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How Kentucky Will Save Horse Racing From Itself

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In recent months, some of the horse world's most prominent players have placed a bet on animal welfare as a means to save the long-venerated sport.

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It’s a delicious irony that my Bible Belt home state’s economy is built upon the shaky foundation of the wages of sin.

But unlike Kentucky’s other signature industries—tobacco, coal, and bourbon—the thoroughbred business (with its kissing cousin, gambling) has operated in the Bluegrass State under a hallowed sheen of due dignity,...

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