By his own admission, Tim Livingston doesn't know much about horse racing. But his appearance on the second day of the Association of Racing Commissioners International's 88th Annual Conference on Safe Horses and Honest Sport had the room full of horse-racing regulators and other industry participants spellbound.
Livingston is an investigative sports journalist and host of the true-crime podcast whistleblowerpod.com (coming soon to Netflix and FX). His life's work was charted when he spent a decade investigating the NBA's 2007 gaming scandal involving referee Tim Donaghy, organized crime and more. The Atlanta-based Livingston was the featured speaker for the ARCI conference session entitled “Behind the Curtain of Other Sports – What the Public May Never Get to See.”
Besides being interesting and at times jaw-dropping, the topic was of keen interest to the regulators because of the burgeoning of sports betting, now legal in 33 states. Ed Martin, the ARCI president and CEO, said no other professional sport undergoes horse racing's regulation and government oversight. While sports wagering is regulated by the states, they don't regulate the betting product – unlike betting on horses.
The ARCI is the umbrella organization of the official rule-making bodies for professional horse and greyhound racing.
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