Nathan Prather

YouTube video by DailyRacingForm Grade 2 Wood Memorial Stakes Preview | April 5, 2025

Here's Mike Beer and I with a horse-by-horse preview of Saturday's G2 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ed...

Sorry but there are many better causes to support like public education, healthcare, you name it besides casino welfare for horse racing. 20% takeout plus utter incompetence and greed at every level has been and continues to ruin horse racing.

Keeping Pace: It's About The Handle, Stupid Thoroughbred industry stakeholders should spend more time figuring out why wagering was down again in 2024 and what to do about that existential problem and less time trying to undermine the federal racing integrity law that’s made racing safer for horses.

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Wagering On U.S. Thoroughbred Racing Declines For Third Consecutive Year December's 14.44 percent drop was the largest of the year and fourth month of 2024 that had double-digit declines from comparative month in 2023

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Inflation rate was 2.6%. Del Mar handle increased 0.5%. So inflation adjusted handle was down 2.1%.

Unfortunately this screenshot is not from a Saturday Night Live skit, peeing in stalls is the dog ate my homework excuse for cheating trainers.

20% hold + CAW’s owned by tracks = plummeting handle from retail horseplayers.