(Originally published in the May 7, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine . Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column. ) By Lenny Shulman There aren’t many advantages horse racing has over other sports when it comes to being television-friendly. Games such as football...

Jockeys Season 2 I finally watched the first episode of the new season of Jockeys on Animal Planet, and here is my review of the episode and assessment of this season. I am hopeful about this season, because I was left feeling very excited at the end of this first episode. It seems the producers finally...

At 10 p.m., an exhausted Larry Jones finally fell asleep. Just two and a half hours later, he was back up, making training charts for that day’s sets before loading his trailer to drive from his barn at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland to Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. Jones was tired...