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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
By Ray Paulick
(UPDATE: A Paulick Report reader pointed out that by including a link to Indian Charlie or Ed Musselman on our home page, we may tacitly be approving or condoning potentially insensitive or offensive material in the Indian Charlie newsletter. To erase any doubts, we do not approve or condone such material. The home page links to the newsletter are being removed.)
Jim Squires, the former editor of the Chicago Tribune who with wife Mary Anne operates Two Bucks Farm in Versailles, Ky., was scratching his head after being the subject of what many saw as a race-baiting cartoon in the Indian Charlie newsletter recently, so he did what many people would do under similar circumstances: He wrote a letter to the editor of the publication, Ed Musselman.
The cartoon depicted Squires in the company of three prominent African Americans — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, along with political activitists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson – under a headline: GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE, and said Squires was “poising” with the three men at what Musselman referred to as a “DemocRAT fundraiser.”
The letter, emailed from Squires to Musselman, read:
Subject: equal space
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:22:58 -0400
Dear Indian Charlie, I have been looking for you at the sale to thank you for putting my picture in your sheet with my buddies Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama.
I know you are just trying to help me sell my yearlings to the liberal African-American community organizer share of the market that Tom Thornbury has assured me will definitely show up in week 16, Book 26, where I am catalogued.
If you see them before I do, please tell them my yearlings come with a free supply of Clenbuterol.
Gratefully yours, Two Bucks Jim Squires
Musselman opted not to run the letter and give equal space to Squires, who followed up his years at the politically conservative Chicago Tribune by serving as spokesman for the third-party presidential candidate Ross Perot in 1992 (the same year he bought his first Thoroughbred; Squires later bred 2001 Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos). Squires also was a member of the Kentucky Racing Commission. His reference to Clenbuterol in the letter to Musselman is connected with a reported positive test for Clenbuterol in Delaware in a horse owned by Squires and trained by Larry Jones. Squires is disputing the test result.
Instead, Musselman put his cartoonist to work on another racially-charged cartoon, this one showing Squires sitting next to a woman the newsletter parodied as TV talk show host “Offa Winfrey” in front of a large television monitor displaying Obama’s picture. The cartoon accompanied a story under a headline about an “Irate DemocRAT,” Squires, who had complained to a fellow consignor at Keeneland about the original Indian Charlie cartoon. The story included an “apology” from Musselman that said: “We would like to sincerely apologize to Two Bucks if we hurt his feelings.”
In the accompanying article, Musselman wrote that Squires “ was not happy with what this publication thought was a complement (sic), referring to Mr. Squires as having a ‘great mind,’ which he obviously does, having won the Pulitzer Prize while editor of the Chicago Tribune.” (The Tribune actually won seven Pulitzer Prizes under Squires’ leadership.) The article concluded by saying Squires will be “the featured guest on the Offa Winfrey show this Friday afternoon.” (Oprah Winfrey’s talk show is taped in Squires’ former residence, Chicago, which is also the home of Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama.)
These newsletter items about Squires are not the first sarcastic or potentially offensive references to members of minority groups by Musselman, who has repeatedly referred to California owner-breeder Jess Jackson as the “white Jesse Jackson” and in a recent edition referred to Kentucky breeder Arthur Hancock as “the luckiest white man in Bourbon County” because he “got a good woman AND a hoe.” Another reference this week used the term “Chinaman’s chance,” which Asian American organizations and others have called offensive.
The United States Constitution protects free speech and freedom of the press, which entitles Musselman to continue to publish what some may view as an often racially charged publication. What is curious about the Indian Charlie newsletter is what might be interpreted as tacit approval of Musselman and his racial parodies by Keeneland, which has constructed a specific distribution box for the publication in the entrance to its sale pavilion.
Keeneland, which has supported the newsletter through advertising, does business with buyers and consignors of many races, religions and ethnic groups from around the world. The company also has a history exclusively employing African Americans in such positions as washroom attendants and auction ring handlers.
Perhaps Squires should have directed his letter to Nick Nicholson, the president and CEO of Keeneland, rather than to Musselman. Nicholson might be able to better explain the meaning of Musselman’s attempts at ethnic humor and why Keeneland does everything possible to support the newsletter. While he’s at it, Nicholson also might explain that to Keeneland’s African-American work force.
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Ray Paulick
What in the world is going on inside the Churchill Downs Inc. executive offices? It’s slashed purses at Calder Race Course in South Florida by 17% and whacked almost $1 million from the fall stakes program at its home track in Louisville, Ky. Key management changes have been made at Calder and Fair Grounds in New Orleans, La., and press releases seem to be blaming horsemen for most of the problems.
