"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
Perspective May 31, 2021 "I realize that things that happened to other people years ago don’t help us today when it comes to paying our bills, making our stakes payments, or schooling our children. I’m not belittling anything...
Well, We Still Have The Horse April 25, 2021 "We’re lucky to have real live horses as the stars of our show — every night. I don’t believe that we’ve ever taken full advantage of this and truly promoted them as our big star"....read on / continu...
The Roar Of The Crowd February 28, 2021 "Our grandstands will sit empty for a while longer, until this pandemic is under control, but when we are allowed back I believe that we all, tracks, horsepeople and associations alike, have to make i...