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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Dual Grade 1-winning Maryland-bred Mindframe has been named the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred in a year that saw four Midlantic-breds win Grade 1 races.View the full article -
YES! It also raises a question over the social media sites that allow this sort of info to be published, usually in a vile and personally insulting manner -
By Chief Stipe · Posted
Does Mr Repole remind you of a number of disaffected NZ social media commentators? -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Since 2023, Mike Repole has waged a campaign of inflammatory social posts and public statements targeting The Jockey Club and other leading Thoroughbred organizations. His rhetoric relies on selective facts and false narratives–fueling division, eroding trust, and distracting from the real work our industry needs to move forward. His campaign offers no solutions or concrete plans and appears instead to be part of an effort by Mr. Repole to anoint himself the “Commissioner” of the sport. As Stewards of The Jockey Club, we work to improve racing and breeding in ways that protect the horse, support workers, grow the industry, and build public trust. Our priority has been to focus on the work and avoid giving oxygen to Mr. Repole's baseless charges. But faced with escalating threats and a torrent of misinformation, it is time to set the record straight–with facts, not rhetoric. Starting today, we will train a lens on Mr. Repole's attacks to show why these accusations are based on incomplete facts and falsehoods and are harmful to our sport. We will also highlight the ways in which The Jockey Club supports Thoroughbred racing and breeding throughout the Thoroughbred's entire life cycle. Our responses follow: Claim: Mr. Repole alleges that the Board of Stewards is rife with conflicts of interest and engages in personal self-dealing for implied financial benefit.https://bitofayarn.com Reality: Mr. Repole's allegations about the Board of Stewards are baseless and represent the worst kind of attack, the sort that attempts to damage reputations through insinuation rather than facts. Mr. Repole has even admitted that he has no facts to rely upon and that filing a lawsuit is his only way to try to find anything relevant. These reckless accusations are irresponsible, unfounded, and deeply unfair to the individuals who volunteer their time and act in good faith to support the activities of The Jockey Club, a New York Not-for-Profit that operates in compliance with the conflict-of-interest requirements of the New York Not-for-Profit laws. Claim: The Jockey Club misuses its cash reserves. Reality: Over the past 15 years, The Jockey Club has contributed $112 million to support a wide range of racing, breeding, and aftercare-related matters outside of our companies' operations. For 2026, The Jockey Club has committed an additional $7 million to support those causes. This nearly $120 million investment is instrumental in driving growth and innovation, and in supporting multiple efforts to increase support for aftercare organizations, equine safety, increased national television coverage, and marketing, all of which are essential to the industry's vitality and public appeal. Claim: The Jockey Club has failed to address aftercare.https://bitofayarn.com Reality: Aftercare is a shared industry responsibility. The Jockey Club has performed its role dutifully, and it is wrong to assert that it has ignored aftercare or that “nothing has changed.” The Jockey Club is the single largest funder of aftercare–contributing $2.5 million this year and $23 million over the past 15 years–and is a founding member of Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance. Further, Mr. Repole recently posted an aftercare “plan” on X and criticized The Jockey Club for not implementing it. But what he shared was a bare-bones “Funding Model Projection” that largely mirrors Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance's funding approach and, as was clearly communicated to him by The Jockey Club, lacked key components of a complete and actionable plan, i.e., how donors would be incentivized, how the additional funds would be spent, and how success would be measured. The Jockey Club is increasing its support for Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance in 2026 and continues to work with sales companies and other stakeholders to support Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance and broader initiatives such as retraining and traceability. Claim: All industry data should be distributed for free. Reality: Mr. Repole argues that racing-related data compiled by Equibase (a joint venture of The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Racing Associations of North America racetracks, including Churchill Downs, NYRA, and Stronach racetracks) “should be [distributed] free just like every other sport.” He ignores that the gathering, compilation, quality control, and distribution of racing data is not costless–it requires continuing expenditures to support significant human resources and technological infrastructures to deliver vital and reliable data. At the same time, the premise that other major sports “give away” all of their commercially usable data is flat-out incorrect as they regularly monetize their data. (See for instance, Data Ain't Dead: Protecting the numbers as the sports data industry matures.)https://bitofayarn.com Claim: Mr. Repole continually blames the declining Thoroughbred foal crop on The Jockey Club, such as in an X post last August: “[U]nder the Jockey Club's watch, supply has been gutted. For over 20 years, while claiming to act for the 'betterment' of the sport, they've mismanaged it into the ground. The foal crop has dropped from 50,000 to less than 20,000.” Reality: The decline in the foal crop is the result of a complex mix of forces–economic cycles, industry consolidation, and competition from other forms of gaming and sports wagering. As a key example, tax policy has been a major driver of breeding economics for decades, and the Tax Reform Act of 1986 removed incentives that previously helped fuel breeding investment. In 2025, The Jockey Club worked with other industry organizations to help make 100% bonus depreciation for horse purchases permanent. For an in-depth examination of the foal crop decline, see The Jockey Club's Chair Everett Dobson's Nov. 6, 2025, Thoroughbred Daily News essay, Open Letter: The Declining Foal Crop and The Road Ahead. Claim: Mr. Repole has stated that the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) has done nothing to improve equine safety and criticizes The Jockey Club for supporting HISA. In fact, one of his lawyers sent The Jockey Club a letter on October 2, 2025, stating categorically: “Any suggestion that the sport is safer, or in any way better due to HISA, is demonstrably false.” Reality: Racing under HISA is safer. As reported to the Equine Injury Database: In 2021–the year preceding the HISA safety program–the fatality rate was 1.39 per 1,000 starts. In 2024 the rate at HISA-regulated tracks declined to 0.9 per 1,000 starts. In contrast, in 2024 the fatality rate at U.S. tracks not overseen by HISA was 1.76 per 1,000 starts. (Please see Equine Injury Fatality Rate 2009-2024. Figures for 2025 are still being compiled as tracks are still submitting their reports.)https://bitofayarn.com In summary, Mr. Repole disagrees with The Jockey Club and most of the industry on these and other issues. Members of the Board of Stewards have met with Mr. Repole on multiple occasions to try to address his comments in a productive manner. Unfortunately, those meetings devolved into a one-way stream of heated accusations and demands from Mr. Repole. Diatribes and disagreement do not give him special authority to dictate the industry's direction and appoint himself as the “Commissioner” of our sport–especially when his positions are not based in fact or reality and he has yet to articulate any concrete or viable plans for progress. We hope that sharing facts will provide clear insights into Mr. Repole's baseless accusations and illustrate the concerted efforts by The Jockey Club and others to help sustain and grow the sport. We will continue to work with members of the Thoroughbred industry to maintain a constructive and collaborative path forward. Board of Stewards of The Jockey Club:https://bitofayarn.com Everett R. Dobson (Chair) Louis A. Cella William S. Farish Jr. (Vice Chair) Gary Fenton Terry Finley Ian D. Highet (Treasurer) Marc Holliday Stuart S. Janney III Bret Jones William M. Lear Jr. (Secretary) David O'Farrell Vincent Viola The post An Open Letter To The Thoroughbred Industry From The Board Of Stewards Of The Jockey Club appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Oaklawn Park announced Jan. 27 the cancellation of its Jan. 30 - Feb. 1 racing programs. The Southwest Stakes (G3) and its full supporting card, as originally drawn, will now be contested on Friday, Feb. 6.View the full article
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