to Open This Summer
TDN – Bill Finley – Did Alex Canchari Suffer from CTE?
The Star – ‘Best day to start is today’: Alberta bill sets out budget restraint, more savings
Phil has a question:
If the UCP are preaching budget restraint then why are they handing out more pre-election giveaways than Santa.
If the UCP are preaching budget restraint then why are they handing out an extra 2% of government revenues to slot operators.
TDN – Mendelssohns March Scores In The Slop At Oaklawn
I’ve separated from @OaklawnRacing I thank them for 6 1/2 GREAT yrs. We disagreed about the severity of a tweet I recently posted. Respect their opinion. In LV to enjoy competing vs fellow horse players in the NHC. Humbly appreciate all the well wishes. Our game is the BEST! VJS
DRF – Rampellini – Byers replaces Stauffer as Oaklawn Park announcer
Phil has a question:
Would the world not be a better place if more people kept all their zippers zippered.
Past The Wire – A Master at work, Track Announcer Pete Aiello in the booth at Gulfstream Park
Garden and Gun – Ganz – A Century-Old Trout Hatchery in Virginia Is Making Waves
Canadian Thoroughbred – Morrison – Alberta Champ Rico Walcott To Ride at Woodbine
TDN – HISA Q&A: The ADMC Program
Garden and Gun – Schipa – Noshing Nostalgia: Meals From Your Childhood
The Ringer – Fader – Greg Oden’s Long Walk Home
Sports Business Journal – Sources: NFLPA monitoring Lamar Jackson contract situation for collusion
Phil has a question:
When did not lining up to overpay an overrated player become collusion rather than good football sense.
Do you think the scribes actually believe the bullshit their shoveling.
CTV News – Judicial council reviewing complaint against Supreme Court of Canada’s Russell Brown
The judge ruled that while giving someone the finger may not be civil, polite or “gentlemanly,” it is protected by the freedom of expression under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
He concluded that citizens are to be “thicker-skinned, especially when they behave in ways that are highly likely to trigger such profanity.”
Bloodhorse – NHPBA – LA Attorney General Predicts Additional HISA Litigation
Bloodhorse – Jockey Club of Canada – Canadian Graded Stakes Increase to 42 for 2023
Canadian Graded Stakes for 2023
TSN – Woods’ girlfriend asks judge to resolve dispute over NDA
Phil has a question:
If there’s smoke is there fire.
Where do you buy futures on how long it takes for ex- to appear.
The Bitter Southerner – Gaffney and Park – Washed Away
Paulick Report – Frankie Dettori: Elite Power ‘Took My Breath Away’ In Riyadh Dirt Sprint
Bloodhorse – HISA to Use ‘Can’t Race’ Flags to Enforce Rules
TDN – HISA to Begin Using Can’t-Race Flags Beginning March 27
TDN – Thornton – HISA Authority Challenges ‘Piggyback’ Strategy in Amended Louisiana Lawsuit
National Post – Frank Stronach: Intrusive government regulators must back off
The Ringer – Tedder – Open Up the Pit: The State of Hardcore in a Post-Turnstile World
Front Office Sports – Pointdexter – Investigation Links Astroturf to Deaths of Six Former Phillies
Bon Appetit – Sevier – 53 Easter Side Dishes to Satisfy Spring Cravings
TDN – Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance On-Site At Tampa Bay Derby
Sports Business Journal – Bruins season ticket prices going up in 2023-24
Front Office Sports – Poindexter – ESPN Wants to Be the Hub Connecting Live Sports
Bloodhorse – Rollins – Faiza Remains Undefeated with Santa Ysabel Score
TDN – Faiza Stays Perfect In Santa Ysabel
Bloodhorse- McCroskey – Danse Macabre Hands Co-Owners First Graded Stakes Win
Esquire – Posnanski – Inside the Plan to Fix Baseball
Atlas Obscura – Zeldovich – Inside Canada’s Polar Bear Jail
Slate – Grabar – Consultants Gone Wild
Phil has a question:
Which came first – the brutal incompetence of municipal politicians and bureaucracy or the robber consultants.
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
National Post – Frank Stronach: Intrusive government regulators must back off
Phil has a question:
Have Danielle Smith and the UCPs solved every problem in Alberta.
Would Frank Stronach call this intrusive government regulations.
Now you may ask yourself why is Phil reprising an old article below.
Phil received a brochure the other day for a lawyer who has called his firm – Limitless Law Group. Phil had to think for a second about the name as limitless may mean the same as unlimited, but the latter is conjured more quickly and differently and the connotation is vastly superior to limitless. The two words may have very similar meanings but they are not equal.
The Guardian – Moran – How to write the perfect sentence
Auto Blog – Hurd – Ford files patent for cars that can repossess themselves
Phil M Stockmen
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