Hospital CEOs defend charging patients more at facilities

Hospital CEOs came under fire at a House hearing Tuesday, with Republicans accusing them of overcharging patients and exploiting the system.

Executives from HCA Healthcare, CommonSpirit Health, New York-Presbyterian and ECU Health testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, defending their pricing practices — including that they should be able to charge higher prices for the same services compared with what patients might pay at independent practices.

Hospitals accounted for nearly one-third of U.S. healthcare spending in 2024 or about $1.6 trillion, according to a report in the journal Health Affairs. Another study, published in JAMA Health Forum, found that patients tend to pay more for the same doctor’s visits when their doctor is part of a hospital or private equity firm.

“The American people are fed up with outrageous prices that seem artificially high,” said Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., the committee’s chair.

Throughout the hearing, Republicans cited instances of hospitals in their states charging high prices at outpatient facilities affiliated with the hospital. These prices are often inflated by so-called facility fees, which are not related to the care provided but instead help cover expenses like staff and equipment.

Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tenn., pointed to an example of an independent ambulatory surgical center in his state that charged a facility fee of $656 for a colonoscopy, while an unnamed hospital outpatient facility charged a $1,222 facility fee.

“Is an 100% increase in the fee that you charge versus the surgical center, does that seem reasonable to you?” Kustoff asked the executives.

Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., said patients in his state are charged significantly more at hospital-owned outpatient clinics than at clinics owned and operated by physicians.

“How can you justify facility fees on outpatient facilities when there is no meaningful difference in the care delivered or the quality of the care?” Steube said.

The hospital CEOs pushed back, saying the higher fees are because hospitals are often reimbursed below the cost of providing the care, particularly by government programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

They also said the higher prices reflect the higher quality of their care, the cost of treating sicker patients and a federal requirement for hospitals to care for all patients, regardless of their ability to pay. Privately owned clinics and facilities can generally have the right to choose what patients they see and can demand payment up front.

“We’re the only participants in the healthcare value chain that have that obligation,” said Michael Waldrum, the CEO of North Carolina-based hospital system ECU Health. “Doctors, nurses, insurance companies, drug companies do not.”

Democrats were far more muted in their criticism of the pricing practices of the CEOs who appeared before the committee, accusing Republicans of using the hearing as a distraction from the impact of Medicaid cuts, which Republicans passed as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill last year.

“This is more a deflection hearing than a hospital hearing,” Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, said.

Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the committee’s ranking member, said Republicans “keep trying to convince people that it’s about just the providers,” adding that “it’s about many of their policies as well.”

Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively's legal teams hash out details ahead of trial

As a May courtroom showdown between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively approaches, lawyers for the former co-stars continued to hash out key pretrial issues Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman.

The civil case centers around the actors’ 2024 film “It Ends With Us,” based on Colleen Hoover’s novel. The movie turned litigious when Lively sued Baldoni, accusing him of sexual harassment on set and alleging his production company, Wayfarer Studios, retaliated against her after she complained about the alleged misconduct. Baldoni, who also served as the film’s director, and Wayfarer have denied all of her claims.

Earlier this month, the judge tossed out 10 of Lively’s 13 claims against Baldoni, allowing three to move forward: breach of contract, retaliation and aiding and abetting in retaliation.

On Tuesday, neither of the actors attended what was expected to be the final pre-trial conference before the May 18 trial.

During the roughly three-hour hearing, the actors’ legal teams debated over expert witness testimonies.

Both Baldoni and Lively’s attorneys said they’d likely require roughly three weeks to present their cases.

Liman, however, did not finalize timing, nor did he narrow down the witness list. The judge instead asked both side to look into the availability of some of the expert witnesses they plan to call at trial to participate in a pre-trial hearing in a week.

He asked specifically about two Lively’s witnesses: Aron Culotta, a computer science professor at Tulane University who has studied online harassment; and Dina Mayzlin, a University of Southern California marketing professor who has studied the manipulation of online reviews. He also asked about one of Baldoni’s witnesses: Nicole Alexander, a former marketing executive at Meta who has written a book about the ethical use of AI in marketing.

