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Dick Powell’s Top Picks for the 2019 Travers Stakes at Saratoga
The $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1) will be run for the 150th time on Saturday at historic Saratoga Race Course. Amazingly, it will be run […]
Saratoga Scouting Report: Kentucky Horses & Travers Day Stakes Selections for Saturday, August 24
With Churchill Downs coming off perhaps their strongest spring meet in history, the horses based in Kentucky should perform even better than they have in […]
Exacta Bet of the Day for Saturday, August 24 at Saratoga
Exacta Box of the day for Saratoga This Saturday at Saratoga is the biggest day of the biggest race meet of the summer season – […]
Tacitus and company can make the most of a Travers lacking star power
The disappointing racing season in the three-year-old division will continue this weekend at Saratoga with the meet’s signature race, the Travers Stakes (G1), drawing a […]
Maximum Security returns to form as compelling Travers awaits
With Saturday’s victory in the $1 million Haskell Invitational (G1), Maximum Security showed who’s boss in the three-year-old division. He rebounded smartly from a second […]
Dick Powell: The stewards got it right
After an interminable review by the stewards in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby (G1), they got it right. It was a long and circuitous path to get […]
2019 Kentucky Derby Field with odds
145TH KENTUCKY DERBY PP HORSE TRAINER JOCKEY ODDS 1 War of Will Mark Casse Tyler Gaffalione 20-1 2 Tax Danny Gargan Junior Alvarado 20-1 3 […]
Final Kentucky Derby works round-up: notes and quotes from coast to coast
With the exception of Japan Road invitee Master Fencer, who continued his routine exercise at Keeneland, the other 19 Kentucky Derby (G1) contenders turned in […]
Five things to know about the 2019 Kentucky Derby
With less than a week to go before the 145th Kentucky Derby (G1) on May 4, here are five things to know going into what […]
Kentucky Derby field foaling date and Dosage Index
Last year’s Kentucky Derby (G1) winner, JUSTIFY, who went on to sweep the Triple Crown, fell right in line with a Dosage Index of 3.00 […]
Kentucky Derby works round-up for April 21
The general rule for many horsemen training toward a big race is that the last timed workout isn’t the most important. The big work often […]
Sizing up major preps for 2019 Kentucky Derby
There were seven Kentucky Derby (G1) prep races run this year that gave 100 points to the winner and with remarkably few defections so far […]