The days before the first broadcast of Fox Sports 1’s new Thoroughbred racing series were not promising. The network’s Twitter timeline didn’t mention Sunday’s 5 pm show from Gulfstream Park in Florida until about an hour before broadcast, and a promo video offered the sort of sexist, inaccurate images of a day at the races that have become standard fodder in marketing of the sport.

It was a pleasant surprise, then, that the actual broadcast was among the most straightforward, honest representations of horse racing that we’ve seen in a while.

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