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Lively’s team argued that their client missed out on the opportunity to make up to $35 million for a sequel to “It Ends With Us.”

“Baldoni had suggested at one point that Ms. Lively would direct the sequel, and the lead actress would be compensated more,” Naeun Rim, an attorney for Lively, said.

But Baldoni’s attorneys called the payday surrounding a potential sequel speculative. They also pushed back on Lively’s claim that she lost between $39 million and $143 million in the aftermath of the film’s release, saying any losses can’t be pinned on their client.

“Ms. Lively has a track record of brands that have not succeeded,” Amir Kaltgrad, an attorney for Baldoni, said Tuesday, adding that “she is seeking pie in the sky damages here.”

Representatives for Baldoni and Lively declined to comment to NBC News.

The hearing did not touch on witnesses beyond the experts.

In a filing earlier this month, Baldoni’s team requested to block evidence from several people involved with the film, including: Hoover; producer Alex Saks; film co-star Isabela Ferrer; script writer Christy Hall; Liz Plank, the co-host of Baldoni and Jamey Heath’s podcast; and Claire Ayoub, a director who worked with Baldoni on a different film.

The case has also drawn in celebrities such as Ryan Reynolds, Lively’s husband, and pop star Taylor Swift, Lively’s friend.

Marlene Lenthang contributed.

FCC directs Disney-owned TV stations to file early license renewals

The Federal Communications Commission issued an order Tuesday directing Disney’s eight owned-and-operated television stations to file their broadcast license renewals ahead of schedule.

The move is tied to a year-long investigation into Disney’s DEI practices, the source said, but it got fast-tracked after ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about first lady Melania Trump.

“The FCC determines that calling in Disney’s ABC licenses for early renewal, at this time, under the Communications Act’s public interest standard is essential within the meaning of agency regulations,” the agency said.

Disney owns and operates TV stations in markets such as Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. The licenses were not due to come up for renewal until 2028 at the earliest, according to the source. The stations have 30 days to comply with the FCC’s order.

In a statement, a Disney spokesperson confirmed the company had received the FCC’s order. “ABC and its stations have a long record of operating in full compliance with FCC rules and serving their local communities with trusted news, emergency information, and public‑interest programming,” they said.

“We are confident that record demonstrates our continued qualifications as licensees under the Communications Act and the First Amendment and are prepared to show that through the appropriate legal channels,” the spokesperson added.

NBC News has reached out to all eight stations for comment. Semafor reported earlier Tuesday that the FCC was preparing to review the Disney broadcast licenses.

Disney also owns local stations in Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, Raleigh-Durham and Fresno.

The White House on Tuesday intensified pressure on ABC to fire Kimmel over his description of the first lady as an “expectant widow” in a parody of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on last Thursday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Two days later, a gunman opened fire outside the correspondents’ association event in Washington.

The Trumps and top administration officials were rushed out of the Washington Hilton ballroom. The suspect faces three charges, including attempting to assassinate the president of the United States.

“I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel’s despicable call to violence, and normally would not be responsive to anything that he said but, this is something far beyond the pale,” the president wrote in a social media post on Monday. “Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.”

Kimmel, a regular subject of the president’s ire, addressed the backlash at the top of his show on Monday, framing his “widow” comment as a joke about the 23-year age difference between the Trumps.

“It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am. It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination,” Kimmel said, adding that he believes the country should reject “hateful and violent rhetoric.”

In a statement, FCC commissioner Anna M. Gomez, the lone Democratic appointee on the three-person panel, blasted the agency’s push for early broadcast license renewals.

“This is unprecedented, unlawful, and going nowhere. It is a political stunt and it won’t stick. Companies should challenge it head-on. The First Amendment is on their side.”

Free Press, a progressive advocacy group, accused FCC Chairman Brendan Carr of “using his position of power to silence dissent at the president’s beck and call. This extraordinary and unconstitutional attack on the media is nothing more than another favor to the most fragile president in U.S. history.”

