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How to wager on Ed DeRosa's September 10 #BykPix at TwinSpires
There are four wagering promotions that deserve your attention this weekend:
20% rolling doubles at Louisiana Downs;
Showvivor at Kentucky Downs : Hit 5 $5 show bets on the 10-race card and split $500;
Bet $500 on Woodbi ...
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Churchill Downs partners with Spendthrift Farm to create new stakes
Edited Press Release
Spendthrift Farm has partnered with Churchill Downs to create the Spendthrift Stallion Stakes – a new $300,000-guaranteed stakes race to be run this fall for two-year-olds that are sired exclusively by Spendthrift Farm stalli ...
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Despite giving weight, New Bay each-way value in Irish Champion
With all due respect to the classic St Leger (G1) at Doncaster, the most interesting race in the world on Saturday will be held across the Irish Sea at Leopardstown. The Irish Champion (G1), over 1 1/4 miles, is overflowing with quality . It's also ...
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Rumble Doll receives positive jock switch to Hernandez at Kentucky Downs; speed offers best chance for Turf Cup upset
Saturday’s 10-race program at Kentucky Downs features four stakes and the turf may have some give to it with precipitation expected during the afternoon. Long-distance specialist Da Big Hoss will make a title defense in the $600,000 Kentucky Turf Cup ...
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All Distances Covered
What a wonderful weekend of racing we have ahead of us here at bestbet Jacksonville. There is a plethora of talent waiting to take to the racetrack course and try their hands and taking home a win. Once again we will feature top grade races over all ...
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Saturday Cards Offer Plenty of Intrigue and Value
wins and $270,000 banked from 18 starts this year for trainer Steve Elliott. All Bets Off (Matt Kakaley) has been the best of the Ron Burke brigade this season and brings a solid 3-5-5 slate and $470,000 bankroll from 19 starts including a fourth-p ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Friday, September 9
opportunities and thanks for reading. 2016 Southland Festival Of Stakes - 9 Divisions Barry Baldwin Juvenile Division
Darby Henry Male Sprint Division
Darby Henry Female Sprint Division
Ness Sechrest Middle Distance Division
Ansel Styles ...
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Harzand, Minding, and much more in epic Irish Champion
Saturday’s Irish Champion (G1) at Leopardstown promises to be an epic showdown. Describing it as a clash between the top classic-winning three-year-olds of 2016, dual Derby star Harzand and six-time Group 1 vixen Minding , just scratches the surfa ...
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Qemah looms large in Matron on Irish Champion undercard
While the Irish Champion (G1) is an exceptional centerpiece , the rest of Irish Champions Weekend isn’t lacking in star power either. French invader Qemah adds luster to the Matron (G1) on the Irish Champion undercard at Leopardstown Saturday, and w ...
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Airoforce the one to beat in Dueling Grounds Derby
Little went right for Airoforce earlier in the season but the multiple graded stakes winner appears back on track following a nose second in the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame (G2) at Saratoga on August 5. The gray colt is eligible to regai ...
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2016 Saratoga Meet Awards
The Better Remember Me Award: Suffused The Juddmonte Farm owned, Bill Mott trained daughter of Champs Elysees, has 2 wins and a second out of her last 3 races. Granted, the best race she's won has been the Grade 3 Glens Falls in her last. ...
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More Mohawk Elim Action, State-Bred Champ Challenges Adorn Weekend Programs With Betting Opportunities
Both sides of the North America border host lucrative harness features and we are on top of them with suggested contenders for star standardbreds in Ontario, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. So is his week’s Breeders Crown Countdown, which covers pre ...
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Glamour-Boy Trotting And Pacing Divisions On Parade In Big Stakes
Sophomore standardbreds head to Mohawk Racetrack on Saturday, Sept. 10 for two eliminations of the $80,000 Canadian Trotting Classic and the $204,040 Simcoe Three-Year-Old Pace.
Elimination one for the Canadian Trotting Classic pins Marion Mar ...
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Mo Tom revisits Louisiana for Super Derby
Mo Tom has returned to the Pelican State for the first time since running fourth as the 2-1 favorite in the March 26 Louisiana Derby (G2), and the occasion is Saturday’s $400,000 Super Derby (G3) at Louisiana Downs.
Mo Tom actually began his car ...
