Rail Talk Episode 60: Joe’s Bachelor Finale

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green take an overview of the Kentucky Downs meet—after Saturday’s performance, is it fair to call Cogburn the fastest horse in the world? And has the purse money given out at KD become too disproportionate to the quality of the horses running? That leads into a discussion about the Parx turf course, which was shut down recently after a trainer whose horse broke down over it posted a video of the atrocious condition of the grass. How does a modern racetrack fall into that state of disrepair? And is this a trend with tracks that are heavily subsidized by casino revenue? Joe and Jon then play the second part of the Not So Newlywed game, and Joe pays tribute to one of his first friends in racing, the late, great Chuck Simon.