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 going 1 1/4 miles on the main…
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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 years past. Chances are, in many cases,…
Exacta Box of the day for Saratoga This Saturday at Saratoga is the biggest day of the biggest race meet of the summer season – Travers Day. Saratoga’s Saturday program features a…
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 sub-par field for its 2019 running that…
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 in the June 16 Pegasus at Monmouth…
Monmouth Park expects a cast of seven for Saturday’s $1 million Haskell Invitational (G1), with its principals at a crossroads. Maximum Security is looking to regain his Kentucky Derby (G1) form after…
After a Kentucky Derby Championship Series of preps that propelled a few under-the-radar types into the spotlight, the cutoff to make the Derby 145 field currently stands at 40 points – the…
The $800,000 Sunland Derby (G3) will be run as Race 11 on Sunday at Sunland Park going 1 1/8 miles on the dirt. There is a good mix of local horses against…
He’s trained the last four champion three-year-old males and has won the Kentucky Derby (G1) five times altogether, and Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert unsurprisingly has the likely top two individual…
The Bob Baffert-trained Mucho Gusto earned 10 points on The Road to the Kentucky Derby with his stylish tally in the Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3) on Saturday. He upped his mark…
The 2019 Kentucky Derby (G1) trail is officially heating up with three points races on tap Saturday. The Holy Bull (G2) at Gulfstream Park, Withers (G3) at Aqueduct, and Robert B. Lewis…
The Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3) will be run going 1 1/16 miles over the main track at Santa Anita on Saturday. Only six are entered and trainer Bob Baffert has just…