by Editor Account | Sep 5, 2023 | Horse Racing, Op-eds
By Earle Mack Horse racing is at an existential moment. Just weeks after a series of breakdowns at Churchill Downs cast a shadow over the Kentucky Derby, a wave of horrifying horse deaths at Saratoga Race Course has once again brought questions about safety to the...
by Editor Account | Aug 11, 2023 | Horse Racing
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) and the Jockeys’ Guild have announced that they have created a Steering Committee to recommend and develop programming in support of the mental health and wellness of jockeys. The announcement comes on the...
by Editor Account | Jun 1, 2023 | Horse Racing, Op-eds
By Earle Mack, originally published by the Thoroughbred Daily News In the wake of the tragic deaths of 12 horses at Churchill Downs, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) has called for an emergency summit. This presents both a moment of leadership for...
by Editor Account | May 11, 2023 | Horse Racing
The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation announced today that noted equine surgeon Dr. Larry Bramlage will be presented with the Dinny Phipps Award. The award will be presented at a dinner hosted by the chairman of The Jockey Club, Stuart S. Janney III, in Saratoga...
by Editor Account | Mar 30, 2023 | Op-eds
By Earle I. Mack The Russian invasion of Ukraine recently passed the one-year mark and I fear the country is on the verge of losing to Russia. As someone who has visited Ukraine multiple times on humanitarian missions, my last trip convinced me that the country is at...
by Editor Account | Mar 16, 2023 | Op-eds
By Earle I. Mack Just this weekend, I returned from my fourth trip to Ukraine over the past year and what I saw broke my heart. We went to deliver heaters, even as the unseasonably warm weather had brought buds to the trees. Signs of life anew, yet to all, they seemed...
by Editor Account | Mar 10, 2023 | Press Release
Operation Heat Ukraine, a non-profit venture between Earle I. Mack, Former Ambassador to Finland and Founder of the Earle I. Mack Foundation, and George E. Pataki, Former Governor of the State of New York and Founder of the George E. Pataki Leadership Center, today...
by Editor Account | Jan 31, 2023 | Press Release
Former Ambassador to Finland and founder of the Earle I. Mack Foundation, Earle Mack, and Former Governor of the State of New York and Founder of the George Pataki Leadership Center, George Pataki, have announced the continued support of Ukrainian citizens through the...
by Editor Account | Jan 25, 2023 | Earle I. Mack, Earle Mack
By Judith Miller When Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska visited New York in September, former Gov. George Pataki asked what her country needed most. “Heaters, heaters, heaters!” she exclaimed. Mr. Pataki relayed her request to his friend Earle Mack, a real-estate...
by Editor Account | Dec 21, 2022 | Op-eds
By Earle I. Mack Facing the deadly threat of freezing temperatures and starvation at Valley Forge, George Washington famously wrote, “unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place in [the supply] line, this Army must inevitably be reduced to one or other...
