One of the best parts of being involved with running a horse racing partnership and a soccer club in the U.S. are the relatively small degrees of separation with other owners and higher-level folks who serve as role models in both sports.
Today is a great example, with rooting wagers in races and soccer games on two different continents. And it's even better when all of these rooting wagers are competing in an open sports systems--or in the case of the USL, an aspirational semi-open sports system.
