Track Tech: Every Home a Betting Window
Its Derby Week and WEKU looks at how technology is changing the horse racing industry. Today, we look at gambling. Not long ago, fans could only make a wager at the track itself, or perhaps at...
View ArticleRecords-Breaking Spring at Keeneland
A series of records were broken during the spring meet at Keeneland Race Course. The Lexington facility set a record for largest single day attendance, and for largest amount ever wagered on a single...
View ArticleTrack Tech: Not Missing the Boat, Again
During the Triple Crown events, thoroughbred horse racing commands a national audience. But three Saturdays a year cant support an industry that was once the most popular sport in America. WEKUs...
View ArticleTrack Tech: Artificial Surfaces Fading in America
Every one of the Triple Crown events, the Kentucky Derby, Marylands Preakness and the Belmont Stakes in New York, is run on a dirt track. Some in the horse racing industry want to end that tradition...
View ArticleTrack Tech: Medical Marvels Not Always Affordable
Over the last three years, The New York Times reports, some 36-hundred race horses have died at the nations tracks. Modern technology might have saved some of those animals, but, in an industry that...
View ArticleTrack Tech: Jobs Beyond Technology's Reach
The preparation of a horse for Triple Crown events, like the Kentucky Derby, is a demanding, 365 day a year process. And, the majority of people who do the work are foreign born. Many workers on a...
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