Happy New Year! Handicapper J. Keeler Johnson shares his weekday picks and plays for Friday, Jan. 1 at Tampa Bay Downs and Fair Grounds.
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The day after Christmas saw several talented 2-year-olds record promising maiden victories at Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita.
Keen to chase another carryover this weekend? The $0.20-cent Empire Pick 6 on Sunday at Aqueduct boasts a jackpot pool of $139,360
The Rainbow Pick 6 jackpot at Gulfstream Park has been steadily accumulating, and on Saturday the massive $839,335 carryover is set for mandatory dispersal.
Two-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Todd Pletcher is quietly compiling a promising roster of contenders for the 2021 Kentucky Derby (G1).
Five weeks out from the Nov. 6-7 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Keeneland, the fields for the five juvenile events are slowly crystallizing.
Bob Baffert, Todd Pletcher, John Shirreffs, and Barclay Tagg have combined to win nine Kentucky Derbys. A tenth triumph could be just around the corner.
The brief Keeneland Summer Meet will begin on Wednesday, July 8 and run through Sunday, July 12. But what the meeting lacks in quantity of racing days, it more than makes up…
A weekly series analyzing recent maiden winners poised to join the Road to the Kentucky Derby.
Social Paranoia will make his second start of the 2020 in Saturday’s $75,000 Sunshine Forever S. at Gulfstream Park, and I’m expecting a big effort.
The racing week trucks on at Gulfstream Park on Friday afternoon and as usual there is an early Pick 4 wager that starts in Race 2. The sequence features three maiden races,…
In Part 2 of our Introduction to Workouts series, we’ll discuss three important factors handicappers should keep in mind when analyzing workouts.