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SOUTHLAND Preview - June 20
The Saturday evening card at SOUTHLAND features 3 races in which several greyhounds will be trying hard to keep their winning streaks going as they battle paw to paw from start to finish. Several of you have asked for some different angles to look ...
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Royal Ascot a humbling but learning experience
Not only is this week's Royal Ascot meeting one of the greatest in the world, it can also be one of the most humbling for bettors.
Despite some success in the first couple of races on Friday's card, it's been a very difficult week for me at the wi ...
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Top 5 Horse Racing Trainers of the 1980's
Every decade in thoroughbred racing has produced its share of top horses, jockeys and trainers. There are legends from every decade in the Sport of Kings. But, for some reason, the 1980's feels like the decade that really showed us training legends. ...
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North America Cup Special Edition, Including Pick-4s Analysis
In April of 2015, the Pepsi North America Cup Spring Book (CSB) listed its evaluation of eligible horses to the $1-million “Cup.” Based on their freshman resumes, only four of the top 10 has made it to the final. The spring-book odds explain a few th ...
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Tencendur rates upset chance in Ohio Derby
The Triple Crown is over but a number of familiar faces will resurface in Saturday’s Ohio Derby, with six of the nine runners competing in either the Kentucky Derby or Preakness Stakes. And that doesn’t include the 3-1 morning line favorite, Whiskey ...
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Super Program At Mohawk For North America Cup; Graduates Gather In N.J.
The first major stakes for the glamour-boy pacers takes place this Saturday, June 20. It’s the $1-million Pepsi North America Cup, which leads a huge menu of stakes on the Mohawk Raceway program—Fan Hanover, Roses Are Red, Armbro Flight, Goodtimes an ...
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$1m North America Cup Preview at Mohawk Raceway
Since the three elims winners were permitted the luxury of choosing their post positions, the other seven got thrown into the random draw and as luck would have it Artspeak (Scott Zeron), last year's champion two-year-old colt pacer and the beaten fa ...
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Brisnet.com Opening Day Pick at Pleasanton
Thoroughbred racing returns Thursday to the Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack at the Almeida County Fairgrounds in Northern California and Brisnet.com has tabbed Grey Girl Gone (#6 in Race 6) as the most likely winner on the program.
Utilizing ...
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Goodtimes Trotting And Fillies In Sires Stakes
The $233,000 Goodtimes final has drawn five Hambletonian hopefuls alongside five other trotters on the under-card of the North America Cup Saturday, June 20 at Mohawk. Heading the hopefuls is Canepa Hanover, who put in a powerhouse performance in his ...
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$1 million North America Cup Preview
Last weekend's trio of eliminations for the $1 million North America Cup for three-year-old colt pacers and the two elims for the $480,000 Fan Hanover for three-year-old filly pacers helped explain the results and may prove insightful into this weeke ...
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Season Track Championship at Palm Beach
2014 Champ - Kb's Like A Fox
Who in the world wants to win this thing?
With just two weeks left in the racing season at Palm Beach , the question on everybody's mind is....who is going to take the season championship for wins here? I ...
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2015 Southland Derby Stakes Championship
The highlight of Wednesday's twilight card at Southland will be the running of the 2nd Round of the 2015 SOUTHLAND DERBY stakes championship. There are 18 races on the program and 11 of them are stakes races so get ready to enjoy some top notch c ...
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Royal Ascot 2015: Overview & Race Schedule for All Five Days
The highlight of the summer season, Royal Ascot begins Tuesday and runs through Saturday.
Daily selections for all of Royal Ascot’s Group races are free at Brisnet.com , with Tuesday’s sheet already available and Wednesday’s due to be posted this ...
