6+ hour, 47+ min ago  (370+ words) Past The Wire Rispoli Returns. And He Returns a Winner. Five months is a long time to sit with broken bones and the memory of a stretcher. On January 24, Umberto Rispoli was carried off the Gulfstream Park turf course after…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (1032+ words) Let's start with the law, because that is where both of these stories ultimately live. Free Speech, Hate Speech, Defamation: A Working Glossary That distinction sits at the center of both stories we are examining. The First Amendment protects you…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (96+ words) Past The Wire Journalism after winning Preakness 150 with Umberto Rispoli aboard. (Barbara Singer/Past The Wire) Umberto Rispoli has had one up and down year. from winning The Preakness aboard Journalism last year to a nasty fall early this year....

1+ mon, 1+ hour ago  (814+ words) Dahman's Grade 2-winner Bottas will make his sophomore debut and first effort since the Breeders' Cup in Thursday's Grade 3, $300, 000 Pennine Ridge, a 1 1/16-mile inner turf test for sophomores, during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course." Trained by…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1712+ words) The Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Commission has a privilege that no other racing regulator in the world shares. They govern the Kentucky Derby. Not just any race, the race. The one everybody knows The most exciting two minutes in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (574+ words) The Formula 1 marketing machine spends millions trying to fabricate drama, but they can stop trying. The most high-stakes, ruthless psychological war in motorsports is currently playing out inside the Mercedes garage, and Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix is where the pressure…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1456+ words) Today, as I watched the NBC national telecast of the Preakness Stakes, I witnessed a masterclass in corporate damage control. Deep into the broadcast, the production truck finally got around to addressing the radioactive elephant in the room: Irad Ortiz…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (360+ words) After Past The Wire published its piece on the Ortiz brothers and the cockfighting video, someone in racing media reached out privately. They told us the column was spot on. That they were honestly appalled at the lack of caring…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (299+ words) No one is allowed to think that he can leave off being a man" He must not shut his eyes and think that the misery that is not visible does not exist. Think occasionally of the suffering of which you…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1076+ words) There is a picnic blanket in Louis Masry's memory that explains everything. Louis Masry learned that early. He hasn't forgotten it. "Once you see it, you can't unsee it." THE MOMENT IT STARTED The trigger was the Paulick Report published…...