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Synopsis
Barry Abrams brings you behind the scenes of the horse racing industry.
Episodes
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#464 - Pinch-Hitter
08/07/2020 Duration: 26minFor the first time since 1984, someone other than Trevor Denman will be calling the races at old Del Mar in San Diego - NBC's Larry Collmus. We'll talk with him. Plus, will Maryland's imminent adoption of a restrictive whip rule become a trend?
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#463 - An English King on Independence Day
01/07/2020 Duration: 36minOn American Independence Day, a colt called English King tries to win the Epsom Derby. Plus, thoroughbred racing in the States heads for a "Who Moved My Cheese" moment involving grooms and stablehands.
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In The Gate #462 - Where Did All the Lonely Horses Go?
25/06/2020 Duration: 26minWhy do field sizes for stakes races seem to be so low? Plus, how the COVID-19 shutdown led to a protest at a major thoroughbred track in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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In The Gate #461 - An Unusual Triple Crown Begins
17/06/2020 Duration: 33minChris "The Bear" Fallica previews the 1st leg of an unusual Triple Crown - the Belmont Stakes. Plus, the intrigue behind Patrick Biancone, trainer of Belmont entry SOLE VOLANT
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In The Gate #460 - A Difficult Conversation
12/06/2020 Duration: 28minA discussion of racism and the social unrest in the United States as seen through the prism of thoroughbred horse racing.
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In The Gate #459 - Lord of the Gold Ring
03/06/2020 Duration: 28minTrainer Blaine Wright sends out Anneau d'Or in the Santa Anita Derby. Will the added sign-ups on racing ADWs yield long-term gains? Plus, Barry comments on social unrest.
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In The Gate #458 - The Doctor Is In
29/05/2020 Duration: 27minDr. Post hopes a delayed Triple Crown works to his benefit. Plus, a horse that once played Seabiscuit in the movie now helps kids with autism.
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In The Gate #457 - Riding the Mono-Rail
20/05/2020 Duration: 34minWill Mr. Monomoy be able to return in time for a delayed Kentucky Derby? Plus, the COVID-19 shutdown leaves a couple of racing jurisdictions fighting for survival.
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In The Gate #456 - Back Into Form
13/05/2020 Duration: 33minBreeders' Futurity winner MAXFIELD stands to benefit from a delayed Derby. Plus, in a precursor to major U.S, tracks re-starting, we discuss European tracks that have resumed.
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In The Gate #455 - Artist at Work
06/05/2020 Duration: 30minWill the still-unraced Cezanne become trainer Bob Baffert's 4th (& maybe best) Derby hopeful? Plus, how is horse racing taking advantage of being the only game in town?
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In The Gate #454 - My Friends Beer
28/04/2020 Duration: 32minMy Friends Beer looks to pound down the big boys in the Arkansas Derby. Plus, what would happen if all 13 Triple Crown winners hypothetically raced each other?
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In The Gate #453 - The Fonner Things In Life
24/04/2020 Duration: 25minWho'd believe that our podcast leading to the 1st Saturday of May would come from...Fonner Park, in Grand Island NE? Plus, a quantifiable measure of horsemen's COVID-19 angst
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In The Gate #452 - An Auction at Home
14/04/2020 Duration: 29minAn Australian bloodstock agency conducts the first-ever online yearling auction. Plus, Santa Anita officials push to restart racing at the Arcadia, CA oval.
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In The Gate #451 - What About the Horses?
06/04/2020 Duration: 25minThoroughbred Aftercare Alliance president John Phillips discusses the ramifications of a possible spike in racehorse retirements due to the COVID-19 shutdown.
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In The Gate #450 - Dealing with COVID-19
30/03/2020 Duration: 23minHall of Fame rider Javier Castellano discusses contracting COVID-19. Plus, a business owner that relies on Keeneland's spring meet is struggling to make ends meet.
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In The Gate #449 - People Not Numbers
25/03/2020 Duration: 20minIndependence Hall hopes Saturday's Fla. Derby is a preamble to a Ky. Derby win in September. Plus, we remember 2 harness racing trainers who died from COVID-19.
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In The Gate #448 - Knocking It Out of the Park (UPDATED)
17/03/2020 Duration: 29minFormer CLE/DET 1B/DH Victor Martinez has King Guillermo ready for the Derby, even in Sept, Plus, an updated intv w/Keeneland pres. Bill Thomason on cancelling the April meet.
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In The Gate #447 - Legislating Safety
27/02/2020 Duration: 29minAre reforms proposed in a new bill introduced in the California legislature too strict? Plus, we remember an upstate New York woman whose idols were the jockeys of Saratoga
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In The Gate #446 - Nadal's Passing Shot
13/02/2020 Duration: 27minWill Nadal, the horse, become a champion worthy of his namesake? Plus, a new way to track thoroughbred aftercare.
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In The Gate #445 - Back to California
30/01/2020 Duration: 15minOne year after the height of the Santa Anita fatality situation, a new standing PET scanner reveals potential bone fractures before they become catastrophic.