Education
A native of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Moss attended horse races at Oaklawn Park Race Track during his youth, often sneaking into the track despite being underage.
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Career
During high school and college he assisted Daily Racing Form columnist Don Grisham on an Oaklawn handicapping column in the Arkansas Gazette. Moss then spent one semester in pharmacy school at the University of Arkansas before Gazette sports editor Orville Henry hired him to work for the paper full time. In 1984, Moss left the Gazette for the Arkansas Democrat after the Democrat offered to double his salary due to his popularity as a handicapper.
From 1989 to 1995 he worked for The Dallas Morning News.
Moss left journalism in 1995 and returned home to work as the director of operations for Oaklawn Park. In 1996, Moss returned to sports writing as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
He left the Star-Telegram after he subbed as an Entertainment and Sports Programming Network analyst for the 1999 Preakness Stakes and subsequently was hired by the network. Foreign thirty years, Moss has been part of Andrew Beyer"s team that calculates for Daily Racing Form the iconic Beyer Speed Figures, a mathematical index measuring racehorse speed that is widely considered the most popular handicapping tool in thoroughbred racing.
He also created the "Moss Pace Figures" published online by Daily Racing Form.
