Randy Moss

Horse Racing Analyst

Randy Moss has been an analyst for ESPN thoroughbred racing coverage since 1999.

Prior to making television his occupation, Moss was a newspaper reporter, handicapper and columnist for 20 years, first at the Arkansas Gazette and Arkansas Democrat and later with the Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram. His byline also appeared in numerous other papers, including the New York Times.

He landed his first media job at age 14, co-authoring a handicapping column for the Gazette as the youngest newspaper handicapper in the country. Five years later, he left pharmacy school to take a full-time job for the now-defunct Gazette, which at the time was the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi River.

He specialized in covering horse racing, but also had assignments writing about the NFL and college football, major- and minor-league baseball, golf, tennis, boxing, gymnastics and even environmental issues. He has covered all but two runnings of the Kentucky Derby since 1980, either for newspapers or television.

His well-rounded knowledge of racing includes two years in track management as operations director at Oaklawn Park, and stints as a jockey agent and as a part-time publicist for the Kentucky Derby, Breeders' Cup and Louisiana Downs racetrack.

While in the newspaper business, Moss moonlighted as a horse racing correspondent for Little Rock network TV affiliates KATV and KARK. He left the Star-Telegram in June 1999 to focus entirely on television, but he still writes occasionally for ESPN.com and NTRA.com, and authors a regular column for Horseplayer Magazine.

A native of Hot Springs, Ark., Moss attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. He currently resides in Tulsa, Okla.

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