Category: Opinion

Off the Pace: Catching up with John Hiraldo

by Mike Valiante | Dec 1, 2021 | Breaking, Opinion, Regionwide, Top Stories | 0 |

In a new “Off the Pace”: Mike Valiante catches up with Midlantic-based rider John Hiraldo, one of the year’s leading apprentice riders.

Off the Pace: Dear New Delaware Park Owners

by Mike Valiante | Nov 19, 2021 | Breaking, Opinion, Regionwide, Top Stories | 4 |

In a new “Off the Pace”: Mike Valiante offers Delaware Park’s new owners the perspective of a horseplayer with nearly a half-century of experience.

Opinion: Breeders’ Cup the bad and good of racing

by Frank Vespe | Nov 8, 2021 | Breaking, Opinion, Top Stories | 0 |

This Breeders’ Cup was the sport of Thoroughbred racing writ small. The humans at the top screw it up, and the horses redeem it. Lather, rinse, repeat.

At Colonial Downs, successes both fresh and familiar

by Frank Vespe | Sep 2, 2021 | Breaking, Opinion, Virginia, Virginia Business | 0 |

The return of live racing to Colonial Downs after a challenging 2020 meet went better than just about anyone could have hoped.

Off the Pace: Rich Glazier a “genuine everyman”

by Mike Valiante | Jun 25, 2021 | Breaking, Opinion, Regionwide, Top Stories | 3 |

In a new “Off the Pace”: Mike Valiante remembers Delaware Park’s Rich Glazier as a “genuine everyman” who truly loved what he did.

What we have is a failure to communicate

by Frank Vespe | Jun 3, 2021 | Breaking, Opinion, Triple Crown Trail | 1 |

Bob Baffert won’t have a horse in the Belmont, but all anyone can talk about is Bob Baffert. It’s exhausting, and another whiff.

Mattress Mack: Bet where it counts most

by Guest Author | Jun 3, 2021 | Breaking, Opinion | 0 |

Where you bet matters, says Mattress Mack, Jim McIngvale, in this opinion piece, and if you care about the future of racing, you should bet on-track.

Off the Pace: The aftercare challenge

by Mike Valiante | May 26, 2021 | Breaking, Opinion, Regionwide, Top Stories | 0 |

In a new “Off the Pace”: What to do with end-of-career horses is a problem with many causes, and many solutions, and people working to enact them.

Genaro: The hits that keep on coming

by Teresa Genaro | May 19, 2021 | Breaking, Opinion, Triple Crown Trail | 2 |

It’s been one thing after another in racing the last couple of weeks, and our Teresa Genaro wonders if it’ll all be enough to make racing take action.

Home is the horseman

by Frank Vespe | May 18, 2021 | Breaking, Maryland, MD Business, Opinion | 0 |

The trainer who died in 1949 and the dog who died in 1974 are among the many, many ghosts of Pimlico who’ll need a place of honor when renewal comes.

“No idea what the hell he is talking about”

by Frank Vespe | May 10, 2021 | Breaking, Opinion, Triple Crown Trail | 1 |

Bob Baffert has a cancel culture problem. Ed Martin has a Bob Baffert problem. Donald Trump has all kinds of problems. What’s going on this Preakness week?