Human Stories, Boldly Told
In the sport’s post-Depression heyday, one audacious grifter beat the odds with an elaborate scam: disguising fast horses to look like slow ones.
Meet Gaston Grant, one of the very few black owner-trainers in horseracing—and almost certainly the only one who also works full-time at UPS.
Going trackside with the horse racing experts who use big data and intensive equine analysis to pick the winners long before they hit the starting gate.
A terrifying experience with my sick newborn sent me into a downward spiral of nightmares, depression and self-harm. It took a 24-day trip through a remote region of Central Asia to find myself again.
Over four decades at Belmont Park track, “Lucky Eddie” Outcalt has learned how to sniff out the universal secrets of horse racing.
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