Before issues like the treatment of animals can be adequately addressed, the horse racing industry must appoint a single leadership figure to standardize rules and regulations.
Pimlico Race Court in Baltimore has cleaned up its act ahead of this year’s Preakness Stakes, doing away with kegs and even banishing its mascot, the beer-guzzling centaur Kegasus, but that did not deter spectators in extravagant hats from coming…