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Onus returns to favorite turf for Lady Baltimore
Onus was hardly disgraced in falling short against some of the country's leading fillies and mares during the Saratoga meet in the Diana (G1) and Ballston Spa (G2). On Saturday, the gray four-year-old returns to Laurel, where she is three-for-three, ...
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Human Success Stories Abound Last Weekend at Ruidoso Downs
Jorge Haddad stands The Louisiana Cartel on his Texas farm ...
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Shapiro's favorite moments of Del Mar's 2016 summer meet
by Scott Shapiro
As the summer ends and the racing community begins to look towards the 2016 Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita Park, I thought the proper way to finalize the meet at Del Mar was to discuss a few of my personal favorite moments.
With ...
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Los Al kicks off 12-day session
Racing in Southern California moves to Los Alamitos on Thursday for a 12-day fall meet that runs from September 8 through September 25. While this might be considered by some as “down time” between the Del Mar and Santa Anita sessions, I have endured ...
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Da Big Hoss installed as 7-5 choice in Kentucky Turf Cup repeat bid
Da Big Hoss will be a prohibitive favorite when he makes a title defense in the $600,000 Kentucky Turf Cup (G3) , one of four stakes on the Saturday program at Kentucky Downs. The Mike Maker-trained horse registered his first graded stakes tally wh ...
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Juveniles impress at Del Mar
A pair of Grade 1 races were held for two-year-old runners over closing weekend at Del Mar and I came away very impressed with the winners, who look to have bright futures.
Fillies went seven panels on Saturday in the Del Mar Debutante (G1) and U ...
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Surgical Strike Key to Centaur Stakes day at Indiana Grand
Surgical Strike appeared on my radar when winning the Battaglia Memorial at Turfway Park. I liked that race so much that I bet him to win the Kentucky Derby ahead of his Spiral Stakes try. A third-place finish there derailed his Triple Crown hopes, b ...
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Klimt seeks to make it three straight; inconsistency remains Frosted’s calling card
Klimt rallied to win going away by 4 1/4 lengths in Monday’s Del Mar Futurity (G1), establishing himself as the early favorite for the November 5 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) in his backyard at Santa Anita. He’s also the front-runner for the Eclipse ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Wednesday, September 7
was going to be keeping up with 3 or 4 different Southland kennels each week and checking results from several days each week. I have always felt that keeping up with a kennel chart is a valuable and solid option to have at your disposal as you hand ...
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Idaho all the rage for St Leger; Nemoralia preps for American trip
A bonanza of top-class international racing is on the horizon, with the upcoming Irish Champions Weekend and Sunday’s Arc trials at Chantilly, but the first of Europe’s fall highlights is this week’s St Leger Festival at Doncaster.
Opening Wednesd ...
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Derby prospects for Del Mar Futurity top two
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
As the summer racing meets end and the big two-year-old stakes races take place, not only do racing fans enjoy the growth of the top juvenile runners, but they begin to think about which of the young stars have what it takes to ...
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Practical Joke leaves co-owner Hopeful
by TERESA GENARO
The Hopeful (G1) may have been won by a horse called Practical Joke, but there was nothing funny about a race that was bookended by two jockeys going down and two horses requiring medical attention.
At the start, undefeated C ...
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Klimt gives Baffert his 13th Del Mar Futurity
Kaleem Shah’s Klimt surged past front-running 4-5 favorite and opened up in deep stretch to hand Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert his 13th Del Mar Futurity (G1) win. Previously a dominant winner of the Best Pal (G2), Klimt turned the double in Del Ma ...
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Ring Weekend survives inquiry in course-record Bernard Baruch
St. Elias Stable and West Point Thoroughbreds’ Ring Weekend found the third start off his lengthy layoff to be the proverbial charm in Monday’s $250,000 Bernard Baruch (G2) . Rallying from just off the quick pace, the 5-2 favorite prevailed in a tus ...
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Lady Shipman wins, Awesome Slew sparkles at Parx
Lady Shipman took another step toward the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1) with a one-length score in the $200,000 Turf Amazon H. at Parx Racing on Labor Day.
Ridden by Joel Rosario for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, last year's Turf Sprint runner-up ...
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Woodward result leaves some players jaded, raises weighty issues
Despite an awkward beginning, a weight discrepency, and, according to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, a trip measuring 40 feet longer than Shaman Ghost's, I doubt I'm alone in thinking Frosted still managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Sat ...