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Two Upsets Come Through Among Double-Digit Winners
The high-tension program at Mohawk June 13 produced a few surprises, two of which we supported. One of these took place in a North America Cup elimination when the mighty Artspeak was passed aggressively by the only horse we thought could topple his ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - June 15
Monday's twilight card at SOUTHLAND features 5 races in which several greyhounds will be trying hard to keep their winning streaks going as they battle paw to paw from start to finish. Several of you have asked for some different angles to look at ...
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The Return of the King: Triple Crown Winner American Pharoah Parades At Churchill
American Pharoah came to Churchill Downs early to prepare for the Kentucky Derby and he stayed late to celebrate winning the Triple Crown, as a Downs After Dark crowd some estimated to be in excess of 40,000 cheered the champion as owner Ahmed Zayat, ...
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Player Quick Pick: Belmont 6/14/2015
The feature at Belmont Park on Sunday is the $100,000 Wild Applause Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. There is so much respect for trainer Todd Pletcher that Angela Renee, a horse that has never run over the turf before, is the morning line favorite at ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - June 14
Sunday's matinee card at SOUTHLAND features 3 races in which several greyhounds will be trying hard to keep their winning streaks going as they battle paw to paw from start to finish. Several of you have asked for some different angles to look at d ...
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A Realistic Look at American Pharoah and Secretariat
When American Pharoah became just the 12 th horse to sweep the Triple Crown — one year after Steve Coburn, co-owner of California Chrome, proclaimed the feat impossible — much of the talk centered not on the colt’s amazing accomplishment, but rath ...
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Preserving NYRA’s filmed history a worthy but costly undertaking
Through the efforts of numerous videographers, both professional and amateur, American Pharoah’s victory in the Belmont Stakes, when he became the 12th Triple Crown winner, will be one of the most preserved documents in Thoroughbred racing history.
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Oaks-Plate Trial Day Pick 4 Worth a Big Swing
There are some obvious favorites in the Queen's Plate Trial-Woodbine Oaks double that makes up half of the late Pick 4 on Sunday at Woodbine, and more importantly for people looking to play the $100,000 guaranteed pool, they're all vulnerable.
Tha ...
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With Triple Crown, Baffert Becomes Greatest of All Time
Although Bob Baffert has famously been quoted as stating that he had nothing to do with American Pharoah's Triple Crown win and that it was all about the horse, the truth is that without Baffert, American Pharoah may not have even raced at 3. Baffert ...
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Pick 4s Aplenty on Churchill Downs Stephen Foster Saturday Night Card
Churchill Downs put together an excellent Stephen Foster night card with 11 races--four of them graded, including the featured $500,000 Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap. As a multi-race bettor, the card is lousy with opportunities: 10 doubles, 9 Pick ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - 2015 SOUTHLAND DERBY picks
Friday evening's card at Southland is highlighted by the 11 races of the 1st round of the 2015 SOUTHLAND DERBY stakes contest. As usual, I have listed my 8 selections to make the finals of this stakes competition and I will keep up to date with ...
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Harness Top 3-Year-Olds Take Center Stage
One week after thoroughbred racing fans and even sports fans in general celebrated the end of the 37-year Triple Crown drought when American Pharoah captured the Belmont Stakes by five lengths to become the first horse since Affirmed to turn the tric ...
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Commissioner surging into Stephen Foster Handicap
Commissioner’s five-month sophomore campaign was marked by inconsistent performances, the highlights being an early January allowance victory and a head second in the Belmont Stakes in the season finale, and he came back from a seven-month layoff thi ...
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TURF TALK: Vance & James wrap up American Pharoah's Triple Crown
June 10, 2015
Turf Point? On Talk? Where's Ed? These questions aren't answered, but Vance Hanson & James Scully have plenty of great perspective: ...
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California Chrome could face 10 in Prince of Wales's at Royal Ascot
The likely field for Wednesday's Prince of Wales's S. (Eng-G1) at Royal Ascot is beginning to come into sharper focus -- and along with it, the magnitude of the task facing California Chrome.
At the six-day entry stage, the robust international ca ...
