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...mostly Crist filed a steady stream of straight racing results pieces, and his copy editor remembers him as a “really clean writer” and reliable reporter...
...Crist changed all that...
...Crist viewed the new project as an alternative to the Daily Racing Form, which he saw as a mouthpiece for the industry. After Maxwell’s publishing empire collapsed with his death, however, the Racing Times was bought out by the Form...
...Crist spent the next two years as an “unemployed horseplayer”—passing $1 million “through the windows” and spending hours each day studying the statistics in preparation for the next day’s races...
More simulcasting meant more money, so Crist negotiated deals with many tracks to start carrying simulcasts of NYRA’s races. In 1994, the total amount bet on NYRA races—or the “handle” in racing parlance—was $205 million. The next year, it was $589 million...