Euro VS US racing coverage

[Pedigree Ann]

Part of the trouble we have with our sport compared to other sports, and compared to other countries, is the lack of a central authority. A national authority that could keep tracks in New York and New Jersey and Delaware from running stakes races with the same conditions on the same weekend and so diluting the fields for all three.

But the way state politics work in this country, I can't see the states giving up their authority to a national body that has the best interests of the sport in mind. They see horse racing solely as a revenue-enhancing enterprise and want keep their greedy little mitts on the cash cow.