Investors haven’t been wild about Churchill Downs stock ( CHDN), which closed at $46.45 Friday and hasn’t seen $50 a share since May 1. It’s 52-week high, $57.55, was achieved last December.
CEO Bob Evans and the TrackNet Media Group that was formed with Magna Entertainment to broker simulcast deals has refused to talk seriously with the Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Group, which is negotiating account wagering contracts with racetracks on behalf of local horsemen’s groups such as the Kentucky or Florida Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Associations. In fact, Churchill has filed anti-trust lawsuits against the organizations. Evans may be hoping that the longer he puts off dealing with the THG, the less resolve the horsemen will have to stick together in attempting to forge a better contract on account wagering.
That strategy doesn’t appear to be working. To the contrary, it looks more like Churchill Downs’ partner in TrackNet Media is bailing. Frank Stronach, the chairman and acting CEO of Magna Entertainment, sent out a press release a couple of weeks ago saying that Magna recognizes the THG as a beneficial national organization and is negotiating with THG.
For too long, horsemen have been losing ground and losing revenue as the percentage of dollars wagered that goes to purses has declined. The growth of simulcasting to non-pari-mutuel entities such as off-shore rebaters and account wagering companies has been at the expense of horsemen. It’s important horsemen understand why the status quo isn’t good enough and why they need to change the simulcast model, something the THG is trying to do.
SPEAKING OF WAGERING, hats off to Bloodhorse editor Dan Liebman for calling out the Jockey Club after it capitulated to Evans and to Churchill Downs’ biggest shareholder, Dick Duchossois, and decided to no longer provide the trade magazine with meet ending pari-mutuel handle figures. Churchill tracks under Evans and Duchossois have said that handle is no longer a meaningful statistic. Oh, really?
The decision by the Jockey Club to no longer provide this key economic indicator was disgraceful, but I wouldn’t hold out any hope the poobahs there will change their mind.
NO ONE PREDICTED KEENELAND’S SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE WOULD BE UP, so it’s not that surprising to see a 13% drop in the gross receipts through the first six sessions of the 15-day marathon. That 13% equates to a $41-million decline in revenue that will not go into the pockets of breeders this year, and that red number only figures to increase as the sale reaches the second half. The drop in revenue will ripple throughout all kinds of Thoroughbred-related businesses.
The good news from the first four days (Books 1 and 2) was that the median held up fairly well, declining only 10% from $200,000 to $180,000. The home run horses, those selling for a million dollars and up, didn’t materialize as often as they have in recent years, but the middle market was relatively steady. “Most of us survive off the middle,” one breeder told the Paulick Report. “Getting one of the big horses is like hitting the lottery, but it’s not something you really plan on.”
Smart gamblers don’t play the lottery, and intelligent breeders know there are far more people playing in the middle market than at the top. As long as the middle is healthy, so are the breeders. There is just a lot less icing on the cake this year.
Others who are selling throughout the September sale breathed a sigh of relief if their best horses sold well during the first two books out of fear that the bottom of the market may collapse once the sale reaches books five and beyond.
WHO HAS BOUGHT THE MOST HORSES SO FAR IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER? It wasn’t John Ferguson, or Shadwell Estate or the newly formed Legends Racing. Hint: It wasn’t at the Keeneland September yearling sale.
September’s busiest buyer so far (though not biggest spender) is a fellow named Mike Gill, the 2005 Eclipse Award-winning owner who has been on a claiming binge this month at Philadelphia Park. By our count Gill has claimed at least 30 horses in September at Philadelphia Park alone after similar buying sprees in Maryland and Massachusetts earlier in the year.
You remember Gill, don’t you? He’s the fellow who built a huge claiming operation earlier this decade, bought a training center, won a bunch of claiming races and then publicly complained when he led the nation in wins and earnings in 2003 and 2004 but didn’t get voted an Eclipse Award as outstanding owner.
The whining did him some good. When balloting was conducted for the 2005 racing season, Gill was once again the owner with the most wins and purse money won. This time, in what may be the worst decision in the history of the Eclipse Awards, voters representing the National Turf Writers Association, National Thoroughbred Racing Association and Daily Racing Form gave Gill the award as “outstanding owner.”
Why do I say that it was the worst Eclipse Award decision in history? I’ve got nothing against claiming operations and recognize it is the bread and butter portion of nearly every racing program in the country. However, in my mind, the Eclipse Awards are about excellence, whether it’s horses or people. Sheer numbers, especially at the claiming level, should not be misconstrued as excellence. In the category of outstanding owner, breeder, trainer and jockey, the leading candidates should be judged by how they performed at the top level of the sport, not the bottom level.
