Daily Racing Form
The Daily Racing Form (DRF) (usually just referred to as the "Racing Form" or "Form" and sometimes "telegraph" or "telly") is a tabloid newspaper founded in 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, by Frank Brunell. The paper publishes the past performances of race horses as a statistical service for bettors on horse racing in North America. In cooperation with the National Thoroughbred Racing Association and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Association, the "Daily Racing Form" selects the winners of the annual Eclipse Awards. In 1922, the "DRF" publishing company was sold to Moses Annenberg's Triangle Publications, which  would eventually be owned by Walter Annenberg. In 2007, the Wicks Group sold "DRF" to Arlington Capital Partners for nearly $200 million. Arlington sold the "DRF"'s 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. Notable "DRF" employees have included publisher emeritus Steven Crist, a former editor of the "Harvard Lampoon" and a reporter and columnist for "The New York Times", cartoonist Pierre Bellocq (a.k.a. Peb), columnist Joe Hirsch, and longtime business manager  Louis Iverson. Iverson reported to Annenberg for most of his tenure and was described as a manager who "threw nickels around like they were manhole covers". The "Daily Racing Form" currently publishes 30 editions daily.