The furor around Kimmel comes seven months after ABC briefly suspended his talk show amid a controversy over his comments about the political motivations of the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah.

“The MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said on his Sept. 15 show.

Investigators had not yet released details about the suspect’s possible motive at the time. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, said the suspect grew up in a conservative household in Utah but later became influenced by “leftist ideology.”

Carr at the time accused Kimmel of “the sickest conduct imaginable” and suggested the FCC could revoke ABC affiliates’ licenses as punishment.

Carr, who was appointed to chair the FCC by Trump, hinted earlier this year that his agency might conduct early license reviews. “The Communications Act authorizes the FCC to call in licenses for early renewal,” Carr wrote in a March 14 post on X.

Lauren Wilson contributed.

U.S. will issue commemorative passports with Trump's picture for America's 250th birthday

The State Department said Tuesday that it is preparing a limited release of commemorative U.S. passports celebrating America’s 250th birthday that feature a picture of President Donald Trump, who would be the first living president to be featured in the travel document.

The concept for the special passport, including a rendering of Trump’s stern-looking visage, had been under consideration for months before finally being approved late Monday. The passports will be available at first only to applicants at the Washington, D.C., passport office and only on request. Applicants who do not want the commemorative passport will be able to chose a standard one, officials said.

“As the United States celebrates America’s 250th anniversary in July, the State Department is preparing to release a limited number of specially designed U.S. passports to commemorate this historic occasion,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said. “These passports will feature customized artwork and enhanced imagery while maintaining the same security features that make the U.S. passport the most secure documents in the world.”

With the exception of the addition of Trump’s picture to an interior page of the passport book, there will be few other changes other than the cover, which will feature the “United States of America” in bold gold print at the top and “Passport” at the bottom — a reversal of the standard cover. In addition, a small gold laminate American flag, with the number 250 encircled by stars, will be at the bottom of the back cover.

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The only presidents featured in current U.S. passports are in a double-page depiction of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

Other depictions include the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and scenes of the Great Plains, mountains and islands. Current passports also contain quotations from Martin Luther King Jr. as well as Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower.

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Business owner slams this 'embarrassing' summer job trend — and he's calling out parents

Matthew Baumgartner has been working, “hustling,” as he puts it, since he was 7. Back then, he’d dig golf balls out of the woods near a course, clean them up and resell them in egg cartons.

Now owner of June Farms in upstate New York, the subject of an eponymous reality series on Amazon Prime Video, he has little patience for a modern summer-job trend: parents calling for their teenagers to ask if he’s hiring.

In a blunt Instagram video that quickly went viral, Baumgartner didn’t mince words. “You guys have got to stop doing that,” he said. “It’s embarrassing. I’m embarrassed for you. How dumb is your kid that they can’t apply for themselves? You are doing them such a disservice.”

That frustration reflects what he’s seeing more and more in recent years. “I wouldn’t even consider an applicant who had their mom reach out on their behalf,” Baumgartner tells TODAY.com. “My brain automatically goes to ‘lazy.’ This does not signal a motivated worker.”

Online, plenty of viewers agreed. “If they can’t reach out about the job, then they are not right for the position!” one commenter wrote, while another, a teacher, added that “enabling has become an epidemic.” Others shared similar experiences:

• “It’s now not uncommon for parents to go to job interviews with their college graduate. (HR person here. I wish I was making this up).”
• “I can understand for a teen. But recently a man posted on the town FB page for his college graduate son looking for a job/career for him. THAT is absurd.”
• “I can’t tell you how many parents insisted on sitting in on the summer camp counselor interviews I held. Then, they answered all the questions for them.”
• “Just had a mom do that today. I said, have your daughter reach out and we’ll talk.”
• “Yeah, as a recruiter, I don’t bother with those.”

Not everyone agreed with Baumgartner’s take. Some argued that parents have always helped open doors for their children, calling it networking rather than overstepping.

