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Now it gets interesting as major prep races lie ahead for Kentucky Derby

Thu Mar 02 2017TwinSpires Staff

By Dick Powell Hard to believe that the Kentucky Derby (G1) will be run in only nine weeks. The prep season has been somewhat quiet with many trainers choosing only two races to get ready but things begin to heat up this Saturday and we should ha ...
What Girvin's Risen Star Win Taught Us About the Kentucky Derby

Thu Mar 02 2017TwinSpires Staff

Girvin wins the Risen Star Stakes (Amanda Hodges Weir/Hodges Photography) Connecting the dots of what Girvin revealed to us about the Kentucky Derby picture by winning the Risen Star Stakes by Alastair Bull SETTING: The first of th ...
Mucciolo’s Sophomore Spotlight: Fountain of Youth, Gotham & Battaglia Preview

Thu Mar 02 2017John Mucciolo

Fountain of Youth (G2): The $400,000 race appears to go through unbeaten IRISH WAR CRY and conditioner Graham Motion. An easy winner of the Holy Bull (G3) last time out, son of Curlin is equipped with a ton of speed and stamina and I simply don’t ...
Four Tracks Host Harness Features, Power Plays As March Comes In Like A Lion

Thu Mar 02 2017TwinSpires Staff

At March’s launch we are poised for the start of the “Levy” and Matchmaker series at Yonkers (March 17 and 18 th ), which will roll through the month and paves the way for the year’s stakes season. The overture to major divisional events is also at Y ...
Fountain Of Youth Stakes Caps Stellar Gulfstream Park Card on Saturday

Thu Mar 02 2017Ted Black

The two prior races on the card will highlight older grass runners. In the Grade II Mac Diarmida, Grade I winners Wake Forest and Twilight Eclipse will look to rekindle past glory, while Taghleeb arrives off consecutive wins over the course including ...
Jones and Orozco are Early 2017 Top Trainers

Wed Mar 01 2017

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DQ's All-American Double Dip

Wed Mar 01 2017Kelly Clark

In January of 2016 the DQ Williams Kennel made their glorious return to bestbet Jacksonville and brought along with them a pair of All-American Greyhounds. Seldom Told and Need My Moneynow were already household names, but during their 2016 campaign ...
Pompano Saturday Pickin’ from John Berry

Wed Mar 01 2017Chantal Variot

Saturday, March 4, 2017 WELCOME TIM TETRICK AND DAVID MILLER RACE ONE (DOUBLE – 1-2, 1-5, 1-6, 5-2, 5-5, 5-6 / PICK-5 –  1,5 w 2,5,6 w 1,3,7 w 2,6 w 1,3,5)       5-A CROWN FOR LINDY…warrior has perfect post to try wiring act. Compares very ...
SOUTHLAND Getting Ready for the Very Popular $25,000 HOUND MADNESS STAKES Which Starts Sunday, March 5

Wed Mar 01 2017MoneyMaker Mike

There will be 64 greyhounds taking to the track in their quest for the coveted title and as always it will feature some of the best runners in the country battling paw to paw in an exciting and entertaining format where the greyhounds can advance ...
Top Notch Older Horses on Display at Dover and in Dubai

Wed Mar 01 2017Ted Black

The opener is the ungraded, $150,000 Al Bastakiya for three-year-olds at the Preakness Stakes distance of one-mile and three-sixteenths, then the second is the Grade III, $200,000 Mahab Al Shimaal at six furlongs on the main track. Reynaldothewizard, ...
Kentucky Derby BRIS Speed Rating Report February 28: Solid figure for Risen Star winner Girvin

Tue Feb 28 2017James Scully

The first of 16 races in the Championship segment of the Road to the Kentucky Derby series , the February 25 Risen Star (G2) at Fair Grounds produced a new contender in Girvin, who earned 50 points making his initial appearance in a qualifier. ...
Catching up with the 2016 Fasig-Tipton Florida top sellers

Tue Feb 28 2017Kellie Reilly

In advance of Wednesday’s Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale, let’s catch up with the Florida auction’s most expensive juvenile purchases from a year ago, now three-year-olds. The $1.8 million sales topper, a Tapit colt subsequently named South Beach ...
Ln Michaels Still Perfect

Tue Feb 28 2017Kelly Clark

The third round of the 2017 $50,000 James J Patton Silver Cup is in the books and one greyhound has yet to surrender the lead or a win in qualifying. Ln Michaels from the Double J Kennel has won back to back to back races in the stakes and has offici ...

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