Frontline

Season 2, Episode 11

Episode Title: The Other Side of the Track

Air Date: 1984-05-07

Overview:

An insider's look at the 'sport of kings' focused on tracks at Belmont, NY, where the rich indulge their interest in horse-racing, and at Great Barrington in Massachusetts where infirm horses run for purses that can barely pay the feed bill. This is America's number one spectator sport, in which tens of millions wager tens of billions every year.