Honoring Our Horse Culture

We are carrying a story this week in our paper that says horse racing will not return to the Touchet Valley for the second year in a row.

In 2011, the races didn't come to the area because all of the racing dates were given to a track in Kennewick.

This year, Dayton and Waitsburg didn't even ask for dates because the insurance premiums that protect the jockeys went skyhigh after some recent accidents and our Dayton Days and Days of Real Sport groups can't afford to bring the races back.

Speaking with sources while gathering information for this story, it always seemed to come back to money. La...