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Rail Talk Episode 72: Happy Repole-Days Part 1

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This week on Rail Talk! It’s a holiday double serving, as multiple Eclipse Award winner, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed commissioner of racing Mike Repole joins the show and gives us two episodes worth of content! In a lively discussion, Mike spars with Joe and Jon about the role of The Jockey Club, what progress his National Thoroughbred Alliance is making, stallion mare caps, synthetic racing coming to Belmont and much more. Then our pal Andrew Stewart of Arion Pedigrees stops by to recap the Hong Kong International Races and look ahead to racing across the pond in 2025. Don’t miss any of this discussion, the likes of which are only happening on Rail Talk. Join our family by subscribing to the show on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible or wherever you get your pods. Thank you to the sponsors Fasig-Tipton, The Green Group and Taylor Made for all of their support in 2024!

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This week on Rail Talk! It’s a holiday double serving, as multiple Eclipse Award winner, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed commissioner of racing Mike Repole joins the show and gives us two episodes worth of content! In a lively discussion, Mike spars with Joe and Jon about the role of The Jockey Club, what progress his National Thoroughbred Alliance is making, stallion mare caps, synthetic racing coming to Belmont and much more. Then our pal Andrew Stewart of Arion Pedigrees stops by to recap the Hong Kong International Races and look ahead to racing across the pond in 2025. Don’t miss any of this discussion, the likes of which are only happening on Rail Talk. Join our family by subscribing to the show on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible or wherever you get your pods. Thank you to the sponsors Fasig-Tipton, The Green Group and Taylor Made for all of their support in 2024!

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This week on Rail Talk! The boys are back and thrilled to kick off an exciting 2025 with lots of big news, as Joe Bianca and Jon Green welcome brand new sponsor Epic Insurance to the show, and introduce the newest four-legged member of the RT family, Joe’s whippet puppy Juno!Joe and Jon then analyze the Eclipse Award finalists—which categories have potential for intrigue and debate, and are there any outside-the-box contenders who could take home championship statues? We’re also less than four months away from the Kentucky Derby, with no shortage of tantalizing prospects, and we take stock of the many potential-oozing newly-turned 3-year-old colts.Happy new year to everyone in our ever-growing Rail Talk family—we’re now up to 16,000 subscribers and 3,000,000 views on YouTube! If you haven’t yet, please smash that subscribe button on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible or wherever you get your pods. Thank you so much to our sponsors, Epic Insurance, Taylor Made, The Green Group and Fasig-Tipton for all of their support! Let’s have a great 2025!…
 
Coming right back atcha, it’s the action-packed conclusion of our 2024 Rail Talk season featuring the second part of our discussion with industry titan Mike Repole! Mike, Joe and Jon go at it about the successes and shortcomings of HISA thus far, Fierceness’s case for champion 3-year-old male, who’s standing in the way of industry progress and much more. Then special correspondent Skip Anderson, full of holiday cheer and festive decor, stops by to talk about his findings from his masters thesis on Thoroughbred auctions, and associate producer Julia Agresta puts Joe and Jon on the hot seat for a new inscrutable Christmas-themed game. Thank you so much for all of your support during 2024, we are overwhelmed with gratitude for our ever-growing Rail Talk family. If you haven’t yet, please subscribe to the show on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible or wherever you get your pods so we can keep bringing you more incisive, spicy, funny, etc. content in 2025! Major shoutout to the sponsors The Green Group, Taylor Made and Fasig-Tipton for making this all possible. Have a phenomenal and safe holiday season and we’ll see you in the new year!!…
 
This week on Rail Talk! It’s a holiday double serving, as multiple Eclipse Award winner, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed commissioner of racing Mike Repole joins the show and gives us two episodes worth of content! In a lively discussion, Mike spars with Joe and Jon about the role of The Jockey Club, what progress his National Thoroughbred Alliance is making, stallion mare caps, synthetic racing coming to Belmont and much more. Then our pal Andrew Stewart of Arion Pedigrees stops by to recap the Hong Kong International Races and look ahead to racing across the pond in 2025. Don’t miss any of this discussion, the likes of which are only happening on Rail Talk. Join our family by subscribing to the show on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible or wherever you get your pods. Thank you to the sponsors Fasig-Tipton, The Green Group and Taylor Made for all of their support in 2024!…
 
This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green go international, as they welcome Hong Kong Jockey Club CEO Winfried Englebrecht-Bresges to fill us on in on this weekend’s prestigious Hong Kong International Races. Then our friend Andrew Stewart of Arion Pedigrees joins us to provide betting tips for the HKIR. The boys then preview the last big weekend of the year in New York racing, discuss the ongoing crisis at Woodbine and there’s a bee in Jon’s bonnet about a 2025 mating. Don’t miss any Rail Talk content, be sure to join our family by subscribing to the show on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible or wherever you get your pods. Thanks to the sponsors The Green Group, Taylor Made and Fasig-Tipton for supporting our vision!…
 
