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Fierce Features At Four Tracks Offer Strong Contenders, Including Miami Valley Pick 3’s Legs

Thu Jan 26 2017TwinSpires Staff

January, 2017, races into history, literally. Already, we face the last weekend of the first month of the New Year. As we draw closer to stakes-and-series plays, we continue with personal harness-race features from at tracks carried by TwinSpires. ...
Dover Downs Offers Solid Thursday Card

Thu Jan 26 2017Ted Black

Then two races later on the card a solid group of older pacers will battle in the $21,000 Open Handicap where Jet Airway (Corey Callahan) will seek his third win in four starts this year for trainer Dylan Davis and he will also attempt to overcome hi ...
Dubai Racing Carnival - Meydan Overview, Week 4

Wed Jan 25 2017Chantal Variot

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Hanson: Riding the Derby karma wave with McCraken in KDFW Pool 2

Wed Jan 25 2017Vance Hanson

I watched my first Kentucky Derby (G1) 30 years ago -- yes, I'm still a pup to some -- and it didn't take many years for me to realize that there's often a sense of karma surrounding the race. Or at least the kind of karma that helps propel certain f ...
Epic match-up makes it well worth the Pegasus trip

Wed Jan 25 2017TwinSpires Staff

By Dick Powell The inaugural running of the Pegasus World Cup (G1) is Saturday and even though the event started out with more questions than answers, it is looking like the marquee race Frank Stronach envisioned. Perfectly located on the cal ...
The Mighty Fall in Round 3

Wed Jan 25 2017Kelly Clark

Well that didn’t take long! LOL! After round 3 of the 2017 $20,000 bestbet Derby no greyhound remains unscathed. The two undefeated greyhounds met their matches and now it seems to interesting at the top of the point standings. Several greyhounds mad ...

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I'm A Chatterbox Leads Field for Houston Ladies Classic

Wed Jan 25 2017Jen Perkins

This year's edition of the Houston Ladies Classic enticed several new owners, trainers and jockeys as well as a very familiar horseman: Larry Jones. The affable Kentuckian is hopeful that I’m a Chatterbox will be his third champion in the mile and o ...
Not buying Arrogate as Pegasus pacesetter

Wed Jan 25 2017James Scully

The sense of anticipation reigns supreme for any Thoroughbred racing fan this week as American Horse of the Year California Chrome and Longines World’s Best Racehorse Arrogate battle one final time. It’s a rematch of the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1 ...
The 2017 National Handicapping Championship Playlist

Tue Jan 24 2017Ed DeRosa

When it comes to music and horse racing events, I approach it more like a soundtrack than a cast recording. These aren’t the songs that most closely match the storyline but the ones I hear as best complementing the experience. When it comes to the ...
‘All Others’ favored, Classic Empire heads individual interests in KDFW Pool 2

Tue Jan 24 2017TwinSpires Staff

Edited Press Release John C. Oxley ’s Classic Empire (#3) , winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) and the champion 2-year-old of 2016, is the individual favorite to win the 143 rd running of the Kentucky Derby Presented (G1), but the Mu ...
Classic Empire tops early nominations to 2017 Triple Crown

Tue Jan 24 2017TwinSpires Staff

Champion juvenile colt Classic Empire is one of 418 early nominees to the 2017 Triple Crown according to a release issued Tuesday morning by Churchill Downs, site of the Kentucky Derby (G1), the Triple Crown's first leg. The list also includes five f ...
Oaks Maddy, Daytona Huge Winners At The 550

Tue Jan 24 2017Jason Michael

Congrats again to Oaks Maddy and her entire team on the victory and to Daytona for hosting one fabulous event that made memories of a lifetime. ...
Pompano Wednesday Pickin’ from John Berry

Tue Jan 24 2017Chantal Variot

Wednesday, January 25, 2017 RACE ONE (DOUBLE - 1-6, 3-6, 4-6 / PICK-5 - 1,3,4 w 6 w 3,5 w 2,5,9,10 w 7) 1-OK HEARTBEAT…dips a bit after showing :27.2 backside pace. Recent form decent and rail gives the edge. 3-CARLOTA BLUE CHIP…got a picture ...

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