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Palm Beach Thursday Matinee Preview 6-11-2015
Top Pick Race 14- #2 JS SpeedyPebbles Program: http://www.pbkennelclub.com/trackdata/Palm%20Beach-Jun11-Thursday-Afternoon-Program.pdf Enjoy the races today everybody! ...
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North America Cup Leads Mohawk Parade Of Elims; Ohio Battleground At Northfield
The stakes-heavy weekend has a lot of early-season and highly regarded stars going at it Canada, including three eliminations for glamour-boy pacers trying for a berth in the $1-million North America Cup. Mohawk is steaming with divisions in stakes a ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Thursday, June 11
Thursday's twilight card at SOUTHLAND features 3 races in which several greyhounds will be trying hard to keep their winning streaks going as they battle paw to paw from start to finish. Several of you have asked for some different angles to look ...
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What's Next For American Pharoah?
American Pharoah After the Triple Crown - Back to the Track or Straight to the Breeders?
The horse racing world is buzzing after American Pharoah's Belmont Stakes win made him the first horse in 37 years to secure the Triple Crown. But while fans ...
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Goodtimes Elims, Sires Stakes Big Steps For Colts
The first major stakes event on the Hambletonian Trail, the Goodtimes Trot, is preparing for its final on the under-card of the North America Cup Saturday, June 20. Of the 15 entered into two eliminations going on Friday, June 12, six are staked to t ...
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Wrapping up American Pharoah’s spectacular Triple Crown
Emotional best describes the scene at Belmont Park following American Pharoah’s historic Triple Crown victory, a wild celebration built upon 37 years of waiting.
Finishing full of run through the Belmont stretch, the freakish three-year-old turned ...
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American Pharoah an inspiration for future generations
by Laura Pugh
Thanks to American Pharaoh, one day I'll be able to tell my children and grandchildren that I witnessed the 12th Triple Crown winner.
I'll tell them how the near 40-year wait had many clamoring to change the Crown -- to change the ...
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Why American Pharoah is a lock for the Horse of the Year, but shouldn't quite be
Now that we've had a day or two to digest what we just witnessed and are gradually coming down from our euphoric heights, some food for thought.
Will American Pharoah be crowned 2015 Horse of the Year at season's end? Unquestionably, yes.
Is it ...
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Multiple Winners Trumped By $45 Place Horse
It was another remarkable across-the-board display of pay offs from a TwinSpires harness blog, including the highest price of the week coming from a place horse (which also took the highest show price). That headliner was from the features’ contender ...
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American Pharoah Makes History And Dreams Come True
Isn’t it amazing what a single horse can do?
A horse made history on Saturday, June 6, 2015. A 37-year dry spell ended when American Pharoah glided across the finish line, ears pricked, to take the Belmont Stakes and along with it the Triple Crown ...
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Four-year-olds take center stage
In the hours after American Pharoah captured the Belmont Stakes to become only the 12th Triple Crown winner in the sport's history and the first in 37 years, the Meadowlands hosted a quartet of races for four-year-olds that offered standardbred fans ...
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Southland Preview - Monday, June 8
Monday's twilight card at SOUTHLAND features 3 races in which several greyhounds will be trying hard to keep their winning streaks going as they battle paw to paw from start to finish. Several of you have asked for some different angles to look at ...
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Southland Preview - Sunday matinee, June 7
Sunday's matinee card at SOUTHLAND features 2 races in which a couple of greyhounds will be trying hard to keep their winning streaks going as they battle paw to paw from start to finish. Several of you have asked for some different angles to look ...
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American Pharoah makes history with Belmont Stakes romp
What a crowning performance!
American Pharoah delivered like a true superstar in the Belmont Stakes, certifying his greatness with a resounding performance that finally snapped the 37-year Triple Crown drought.
The majestic three-year-old was s ...
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American Pharoah crowned in Belmont!
