This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green bring down the curtain on their 2025 season by discussing one of the hottest topics of the year—the future of Florida racing. Thoroughbred Racing Initiative releases a comprehensive feasibility study for a variety of future alternatives and Jon, co-founder of TRI, expounds on each option while giving his take on which he thinks would work the best.

The boys also put a bow on the racing symposium in Arizona, where NYRA CEO David O’Rourke announced new restrictions on CAW betting. How meaningful are the changes, and will any other racing outfits follow their lead?Plus, more controversy around a card cancellation at Aqueduct, and Joe stumps one more time for Super Corredora for champion 2-year-old filly.

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This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green are back together, on the heels of the last major racing weekend of the year and an eventful racetrack symposium.The boys first touch on the breakout performance of Zany in the Demoiselle at Aqueduct—where does her dominant win put her in the 3-year-old filly discussion? They also react to the sudden closure of Hastings Park in Vancouver—what does the latest shuttered racetrack mean for the sport as alternate gaming revenue is threatened in other areas?CAW bettors continue to wreak havoc on regular horseplayers, and the answers coming from the supposed cops on the beat are not great. Plus, Joe and Jon analyze the Q3 fatality data from HISA, and welcome friend of the show Dan Tordjman to discuss his trip to the Japan Cup, what lessons can be drawn from the sport’s success in the Far East, how to capitalize on Griffin Johnson growing racing’s visibility among the youth and more.Don’t miss any of these illuminating conversations, happening only on Rail Talk. Join our family by subscribing to the show on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible or wherever you get your pods. Thanks to our sponsors Epic Insurance, The Green Group, Fasig-Tipton and Taylor Made for seeing and supporting our vision.

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca is joined once again by guest co-host Nick Tammaro to react to a controversy-filled holiday week in the ever-messy world of horse racing.NYRA’s jockeys made headlines when walking out on Sunday’s card at Aqueduct after the first race, citing a variety of issues with management. As always, the engines of the game—owners and bettors—get the shaft. Joe and Nick discuss how we move forward from here, then they analyze the damning neglect charges levied against trainer Rudy Rodriguez by HISA, and the reflexive anti-HISA stance taken by so many, even when it comes to horse welfare, supposedly everyone’s top priority.Eventually, they get to the action on the racetrack, as Magnitude takes an exciting renewal of the Clark Handicap to highlight the last major stakes weekend of the year in Kentucky. They also look forward to the final Cigar Mile day card to be run at Aqueduct, before Belmont takes over the New York racing calendar full-time next year.Don’t miss any of these candid conversations, 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. Huge shoutout to our sponsors Fasig-Tipton, The Green Group, Epic Insurance and Taylor Made for their support.