Rail Talk Podcast

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 ho

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 c

This week on Rail Talk! Our good friend and wise sage Tony Cobitz, a.k.a. Tinky, returns to the studio for another fascinating conversation with Joe Bianca and Jon Green on the state of racing and breeding.The three discuss the upcoming Breeders’ Cup Classic and its international flavor with main contenders City of Troy and Forever Young shipping in from all over the world. Has t

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca returns to the mic from his honeymoon in Greece to catch up with Jon Green on all the latest happenings in racing, breeding and sigh HISA litigation. The two appreciate Irad Ortiz, Jr. after the jockey’s 4,000th win and discuss the effort by the IBEW to unionize the backstretch at Belmont. On the HISA legal front, their outside counsel John Roa

On this week’s episode of Rail Talk, Jon Green and fill-in co-host Ren Carothers discuss some of the weekend’s WIN AND YOU’RE IN races including the three-way head bob in the Jessamine, the awesomeness of IDIOMATIC and CITIZEN BULL’S gate to wire victory. They also dive into the explosive 1-x family and which juveniles benefit from those potent genes. OBS director of sales

Host Jon Green welcomes Fasig-Tipton’s Jesse Ullery and Leif Aaron to talk about the wild success of Fasig-Tipton digital sales. The clearance rate for the ultra-convenient, ultra-popular platform run at 83%. Jesse, a very familiar face, is the sales announcer and also an account executive. Leif, a former stallion nominations manager for Juddmonte, is the director of digital sale

This week on Rail Talk, Joe Bianca and Jon Green lament the predictable tragedy we saw Saturday on the Parx turf course. Despite obvious problems with the safety of the ‘grass’, horses were allowed to race over it on Parx’s biggest day, and it took one race for a horse to break down and have to be euthanized. How was this allowed to happen, and who shares in the blame? Dave

On Episode 61, hosts Joe Bianca and Jon Green welcome esteemed lawyer and CEO of the Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, Alan Foreman, to discuss the investigation into the University of Kentucky lab and Dr. Scott Stanley. They talk about the lawsuit at Hawthorne and the constitutionality (and success) of HISA and HIWU. The boys then reflect on last weekend's Woodbine Mile

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

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green put a bow on the Saratoga meet, which features a dazzling array of outstanding performances, but most importantly, boasted a safety record that was night and day from last year’s disaster. The boys give kudos all around, including to Flavien Prat for his record-setting meet, before debating whether or not the boutique meet should b