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Racing’s shame

I DON’T USUALLY TURN TO THE NEW YORKER FOR ITS TAKE ON racing. Even on US dirt tracks. And its new podcast series, The Runaway Princesses, isn’t really about racing. Except that it is.

The s blurb describes the podcast as: “A story of why the women in Sheikh Mohammed’s family keep trying to run away and what’s happening to them when they do.” It is riveting, and I recommend it

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