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But Baumgartner says the trend has moved well beyond the occasional helping hand. His video, he says, wasn’t aimed at younger children but at older teenagers — and even adults. “You’d be surprised, sometimes they’re in their twenties,” he says.

For Baumgartner, the issue isn’t just who makes the call, it’s what the first interaction reveals. Applicants, he says, begin presenting themselves from the moment they reach out, whether through a thoughtful message or a hastily written note. When a parent intervenes, “it doesn’t give anything about the kid,” he says, and instead suggests a lack of initiative.

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Fort Worth Police say street takeovers down, but reckless driving persists

At a Fort Worth City Council meeting on Tuesday, Deputy Chief Sean Kenjura of the Fort Worth Police Department described how the city’s efforts to crack down on street racing have led to changes.

Street racing in Fort Worth has been a documented problem since at least 2020, according to a preliminary report from the city, but the activity has changed in recent years.

“We all remember the news reports all over the metroplex where kids were in the middle of the intersection and stuff like that. We’re not really seeing that,” Kenjura said. “Now we’re seeing more isolated incidents in parking lots and places like that.”

The preliminary report discussed in Tuesday’s meeting shows that from January 2026 through March 2026, FWPD responded to 795 calls for “hot-rodding.” Of that number, only 18 of these incidents were considered organized street takeover events.

The issue isn’t new. Fort Worth and other cities across North Texas saw large gatherings take over intersections, sometimes leading to arrests, vehicle seizures, and reports of gunfire. In one crackdown, dozens of people were cited, and nearly 30 vehicles were towed.

The “hot-rodding” category mentioned in the report includes reckless driving, racing, and street takeover activities.

Police say while large-scale events appear to be declining, they are still happening, and often moving across city lines.

“If they’re active in Dallas, Euless, Hearst, Bedford, Grand Prairie,” said Kenjura, “It kind of spins up, and we follow them.”

Officers say stronger laws are helping them crack down. Recent changes in Texas law allow police to seize vehicles involved in organized street racing and takeovers, a measure intended to deter repeat offenders.

Despite some measurable progress, police say street racing activity still poses serious risks. Past incidents have led to crashes, injuries, and fatalities, and officers have reported weapons being displayed or fired during some gatherings.

Investigators are also seeing new challenges, including the use of off-road vehicles like dirt bikes and ATVs.

“It’s a little bit more difficult when you’re dealing with the two-wheeled vehicles and those smaller, more maneuverable vehicles,” Kenjura said, “if we start running through neighborhoods and stuff, that gets pretty dangerous.”

As summer approaches, officers say they’re focusing more on prevention, including public education about what is and isn’t legal on city streets. FWPD also warns recent closures of private venues in the region could push more drivers back onto public roads.

Trump administration fires independent board overseeing the National Science Foundation

The Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation.

Members of the National Science Board received an email on Friday sent from the Presidential Personnel Office “on behalf of President Donald J. Trump” stating that their position was “terminated, effective immediately.”

“I wasn’t entirely surprised, to be honest,” said dismissed board member Keivan Stassun in an email. Stassun, who works at Vanderbilt University, added that the decision was “enormously disappointing.”

The National Science Board was created in 1950 to advise the president and Congress on science and engineering policy, approve major funding awards and guide NSF’s future.

It’s typically made up of 25 members appointed by the president who serve staggered, six-year terms. The fired scientists hail from academia and industry and specialize in areas including astronomy, math, chemistry and aerospace engineering.

Every member of the current 22-person board was let go, according to terminated member Yolanda Gil. The board had planned to meet in person next week and was finalizing a report on the state of U.S. science, Gil said in an email.

“I think this is one more indication of the sweeping changes that the administration has in mind for the NSF,” said Gil, who works at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California.

Maria Cantwell, the top Democrat on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, said in a statement the move was “a dangerous attack on the institutions and expertise that drive American innovation and discovery.”

The Trump administration tried to cut the science foundation’s $9 billion budget by more than half last year. Congress maintained NSF’s funding, but a similar slash is once again on the table for the coming year.