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Palm Beach Weekly Wrap Up 9/4/2016
That's all we have for this week. Good luck to all players, owners and especially the athletes in Monday's Labor Day Puppy Stakes Final. We'll see you next time for the Wrap-Up! ...
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Labor Day Offers Plenty on Intrigue on Half-Mile Ovals
and should outlast the late bids from Live Action and Machine Team in this spot. One race later on the card, look for Seacoast (George Dennis) to earn a modest slide when he leaves from the rail one week after drawing the dreaded eight hole. A fou ...
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Brown may have redefined how we 'measure a meet'
by Teresa Genaro
In the opening number in Rent , the cast queries, “How do you measure a life?” If the late Jonathan Larson, who penned that musical, were writing at Saratoga this summer, he might have to ask, “How do you measure a meet?” and the ...
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Avenge in Mabee, Free Rose in Del Mar Derby carve out similar trips to victory
Unbeaten 2-1 favorite Sobradora Inc could have taken control of the Southern California filly and mare turf division in Sunday’s $202,070 John C. Mabee (G2) . But after she suffered her first defeat in a non-threatening fifth, it remains as wide ope ...
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Lucy N Ethel remains perfect in Prioress upset
J. A. G. Racing and Jettany Thoroughbred Corp.’s homebred Lucy N Ethel led all the way home in Sunday's $300,000 Prioress Stakes (G2) at Saratoga to post a 22-1 upset under jockey Jose Lezcano.
The dark bay daughter of During grabbed command as ...
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2016 Palm Beach Labor Day Puppy Stakes Preview
Prediction
I predicted Big Red Dog would be victorious originally and I'm sticking to it. "Clifford" should be able to out rush and outclass this field and bring yet another Puppy Stakes title home to Rader Racing . Let the super star ...
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Tepin, Mondialiste could meet in Woodbine Mile
The September 17 Woodbine Mile (G1) could serve up another clash between champion turf mare Tepin and defending champion Mondialiste , judging by the nominations for the C$1 million “Win and You’re In” for the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1).
Tepin has ...
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Favorites Prevail in Saturday Features
Harness racing fans were treated to several hours of excellent efforts in lucrative stakes at Yonkers Raceway and Mohawk Racetrack on Saturday night and most of those events proved very formful. Yonkers hosted a pair of Grade I, $500,000 races on Sa ...
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Overnight Prices Rule With $30 and $22 Scores; ‘Marauder’ And “Hill’ Star; H2W With 51-Percent In-The-Money Average
Top dollar winners were present in the horses-to-watch (H2W) list this week (with a 51-percent in-the-money average) as the features surrendered mostly to public choices, many of which we supported in very lopsided fields.
At Mohawk on Sept. 2 ...
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Palm Beach Top 10 Rankings August 2016
*Atascocita Camry*
Honorable Mention
Atascocita Camry, Superior Tyson, Nb's KissTheRoad, JustDoInMyThing, Shutters N Sails, JohnnyCantWait, OYa Baby Blue, JS Tim Tation, Hilco Diva, Barts Dublin, Sg's Cal Ripkin, Centex Beach, Ice Bu ...
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Union ‘strikes’ in Del Mar Debutante
Ruis Racing LLC’s Union Strike faced American Cleopatra last out in her first career start on July 31 at Del Mar, finishing second by two lengths, but would not allow that full sister to Triple Crown champion American Pharaoh to beat her a second tim ...
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Albarado stakes double opens Kentucky Downs action
Robby Albarado swung wide and closed like a freight train down the center of Kentucky Downs' sweeping European-style turf course to win the $348,666 Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf aboard Secret Someone, then he hugged the rail for a gate-to-wire score ...
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Shaman Ghost upset of Frosted in Woodward harkens back to past for Jerkens family
by TERESA GENARO
It was because of races like the 1973 Woodward, in which his Prove Out beat Secretariat, that the late Allen Jerkens earned the nickname the Giant Killer, a moniker he insisted he didn't like.
Twenty-three years lat ...
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Sweet Loretta, Pretty City Dancer produce first ever Spinaway dead heat
The historic Spinaway (G1) at Saratoga, first run in 1881 and having its 125th edition on Saturday, recorded its first ever dead heat when two daughters of Tapit, Sweet Loretta and Pretty City Dancer, reached the wire together after seven furlongs. ...
