Meet The Horse Racing Nation Team...

Mark has over 25 years of experience in horse racing, having held executive positions with Churchill Downs Inc., Harrah’s and Youbet.com. 

With Horse Racing Labs, Midland has launched Horse Racing Nation (2009), DerbyWars (2011) and was a co-founder of TimeformUS, which launched in 2013. Mark enjoys playing the races and using HRN's data to come up with new products and new ways to enjoy horse racing. 

Mark can be reached at mmidland@horseracingnation.com

Mike has been a passionate horse racing fan for more than 30 years. He received his “handicapping education” through countless hours of deciphering the mystery that is embedded in every race. It was the tough beats at the window, however, that propelled him to never make the same mistake twice (well, maybe three times).

Prior to Horse Racing Nation, Mike owned and managed a successful direct marketing agency for 17 years that he subsequently sold in 2007. In 2007, Mike co-founded www.TrendPointers.com, a new source for predicting shifts in the economy and markets, and serves as Managing Partner.

Mike serves as an investor and developer of handicapping content and is the author of the Super Screener.

Candice is a lifelong horse racing fan and player. Her goal in life is to bring this fantastic game into the 21st century and beyond by embracing emerging technologies developed by Horse Racing Nation.

She is a graduate of the University of Memphis and the University of Arizona’s Race Track Industry Program. Candice supports the Backside Learning Center at Churchill Downs and hopes to one day add a retired race horse to her menagerie.

Follow Candice: @skipaway2000

Ed DeRosa is a Cleveland native who got into horse racing going to Thistledown with his bookie grandfather. He graduated from Denison University and after nine years with Thoroughbred Times as a writer and editor spent 10 years with Churchill Downs Inc. as director of marketing of Brisnet and TwinSpires. His favorite horses are Real Quiet, Ghostzapper, and Rachel Alexandra. His favorite whiskeys are Booker's and Pinhook.

Follow Ed on Twitter @EJXD2.

With more than four decades of sports journalism experience spanning four networks on two continents, longtime national broadcaster and writer Ron Flatter came to Horse Racing Nation in 2020, first as a free-lance writer and a contributing editor before being named managing editor with his move to Louisville in the spring of 2021.

Before moving full-time into the coverage of racing, Ron spent four years based in Las Vegas. He was one of the original hosts for the Vegas Stats & Information Network, where he served as the network’s chief racing correspondent. He began his Ron Flatter Racing Pod at VSiN in 2017 before moving it to Horse Racing Nation in 2022.

Flatter spent 2007-17 in New York working at CBS Sports Radio, ESPN New York, Fox News Radio, SiriusXM, WFAN and WINS. That decade followed three years working as the in-house, international correspondent in Melbourne, Australia, for RSN927, a station that is owned and operated by the Victorian racing industry. Flatter’s first full-time national job came in 1992 as a producer at ESPN Radio, where he eventually became creative director before leaving for Australia in 2004.

With horse racing part of his duties at nearly every stop, Flatter has covered nearly every Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup since 2007, missing only the 2020 races because of the pandemic. He has also covered multiple runnings of the Pegasus World Cup, the Arlington Million and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in addition to assignments at the Dubai World Cup, British Champion Stakes and the Melbourne Cup.

Flatter is married with a stepdaughter who lives in Vienna, Austria, with her two children.

Contact Ron: rflatter@hotmail.com.

Chris fell in love with racing when his father and grandfather took him to the 1987 Haskell at Monmouth Park. He continues to be infatuated with the data rich environment that horse racing provides.

Chris was project manager for TimeformUS, guiding the product to launch before it was sold to Daily Racing Form. He’s consulted for various race tracks, horsemen’s groups, breeding farms, ADWs and media groups before joining Horse Racing Nation in 2022.

Previous to racing he specialized in lean manufacturing management and procurement and is six sigma certified working for the battery manufacturer EnerSys and the highly custom lighting manufacturer City Theatrical.

Keith comes to horse racing from academia. As a scientist, his research applied machine learning and neuroimaging to understand how the human brain processes and regulates emotion. In 2020, he took up horse racing as a hobby and quickly grew fascinated by the science of modeling odds lines. This led to his development of the Equus model for computer assisted handicapping and wagering, which achieved annualized wagering profitability in 2023.

As a member of Horse Racing Labs, Keith is focused on applying machine learning models and advanced statistical analysis to inform horse performance and safety as well as price discovery within horse racing wagering markets.

Keith lives in Little Rock, Ar. with his wife Isabelle and their son Henry. He received a BSE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Computer Science from Colorado State University. He also completed postdoctoral training in applied machine learning at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

Carolyn transitioned to horse racing from a career in business journalism. After graduating from Rutgers University, she worked for Dow Jones in New York before returning to her hometown of Louisville. After a long career at a weekly business journal, she joined Horse Racing Nation in 2020.

Contact Carolyn: cgreer@horseracingnation.com.

Matt has been working with Horse Racing Nation since 2011 covering racing across the country. You can frequently find him at Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Saratoga, and Monmouth Park. He is the co-host of the popular weekly video show HorseCenter and a voter in the weekly NTRA Top Thoroughbred poll.

Matt lives in Metuchen, NJ, with his wife Cora and his son Riley. He received a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University and an M.Ed. From Rutgers University. His favorite hobby is going to the racetrack.

Follow Matt on Twitter: @AndyScoggin

Brian has been a passionate fan of horse racing since birth. Taken to the races at a very young age, he has been lucky enough to see all the greats in person from Secretariat and Ruffian through Rachel Alexandra and American Pharoah. Before coming to the Nation, Brian displayed his love for the sport through the development of his own horse racing website, which quickly became one of the most popular blogs in the game.

Editor of Horse Racing Nation from 2010-2017, Brian now works as Senior Writer, as well as co-host of the popular video show HorseCenter. You can also find Brian regularly on Facebook and Twitter.

A graduate of DePaul University, Brian serves on the board of The Exceller Fund and is a Hall of Fame voter. He lives in Suburban Louisville with his wife Candice and daughter Kendra.

Follow Brian on Twitter: @zipseatthetrack.