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...Steve got it,” says Bill Nader, a NYRA senior vice-president who served as director of simulcasting and television under Crist, “and he got it not because he went to Harvard, not because he’s a highly intelligent guy, but because he had great business sense in thoroughbred racing...
...Crist never liked the Form. As a bettor, he spent hours supplementing its statistics on horses’ past performance as he handicapped the next day’s races. As a journalist, he thought its coverage was shallow and its reporters were cheerleaders for the racing industry...
...Crist assembled a group of investors and bought it for about $40 million...
...Crist also founded the Form’s book-publishing business, DRF Press, which will issue Betting on Myself this fall...
After finishing that manuscript, Crist says he has been spending more time at the racetrack again. Currently that means passing days at Belmont Park, where the New York racing circuit competes in the spring...