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Inspector Lynley puts all pieces together in Saranac
Stuart S. Janney and Phipps Stable’s Inspector Lynley didn’t have the best of trips when a closing third in the July 16 Kent (G3) at Delaware Park, but the promising turf sophomore enjoyed much better luck in Saturday’s $300,000 Saranac (G3) at Sar ...
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Scully: Cash Control, Ancient Warfare attractive singles in Kentucky Downs All-Stakes Pick 4
Kentucky Downs offers an all-stakes Pick 4 on the final four races Saturday (7-10) and I’ll build my tickets utilizing a pair of singles: Cash Control in the Ladies Turf and Ancient Warfare in the Juvenile.
The Ladies Turf kicks off the sequen ...
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Five things to know for Woodward Day
From top older males on dirt to turf performers to promising two-year-olds, Woodward Day at Saratoga has it all.
Here are five things to know about Saturday at the Spa:
1. Frosted hopes to become the first to turn the Metropolitan H. (G1), Whi ...
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Del Mar Futurity pits Fire versus Aces, Klimt
The phrase “small but select field” can be overused, especially when it’s just small and not so select, but the line rings true for Monday’s $300,000 Del Mar Futurity (G1) . Although only six are entered, the race serves as a proper showdown for the ...
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Lady Shipman marquee attraction in Philly on Labor Day
There are more lucrative races with deeper fields on Monday's card at Parx, but the featured performer of the day, Lady Shipman , will ply her trade in the $200,000 Turf Amazon H. The five-furlong Turf Amazon is the first of four stakes on the Lab ...
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Bitumen, Classic Empire square off in Hopeful
The curtain comes down at Saratoga on Labor Day, but the play’s just beginning for a cast of seven promising juveniles entered in Monday’s 112th running of the $350,000 Hopeful (G1) .
Protagonists include Sanford (G3) victor Bitumen (pictured), B ...
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Horses to Watch at Randwick for King of Australia Final Round
In Friday night's Final Round of the King of Australia contest, 544 TwinSpires.com account holders will square off to determine who will win a trip for two to the Melbourne Cup (G1) on November 1, plus assorted other prizes.
Official, detailed ...
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Out Cap Da Shap Daily Pick 4 tickets
Scott Shapiro's Late Pick 4 Tickets at Del Mar
All tickets will be placed for the base value of 50 cents and will be posted after early scratches
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
After missing out on the Wednesday and Thursday Pick 4’s, ...
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Something for Everyone
The weekend is upon us once again here at bestbet Jacksonville, and to our chagrin, we have cards loaded with talent over 550, 660, and even 770 yards. Loads of great greyhounds to wager on, and no matter your personal preference, we have you covered ...
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Slumpbustertember? Turning the calendar page to break out of wagering slump
This is a great weekend to exercise our handicapping skills with the hopes of exorcising some demons.
I’m in a slump—a historically bad slump. I’ve tracked every bet on horse racing I’ve made since January 1, 2010, and the good news is there have ...
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How to Wager on the Del Mar Debutante
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
Saturday’s feature at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club is the Del Mar Debutante (G1).
Fox Hill Farms’ Songbird won last year’s rendition en route to the Eclipse Award for champion two-year-old filly. While it is doubtful that any ...
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Michelle Yu's Picks for the All American Futurity
Two year old races are tricky because you don't know who will show up, who will bounce and who is just figuring it all out. Based on the way he won I have to use The Marfa Lights on top because if he figures out what racing is all about he ...
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Stellar Saturday cards at Mohawk Raceway and Yonkers Raceway on tap
Saturday night a pair of races just past the midway point of the card at Yonkers will enable the three-year-old colts of oth gaits to garner the spotlight. The eighth race is the Grade I, $500,000 Yonkers Trot for three-year-old colt trotters, the m ...
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All American Futurity and All American Derby Set for This Weekend
Apolltical Chad, shown winning the Ruidoso Futurity, is the favorite for Monday's All American Futurity The draw for the 2016 All American Futurity took place on Thursday with Apolltical Chad, the Ruidoso Futurity winner set as the 5-2 favorite ...
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Overflow field in contentious Del Mar Derby; Sobradora Inc tops Mabee
The final Sunday of Del Mar’s summer meet features a pair of Grade 2 turf stakes. The $250,000 Del Mar Derby (G2) has attracted an overflow field of 16, led by the winners of the first two legs of the sophomore turf series, Monster Bea (pictured) a ...
