Highfield Investment Group acquires Alberta’s Century Mile and Century Downs.

A proposed rule change wraps itself up in the flag of fairness and due process but its cynical purpose is clear – to make it harder for the United States Trotting Association to investigate and sancti...

“Don’t boo, vote,” Barack Obama used to tell audiences during speeches before, during, and after his presidency. Apply that to horse racing. Feel strongly about HISA? Don’t just rag about it in your o...

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The arrest of a driver accused of illegally transporting horses to a slaughterhouse in Canada raises questions about whether the man who sent the horses on that journey will be charged. It’s also a go...

The disgraced late president was an unlikely champion of this symbol of the Wild West.

On the eve of his execution, state officials say there should be no DNA or fingerprint testing for a condemned man who maintains his innocence.

In the face of a demand for DNA testing of evidence, state lawyers contort themselves to keep a man on death row.

The federal government is rewriting its rules governing ranching on public lands to increase the number of cattle, sheep and other livestock grazing on 155 million acres in the West, an area twice the...

A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.

A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.

Cutting the Preakness Stakes out of a national Thoroughbred championship series that includes the perennially forgettable Matt Winn Stakes makes no sense as a strategy for bringing Triple Crown fans a...

Designed to help people with serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires, despite two deaths.

Racing regulators have published a draft of their planned budget for 2027 and it will soon be ready for review by the Federal Trade Commission. The headline is that HISA and HIWU are asking for signif...

International, Economie, Environnement … La référence, partout, tout le temps.

Tomorrow is the end of the comment period the Federal Trade Commission observes before it begins to review proposed rule changes. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority wants to make some chan...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill made it official last week and signed into law a measure that continues the state’s $20 million subsidies for horseracing. It’s such a wise investment in an industry in a state whe...

The racial disparities, the arbitrary outcomes, the endless waiting and the risk of executing the innocent persist.

Donating money after a barn fire is a nice gesture from track owners and operators. But they need to spend that money now, immediately, in advance of the next deadly and entirely avoidable fire that c...

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the only federal appeals court that has struck down any part of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act. The court has been heralded as a hero by the anti-HIS...

Two recent rulings have refined the scope of HISA’s authority. That’s good news for horse people demanding due process rights when suspensions are on the line. And it ought to be a reminder to regulat...

In recent decisions, the justices restricted the bipartisan First Step Act that President Donald Trump signed in his first term.

Whatever you think of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, whatever you think of federal regulation, we should all be able to agree that we have just endured another week which laid bare so...

We can talk about medication standards and due process all we want. The fact is that there aren’t nearly enough regulators to adequately enforce trainer suspensions. It’s also strangely difficult to k...

A new ruling affirms the right to pretrial release, and says prosecutors must show specific cause to keep someone in jail.

Kentucky native, who in his youth marveled at Man o' War, was a legendary storyteller with vast knowledge of the Thoroughbred industry

The 2026 Kentucky Derby will be remembered for a milestone training win, a brilliant end to an incomparable broadcast career, two brothers who achieved a sort of immortality, and a great race that end...

Let’s leave the bickering and aggravations behind for a few days and enjoy the big race and the lead-up to it. Let’s enjoy the predictions and the hoopla and all the rest of it. There will be plenty o...

You think these playoffs are bad? Come back to April 20, 1984, the date of the worst, and thus the greatest, hockey brawl in playoff history.

Another state racing commission issues a baffling ruling without an adequate public explanation. And another opportunity for some uniformity among racing jurisdictions is evaded. What’s the point of h...

FanDuel’s abdication of its obligation to the Thoroughbred industry is terrible but unsurprising news. It’s also an opportunity and an incentive for the sport to band together to create a new way for ...

Churchill Downs, Inc. is fighting HISA over the collection of fees racing regulators need to help enforce the federal racing integrity and safety law. But the lengthy, expensive litigation is really a...

Edward Murrow, William Shirer, and Bob Trout created modern broadcast journalism on March 13, 1938 -- the day the network reported from across Europe on the Nazi Anschluss.

Before we can all start counting our money at a casino in northern New Jersey, state legislators need to get the measure before voters this November. They’ve made a start on that but appear to have st...

Bridget Williams gathered a group of children together in her barn to show them how to safely give a horse a treat.

Mary Walsh, leaving after 46 years, says staffers told to ‘aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum’

The harness track in East Rutherford has hosted America’s classic race since 1981. The race and the track need each other, especially with the prospect of a ballot initiative this fall that could help...

Iowa's high court recently ended the practice of making defendants pay fees for charges that get dismissed. Prosecutors are backing legislation to undo the court’s ruling so they can keep using fees a...

The Marshall Project found more than 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.

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