ABOUT NO NEED TO CALL IT
No Need To Call It was founded on Aug. 1, 2014, in the hopes of bringing the Sport of Kings to a broader audience.
My hopes were quickly dashed, however, when I realized that a Wisconsin-based father of two small children with a full-time job was not going to be able to turn the nation back on to horse racing.
My name is Bob Wothe and I am that Wisconsin-based father of two small (now, in 2019, significantly less small) children. As a former journalist, I hoped I could move the needle on the amount of publicly available (and digestible) horse racing information that exists. Unfortunately, between the limits of my own time and the industry's insistence on undertaking the most unfriendly customer experience initiatives possible, the sport today continues to scrape by in something of a barren wasteland.
That said, I love it more than ever, and I now hope to use this site on a more regular basis simply to share my thoughts on big races and whatever's "in the news" in the horse racing world.
Thanks for visiting. Take a look around and come back soon.
(And if you're wondering what the name "No Need To Call It" is all about, just click here and watch how the incomparable Tom Durkin describes the equally incomparable Commentator.)
My hopes were quickly dashed, however, when I realized that a Wisconsin-based father of two small children with a full-time job was not going to be able to turn the nation back on to horse racing.
My name is Bob Wothe and I am that Wisconsin-based father of two small (now, in 2019, significantly less small) children. As a former journalist, I hoped I could move the needle on the amount of publicly available (and digestible) horse racing information that exists. Unfortunately, between the limits of my own time and the industry's insistence on undertaking the most unfriendly customer experience initiatives possible, the sport today continues to scrape by in something of a barren wasteland.
That said, I love it more than ever, and I now hope to use this site on a more regular basis simply to share my thoughts on big races and whatever's "in the news" in the horse racing world.
Thanks for visiting. Take a look around and come back soon.
(And if you're wondering what the name "No Need To Call It" is all about, just click here and watch how the incomparable Tom Durkin describes the equally incomparable Commentator.)