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Breeders Cup Classic Rankings Top 5 with Personal Odds
5. Melatonin - 12/1
After watching his Holllywood Gold Cup win this past June again, one word comes to mind: guts. This horse is one gutsy animal. Guts will only get you so far when you're facing monsters like California Chrome, Arrogate and B ...
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How to Bet the Woodward
By DAVE LITFIN
Five horses showed up to chase Frosted in the $1.25 million Whitney (G1), but four weeks after a comprehensive victory he now faces eight challengers for less than half the money in Saturday’s Woodward (G1).
Go figure.
Anot ...
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Powell analyzes Arrogate's 'jaw-dropping' Travers
by DICK POWELL
Thank goodness I am not a track announcer. Besides having been stuck with a voice that would be hard for racing fans to understand, I am liable to say anything. So when ARROGATE (Unbridled’s Song) drew off in the stretch to win the ...
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Mohawk Scorched With Talent On Metro Pace Program; Yonkers Presents ‘Trot’ And Messenger
Saturday, Sept. 3, delivers big Labor Day Weekend stakes. At Mohawk, two-year-old pacers take the spotlight in the annual Metro Pace and the She’s A Great Lady finals. The latter marks the return of Thats The Ticket, last week’s monumental pick that ...
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Battle Beckons Big-Boy Pacers; Green Gals Trot For Big Bucks
This week, the Breeders Crown Countdown addresses the older male pacing division and the freshman filly trotters.
Older pacers face another huge purse while competing against most of the same foes they’ve faced through the season when Mohawk p ...
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How we're betting the 2016 Kentucky Downs meeting
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 ...
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Kentucky Downs opens 5-day run with full fields & a quartet of lucrative stakes
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 ...
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American Cleopatra tops Del Mar Debutante
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 ...
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Sweet Loretta, Pretty City Dancer among seven entered for Spinaway
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 ...
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Frosted seeks third straight Grade 1 win in Woodward
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 ...
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Arrogate bounce discussion inevitable, sprint stars also on display
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
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 ...
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McLaughlin stars peaking at the same time
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 ...
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Debut runners prominent in Del Mar Horses to Watch list
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 ...
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Arrogate’s Travers victory earns Brisnet.com’s Highest Rating Ever
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 ...
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Shapiro: How one big score can make a meet or season
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 ...
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With Anticipation, P.G. Johnson put spotlight on turf-oriented juveniles
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 ...
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Jockey Esgar Ramirez Aims for His Second All American Futurity Win
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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Nyquist, Exaggerator to meet again in Penn Derby, but will it ultimately mean anything?
If everything falls into place, Nyquist and Exaggerator will face each other for a fifth time this year on September 24 in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G2) at Parx. As exciting a prospect as that would have sounded not too long ago, the questio ...
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Jockey, trainer races at Del Mar should come down to the wire
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
With just one week to go at the Del Mar 2016 summer meeting both the jockey and trainer titles are still up for grabs. Both will likely come down to next week's six-day racing schedule that concludes on Labor Day.
Fla ...
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Palm Beach Weekly Wrap Up 8/28/2016
That's all we have for this week. See you next time for the Wrap Up!
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Monday, August 29
start of August, I 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 alw ...
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Arrogate: the quintessence of a late-blooming superstar
Arrogate had his supporters in Saturday’s $1.25 million Travers (G1) but nobody could anticipate the scale of greatness at Saratoga. The sublime 13 ½-length, track record-setting victory is arguably the best performance in the 147-year history of the ...
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Season’s Highest Price From ‘Lady’ Winner At $119; Obrigado Best Trotter With $14 Score; 45-Percent In-The-Money Total
Two days of features and horses to watch (H2W) produced tepid win situations even with many contenders hitting the board but anything would have been overshadowed by the lucrative performance of a filly in the first of two She’s A Great Lady el ...
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Arrogate smashes track record in Travers runaway
Story & photos by Teresa Genaro
In the 147th Travers on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, some of the horses did what their form would suggest they would, and some didn’t. Laoban went to the lead, like he was supposed to, and Arrogate was t ...
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The dissimilarities of internationals at The Spa
by Ron Flatter
They both came to America with group wins from overseas. Both carried the ambitions of the Arab royalty that own them. And they are both six-year-olds in training with stud careers in their long-term future.
But for Flintshire a ...
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Lady Eli foiled in Ballston Spa – by Strike Charmer, and by tactics?
