Letter To The Editor: It All Begins With Churchill Downs
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...
No More Dirt
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...
As fatigue grows and morale wanes in Ukraine, defeat is a real possibility
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...
A year of war in Ukraine has created a haunted generation
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...
Zelensky is facing a Valley Forge moment
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...
Finland and NATO: A turning point the West should not miss
By Earle I. Mack The war in Ukraine has had wide-reaching economic and political reverberations, none more profound than the reemergence of NATO as the premier security alliance in the world today. Last month, Finland and Sweden both made an application to join the...
The King of Sports
By Earle Mack, published in Thoroughbred Daily News Throughout the nation, the horse racing industry is under both increased scrutiny and pressure to reduce the number of equine fatalities and breakdowns. While progress has been made at many tracks, in recent years,...
Unfinished landscape: Heartbreaking lessons of a mercy mission to Ukraine: Earle I Mack on The Hill
By Earle I. Mack How would you feel, in this day and age, if you were fleeing your home with only the few things you could carry in freezing winds and winter temperatures? How would you feel sitting in your car for 17 hours, waiting to cross a border, all the while...
We need liberty and justice for all: Earle I Mack on The Hill
By Earle I. Mack My roots run rather deep with the family of Andrew Cuomo. I got to know his father Mario Cuomo in the early 1980s during his first run for governor of New York. At the time, he was a little known lieutenant governor toiling in the shadow of Hugh...
Are we on the eve of destruction?: Earle I Mack on The Hill
By Earle I. Mack Over two centuries ago, our fathers founded a new nation conceived in liberty. This week, for the first time since the Civil War, that liberty came under attack, not from without but from within. We watched in horror as the Capitol was seized by our...