Winning Ponies

Steven Crist has been the publisher and a columnist for Daily Racing Form since 1998. Previously, he covered racing for The New York Times from 1981-1990; was founding editor-in-chief of The Racing Times in 1991-92; and a vice-president of the New York Racing Association from 1994-97. He produced an instructional DVD titled Exotic Tickets, and is the author of several books including Exotic Betting, Betting on Myself, “Offtrack,” and “The Horse Traders.” He will tell us how he got interested in the sport of Kings and about his journey that took him to where he is today. In the second segment Dan Johnson who has worked as a reporter for a suburban Chicago newspaper for over nine years, and a correspondent and photographer for Blood-Horse Magazine and the Thoroughbred Times, will tell us how he fell in love with horse racing in the first place. For the past 22 years, Dan has covered horse racing at Prairie Meadows for the Des Moines Register. He was inducted into the Prairie Meadows Hall of Fame in 2006 for his