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In a stunning development, Churchill Downs Inc. extended trainer Bob Baffert’s suspension from all of its racetracks, including its signature track that hosts the Kentucky Derby, by at least another year despite the fact he has had no violations in the two years since he was suspended.Churchill Downs suspended the Hall of Fame trainer for two years in 2021 after Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit tested positive for a medication that is legal except for on race day. Medina Spirit had a positive test for betamethasone,…

The death count at Churchill Downs grew to six in a week and a half when Chloe’s Dream, a 3-year-old gelding, was injured in a maiden race, vanned off the track and then euthanized.There were no details of the exact cause of the injury. It was yet another black cloud over a sport that has been wrestling with safety and perception issues. In addition to the six deaths, a trainer was suspended because of two of the deaths and five horses were scratched from the Kentucky Derby.The incident occurred in the second race, a…

Anthony McCarten is Hollywood’s go-to guy for the biopic genre. The screenwriter and playwright brought the stories and voices of Stephen Hawking, Winston Churchill and Freddie Mercury to the big screen in projects that earned accolades, including three best actor Oscars, all in the last eight years.Now, he has several new biography-based works out at once: the film “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody”; the Neil Diamond musical “A Beautiful Noise”; and “The Collaboration,” a play about Andy Warhol and…

A polar bear swims to catch a beluga whale along the coast of Hudson Bay near Churchill on August 9, 2022.Photo: OLIVIER MORIN/AFP (Getty Images)Polar bear conservation nonprofit Polar Bears International is currently tracking and filming polar bears near Churchill, Canada. The Arctic bears have gathered there to wait for sea ice to form at Hudson Bay, which will make it possible for them to hunt their favorite meal: seals. There’s a livestream of these beautiful bears waiting for the ice, which you can check in on…

Learn how to use topic-noise models (1/3)Words matter. And these days, it can be hard to cut through the noise to find the words that matter the most. In this series of articles, we will introduce a new type of model — the topic-noise model, and show you how to use these models on social media text data sets to generate more interpretable topics. Social media data can come in many different forms, text, audio, images, and video, to name a few. In this article, when we use the phrase social media data, we are referring to…

Drake’s show-stopping verse on Jack Harlow’s “Churchill Downs” took the lyricist less than 15 minutes to write, Lil Yachty revealed in a new interview. Lil Boat caught up with Akademiks and the pair discussed a variety of topics, including Drizzy’s lauded appearance on Harlow’s new LP Come Home the Kids Miss You. As Yachty explains, Drake told him in a recent conversation that he penned his recent verse rather quickly while he was out in the Turks and Caicos Islands with the Louisville rapper. “I actually talked to Drake…

Jack Harlow and Drake are not on PETA’s good side right now. The animal rights organization is pointing to the duo’s single “Churchill Downs”—which Harlow just released a video for, including footage of him and Drizzy at the Kentucky Derby—and urging them to donate profits from the song to help racehorses, per HotNewHipHop. “Jack Harlow and Drake have chosen to glamorize horseracing with their new ‘Churchill Downs’ video,” the organization wrote in a release. “In response, PETA is calling on Harlow to donate the song’s…

Jack Harlow has released the lively video for “Churchill Downs,” his collaboration with Drake taken from his new album Come Home the Kids Miss You.Filmed at the Kentucky Derby last month, the video sees the two rappers get enthusiastic over some of the wagers they placed.The two were spotted at the Kentucky Derby, during which Harlow took some time to speak with NBC Sports. In the clip, which went viral, Drake appeared in the corner of the frame looking somewhat inebriated. “I just had to show up. I’m so proud of this…

“Churchill Downs” is poised for ubiquity thanks to its teaming of chart toppers Jack Harlow and Drake. But the track started off as a much more low key, and deeply moving, collaboration for hotshot Toronto producer Ace G and his special someone. As is his wont, it didn’t even occur to Ace G that someone like Harlow might choose the instrumental for his anticipated new album Come Home The Kids Miss You. Nor Drizzy hopping on for a feature. Instead of any calculating careerism, the Toronto jazz…

Churchill Downs, which owns the Kentucky Derby, is changing its strategy when it comes to sports wagering.The company is doubling down on horse race betting and moving away from online sports betting and iGaming digital casino games, CEO Bill Carstanjen told CNBC."We saw an environment for our company where we didn't see positive margins on the horizon. So we switched strategies we we are focused on running our horse racing business," Carstanjen tells CNBC.Following a Supreme Court decision in 2018 that allowed states to…