Afleet Alex, Funny Cide, Barbaro - horse racing is suddenly becoming very, very cool again.
If the sport would only take advantage of the groundswell, and get some readily accessible major network TV deals at this point in time!
They ignored TV in the 1950's, and eventually lost out to football, and now NASCAR.
Edit: and I just remembered ... if the Hennigan brothers can indeed get their "First Saturday in May" movie on TV next year the week before the Derby - on a station most people will stumble across - wow!
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts
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