This week on Rail Talk! It’s a two-guest show, as Gulfstream Park’s excellent on-air analyst Samantha Perry stops by to preview the track’s prestigious Championship Meet, which gets underway this week. Perry also gives us insight on how to handicap Gulfstream’s synthetic-track racing, differentiating horses’ physical presence and where to go in Miami if you want to stay up all night! Then, Rail Talk champion Len Green of The Green Group returns to the studio to talk about all the tax benefits of horse ownership and how to take advantage of them in 2025. He also reflects on being honored at this summer’s Racetrack Chaplaincy brunch in Saratoga and all the money raised that day to support the backstretch community. Joe and Jon later give their takes on the tenuous situation in California racing and the need for cooperation between interests in the north and south before the state’s racing goes by the wayside. Don’t miss an episode of Rail Talk, join the ever-growing family by subscribing to the show on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible or wherever you get your pods! Thank you to our sponsors The Green Group, Fasig-Tipton and Taylor Made for making it all possible. Have a great Thanksgiving!…
 
This week on Rail Talk! HISA CEO Lisa Lazarus and HIWU Executive Director Ben Mosier join Joe Bianca and Jon Green to correct some misconceptions about the new era of horse racing they’re ushering in and discuss all the progress being made to keep horses safer on the track. How logical are provisional suspensions? Is contamination an explanation or an excuse for positive test findings? What’s being done to ensure labs are all singing from the same sheet? Lazarus and Mosier answer these hot-button questions before touching on exciting developments like Horse In-Sight, a new tool that gives veterinarians a full picture of a horse’s health before giving them the green light to race. Joe and Jon also appreciate the war horses who competed in Saturday’s Claiming Crown before their first look-ahead to Kentucky Derby 151 analyzing notable 2-year-old performances from the weekend. Nowhere else in racing are these kinds of substantive, consequential and honest discussions taking place. Be sure to join the ever-growing Rail Talk family by subscribing to the show on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible or wherever you get your pods. Thanks as always to our sponsors Fasig-Tipton, Taylor Made and The Green Group for making it all possible.…
 
This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green are joined in the studio by very special guest and presumptive Eclipse champion jockey Flavien Prat! The three of them discuss Prat’s winding journey from France to California to New York, his enormous victory aboard Sierra Leone in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, all of the work it’s taken to bring him to the precipice of his first Eclipse Award and much more.Joe and Jon also reflect on a huge stakes weekend for West Point Thoroughbreds and what it means for the turf male division in 2025 before discussing perplexing trends Jon is noticing in the stallion and auction market. They then touch on the precarious situation with Woodbine’s main track and whether or not Kenny McPeek has a legitimate case to be Eclipse champion trainer.Don’t miss any Rail Talk content—join the ever-growing family making us one of the leading podcasts in the industry by subscribing to the show on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, etc. Huge thank you to our dedicated sponsors Taylor Made, The Green Group and Fasig-Tipton for their support.…
 
This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green welcome guest third host Michelle Yu to react to a star-studded weekend at the Breeders’ Cup. An outstanding reporter and analyst for Santa Anita and NBC Sports, Yu gives us her railbird review of Sierra Leone’s Breeders’ Cup Classic score, what it means for champion 3-year-old honors, whether or not Thorpedo Anna has locked up a Horse of the Year trophy and everything else that stood out to her from racing’s most important weekend. As someone who spends every day on the backstretch, Yu also speaks candidly about the new HISA amendments on their provisional suspension protocol and whether or not the program is catching actual cheaters. Don’t miss any Rail Talk content—join our ever-growing family by subscribing to the show on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible or wherever you get your pods. Thank you to our industry-leading sponsors Fasig-Tipton, Taylor Made and The Green Group for their unwavering support.…
 
This year’s Breeders’ Cup is so spectacular we had to drop two episodes of Rail Talk in two days, this time providing a betting companion to the 41st World Championships! On the latest edition of Breakaway Rail Talk presented by Arion Pedigrees, Joe Bianca is joined by friend of the show, owner and excellent handicapper Jim Politano to put together Breeders’ Cup tickets in hopes of making our subscribers some money this weekend. The two cashed a Rail Talk Pick 5 and a Pick 4 at last year’s BC, and they try to build on that success, putting their heads together to construct a Pick 5 ticket for Future Stars Friday, another Pick 5 culminating in the Classic on Saturday and finally, a Pick 4 for the last quartet of Breeders’ Cup races on Saturday. They also find time to reminisce about a fun but frustrating Saratoga meet full of chasing Pick 6 carryovers. Don’t miss any Rail Talk content, be sure to subscribe to the show on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible or wherever you get your pods. Major thanks to Breakaway sponsor Arion Pedigrees, and best of luck betting the Breeders’ Cup!…
 
This week on Rail Talk! We are on the eve of Breeders’ Cup XLI, and Joe Bianca and Jon Green can barely contain their excitement. Starting with the intrigue of the Classic, the boys touch on what they’re most looking forward to in Friday and Saturday’s 14 combined championship races. Then, ace international handicapper and “Longshot Lad” Kev Humphreys joins the show to clue the audience into who’s hot and who’s not from the stout European and Japanese contingents descending upon Del Mar. Which horses should you be leaning on or playing against this weekend? And who are some big prices who can outrun their odds and spice up exotic payouts? It’s a great week to be a racing fan, but that’s the case every week when you’re a Rail Talk subscriber. Join the ever-growing family by subscribing on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible or wherever you get your pods. Thank you as always to our industry-leading sponsors Taylor Made, The Green Group and Fasig-Tipton for their phenomenal support.…
 
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