A 37-year drought came to an end on Saturday when American Pharoah wired the 147 th running of the Belmont S. (G1) under jockey Victor Espinoza for owner/breeder Zayat Stables and trainer Bob Baffert.
Sent off the heavy 3-4 favorite, the bay colt ...
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Chasing Money As American Pharoah Chases History At the Belmont Stakes
The climax of Belmont Stakes week is finally here with the dawn of Belmont Stakes day; it's all falling action after American Pharoah ends up on one of two lists: Those who did or those who didn't.
I've been in both categories with my picks this w ...
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Scully's Plays on Belmont Stakes Day Program
American Pharoah’s Triple Crown bid is the center of attention and the Belmont Stakes undercard serves as a perfect appetizer for Thoroughbred racing fans. The outstanding program features nine stakes races, many with deep and talented fields, and I’ ...
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Palm Beach Superstar Saturday Preview 6/6/2015
Pat C Short Cut
Race 15 Grade A 545 Yards
No other sprinter has looked more impressive in 2015 than #8 Pat C Short Cut from the Koppe, Staats & Collins Team. Has dazzled from the outside hole, including his season best 29.12 se ...
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How DeRosa is betting the Belmont Stakes (and not betting American Pharoah)
The Belmont Stakes concludes this year's Triple Crown trail, a road paved with chalk with favorites winning five of seven 100-point Kentucky Derby qualifying races plus the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.
That is not to say that American Phar ...
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Local pacers honored
As the Rosecroft Raceway spring meet draws to a close this weekend, the track's top two horses, a pacing gelding and a pacing mare, were both honored by the track on Tuesday evening while the driver and trainer awards remain on hold until Saturday's ...
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The horses we're most interested in on the Belmont undercard
The team has a healthy divergence of opinion on some of the other Grade 1 races on Belmont Day .
James Scully: Looking forward to some wagering opportunities in the Grade 1 turf races, I'll be taking a stand against the top betting choices in th ...
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Will American Pharoah win the Belmont?
The team answers the question on every racing fan's mind...
James Scully: I view the Belmont Stakes two different ways. As a fan, it's easy to root for American Pharoah to finally end the Triple Crown drought -- the champion has captured six st ...
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Epsom Derby has a glint of Gold
We're tag-teaming again, with Kellie Reilly setting the table for the feast, and Vance Hanson marking his choices from the menu .
After the shock of Aidan O'Brien's apparent third stringer, the 70-1 Qualify, in Friday's Oaks (Eng-G1), we hope for ...
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DeRosa Friday Wagering Road Map
Not going to lie, I was pretty excited to see yesterday's races unfold and have 7 of 8 "A" picks come through, including 3 of 4 singles , but it's a new day, which means new opportunities as well as chances to give it back, but that's the last negat ...
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The One Play Brisnet.com Wants You to Make on the Belmont Stakes Day program
Using the industry’s best source of past performance data as our instrument, the Brisnet.com Ultimate PPs, Condo Commando will win Saturday’s Acorn Stakes on the Belmont Stakes undercard.
Carded as the 7 TH race, the Acorn features three- ...
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Pros & Cons for 2015 Belmont Stakes runners
Let’s take a look at the Pros & Cons of Saturday’s Belmont Stakes contestants. Horses are listed by post position:
Mubtaahij
Pros : Dubai star took a circuitous route to the Kentucky Derby, shipping to Arlington Park to prepare before ar ...
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Epsom Oaks studded with Crystal, Diamondsandrubies
We're tag-teaming again, with Kellie Reilly setting the table for the feast, and Vance Hanson marking his choices from the menu .
One day before the colts take to historic Epsom Downs for the Derby (Eng-G1), they chivalrously let the fillies go fi ...
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Belmont-Met Mile Picks 6/6/2015
Although all eyes will be on American Pharoah at Belmont Park on Saturday, the best race to bet for horseplayers might be the G1 Met Mile. Bayern, Tonalist, Wicked Strong and Honor Code have all signed up for the Metropolitan. The horse that could th ...