Gill, who was recently in the news because of some regulatory problems at his mortgage company, said he was getting out of the horse industry in 2006 when he accepted his Eclipse Award as outstanding owner. Many people had two words for him: good riddance.
“I’m going to miss racing, and I think racing is going to miss me, too,” Gill told Bloodhorse magazine.
Actually, Mike, we didn’t.
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER WON’T BE COVERING GILL’S EXPLOITS since it accepted the early retirement of Turf writer Craig Donnelly only a month after the paper, the nation’s eighth largest, dramatically reduced the space allotted racing in its sports section. At that time, Inquirer editors told the Paulick Report it was keeping Donnelly but obviously they had a change of heart.
Newspapers may be an endangered species in the near future. Turf writers at daily newspapers already are.
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Musselman, in fact, seems almost obsessed with the Paulick Report, based on the number of recent references he’s made in his newsletter, which stands true to its motto: “We never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” The most recent reference to the Paulick Report can be found in today’s Indian Charlie, in which Musselman comments on the Paulick Report’s recent two-part series about Keeneland’s very profitable history ( Lexington’s Fort Knox) and current governance and ownership ( Who Owns Keeneland?).
Since the June 16 launch of the Paulick Report, Musselman has shown a potential “man crush,” writing six fictional stories about the Paulick Report and its editor and publisher, Ray Paulick. References to the Paulick Report since June 16 can be found here, here, here, here, here and here.
That number puts the Paulick Report in good company with such regular Indian Charlie cast members as Jerry Bailey, Bob Baffert, Cot Campbell, Robert Clay, Christophe Clemente, Terrence Collier, Bob Evans, Terry Finley, Arthur Hancock, Barry Irwin, Ken McPeek, Niall O’Callaghan, and Dallas Stewart.
“We would like to sincerely thank Mr. Musselman and his billionaire Jockey Club member ghostwriters for the free publicity,” Ray Paulick told the Paulick Report in an exclusive interview, “and we encourage all of them to keep up the good work. Of course, we hope his ghostwriters are able to continue doing such a terrific job running the Thoroughbred industry.”
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Tags: arthur hancock, barry irwin, Bob Baffert, bob evans, christophe clemente, cot campbell, dallas stewart, ed musselman, indian charlie, jerry bailey, Jockey Club, ken mcpeek, niall o'callaghan, pacemaker, Paulick Report, Ray Paulick, Robert Clay, terrence collier, Terry Finley
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
By Ray Paulick
Another major market newspaper has cut back on its horse racing coverage in the face of challenging business conditions for the print industry.
The Philadelphia Inquirier, the eighth-largest daily paper in the U.S. with circulation of 700,000, has eliminated daily coverage (entries, results, and selections) of Thoroughbred racing at nearby Delaware Park and harness racing at Harrah’s Chester. The paper will continue to print entries, selections and results for Philadelphia Park.
In addition, the Inquirer’s Turf writer Craig Donnelly will continue to cover racing as his full-time beat, although it remains to be seen if his articles will appear in print as often as in the past or be limited to the www.philly.com Web site.
Last month, two full-time racing writers, Larry Stewart and Bob Mieszerski, were among those who lost t heir jobs when the financially troubled Los Angeles Times (the country’s fourth-largest paper) reduced its payroll by a significant number.
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
John Corey wrote the following piece about how he came to meet the late Harry Aleo and produce a documentary film about Lost in the Fog, Aleo’s champion sprinter of 2005 who had a glorious racing career before he was diagnosed with inoperable cancer in August 2006. He died the following month
The documentary, appropriately called "Lost in the Fog," debuted in Las Vegas earlier this year to rave reviews and is playing in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., this weekend as part of the Saratoga Film Forum.
Corey is a former television reporter in San Francisco, where Aleo lived and Lost in the Fog was based in the barn of trainer Greg Gilchrist. — Ray Paulick
By John Corey
The Horse of a Lifetime. The Story of a Lifetime.
At first glance, Harry Aleo, and I didn’t seem to have much in common. Sure, we grew up in the same neighborhood in San Francisco but that’s where the similarities ended. Harry was fifty years older than me, had weathered the great depression and World War II, and his grouchy politics were foreign to me. Despite the differences, though, I knew from the first moment I walked into his dusty real estate office that we were going to be friends and that my life wasn’t ever going to be the same again.
Making a documentary is not unlike buying a racehorse. It’s very expensive, wildly speculative, and you have little control over how it’s all going to turn out. It’s risky but every now and then, if you’re lucky, you catch lightning in a bottle. For Harry and his longtime trainer, Greg Gilchrist, the bolt from the blue was a brilliant colt named Lost in the Fog. For me, it was a couple of salt of the earth guys who gave me a story for the ages but, more importantly, taught me some life lessons that will inform the rest of my days.
