The World Is Going To Be OK December 18, 2022 "Something recently dawned on me about our current younger generation that gives me great hope and satisfaction - regardless of what’s going on in the outside world around us."
"Lasix Shouldn’t Be The Dirty ‘L-Word’" November 27, 2022 "What most anti-Lasix people are missing here is the word ‘HELPED’ -- the horsepeople used it to help their horse. It’s something that should almost be applauded and not looked down upon."
"A Horse Is A Horse Is A Horse... Of Course" October 31, 2022 "Maybe the trotters have always seemed to take a bit of a back seat to ‘The Sport Of Kings’, but I don’t really see it as an issue these days. It’s horse racing. We’re all in it together. What is good...
"Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind" September 11, 2022 "Standardbred racing in Canada, like The Ex, was pretty much the only game in town back then - speaking in our case, about when it came to the gambling dollar. Unfortunately you’ve heard this song bef...
"We Live On In What We Leave Behind" August 22, 2022 "On Saturday, July 16, 2022, I sat with my son once again, and watched a Hollywood script unfold right in front of us as a colt from the last crop of Somebeachsomewhere won the only race his dad could...
"If It Was Only About The Money Most Of Us Wouldn’t Be Doing This" July 25, 2022 "Pebble Beach deservedly earned $500,000 with his North America Cup victory on June 18, and his connections were ecstatic. So were his fans, as well as the betting public that made him the 1-2 wagerin...
Horse Racing Is The Best June 30, 2022 "Racing struck it rich when Rich Strike won the 2022 Kentucky Derby and I don’t care if he’s a Thoroughbred, a Standardbred, or a buggy horse, if this tale doesn’t move you then I don’t think anything...
#LongLiveTheDream May 30, 2022 "For me, and I’m guessing for a lot of you, I was drawn in by the racetrack experience. Now I’m in -- I’m in for life. I never have to attend a track again and I’m still in for life. But we don’t need...
After The Gold Rush April 25, 2022 "In-race wagering on horses has been going on in Europe for many years. We’ve brought it up here in TROT, in this annual Horseplayer’s Issue, on multiple occasions for well over a decade. Between the ...
Discussing Post Time Drag March 28, 2022 "To clarify, to me, post time drag has nothing to do with the toteboard saying ‘0 minutes to post’, 6-7 minutes before the race actually goes, and to horsepeople, when this is the case, it should be 1...
Here's To Our Breeders November 14, 2021 "I really hate when people argue about who is more important to our business...We’re all in this together, most of us because we love it, and after the horses themselves no one is more important than ...
Move Over Lebron August 29, 2021 "I recently had a very uplifting experience when watching a horse I own part of race at Mohawk, and it wasn’t because of the horse’s performance"....read on