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Meadowlands hosts solid card
While thoroughbred racing fans will be fixated on the stellar card at Belmont Park on Saturday afternoon with a bevy of lucrative, major stakes leading up to the Belmont Stakes where American Pharoah will be seeking Triple Crown glory, standardbred r ...
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American Pharoah seeks Triple Crown glory
This Saturday afternoon serious and novice thoroughbred racing fans alike will be heading to a track or simulcast facility or seated comfortably in their living rooms as Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner American Pharoah seeks his place in racing ...
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Belmont Stakes Week Kicks Off With DeRosa's ABC Picks
Happy Belmont Stakes week, everyone! The first of 31 races through Belmont Stakes day kicks off today, Thursday June 4, and it's an interesting card with stakes in races 3 & 7.
The third race Tremont Stakes could give us our early 2016 Kentuck ...
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Is American Pharoah’s Date with Destiny Doomed by a Date?
If American Pharoah wins the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, he will do something that has been accomplished just seven times since 1941.
No, I’m not talking about winning the Triple Crown — that’s statistically easy by comparison. I’m talking about a ...
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Season Sizzling With Somebeachsomewhere Stakes And Graduate Giants
We’re into the sixth month of the season, half way through 2015, and the second half is stakes-heavy. This coming weekend the stakes begin to rise for glamour-boy pacers with two lucrative Somebeachsomewhere divisions in Canada, which preps the divis ...
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Southland Preview - Thursday, June 4
Thursday's twilight card at SOUTHLAND features 4 races in which several greyhounds will be trying hard to keep their winning streaks going as they battle paw to paw from start to finish. Several of you have asked for some different angles to look a ...
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Our biggest heartbreaks in the Belmont Stakes
This week, we're strolling down memory lane to revisit several Belmont Stakes that hold special personal meaning for us. Our second "team blog" looks back at our most disappointing Belmont renewals.
Vance Hanson: If I were absolutely true to m ...
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Habitat And More Hot Hopefuls Trot On
Thursday, June 4, New York Sires Stakes (NYSS) filly trotters grind it out at Saratoga in three divisions, each worth $54,125.
Six head out in split one, four of which eye the “Oaks.” When the NYSS held filly trots at Vernon in May, we liked o ...
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2015 Belmont Stakes: A to Z
We have an inkling that you've already got the A-lister covered, but in case you'd like a tour of the rest of the Belmont Day alphabet, here you go:
A is for American Pharoah , and if you didn't know that, welcome to our planet! American racing ...
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DeRosa's Belmont Stakes playlist
One of the casualties of readily available music streaming services such as Spotify is my Big Event music play list. Even once music went mainstream digital via iTunes it was fun to cultivate a play list and download it to a CD or (eventually) stream ...
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Palm Beach Top 10 Rankings May 2015
*Small Bev* Honorable Mention Small Bev, Superior Philly, Arrghette, Pat C Shyne, Food Bank, Kb’s Key To Win, Relativity, Loop A, Pat C Brightly, HareRaisnGudTime, Lawyer Lance, Pat C Pownzer, Aye Doctor Ron ...
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ON POINT: If American Pharoah loses the Belmont Stakes who/what is most likely to blame?
Jun 2, 2015
Any number of things could lead to American Pharoah's first defeat this year and derail his Triple Crown bid: the distance, the surface, the competition, the trip. What do Ed DeRosa & James Scully think it could be? ...
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TURF TALK: The Triple Crown *is* the accomplishment & more on what happens if it happens
June 1, 2015
Winning the Triple Crown makes you a worthy Triple Crown winner. I.e. there should be no debate "if he belongs" with the others with a win ...
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Our favorite renewals of the Belmont Stakes
This week, we're strolling down memory lane to revisit several Belmont Stakes that hold special personal meaning for us. Our first "team blog" looks back at our favorite Belmont renewals.
