Rail Talk Podcast

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca is joined by guest co-host Samantha Perry live her from analyst post at Gulfstream Park, and the two discuss some of their early observations from the track’s marquee Championship Meet—Dylan Davis continuing his career-best form in his first winter at Gulfstream, Todd Pletcher unveiling better and better 3-year-olds and the level of buzz surrounding the Pegasus....

This week on Rail Talk! The boys are back and thrilled to kick off an exciting 2025 with lots of big news, as Joe Bianca and Jon Green welcome brand new sponsor Epic Insurance to the show, and introduce the newest four-legged member of the RT family, Joe’s whippet puppy Juno! Joe and Jon then analyze the Eclipse Award finalists—which categories have potential for intrigue and debate, and are there...

Coming right back atcha, it’s the action-packed conclusion of our 2024 Rail Talk season featuring the second part of our discussion with industry titan Mike Repole! Mike, Joe and Jon go at it about the successes and shortcomings of HISA thus far, Fierceness’s case for champion 3-year-old male, who’s standing in the way of industry progress and much more. Then special correspondent Skip Anderson, f...

This week on Rail Talk! It’s a holiday double serving, as multiple Eclipse Award winner, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed commissioner of racing Mike Repole joins the show and gives us two episodes worth of content! In a lively discussion, Mike spars with Joe and Jon about the role of The Jockey Club, what progress his National Thoroughbred Alliance is making, stallion mare caps, synthetic racing...

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green go international, as they welcome Hong Kong Jockey Club CEO Winfried Englebrecht-Bresges to fill us on in on this weekend’s prestigious Hong Kong International Races. Then our friend Andrew Stewart of Arion Pedigrees joins us to provide betting tips for the HKIR. The boys then preview the last big weekend of the year in New York racing, discuss the...

This week on Rail Talk! It’s a two-guest show, as Gulfstream Park’s excellent on-air analyst Samantha Perry stops by to preview the track’s prestigious Championship Meet, which gets underway this week. Perry also gives us insight on how to handicap Gulfstream’s synthetic-track racing, differentiating horses’ physical presence and where to go in Miami if you want to stay up all night! Then, Rail Ta...

This week on Rail Talk! HISA CEO Lisa Lazarus and HIWU Executive Director Ben Mosier join Joe Bianca and Jon Green to correct some misconceptions about the new era of horse racing they’re ushering in and discuss all the progress being made to keep horses safer on the track. How logical are provisional suspensions? Is contamination an explanation or an excuse for positive test findings? What’s bein...

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green are joined in the studio by very special guest and presumptive Eclipse champion jockey Flavien Prat! The three of them discuss Prat’s winding journey from France to California to New York, his enormous victory aboard Sierra Leone in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, all of the work it’s taken to bring him to the precipice of his first Eclipse Award and muc...

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green welcome guest third host Michelle Yu to react to a star-studded weekend at the Breeders’ Cup. An outstanding reporter and analyst for Santa Anita and NBC Sports, Yu gives us her railbird review of Sierra Leone’s Breeders’ Cup Classic score, what it means for champion 3-year-old honors, whether or not Thorpedo Anna has locked up a Horse of the Year t...

This year’s Breeders’ Cup is so spectacular we had to drop two episodes of Rail Talk in two days, this time providing a betting companion to the 41st World Championships! On the latest edition of Breakaway Rail Talk presented by Arion Pedigrees, Joe Bianca is joined by friend of the show, owner and excellent handicapper Jim Politano to put together Breeders’ Cup tickets in hopes of making our subs...

This week on Rail Talk! We are on the eve of Breeders’ Cup XLI, and Joe Bianca and Jon Green can barely contain their excitement. Starting with the intrigue of the Classic, the boys touch on what they’re most looking forward to in Friday and Saturday’s 14 combined championship races. Then, ace international handicapper and “Longshot Lad” Kev Humphreys joins the show to clue the audience into who’s...

This week on Rail Talk! Our good friend and wise sage Tony Cobitz, a.k.a. Tinky, returns to the studio for another fascinating conversation with Joe Bianca and Jon Green on the state of racing and breeding. The three discuss the upcoming Breeders’ Cup Classic and its international flavor with main contenders City of Troy and Forever Young shipping in from all over the world. Has the City of Troy h...

