Andrew Cohen

3 weeks ago | paulickreport.com | Andrew Cohen

Here’s a question for the folks at the New Jersey Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners: What exactly does a racehorse vet have to do to earn a lifetime suspension? I ask the question because we learned last week that the New Jersey Board suspended Louis Grasso’s vet license for 10 years, retroactive to last October, in advance of Grasso’s scheduled release from federal prison later this year.

1 month 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 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.