This is not about business," Bill Farish, the general manager of his family's Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Ky., said emphatically. "This is about an entire industry."

On the off day from the Keeneland September Yearling sale, most breeders weren't singing the blues, but offering solutions for the future.

Rice was a natural for the profession, a third-generation horseperson. She is the daughter of highly respected horseman Clyde Rice, a former trainer who has operated a training center in Florida since leaving the racetrack.

We can't let up the intensity just because the protestors and the cameras have gone away.

Racing needs to consider moving from fractional to decimal reporting of odds.