This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca is joined by guest co-host and Gulfstream Park on-air analyst Samantha Perry to react to a huge weekend for the home teams and the industry as a whole.Joe and Sam discuss the 55th annual Eclipse Awards, pulling back the curtain and sharing their experiences as first-time Eclipse attendees. They also celebrate the coronation of West Point’s 2-year-old filly champion Super Corredora and DJ Stable’s Nitrogen being crowned champion 3-year-old filly before analyzing all the explosive action from Pegasus World Cup day and looking forward to an intriguing Holy Bull at Gulfstream.Don’t miss any Rail Talk content! Be sure to join our ever-growing family by subscribing to the show on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible or wherever you get your pods. Shoutout to the sponsors Fasig-Tipton, The Green Group, Epic Insurance and Taylor Made for supporting our vision!

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green look forward to the 55th Eclipse Awards, and the potential for both of the show’s ‘home teams’ to take home hardware. They also preview a stellar Pegasus Day card at Gulfstream and analyze the installation—and quick removal—of historical horse racing-like machines at Santa Anita.The boys then welcome former Daily Racing Form chief national correspondent Jay Privman to get his take on the present and future of racing in his home state of California, how much he’s keeping up with the game in his retired life, the honor of winning an Eclipse for his retrospective on D. Wayne Lukas and more.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. Shoutout to the sponsors Fasig-Tipton, Taylor Made, The Green Group and Epic Insurance for their support!

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green take on several industry-wide issues, starting with the sudden retirement of recent Malibu Stakes winner Goal Oriented, and what it says about the breed-to-sell approach overwhelming the breed-to-race philosophy. Is the infatuation with sexy first-crop sires sustainable, or does the business need a major course correction?

The boys then react to John Sikura’s criticism of the Breeders’ Cup sitting on an endowment of nearly $100 million. How could that money be put to better use in an industry with so many holes, and what’s the Breeders’ Cup’s responsibility, if any, to spend it? Joe and Jon then touch on Tiffany Case—dam of presumptive champion Nitrogen—selling for $3.2 million, look forward to the first 20-point Kentucky Derby prep of the year in Saturday’s Lecomte, and take stock of what looks like another strong 3-year-old class.

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This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green are refreshed, recharged and back at their mics for the first show of 2026, kicking things off by analyzing the decrease in handle and purse numbers from last year. How can we reverse these trends? Are there any silver linings in the data? And who in the industry can we look to for solutions?The boys then welcome NBC Sports and Santa Anita on-air analyst Michelle Yu to give us the state of California racing, from the torrential rain forcing cancellations to the vastly improved safety record to issues with field size leading to stakes downgrades.Speaking of the latter, Jon was in the room for the American Graded Stakes Committee’s rulings for 2026, and gives Joe and the audience a groundbreaking look behind the curtain at how those crucial decisions are made.Nowhere else in racing are these insightful conversations being had, so make sure you join our ever-growing family by subscribing to Rail Talk on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible or wherever you get your pods. Thanks to our all-star sponsor lineup of Fasig-Tipton, The Green Group, Taylor Made and Epic Insurance for their continued support, and we wish all the best in the new year to our beautiful viewers and listeners!

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.

This week on Rail Talk! It’s almost Thanksgiving, and Joe Bianca and Jon Green are in the holiday spirit, looking forward to a great long weekend of racing and welcoming several special guests.

First, Chairman of The Jockey Club Everett Dobson stops by for a state-of-the-industry discussion, covering the increased fan engagement among 20-somethings in 2025, the declining foal crop, how we manage the CAW issues, what TJC’s role should be, and more. Then, NYTHA board vice president Aron Yagoda joins the show to explain the impasse between NYRA and NYTHA about 2026 race dates before providing updates about the future of Belmont Park.

The boys also touch on the near-tragedy at Evangeline Downs, as an ambulance driving the wrong way on the track nearly plows over a field of horses soon after they leave the gate. How did this something so ridiculous and dangerous happen, and where will the accountability come from?

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