Without an advisory board in the way this time, Stassun said, such cuts may be easier to execute.

It could “eviscerate investments in fundamental research and in the training of the next generation of scientists and engineers for our nation,” Stassun said.

The science foundation’s headquarters was also relocated to a smaller building. Last year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it would be moving into the NSF’s former base in Alexandria, Virginia.

The National Science Foundation directed a request for comment to the White House. In an emailed statement, the White House said the powers given to the National Science Board when it was created may need to be updated. The science foundation’s work “continues uninterrupted,” the statement said.

Ex-FBI Director Comey indicted again, in a probe over an online post officials call a Trump threat

Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted again Tuesday, this time over a social media photo of seashells arranged on a beach that officials said constituted a threat against President Donald Trump.

The criminal case is the second in months against Comey and is part of the Trump administration Justice Department’s relentless effort to prosecute political opponents of the Republican president. The seashells photo was posted nearly a year ago, but the indictment was secured at a time when acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, a Trump loyalist who previously served as his personal lawyer, aims to prove to the president that he is the right person to hold the job permanently.

The fact that the Justice Department pursued a new case months after a separate and unrelated indictment was dismissed could expose the government to claims of a vindictive prosecution and to arguments that it is going out of its way to target Comey, who as FBI director had overseen the early months of an investigation into whether Trump’s 2016 campaign had coordinated with Russia to sway the outcome of that year’s election.

Comey was fired by Trump months into the president’s first term as that investigation was underway, and they have openly feuded ever since.

The prosecution arises from a May post on Instagram in which Comey shared a photo of seashells he saw on a walk in the arrangement of “86 47.” He has said he assumed that the numbers reflected a political message, not a call to violence. Comey deleted the post shortly after it was made, writing: “I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence” and “I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.”

Nonetheless, Comey was swiftly interviewed by the Secret Service after Trump administration officials asserted that he was advocating the assassination of Trump, the 47th president.

The case was filed in the Eastern District of North Carolina, the state where Comey found the seashells.

“Well, they’re back – this time about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach a year ago, and this won’t be the end of it,” Comey said in a video statement Tuesday. “But nothing has changed with me. I’m still innocent, I’m still not afraid and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary. So let’s go.”

The two-count indictment charges Comey with “knowingly and willfully” making a threat to “take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon” Trump and with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. It does not provide evidence that Comey knowingly threatened Trump, especially since Comey has said the opposite, but suggested a “reasonable recipient who is familiar with the circumstances would interpret” the message as a threat.

At a news conference Tuesday, Blanche refused to elaborate on any evidence of intent the government has but said: “How do you prove intent in any case? You prove intent with witnesses, with documents, with the defendant himself to the extent it’s appropriate. And that’s how we’ll prove intent in this case.”

And in an effort to rebut claims that Comey was being selectively prosecuted, Blanche contended the case against the former FBI director was similar to other threats cases the department routinely brings against the lesser known.

“While this case is unique and this indictment stands out because of the name of the defendant, his alleged conduct is the same kind of conduct that we will never tolerate and that we will always investigate and regularly prosecute,” Blanche said.

Comey’s legal team said in a statement that they “will contest these charges in the courtroom and look forward to vindicating Mr. Comey and the First Amendment.” They said he “vigorously denies” the charges.

What 86 means

Merriam-Webster, the dictionary used by the AP, says 86 is slang meaning “to throw out,” “to get rid of” or “to refuse service to.” It notes: “Among the most recent senses adopted is a logical extension of the previous ones, with the meaning of ‘to kill.’ We do not enter this sense, due to its relative recency and sparseness of use.”

Trump, in a Fox News Channel interview in May, accused Comey of knowing “exactly what that meant.”

“A child knows what that meant,” Trump said. “If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know what that meant, that meant assassination. And it says it loud and clear.”

