The results are in. And, from my wholly unscientific, small-sample-size survey, the four-day racing week has a pretty high approval rating, at least from the people most directly involved in the sport. For many years, the New York Racing Association raced six days a week during the summer meet at Saratoga Race Course. Then, in 2019,…
Published Aug. 20, 2024 A few years ago, one of my favorite things on X (it was still Twitter then) was writer Evan F. Moore’s daily “Who y’all mad at today?” post. Sometimes he offered a poll of possible targets of ire, sometimes he let people hammer whoever had irritated them recently. In horse racing,…
The CEO of the New York Racing Association, O’Rourke hadn’t yet marked his first anniversary in the position when he was thrust into a maelstrom of a public health emergency, a financial crisis, and zero certainty about the future, both immediate and long-term. On March 7, Aqueduct Racetrack hosted the G3 Gotham Stakes, a…
