In Today’s HRU (2026-01-04)

• Milbert: Racing halted in Chicago as Hawthorne bounces checks to horsepeople
• HRU announces its Elite Eight winners
• Sturman: An interview with Jason Bartlett on a key new rule change at Yonkers
• Berry: Wally Hennessey is the definition of the William Haughton Good Guy Award
• Heyden: Standout numbers from 2025
• Brown: A false mustache got Jeffrey Bell into Roosevelt Raceway
• Wolf: Ohio racing highlights from 2025
• Little: Horsepeople talk 2025, and hopes for 2026
• Hedlund: Nob Hill gallops, Nuevo Cash capitalizes at Vincennes
• Keith: Garnet Barnsdale looks back on first year at helm of Horseplayers’ Journal
• Chris Lomon: Knowledge of horses landed Katie King in her field of dreams
• Hamilton: The old marvel Bulletproof Boy deserves respect
• Cotolo: The walking death of pari-mutuel racing in Tennessee, Part 4
• Nosrac: Nostradamus
• HRU News
• Hot or Not