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Mark Johnson - The English Voice of the Kentucky Derby
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Geir Stabell (14 April 2010 - Issue Number: 16)
Butch Lehr - Churchill Downs's track superintendent
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Backstretch Welfare Programs
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Ken Snyder (08 April 2009 - Issue Number: 12)
Kentucky Downs - America's only European-style turf course
/Working as a groom between his junior and senior years in college, Corey Johnsen wagered his entire week's salary on a horse in his care in hopes of earning his second-semester tuition. Decades later, Johnsen, now president and part owner of Kentucky Downs in Franklin, Kentucky, gambles on the success of a turf-only course accommodating shippers-only with just a six-day annual race meet. Will it be a winner? If uniqueness were a guarantee of success, Kentucky Downs, hard by the Tennessee border, would be a huge overlay. It is billed as the nation's only European-style turf course but General Manager John Goodman modifies this slightly and perhaps best expresses its essence: "It's English racing meets the county fair.
Ken Snyder (10 July 2008 - Issue Number: 9)
Read MoreFrom Synthetic prep race to the Kentucky Derby dirt
/Street Sense's dramatic, decisive victory in last year's Kentucky Derby restructured a lot of perceptions about winning the Run for the Roses. Not only could a Breeders'Cup Juvenile winner return the following spring to capture the first leg of the Triple Crown, but he could make his final prep for Churchill Downs' dirt track on a synthetic one.
Bill Heller (26 June 2008 - Issue Number: 8)
Who is Controlling Racing's TV Signals?
/For all the differences between the horseracing and betting landscapes in Britain and North America - size, history, administration and race and bet types, - one similarity of principle has emerged over the last five years. The live televised racing scene has crystallised into two entities, and the impact on both the foundation and prosperity of the sport and the availability of its betting facilities has been thrown into the blender.
Howard Wright (01 October 2007 - Issue Number: 5 )
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