“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.” It gets pinned on Winston Churchill more than anyone. But the line was already in print by April 1859. Churchill was born in 1874. That’s the problem with the top-ranking lists of horse riding quotes. They run […]

Every app on this list pays its welcome offer once. Every race takes its cut every time. That cut is takeout: the track’s share of each pool, removed before winners get paid. It runs roughly 12% to 20.75% on win, place, and show bets, and about 20% to 31% on trifecta and superfecta pools. So […]

In Secretariat (2010), Secretariat saves the family farm. In real life, the horse whose winnings kept Meadow Stable afloat was his stablemate, Riva Ridge. The film never says his name. That’s the problem with most horse racing movies billed as true stories. The history bends, and nobody tells you where. Most “best horse racing movies” […]