Harry and Greg were and are the real deal. Sure enough of themselves to be candid and brave enough to be sentimental, these guys are a filmmaker’s dream. You couldn’t write better characters if you tried. Aside from being ideal subjects for a film, however, they were even better ambassadors for horse racing.
In an era of racing beset by cynicism, Harry and Greg were paragons of honesty and integrity. In the case of Lost in the Fog, they did everything right. They avoided all the pitfalls and temptations of owning a brilliant horse yet they were tragically repaid for their generosity with his improbable demise. But instead of cursing the gods or wallowing in self-pity, they dusted themselves off and got back to the track ever grateful for their time with their legacy horse.
Before the film premiered in Las Vegas in June, I had the chance to show it for family and friends in San Francisco. After the screening, a friend who has two young boys came up to me and said, "I want my sons to grow up to be like just Harry and Greg. They just don’t make ‘em like that anymore." Truer words were never spoken.
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
The two full-time horse racing writers at the Los Angeles Times, Larry Stewart and Bob Mieszerski, were among the 150 editorial employees of the struggling paper to be terminated on Monday.
Times publisher David Hiller also was axed, the paper reported on Tuesday.
The Los Angeles Times has the fourth-largest circulation among daily papers in the United States, with circulation of over one million. Like many mainstream media print publications, however, the Times has fallen on hard times and has gone through several rounds of staff and budget cuts. The Times is owned by the Tribune Co. of Chicago, which also owns the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and eight other newspapers. The editor of the Chicago Tribune also resigned Monday, suggesting turmoil at that paper, too.
News of the terminations of Stewart and Mieszerski was first reported at www.sportsjournalists.com and picked up on a fan’s forum on the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club’s Web site. The Paulick Report confirmed the terminations through sources.
The loss of the two full-time racing writers came just before the opening of the Del Mar meeting on Wednesday and three months before the Breeders’ Cup comes to Santa Anita Park in the Los Angeles area. It remains to be seen whether anyone will replace Stewart and Mieszerski, who both were longtime employees of the paper. Stewart was a media critic before moving to the horse racing beat about a year ago (following the retirement of full-time racing writer Bill Christine, who took an early buyout). Mieszerski reported on racing and was a handicapper for the paper, making selections and a graded morning line for the Southern California tracks.
There are no longer any writers working full-time on horse racing at California daily newspapers, with the exception of those employed by Daily Racing Form. There are only a handful of full-time racing writers working at papers in the U.S.
UPDATE: In Wednesday’s San Diego County edition of the LA Times, there was no reference to opening day at Del Mar, and no listing of entries or handicapping selections. The LA Times apparently has completely dropped its horse racing coverage. This doesn’t bode well for the Breeders’ Cup later this year.
By Ray Paulick
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
I was in the middle of a dinner celebrating my son’s 20th birthday at the new Malone’s restaurant in the Palomar Center in Lexington (highly recommended, by the way, certainly up to the standards of all the Malone’s and with an appealing outside bar with large plasma screen TVs showing horse racing), so I didn’t get a chance to read the story until sometime later in the evening.
When I did, I was shocked and even more filled with angst when I read the article, written by the interestingly named Frank Angst, a ground soldier in the trade publication army of the Thoroughbred Times I’d crossed paths with on a number of occasions during my tenure as editor in chief of Bloodhorse.
Believe it or not, there are ethical standards among journalists, just as, I suppose, there are among horse traders. One of those standards is that publications that run exclusive stories should receive attribution or credit whenever another publication does a “cover your ass” rewrite, which is clearly what ground soldier Angst was ordered to do from on-high. To quote the leading media critic Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post and CNN’s Reliable Sources, “Making a couple of calls to confirm a story that a journalist would not otherwise know about doesn’t excuse the obligation to give proper credit.” Dick Jerardi, an Eclipse Award-winning writer for the Philadelphia Daily News (and an occasional Thoroughbred Times contributor), found the past-posting article of interest and wrote a story for his paper, giving attribution to the Paulick Report. The story by Frank Angst is not the kind of journalism my old friend Mark Simon, the longtime editor of Thoroughbred Times, expected from his employees 20 years ago when he hired me as the weekly magazine’s managing editor, and I doubt that Mark’s standards have changed very much. So I sent Angst a few angry emails Monday night that he’s had plenty of time to respond to, and hasn’t. (Note to Frank: It’s 2008. If you’re not checking your inbox 24/7, you’re no damned good.)
