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TDN Writers' Room Podcast Archive

Welcome to the new TDN Podcast page, which features a weekly racing discussion—the TDN Writers' Room—along with stories from the TDN Look and longer stories in the TDN which have been made into podcasts.

Previous Podcasts

TDN Writers' Room for December 11, With Jeremiah O'Dwyer

12.12.19

In this week's podcast, Joe Bianca, Brian DiDonato, Bill Finley and Jon Green talk about Maximum Security's Cigar Mile, and chat with the Green Group Guest of the Week Jeremiah O'Dwyer, trainer of the promising two-year-old Shotski, who won the Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct Saturday. All that and more on the TDN Writers' Room podcast.

TDN Writers' Room for December 18, With Peter Brant

12.19.19

In our last podcast of the year, host Joe Bianca, Jon Green, Bill Finley, and Alan Carasso host Green Group Guest of the Week Peter Brant, who talks about his decision to keep Sistercharlie in training in 2020. The writers also cover the year in review, their favorite races, and the tumultuous events of 2019.

TDN Writers' Room for January 8, 2020, With Mark Taylor

01.08.20

Taylor Made Farm will offer the largest consignment at next week's Keeneland January Sale and today, Mark Taylor is our Green Group Guest of the Week on the Writers Room horse racing podcast. The possible closing of Arlington Park, economic indicators for racing and Eclipse Award finalists are among the topics we discuss.

TDN Writers' Room for January 16, 2020, with Willis Horton

01.16.20

As the writers came on the air, the Breeders' Cup released a 25-page report on Mongolian Groom's injury, ushering in what may be a new era of transparency in horse racing. The writers talk about that, and have owner Willis Horton on as a guest. That and more on this week's Writers' Room podcast.

TDN Writers' Room for January 22, 2020 with Mike Lakow

01.22.20

Gulfstream's Mike Lakow joins the TDN Writers on the podcast to talk about the upcoming Pegasus Stakes and the rest of the Gulfstream meeting. Lasix, safety, Thoroughbred retirement and more on this week's TDN podcast.

TDN Writers' Room Podcast for January 29, 2020, with Drew Mollica

01.29.20

Drew Mollica started his career in racing as a jockey agent, but had an epiphany at the age of 47: he was miserable. While keeping his day job, Mollica enrolled in law school, and today, is the most popular and affable lawyer on the New York Racing circuit. Mollica joins Joe Bianca, Bill Finley, Brian

TDN Writers' Room Podcast for Feb. 5, 2020, with Pat Cummings

02.05.20

The Thoroughbred Idea Foundation was formed to cultivate and put forth independent ideas for the benefit of Thoroughbred racing. In this edition of the TDN Writers' Room podcast, TIF Executive Director Pat Cummings talks to Joe Bianca, Bill Finley, Jon Green and Alan Carasso about their new white paper on the sustainability of racing.

Writers' Room for Feb. 12, 2020 with Jim Rome, Presented by Keeneland

02.12.20

How did legendary radio host Jim Rome get in the horse racing game? We find out as Rome joins writers Joe Bianca, Alan Carasso and Bill Finley. Rome calls his first ownership experience being “shot with equine crack.” Rome talks about his first homebred winner, Gidgetta (Fast Anna), and his love for the horses.

TDN Writers' Room for February 19, With Woodbine's Jim Lawson

02.19.20

In this week's Writers' Room, presented by Keeneland, the writers talk to Jim Lawson, the CEO of Woodbine, and one of the most innovative executives in the game. Joe, Jon, Bill, and Brian talk about what Bob Baffert might do with his top 3-year-olds, the optics from the Fair Grounds last weekend after the Risen

TDN Writers' Room Podcast for Feb. 26, with Dennis Albaugh

02.26.20

This week, the writers caught up with Dennis Albaugh, who owns two top threats for the Kentucky Derby, Dennis' Moment and Thousand Words. They also relive the racing and breeding career of A.P. Indy, and preview this week's Saudi Cup and the Fountain of Youth.

TDN Writers' Room for March 4, 2020, with Mark Casse

03.04.20

When Mark Casse wrote an Op/Ed in the March 2 TDN urging racing to ban the use of Clenbuterol, he started an important conversation about the use of drugs in the sport. Today, he appears on the Writers' Room podcast to talk about why he wrote what he did.

Writers Talk Racing's Doping Scandal on the March 11 TDN Podcast

03.11.20

Of course, the podcast conversation this week focuses on the doping scandal sweeping racing, and trainer Tom Morley joins the conversation to talk about the trainers whose lives have been affected by those now accused by the U.S. Attorney's Office of doping their horses. It's one for the ages, on the TDN podcast.

TDN Writers Room for March 18, 2020: Racing in the Age of the Coronavirus

03.18.20

It's hard to talk about anything else these days. Just a week after what we thought was the biggest story in horse racing history, the Coronavirus outbreak has overshadowed the horse doping scandal. Today, Joe Bianca (from home), along with Bill Finley and Jon Green (six feet apart in the studio) talk about how the

TDN Writers' Room for March 26, With TSG's Craig Fravel

03.26.20

Santa Anita and Gulfstream are only two of the six tracks still racing in the U.S. This week, we check in with Craig Fravel from the Stronach Group to talk about the precautions they're taking. Also, the writers talk about the latest developments in horse racing with the coronavirus, and the challenges horsemen face.

TDN Writers' Room for April 1, 2020, with Jack Knowlton

04.01.20

If the Kentucky Derby were going to be held the first Saturday in May, you'd have to say right now the favorite would be Tiz The Law (Constitution). But the first Saturday in September? We talk to Tiz The Law's owner Jack Knowlton.

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