Ron Flatter

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591 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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The Tony Kornheiser Show · “Tell him it’s the NY Times!” · 13 May 2026 podcast

Whenever there's a drug issue, while we have federal authority now that regulates the medication of horses, the Jockey Club was a driving force behind that politically.

So I'm going to give you the name Everett Dobson, and the problem is, though,

that it's not like Roger Goodell, it's not like Adam Silver, where they can come and iron fist their way through this because it's so splintered.

Every state has its own authority in horse racing.

There are 30-some states that run their own racing jurisdictions and trying to get them on the same page along with the big racetracks owned by Churchill Downs and the Stronach Group, which seems to be getting out of the sport.

And the New York Racing Association, which is fully invested in it, trying to get them on the same page is nearly impossible.

Correct.

And what you just described is very similar to the tenor we are hearing.

that maybe the Belmont will say, okay, you can run your Preakness the week before the Belmont or two weeks before the Belmont.

We'll just throw another couple million at the Belmont.

We'll see who shows up for what.

And it ends up becoming a spending spree that ends up swirling into just political or economic oblivion for everybody.

But that's been described.

So maybe you get the TV networks to influence this.

Well, NBC's deal with the Preakness runs out after this year.

And so with Churchill down spending $85 million to invest in the Preakness in whatever way that actually means, the big expectation is that NBC is the popular favorite to keep the rights to the Preakness.

But Fox will do a good job with the Belmont stakes, but it's Fox.

And so you think NBC and Fox are going to get on the same page?

I don't think so.

So that just stirs the cauldron even more.

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