In advance of Saturday’s $400,000 Ballston Spa (G2) at Saratoga, I kept trying to tamp down my own expectations about Lady Eli’s comeback. Just getting here was a moral victory in itself, after a near-fatal attack of laminitis last summer. Surely i ...
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Travers 2016 Transcript & Quotes
147TH TRAVERS STAKES TRANSCRIPT
August 27, 2016
John Chandler
Mike Smith
Bob Baffert
THE MODERATOR: Good evening, everybody. On behalf of the New York Racing Association, we'd like to welcome the connections of the 147th run ...
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Nyquist Still Leads Three-Year-Old Male Division Even After Arrogate's Scintillating Travers Victory
In arrogating the Travers Stakes, Arrogate is in a position to arrogate the three-year-old male division and even Horse of the Year.
Arrogate was 11-to-1 when winning the Travers Stakes on Saturday, August 27, at Saratoga Race Course, and would pr ...
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A. P. Indian much the best in Forego
A. P. Indian made short work of nine rivals in Saturday's $700,000 Forego (G1) , thus sweeping both of Saratoga's Grade 1 sprints for older horses and punching a ticket to the TwinSpires.com Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) at Santa Anita November 5.
Un ...
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Flintshire lives up to expectations in Sword Dancer
As just about everyone’s single, Flintshire justified 1-5 favoritism with an emphatic repeat victory in Saturday’s Sword Dancer Invitational (G1) at Saratoga. The Juddmonte homebred retained his position as the divisional leader ahead of the Breede ...
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Cavorting dances to Personal Ensign score
Stonestreet Stables’ Cavorting earned her third straight graded victory when taking Saturday’s $695,000 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1) at Saratoga by a half-length under jockey Javier Castellano.
The duo settled in the rear of the five-distaffer fi ...
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Drefong dazzles in King’s Bishop
Drefong sped to the lead at the break and dominated Saturday’s $500,000 King’s Bishop (G1) at Saratoga, establishing himself as a serious Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) prospect for Bob Baffert in his stakes debut. A winner of four straight from five ca ...
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Haveyougoneaway takes Ballerina to sweep Spa sprints for fillies and mares
Haveyougoneaway made it a clean sweep of Saratoga's graded sprint offerings for fillies and mares with a 10-1 upset of Saturday's $500,000 Ballerina (G1) .
Not only did the five-year-old daughter Congrats add the Ballerina to a prior win in the ...
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How to Bet the Torrey Pines
by Scott Shapiro
The penultimate Sunday of the Del Mar summer meeting is upon us and the feature is the Grade 3 Torrey Pines Stakes. The one-mile event for three-year-old fillies is conducted over the main track and is headlined by undefeated Cali ...
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Travers News & Notes
A full field of 14 was drawn for the 147th running of the Travers Stakes (G1) on Saturday at Saratoga, and the star-studded group includes Preakness Stakes (G1) and Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) winner Exaggerator and Belmont Stakes (G1) victor Cr ...
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Mucciolo: Destin-ed to win the Travers
It is hard for me to go against Exaggerator in Saturday’s $1.25 million Travers S. (G1) at Saratoga after his fine win in the Haskell Invitational (G1) where I thought he might be a race short but still pulled clear late, but it is also hard to swall ...
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Seven things to know for Travers Day
In light of Saturday’s blockbuster card at Saratoga, “five things to know” just can’t be enough. So we’ll make it a list of seven, one for each stakes on an action-packed Travers Day.
1. A Travers (G1) victory by Exaggerator would go a long ...
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Tonight’s Run to the Rose: Winx’s half-brother, Godolphin quartet, Star Turn
One week after supermare Winx kicked off her Australian season with a scintillating win in the Warwick (G2) at Randwick, her younger half-brother, El Divino , contests Friday night’s Run to the Rose (G2) at Rosehill. A prep for the Golden Rose (G1), ...
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Saratoga Hosts Stellar Card on Saturday
Preakness Stakes and Haskell Invitational Exaggerator (Kent Desormeaux) looms as the 3-1 choice in the Travers, but onlookers are weary of his fast track form. Granted, he did finished second to Nquist in the Kentucky Derby over a fast Churchill D ...
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Scully: Gift Box in Travers, three value plays on undercard
Saturday's $1.25 million Travers (G1) doesn’t have the star appeal of last year with American Pharoah, but it’s a much better betting race. And outside of the Sword Dancer (G1) with Flintshire, the undercard is dynamite as well for horseplayers.
I ...
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