Recently it was announced that Spain wants to join the NBA...the world is shrinking, and to view the health of racing, the conversation should include South America, the Caribbean(hello Cuba), Hong Kong, Japan, Southeast Asia, the Down Unders, etc...at least two horses showed up at Santa Anita from CHINA this year...another from Russia.

I worked briefly in St. Kitts...15 years ago I attended the races on Nevis at a wild, beautiful, isolated mile oval hard by the ocean...the winning groom, a Rasta, turned to the stands and announced that his horse was the greatest since Secretariat...wagers were written by hand...a few years later Arthur Sharpe developed a track on St. Kitts, and today he competes with runners from other island nations at Beaumont Park...greyhounds and real estate help support the venture in this tiny country.

Love for the Sport of Kings runs deep world wide, as it does now for basketball...racing's future is global, and that is where I would turn for fresh answers and solutions...just one more arena where the USA has become less relevant.