This is the same Thoroughbred Times and same Angst that was so anxious to report my demise from Bloodhorse last August but failed to run even a brief note about the start-up of the Paulick Report a few weeks back (neither, incidentally, has the Bloodhorse, though traffic reports on the Paulick Report web site show Bloodhorse IP addresses as a frequent, daily visitor…perhaps looking for news leads?). Someone once suggested that there is something Machiavellian about the trade press, that the ends (keeping the trade publications in a cozy, friendly relationship with the industry they cover) justify the means (parsing and lifting from non-trade press). That led me to run a picture of the Italian diplomat and author Niccolo Macchiavelli, especially since Frank Angst isn’t famous enough to have a photo on the Flickr web site. I never read The Prince, Macchiavelli’s most famous written work (I’m sure I’m not the only one who likes to say something is Macchiavellian without knowing what the hell we are talking about), but I do know something about the Thoroughbred trade press and the cozy relationship it has with advertisers and industry organizations it covers. I plead nolo contendere to charges that I was influenced at times during my 15 years at Bloodhorse, succumbing occasionally to brow-beating from advertisers, members of the organization’s board of trustees, its parent at the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, or from a publisher whose frequent jaunts to Margaritaville were made possible by a contented, free-spending group of advertisers. I’ll never forget the chilling words one of the Bloodhorse trustees said to me when I first met him: “We can’t tell you what to do or write. All we can do is fire you.”
The trade publications, for example, are not going to report on something that nearly every breeder in Central Kentucky already knows – that top older stallion Seeking the Gold has been shooting blanks this breeding season and may be finished – because 1) the farm that stands the stallion, Claiborne, is a major advertisers at Bloodhorse and Thoroughbred Times and hasn’t sent out official word yet through a press release, and 2) the stallion is controlled by Dinny Phipps chairman of the Jockey Club, and the people who run the two publications don’t want to do anything to upset Phipps since they enjoy being invited to the Jockey Club Dinner in Saratoga Springs, NY, in August.
Of course, in the Jockey Club’s Macchiavellian manner of controlling as much of the industry as possible (did I just insert Niccolo Macchiavelli again?), one of the members of the board of trustees at Bloodhorse is Bill Farish, who has a double-barrel blast of lucky sperm as the son of Jockey Club vice chairman Will Farish and son-in-law of Dinny Phipps. The chairman of the Bloodhorse board is Stuart Janney, the cousin of Dinny Phipps.
As someone once said to me, “Why should the Jockey Club buy the Bloodhorse when it already controls it?”
The lifting by the Thoroughbred Times of the Philadelphia Park story wasn’t the first time in the brief history of the Paulick Report and certainly won’t be the last time something like this happens. I’m happy to say I may even be influencing their coverage.
In the wake of our breaking story last week on the election of the Breeders’ Cup board of members and trustees, the Paulick Report headline read: CLAY CANNED IN CUP ELECTION. A short time after that story was posted, the Thoroughbred Times apparently did another hasty rewrite, but with the bland headline: BREEDERS’ CUP ELECTS 12 TO BOARD OF MEMBERS AND TRUSTEES. Later that night, apparently someone at the Thoroughbred Times with at least marble-sized testicles changed the story headline to read: CLAY NOT AMONG 12 ELECTED TO BREEDERS’ CUP BOARD OF MEMBERS, TRUSTEES.
Bloodhorse.com apparently transitioned the other way in its brief rewrite and headline treatment. Its original headline, posted hours after the Paulick Report broke the election story, read: CLAY LOSES BREEDERS’ CUP BID. Sometime later, it was changed to the milquetoast: FOUR NOT RE-ELECTED TO CUP BOARD. Perhaps someone thought the latter headline told the story more accurately than the former. It’s more likely that someone reminded the editorial side of Bloodhorse how much money Clay’s Three Chimneys Farm spends on advertising on its web site and magazine.
The Paulick Report will not be beholden to industry organizations like the Jockey Club or to major advertisers. We are operating on the simple premise that the Thoroughbred industry needs and deserves independent reporting and analysis. Similar to listener or viewer supported operations like National Public Radio or Public Television, we believe we will receive support from readers like you.
By Ray Paulick
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CORRECTION: THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THIS STORY INCORRECTLY STATED THAT A.P. INDY "HAS BEEN SHOOTING BLANKS" DURING THE 2008 BREEDING SEASON. ACCORDING TO STATISTICS PROIDED BY WILL FARISH, A.P. INDY HAS COVERED 113 MARES AND HAS 80 OF THOSE MARES IN FOAL. THE PAULICK REPORT REGRETS THE ERROR.
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