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca returns to the mic from his honeymoon in Greece to catch up with Jon Green on all the latest happenings in racing, breeding and sigh HISA litigation. The two appreciate Irad Ortiz, Jr. after the jockey’s 4,000th win and discuss the effort by the IBEW to unionize the backstretch at Belmont. On the HISA legal front, their outside counsel John Roach joins the show t...

On this week’s episode of Rail Talk, Jon Green and fill-in co-host Ren Carothers discuss some of the weekend’s WIN AND YOU’RE IN races including the three-way head bob in the Jessamine, the awesomeness of IDIOMATIC and CITIZEN BULL’S gate to wire victory. They also dive into the explosive 1-x family and which juveniles benefit from those potent genes. OBS director of sales Tod Wojciechowski discus...

Host Jon Green welcomes Fasig-Tipton’s Jesse Ullery and Leif Aaron to talk about the wild success of Fasig-Tipton digital sales. The clearance rate for the ultra-convenient, ultra-popular platform run at 83%. Jesse, a very familiar face, is the sales announcer and also an account executive. Leif, a former stallion nominations manager for Juddmonte, is the director of digital sales. Fasig-Tipton di...

This week on Rail Talk, Joe Bianca and Jon Green lament the predictable tragedy we saw Saturday on the Parx turf course. Despite obvious problems with the safety of the ‘grass’, horses were allowed to race over it on Parx’s biggest day, and it took one race for a horse to break down and have to be euthanized. How was this allowed to happen, and who shares in the blame? Dave Grening, the excellent...

On Episode 61, hosts Joe Bianca and Jon Green welcome esteemed lawyer and CEO of the Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, Alan Foreman, to discuss the investigation into the University of Kentucky lab and Dr. Scott Stanley. They talk about the lawsuit at Hawthorne and the constitutionality (and success) of HISA and HIWU. The boys then reflect on last weekend's Woodbine Mile card which incl...

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green take an overview of the Kentucky Downs meet—after Saturday’s performance, is it fair to call Cogburn the fastest horse in the world? And has the purse money given out at KD become too disproportionate to the quality of the horses running? That leads into a discussion about the Parx turf course, which was shut down recently after a trainer whose hors...

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green put a bow on the Saratoga meet, which features a dazzling array of outstanding performances, but most importantly, boasted a safety record that was night and day from last year’s disaster. The boys give kudos all around, including to Flavien Prat for his record-setting meet, before debating whether or not the boutique meet should be expanded to star...

This week on Rail Talk! It was shaping up for weeks like a classic Travers, and if anything the race exceeded expectations, as champion colt Fierceness and presumptive champion filly Thorpedo Anna threw down in an all-time stretch drive that no racing fan will ever forget. Joe Bianca and Jon Green react to and appreciate the show that was put on before discussing what it means for the year-end cha...

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green welcome jockey Dylan Davis, who’s enjoying a breakout season at Saratoga. Fresh off a huge Grade I win in the Saratoga Derby aboard West Point Thoroughbreds’ Carson’s Run, Dylan talks about his upbringing as the son of ultra-talented jockey Robbie Davis, the years of work he’s put in riding the harsh winters at Aqueduct and how he communicates with...

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green celebrate a terrific weekend for the home teams, as DJ Stable/West Point Thoroughbreds’ Sandman takes his first step towards a potential Breeders’ Cup appearance with an impressive maiden score at Saratoga, while the always inspiring Carson’s Run notches a second Grade I win in the Saratoga Derby. With producer Patty Wolfe out of the country, associ...

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green are both on scene in Saratoga Springs to bring you the latest from the most action-packed week of the summer in upstate New York. They discuss the absolute firework show that was Night One of the Fasig-Tipton Select Yearling Sale, and react to a monster Whitney win by Arthur’s Ride that vaulted the big gray to the top of the handicap division. Later...

This week on Rail Talk! Joe Bianca and Jon Green react to a stellar weekend of racing, including a thrilling Jim Dandy that drove home the realization that this crop of 3-year-olds is pretty, pretty good. They then take a look forward to what’s shaping up to be a Travers for the ages and also preview plenty of great action in the meantime, including a 12-horse Whitney leading into the Fasig-Tipton...

This week on Rail Talk, Joe Bianca and Jon Green break down all the top headlines from a great weekend of racing, including how Dornoch and Thorpedo Anna’s victories affect the races for 3-year-old championships and Horse of the Year, and Idiomatic scoring another game victory as she builds a potential Hall of Fame case. They then touch on hopefully the last chapter in the Bob Baffert vs. Churchil...