The ''Daily Racing Form'' (DRF) (referred to as the ''Racing Form'' or "Form" and sometimes "telegraph" or "telly") is a tabloid

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founded in 1894 in

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = List of sovereign states, Count ...

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, by Frank Brunell. The paper publishes the

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s of racehorses as a statistical service for bettors covering horse racing in North America. The first edition of the DRF was published in Chicago in November 1894 and publishes up to 35 regional editions every day but Christmas. In cooperation with the

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and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Association, the ''Daily Racing Form'' selects the winners of the annual

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s. In 1922, the ''DRF'' publishing company was sold to Moses Annenberg's

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, which would eventually be owned by

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. In 2007, the Wicks Group sold ''DRF'' to

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for nearly $200 million. Arlington sold the ''DRFs parent company, Sports Information Group (SIG), to Z Capital Partners in 2017 for less than $100 million. In 2021, Z Capital merged SIG into a sister company, Affinity Gaming, to form Affinity Interactive. In 2021, DRF released the DRF Sport website in September, and in October released the DRF Cash Grab free-to-plat sports prediction app. Together with Affinity Interactive, DRF released its first online sports book. The DRF Bets sports went live in Iowa in January 2022.

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