Comey’s first indictment

The former FBI director was indicted in September on charges that he lied to and obstructed Congress related to testimony he gave in 2020 about whether he had authorized inside information about an investigation to be provided to a journalist. He denied any wrongdoing, and the case was subsequently dismissed after a judge concluded that the prosecutor who brought the indictment was illegally appointed.

Comey was the FBI director when Trump took office in 2017, having been appointed by then-President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and serving before that as a senior Justice Department official in President George W. Bush’s Republican administration.

But the relationship was strained from the start, including after Comey resisted a request by Trump at a private dinner to pledge his personal loyalty to the president — an overture that so unnerved the FBI director that he documented it in a contemporaneous memorandum.

Trump fired Comey in May 2017 amid an FBI investigation into potential ties between Russia and Trump’s presidential campaign. That inquiry, later taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller, would ultimately find that while Russia interfered in the 2016 election and the Trump team welcomed the help, there was insufficient evidence to prove a criminal collaboration.

Other politically charged prosecutions

Blanche was elevated earlier this month from deputy attorney general to acting attorney general, replacing Pam Bondi, who had frustrated Trump with the department’s struggles to build successful criminal cases against his adversaries.

Blanche since then has moved quickly to accelerate politically charged prosecutions, including a case last week against the nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center, which is accused by the Justice Department of misleading donors by using their money to pay informants who served as leaders in the hate groups the organization was founded to fight. The group has denied any wrongdoing.

Comey is among many Trump foes to face scrutiny over the last year.

The Justice Department, for instance, is also pursuing a criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan, another key figure in the Russia investigation — one of Trump’s chief grievances and a saga he and his supporters have long sought retaliation for. Brennan has denied doing anything wrong.

CNN was the first to report the second indictment against Comey.

Manhunt for gunman underway; Fort Worth PD CRU member hurt in shooting

A member of the Fort Worth Police Civilian Response Unit was injured in a shooting on Tuesday while responding to a call about a burglary.

Police are asking residents of the Summerfields neighborhood in Far North Fort Worth to stay indoors while they search for a man who is believed to still be armed.

According to Fort Worth Chief of Police Eddie Garcia, a man fired on a member of the CRU with a rifle after he arrived at a home on the 3500 block of North Juliet Lane at about 11:45 a.m. to take a report about a burglary.

Garcia said the CRU member radioed for assistance and backup police officers soon arrived. The responding police officers were also met with gunfire. They returned fire, and the armed man ran from the area. It’s unknown if he was injured in the shooting.

The injured CRU member was taken to a hospital for an unspecified eye injury. Garcia said the member is in stable condition and is expected to be OK.

Streets are closed in the area and nearby schools are locked down. Garcia said the roads would be opened and the schools would dismiss students once it’s safe to move through the neighborhood.

Several law enforcement resources, including SWAT, are at the scene, and police are asking the public to avoid the area near Basswood Boulevard and Riverside Drive.

Check back and refresh this page for the latest update. As developments unfold, elements of this story may change.

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What would you name your racehorse? Try our name generator

A lot of thought goes into naming a racehorse. Some people take inspiration from the horse’s pedigree, while others make it more personal, naming the horse after something special to the owner: a favorite boat, a treasured memory or the nickname of a close relative.

Whatever the name, it must adhere to The Jockey Club’s strict rulebook on submissions. First of all, there’s a character limit: no more than 18, including spaces. Second, names cannot be in any way vulgar or offensive. Other minor rules include that a name cannot consist of only initials or be comprised entirely of numbers. And if an owner wants to name their horse after a notable or famous living person, the naming rules require written permission from the subject.

But for the most part, owners are free to choose whatever name they want, with one exception: It can’t match any of the names already used and registered in the Jockey Club’s racehorse database. According to the club registrar, at any given time there are about 450,000 active names in the database, so owners have to get creative.

The horse racing industry’s main governing organization must approve the name in order for the thoroughbred to be registered to compete. Jockey Club registrar Rick Bailey has said the club rejects about 30% of submissions. 

To help you get started choosing a name for your racehorse, this short quiz will generate a name based on some of your favorite things.

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