Andrew Cohen

1 week ago | paulickreport.com | Andrew Cohen

“The last remaining light of harness racing on the West Coast will soon go dark,” is how Nicole Kraft eloquently began her HarnessRacingUpdate piece last week on the demise of Cal-Expo in California. The track ended a long, tumultuous run last Friday. There were laments from those who remember Cal-Expo from its fonder days. There was surprise among industry insiders who figured the track had a year or two (or, at least, a month or two) left despite the state’s racing woes.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Andrew Cohen

“The last remaining light of harness racing on the West Coast will soon go dark,” is how Nicole Kraft eloquently began her HarnessRacingUpdate piece last week on the demise of Cal-Expo in California. The track ended a long, tumultuous run last Friday. There were laments from those who remember Cal-Expo from its fonder days. There was surprise among industry insiders who figured the track had a year or two (or, at least, a month or two) left despite the state’s racing woes.

2 weeks ago | paulickreport.com | Andrew Cohen

The first recorded winner in horse racing was Crauxidas, from Thessaly in Greece, in 648 BCE. I know that from reading “The Horse, a Galloping History of Humanity” by Timothy Winegard, a sweeping book that helps us better understand how ancient and pervasive the links are between horses and humans. I bet you could have laid good odds on Crauxidas, depending on what the local bookies were offering three hundred or so years before the birth of Alexander the Great. A millennium here.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Andrew Cohen

The first recorded winner in horse racing was Crauxidas, from Thessaly in Greece, in 648 BCE. I know that from reading “The Horse, a Galloping History of Humanity” by Timothy Winegard, a sweeping book that helps us better understand how ancient and pervasive the links are between horses and humans. I bet you could have laid good odds on Crauxidas, depending on what the local bookies were offering three hundred or so years before the birth of Alexander the Great. A millennium here.

3 weeks ago | harnesslink.com | Andrew Cohen

As reported by Andrew Cohen, The Surick investigation was supposed to be a coming-out party for the United States Trotting Association’s investigative arm. It was. It has also left bad blood between major Standardbred industry stakeholders and many lingering questions for the rest of us. Howard Taylor is at the center of a lot of things in harness racing. For our purposes today, he’s the attorney for Diamond Creek*, one of the sport’s largest breeding and racing operations.