Kellie Reilly: As a die-hard Easy Goer fan from the beg ...
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Three-year-olds take center stage
That same night at Yonkers Raceway in New York, In The Arsenal (Brian Sears) brushed to command before the half and then held safe entrymate Betting Exchange (David Miller) to capture the $300,000 Art Rooney Final for three-year-old pacing colts ...
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Percentages say try to beat American Pharoah in 2015 Belmont Stakes
Thoroughbred racing fans hailing from Generation X, of which I am one, vividly remember when starting as the post-time favorite was anathema to success in the Kentucky Derby. A streak of 20 consecutive favorites, from 1980-99, arguably made us more c ...
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Workouts part of the American Pharoah mystique
American Pharoah goes for an elusive Triple Crown in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes and could be the horse to finally end the drought after 37 years.
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Slick $82 Win Pacer Strikes Back; Success Cashing Canadians
Though the weekend was slim pickings in the features department, two of two sophomore fillies suggested in a sires stakes finished one-three, with the best in odds (40-1 versus 14-1) winning. The Show Returns was totally ignored by a crowd that was l ...
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Do you need experience at Belmont Park to win the Belmont Stakes?
Trainer Kenny McPeek’s recent list of 11 reasons as to why he’s running The Truth or Else in Saturday’s Belmont S. (G1) started out with “My horse loves the Belmont track. (He has) two starts and two wins over a dry Belmont.”
That got me to thinki ...
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Player Quick Pick: Santa Anita 5/31/2015
Sometimes, the best race to bet on a card isn't always the feature. The Siren Lure Stakes is the feature at Santa Anita on Sunday, May 31, but it's probably not the best race in which to find an overlay. That race falls on race 7 at the Great Race Pl ...
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Belmont Stakes Run Styles – Grinders Relish the Extended Distance
American Pharoah will become the 13th horse to attempt the Triple Crown sweep since 1978 and like the 12 previous hopefuls, he’ll leave the Belmont Stakes starting gate as the favorite.
The Belmont Stakes has not been kind to chalk recently, with ...
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Royal Ascot will start with a bang
We interrupt our wall-to-wall American Pharoah coverage to look ahead to the most hotly anticipated clash at Royal Ascot.
While most American fans are especially eager to see California Chrome's tilt at the Prince of Wales' S. (Eng-G1) on June 17, ...
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Horse Racing Needs to Market its Competitive Advantage
With the Belmont Stakes less than a week away, horseplayers and the public in general will constantly be bombarded with reasons why horse racing needs American Pharoah to win the Triple Crown. One of he arguments is that to the American Public horsin ...
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Palm Beach Saturday Matinee Preview 5-30-2015
Top Pick Race 6 - #4 Kb’s Gold Rider Enjoy the races today everyone! Follow me on Facebook- Palm Beach Jason Twitter- @JasonPalmBeach ...
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American Pharoah is Special But How Special Do You Have To Be To Win a Triple Crown?
by LAURA PUGH
It takes a special horse to complete a Triple Crown sweep. The question is how special?
Thirteen horses since 1978 have won both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, and all failed to win the Belmont Stakes, including some of ...
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Southland Preview - 5 Up & Coming Greyhounds to watch in June
Welcome to another Southland monthly preview of the Five Up & Coming Young Greyhounds To Watch at Southland and June's selections certainly look like they will give a solid showing in the coming weeks and months as their young careers hav ...
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Baffert on American Pharoah: 'maybe this is the one'
Listening to Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert talk American Pharoah on Thursday's NTRA conference call, I was buoyed by an increasing hope that our Triple Crown drought could really be nearing its end. It would be going too far to describe his tone a ...
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Does Materiality take it to American Pharoah in 2015 Belmont Stakes?
