TJC Acquires Majority Interest in Blood-Horse

[Stoleitbreezing]

The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association announced Feb. 27 that The Jockey Club Information Systems has purchased a majority ownership interest in Blood-Horse magazine.

The purchase also includes related digital and custom printing properties of Blood-Horse, the Stallion Register, and Blood-Horse's 50% interest in TrueNicks LLC, according to the announcement made jointly by Ogden Mills Phipps, chairman of The Jockey Club, and Peter S. Willmott, chairman of TOBA.

Read more on BloodHorse.com: http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...#ixzz3Sxsajxqr

[JustRalph]

I give Bloodhorse 5 yrs and they are done

Unless they talk somebody/sucker into investing a ton of money

[Brogan]

This rubs me wrongly. When the media is owned by the industry that it reports on...well, I think hard hitting investigative journalism is out the window.

Be prepared for lots and gumdrops and rainbows type stories.

[OTM Al]

Originally Posted by Brogan

This rubs me wrongly. When the media is owned by the industry that it reports on...well, I think hard hitting investigative journalism is out the window.

Be prepared for lots and gumdrops and rainbows type stories.

I don't exactly recall any hard hitting investigative journalism previous to now, so not much a concern there.

[Brogan]

Originally Posted by OTM Al

I don't exactly recall any hard hitting investigative journalism previous to now, so not much a concern there.

I was trying inject a little humor there, but my concern is that there will seldom be any stories holding horse racing in a negative light now.

[OTM Al]

Originally Posted by Brogan

I was trying inject a little humor there, but my concern is that there will seldom be any stories holding horse racing in a negative light now.

I would be concerned that there are few out there that actually look into issues. You don't have to go any further than the NY Times to get racing in a negative light.