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The Daily Racing Form (DRF) (referred to as the Racing Form or "Form" and sometimes "telegraph" or "telly") is a tabloid newspaper founded in 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, by Frank Brunell. The paper publishes the past performances of racehorses as a statistical service for bettors covering horse racing in North America .
The Daily Racing Form was one of Triangle's most profitable publications. A sister newspaper, The Morning Telegraph , was closed by Triangle during a strike. In the early 1970s, Triangle launched Good Food , a digest-sized publication featuring recipes and feature stories, targeting average households.
He earned a degree in journalism from New York University, then served with the United States Army for four years. He joined the staff of the New York Times but remained only a short time before going to work at The Morning Telegraph, then the companion paper of the Daily Racing Form, with which he became associated in 1954 and retired from as its executive columnist in 2003.
Charles Hatton (born circa 1907 - died 1975 in Port Washington, Long Island, New York State) was an American sports journalist. [1] He wrote for the Daily Racing Form [2] for 40 years, and has been credited as creating the term "Triple Crown" for winners of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. [1]
Moses Louis Annenberg (February 11, 1877 – July 20, 1942) was an American newspaper publisher who owned the Daily Racing Form [1] and the Philadelphia Inquirer. [2] He also owned General News Bureau, a wire service that reported the results of horse races.
The American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually to a female horse in Thoroughbred flat racing. It became part of the Eclipse Awards program in 1971. The award originated in 1936 when both the Daily Racing Form (DRF) and Turf and Sports Digest (TSD) magazine began naming an annual champion ...
The paper was devoted mostly to theatrical and horse racing news. It published a Sunday edition as the Sunday Telegraph . On closing, it was replaced by an Eastern edition of Triangle's sister publication, the Daily Racing Form .