American Pharoah continues to train forwardly in advance of the June 6 Belmont Stakes and at face value, no rival appears capable of stopping him. However, the grind of the five-week Triple Crown trail, coupled with the 1 ½-mile Belmont distance, can ...
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Swift And Strong Sophomores Pacing For Plentiful Purses
Sophomores are beginning to steal the headlines as summer looms boldly. At Yonkers on May 30 the Art Rooney Memorial Final brings together the early season colt-pacing stars and the Lismore has fillies. Across the river at the Meadowlands, New Jersey ...
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Swift And Strong Sophomores Pacing For Plentiful Purses
Sophomores are beginning to steal the headlines as summer looms boldly. At Yonkers on May 30 the Art Rooney Memorial Final brings together the early season colt-pacing stars and the Lismore has fillies. Across the river at the Meadowlands, New Jersey ...
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Swift And Strong Sophomores Pacing For Plentiful Purses
Sophomores are beginning to steal the headlines as summer looms boldly. At Yonkers on May 30 the Art Rooney Memorial Final brings together the early season colt-pacing stars and the Lismore has fillies. Across the river at the Meadowlands, New Jersey ...
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Top three-year-olds ready to roll
[Montrell Teague] will put his perfect record on the line when he goes postward in a $75,000 Indiana Sire Stakes final. Wiggle It Jiggle It, who has won all eight of his starts this year and boasts an eye-opening 1:49 mark at Harrington Raceway, a h ...
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Turf Talk - Ed & Vance discuss stakes-laden big event days and food trucks
May 26, 2015
The racing calendar is shifting in favor of bigger days of racing, as tracks employ other methods of coaxing people to attend their races particularly around the holidays, but aren't food tracks just carnival concession stands in dis ...
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State-Bred Finals And Takter Troup On Tap
More sires stakes present Hambletonian Trail rollers this coming weekend, including New Jersey Sires Stakes (NJSS) finals at the Meadowlands for both trotting divisions. Also, a few hopefuls set sail in condition events on the NJSS finals program. Ot ...
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American Pharoah’s return to worktab brings sense of Déjà vu
Tuning up for his date with destiny, the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on June 6, American Pharoah returned to the worktab Tuesday at Churchill Downs with another eye-catching exercise, breezing four furlongs in 48 seconds with exercise rider Martin Ga ...
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Anatomy of a stallion deal: American Pharoah and a Triple Crown winner's future
Before I marketed Brisnet.com and communicated about TwinSpires.com for Churchill Downs Inc., I wrote full time about the Thoroughbred racing and breeding industries for Norman Ridker’s now-defunct Thoroughbred Times rag.
One of my primary beats w ...
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American Pharoah's Memorial Day exercise
Triple Crown-seeking champion American Pharoah took to a sloppy track at Churchill Downs on Memorial Day morning, and once again displayed the easy, effortless action that's become his trademark.
His routine 1 1/4-mile gallop was posted on YouTu ...
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Palm Beach $10,000 Rooneys Cup Race Previews
Enjoy the races today everyone! ~All photos provided by PBKennelClub.com ...
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Player Quick Pick: Santa Anita 5/25/2015
It's Memorial Day and like every Memorial Day Santa Anita has a great card for horseplayers. The feature is Race 8, the Grade 1 Gamely for $300,000. 10 fillies and mares are entered for what should be an incredible betting race. Santa Anita - Race ...
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Triumphs With Takter Trotter And Pacer; Northfield Winners Pay Off Big
The weekend, through Sunday, May 24, produced strong winners for us in our featured events and our horses-to-watch (H2W) list, which presented a 22-percent winner rate and a 52-percent in-the-money rate. From the features, the big Sunday invitational ...
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The inside track at Belmont and Churchill Downs
by Chad Summers, Bruno De Julio and Brandon Stauble
Belmont Competitors were out in force today but not so fast, not ready to hand trophy over yet ....
Over the last 30 years of close but no cigars we've always been quick to anoint ...
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