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How we're betting the 2016 Kentucky Downs meeting

Thu Sep 01 2016Ed DeRosa

Kentucky Downs is utterly unique as a racetrack in North America, but handicapping this all-turf racecourse in bucolic Kentucky does not require a unique approach to handicapping. Kentucky Downs begins its five-day all-turf meeting on Saturday, Se ...
Kentucky Downs opens 5-day run with full fields & a quartet of lucrative stakes

Wed Aug 31 2016James Scully

Featuring low takeout and record purses, Kentucky Downs begins its popular five-day run on Saturday with a 10-race card packed with horses. A staggering 136 horses were entered for the opening-day program at the turf-only venue featuring an undulatin ...
American Cleopatra tops Del Mar Debutante

Wed Aug 31 2016Jen Caldwell

A field of seven has been entered in Saturday’s $300,000 Del Mar Debutante (G1) going seven furlongs, but all eyes will be on one filly making her stakes bow in the race. That filly would be American Cleopatra, a full sister to Triple Crown cham ...
Sweet Loretta, Pretty City Dancer among seven entered for Spinaway

Wed Aug 31 2016Jen Caldwell

Seven juvenile fillies are set to line up in Saturday’s $350,000 Spinaway Stakes (G1) at Saratoga, and two of those already bring a stakes win into the seven-furlong affair. That would be Sweet Loretta and Pretty City Dancer, who captured the Sc ...
Frosted seeks third straight Grade 1 win in Woodward

Wed Aug 31 2016Vance Hanson

With startling, eye-catching performances from California Chrome and Arrogate the last two weeks, connections now have an idea what kind of competition lies ahead for Frosted two months from now in the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). On Saturday, the G ...
Arrogate bounce discussion inevitable, sprint stars also on display

Wed Aug 31 2016James Scully

Arrogate’s Travers (G1) stretch run was a thing of beauty as the lightly-raced colt stretched a short lead into a 13 ½-length tour de force, smashing the 37-year-old track record as he completed 1 ¼ miles in 1:59.36. The Bob Baffert-trained son of Un ...

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SOUTHLAND Preview - Wednesday, August 31

Wed Aug 31 2016MoneyMaker Mike

was going to be keeping up with 3 or 4 different Southland kennels each week and checking results from several days each week. People have often asked me over the years if it pays off to keep up with the them and my answer has always been yes, it de ...
McLaughlin stars peaking at the same time

Wed Aug 31 2016John Mucciolo

One of the best in his craft for a long time, Kiaran McLaughlin has endured a ton of success in his training career, saddling graded stakes winners for more than 20 years. The 55-year-old conditioner has been lucky enough to train sensational runners ...
Debut runners prominent in Del Mar Horses to Watch list

Wed Aug 31 2016John Mucciolo

Del Mar Horses to Watch Thursday (8/25) BITZKA enjoyed a dream trip in her debut, sitting in third behind a dueling pair, but I still came away impressed with her closing run as the two-year-old filly won going away beneath Chantal Sutherl ...
Arrogate’s Travers victory earns Brisnet.com’s Highest Rating Ever

Tue Aug 30 2016TwinSpires Staff

Arrogate won the $1.25-million Travers Stakes on Saturday August 27, at Saratoga Race Course. In doing so, he not only defeated the top 3-year-olds of 2016 but also all other horses who have raced since January 1, 1990, when Brisnet.com started assig ...
Shapiro: How one big score can make a meet or season

Tue Aug 30 2016TwinSpires Staff

by SCOTT SHAPIRO Being an everyday horizontal horseplayer takes patience and knowledge that you will lose your daily budget much more frequently than you will add to it.  However, it just takes one or two big days a year to turn an annual p ...
With Anticipation, P.G. Johnson put spotlight on turf-oriented juveniles

Mon Aug 29 2016Vance Hanson

Turf-oriented two-year-olds will take center stage midweek at Saratoga with Wednesday's $200,000 With Anticipation (G2) and Thursday's $100,000 P.G. Johnson for fillies potentially yielding a contender or more for the Breeders' Cup in two months ...
Jockey Esgar Ramirez Aims for His Second All American Futurity Win

Mon Aug 29 2016

Esgar Ramirez rode Mr Piloto to victory in the 2010 All American Futurity "He was wide, but moving very well," recalled Ramirez. "Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the seven (Dominyun), but I never got anxious." It is the dream of every Quart ...

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