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From my perspective, sitting in a cold office looking out at a frozen field where only months ago long, golden corn stalks were rising from the rich, brown dirt, winter has arrived.…
Betty Christian’s path toward winning the TwinSpires Online Handicapping Series and earning a seat at the National Handicapping Championship began at age 11 when her family moved from Tennessee to suburban Detroit.Following…
Derek Simon and Ed DeRosa of Brisnet.com discuss Powerball and how it relates to racetrack gambling. Derek also explains how one can beat the races by focusing on lower-priced overlays.TwinSpires Horse Racing…
Harness bettors’ consciousnesses are fickle. Sometimes you lose so much you crave a winner at almost any price, mostly because a long string of losers makes one feel as if one will…
Over the past week, my friend and colleague Ed DeRosa has written extensively about Eblouissante, the three-year-old half-sister to Zenyatta.(Click on image to enlargeAt the heart of his writings was one simple…
With about five weeks left in 2012, the stakes schedule is lean and awkward. It’s lean simply because there are a scant few races left that qualify as stakes. It’s awkward because…
Derek Simon and Brisnet‘s Ed DeRosa discuss the racing debut of Zenyatta’s half-sister as well as other happenings in the Sport of Kings. Ed reveals his “plunge play” in the Clark Handicap.In…
At the racetrack, value and not always beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or, as my college newspaper editor, Robert Levine, used to say, “One man’s gold is another‘s gonorrhea.”Benoit…
Our body of choices this weekend wound up spindle-legged, to put it mildly. Taking it all in stride, though a warbling one, here are the results. Maywood’s quartet of stakes on Nov.…
There is a belief, shared by many, that the Sport of Kings is actually the Sport of Whales. And by “whales” I’m not talking about the creatures that gave Captain Ahab and…
Tough sequence on Wednesday, as only two of the ~143,500 combinations bet into the $89,489 Pick 6 carryover successfully navigated the sequence that ended with $111.50 winner Noosh’s Tale.Difficulty is not an…