Jay Privman

Retired from Daily Racing Form Sept 2022. Still opine on racing when mood strikes. Co-host Thoroughbred LA radio 9-10 am PT Sat am830klaa. Big fan @cityofhope

[Jay Privman @jayprivman]

So the other day the ⁦@nmrhof⁩ gave ⁦@JayHovdey⁩ and I the honor of informing Fernando Toro that he had been voted into the Hall of Fame.
Jay H. told Toro he needed some photos autographed. On the photos it said Toro was in the class of 2023.
Sorry, it’s dusty in here

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

You can read the full story on my substack. I will soon be dropping excerpts from my upcoming book on this investigation

https://t.co/XtExESWp8r

[Susie @ponyace]

I can't overstate how highly I recommend getting to the @nmrhof for @DRFLivingston's new exhibit. The depth of dedication she has to preserving the history of the sport, through her own work and through saving and elevating others', is unparalleled. She's one of one. 🐐

[Matthew Sheffield @mattsheffield]

A guy who does not understand insurance is in charge of administering America's health insurance programs.

[Daily Racing Form @DailyRacingForm]

"Livingston photos on exhibit at Racing Museum"

@DRFHegarty has the details. @nmrhof @DRFLivingston
https://t.co/OJQr5HcbAd

[CARMA @CARMAcares]

60 days left to apply for 2026 CARMA Grants 🏇

Know an organization doing incredible work for Thoroughbreds after racing? Help us spread the word by sharing this post with your favorite aftercare organizations and partners.

Applications close July 31st.

Learn more + apply:
https://t.co/AFIvQhV59C

@CAHorsePower @TBaftercare

[Old Friends @Oldfriendsfarm]

Did you know that this week signals the end of the Triple Crown? The final leg, the G1 @belmontstakes, will be run on Saturday at Saratoga running 1 ¼ miles. Old Friends is currently the home of 2 Belmont winners – 2004 winner Birdstone and 2011 winner Ruler on Ice!

[NYRA Bets @NYRABets]

🏆 Field for Saturday’s Grade 1 Woody Stephens @BelmontStakes @TheNYRA:

1️⃣ Gilded Bandit
2️⃣ Obliteration
3️⃣ Six Speed
4️⃣ Stradale
5️⃣ Solitude Dude
6️⃣ Crude Velocity
7️⃣ Englishman
8️⃣ Civil Liberty
9️⃣ Taj Mahal

Loaded field. Who ya got?

[David Grening @DRFGrening]

Met Mile (Saturday)
1 Nysos
2 Vibe
3 Antiquarian
4 Saudi Crown
5 Rated By Merit
6 Knightsbridge
7 Journalism

[CARMA @CARMAcares]

Last call ❤️

Applications for the Messineo Makeover Scholarship close tomorrow.

If you’re attending the Thoroughbred Makeover with a CARMA Placement Program graduate, now is the time to apply for travel support assistance through CARMA.

We can’t wait to help showcase more CARMA graduates on the national stage this year.

Apply now: https://t.co/lpbtj8BZmj

Photo credit: Erin Gilmore Photography
@RRP_TBMakeover

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[@scottjshapiro.bsky.social @scottjshapiro]

DO YOU SING?

[FanDuel Racing @FanDuel_Racing]

Happy birthday to @TomRyanKY!

He spoke with @CBredar after Cornucopian's big win in the $275,000 Aristides Stakes (G3) at @ChurchillDowns.

[Daily Racing Form @DailyRacingForm]

"Journalism breezes half-mile for Metropolitan Handicap"

@DRFGrening has the news. @mwmracing
https://t.co/BnwzPpARAL

[Rob Miech @robmiech]

A Hall of A Bookmaker
Vinny Magliulo spent the summer of '71 in Vegas w/ godfather Dom and KNEW this city would be his future. In Aug, @VinnyByTheBook gets inducted into the @theSGHOF Thx to Sir Vinny for his time. @RoxyLasVegas @andrewssports @JayKornegay
https://t.co/17fyeYc8uf

[CARMA @CARMAcares]

Just 2 days left to apply.

The Messineo Makeover Scholarship was created to help more CARMA graduates make the journey to the Thoroughbred Makeover and showcase the power of second careers after racing.

Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of it.

Applications close June 1st at midnight.

Apply now: https://t.co/lpbtj8BZmj

Photo credit: Erin Gilmore Photography
@RRP_TBMakeover

[Jon Lindo @JonLindo60]

Today 9 am on @AngelsRadioKLAA & https://t.co/NJE7JwPsMY: Trainer Michael McCarthy joins us to discuss Formidable Man and Journalism, a closer look at great Stephen Foster preview day card at Churchill Downs, Triple Bend Stakes at Santa Anita. Belmont Stakes updates, what a HISA medication study reveals, overview of the Belmont Festival of Racing, and Ed Burke Futurity Trials @losalracing Sunday. Tune in!

[Steve Byk @Steve_Byk]

Amazing experience last night at the opening of Bobby Montano's tour-de-force, "Small".. Glittering array of racetracks on hand including @jjcjockey, @ljlmvel, Angel, Steve Cauthen, @dianapik & Bob Duncan, as well as @StephenCurry30 & @ayeshacurry. See it!https://t.co/NFj1dOKpDV.

[Nick J. Hines “Sarge” 🇺🇸 @Hinesite]

Thoroughly enjoyed working alongside the living legend @Michael_Wrona tonight on @FanDuel 📺@FanDuel_Racing where his Handicapping was on point with a Pick 4 to Score @HollywoodPenn; and the stories priceless. Thank you! 🫡
@JamesBaldo @JeremyPond

[Mitch Jackson, Esq. @mitchjackson]

They Are Coming for the Woman Who Told the Truth

Picture this. You are 82 years old. You stood up in a federal courtroom, told the truth about the worst day of your life, and a jury believed you. Two juries, actually. Two separate panels of ordinary Americans looked at the evidence, looked at the man who attacked you, and held him accountable for more than eighty-eight million dollars. You won. The law worked. The system did exactly what it was built to do.

Now picture the government of the United States knocking on your door, not to protect you, to prosecute you.

Here’s what the DOJ is doing. And it’s so wrong for so many reasons.

My new post, “She Won in Court Twice. Now Trump's Justice Department Wants to Put E. Jean Carroll in Prison.”

https://t.co/MEZBrUeq6M