Joe Drape

Reporter, New York Times

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New York Times reporter, author Soldiers First: Duty, Honor, Country & Football at West Point (Sept. 2012) & NYT Bestseller Our Boys

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RT @raypaulick: New study on Lasix shows it does enhance performance unrelated to reducing EIPH. performancegenetics.com/2013/05/20/new…

New Study on EIPH and Salix

performancegenetics.com — Abstracts have just been released for the upcoming Equine Science Society Symposium to be held in New Mexico at the end of May. Among the abstracts is a very interesting paper on EIPH completed by Dr Joe Pagan and colleagues. The abstract reads: Furosemide reduces the energetic cost of exercise in Thoroughbreds independent of its effect on EIPH J.D.
RT @DavidADorsey: @joedrape Forever first: What winning a state championship in high school baseball means two decades later. http://t.co/v…
RT @warrenthebull: "Few seem to realize U can no longer race 50+ wks a yr in SoCal & expect sport to remain inviting to majority of populat…
RT @Gil_Brandt: Most people want imperfections wiped clean on their HOF busts; not Larry Allen. Insisted his scar on forehead from stabbing…
Catching up on #Preakness nice column by @WCRhoden on extreme highs & lows of horse racing. nyti.ms/13BP36g

Working Different Sides of the Track at Pimlico

nytimes.com — Joe Miller and Jimmy McCue work in different environments at the same racetrack. McCue, 66, has been a staff photographer at Pimlico Race Course since 1970. Miller, 50, has been the track's equine ambulance driver since 1997, though he has worked there since 1981. They represent the intriguing, underexposed dichotomy of a troubled industry.
RT @timwoolleyracin: A trainer at Delaware gets 21 day suspension for steroid positive. A trainer in England got a 8 year suspension for a …
Interesting Story about DRF & goal to become Bloomberg of Gambling. Business plan smarter than their coverage? bit.ly/10f0Zxz

Can The Daily Racing Form Become The Bloomberg Terminal Of Horse Races?

fastcompany.com — Saturday is the Preakness Stakes, the second jewel in the Triple Crown. Orb, who won this year's Kentucky Derby, is the favorite by far, and come Saturday, tens of millions of dollars are likely to be wagered on the event (Preakness's "handle," or amount bet, was over $80 million last year).
RT @MBOZE: Top Ten breakthrough technologies in 2013. I like temporary social media and deep learning. technologyreview.com/lists/breakthr…

10 Breakthrough Technologies

technologyreview.com — Featured Story Susan Young Kevin Bullis Susan Young With massive amounts of computational power, machines can now recognize objects and translate speech in real time. Artificial intelligence is finally getting smart. Messages that quickly self-destruct could enhance the privacy of online communications and make people freer to be spontaneous.
RT @Kat_Terrell: Um, what? That's laughable. RT: @DRFHersh 106 Beyer for winner of slowest Preakness in half-century? What was the variant?…
Wayne Lukas & Gary Stevens, a couple of old guys, upset Orb in the Preakness and horse racing's Triple Crown bid .nyti.ms/10DqNDd

Oxbow, With Jockey Gary Stevens, Wins Preakness Stakes and Spoils Orb’s Run for Triple Crown

nytimes.com — BALTIMORE - They are a couple of old guys, D. Wayne Lukas and Gary Stevens, and for nearly 30 years they have fallen in love on the racetrack, traded cross words off it and fallen back in love enough times to be made an honorary Kardashian. Trainers fire riders.
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