New NYRA Chariman: " I really don't know much about Horseracing"

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Originally Posted by Kasept

I am a frequent critic of Jim Odato, but this was a very nice profile piece on Skorton who is a highly respected academician and administrator. Not knowing a lot about horse racing won't hold a guy like him back from doing a good job with the NYRA board.

It's refreshing news in that he doesn't have a stake either way, and appears to be the sort of person that takes his time to assemble facts unbiasedly before rushing into judgement.

Additionally, having Dr. Bilinski as an adviser can't hurt - pretty remarkable guy in his own right.