The Emerging NFT Marketplace and How Horse Racing Can Climb Aboard

The all-time Gronk spike didn’t take place in an end zone on Super Bowl Sunday. It was after Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski got out his digital surfboard and rode a wave to millions of dollars in collectibles that he’d created with a branding team just weeks earlier.

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Don’t Miss 2020 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award Semi-Finalists

Even as a deadly pandemic stopped the world in its tracks, the business of horse racing continued — and thankfully so, too, did the art of writing about it. The year 2021 brings with it the 15th annual Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, once again recognizing the best long-form writing the world of racing has to offer.

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A Beginner’s Guide to the Kentucky Derby

If you’ve opened this story you probably are interested in the Kentucky Derby but might not know a whole lot about horse racing or the Triple Crown. That’s OK – we’re here to help. The Kentucky Derby is the most-watched horse race of the year in the United States and is widely considered one of the most important sporting events in the country, having grown to become much more than just a horse race since Aristides won the first edition in 1875.

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