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Churchill Downs ABC for getaway night spiraling to Ellis Park

Sat Jun 27 2015Ed DeRosa

Churchill Downs drops the curtain on its 2015 spring-summer meeting on Saturday, June 27, and it's a tough 11-race card featuring four Pick 4s, including an all-stakes sequence with a pair of juvenile stakes. As evidenced by the grid below I'm esp ...
Five Promising Greyhounds Arise

Sat Jun 27 2015MoneyMaker Mike

Welcome to another Southland  monthly preview of the Five Up & Coming Young Greyhounds To Watch  at Southland   and July's selections certainly look like they will give a solid showing in the coming weeks and months as their young careers hav ...
Seeking Aces in the Gold Cup

Sat Jun 27 2015James Scully

Hard Aces makes his fourth start for trainer John Sadler in Saturday’s Gold Cup at Santa Anita and the late runner figures to receive a prime set-up in the 1 ¼-mile race, with three confirmed speedsters (Batti Man, Big Casanova and Moreno) guaranteei ...
Irish Derby: Epsom Derby form is positively Golden

Sat Jun 27 2015Kellie Reilly

Going into Saturday's Irish Derby at the Curragh, the major interpretive key appeared to be a battle of formlines between the Epsom and French Derbies. With placegetters from each lining up, the Irish classic loomed as a "proxy war" between the respe ...
The Real Value of a Length

Sat Jun 27 2015Derek Simon

Perhaps the oldest and silliest horse racing rule of thumb in the history of old and silly horse racing rules of thumb is the notion that a length equals a fifth of a second. Although it has been shown — repeatedly — that this rule is not accurate, m ...
TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon

Sat Jun 27 2015Derek Simon

In the News & Notes segment, TwinSpires' Derek Simon opines on American Pharoah's next start, as well as the gutty win by Mr. Z in the Ohio Derby. In a special History segment, the post-Belmont start of another Triple Crown hero is di ...

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Habitat to Take Home the Million?

Fri Jun 26 2015Ted Black

One week after Mohawk Raceway in Canada offered a stellar card that featured the $1 million North America Cup for three-year-old pacing colts, many of those same sophomores will be on hand at Pocono Downs on Saturday night as that five-eighths mile o ...
Filly smorgasbord on tap this weekend

Fri Jun 26 2015Jen Caldwell

A pair of sophomore filly stakes and one juvenile miss contest are on tap this weekend around the country. The biggest event is the Mother Goose S. (G1) at Belmont Park, which features the return of Eskenformoney (Eskendereya) and Wonder Gal’s (Ti ...
The SouthLand Derby Stakes Finale

Fri Jun 26 2015MoneyMaker Mike

The Saturday evening card at Southland will be highlighted by the 4 races of the 2015 $50,000 SOUTHLAND DERBY stakes contest.  There were 88 greyhounds who entered this championship racing and the field has now been reduced to 32 for  Round 4 ...
Pedigree analysis of Debutante runners

Fri Jun 26 2015Kellie Reilly

Picking up where we left off from the Bashford Manor, here are the pedigree notes for the fillies in Saturday’s Debutante S. at Churchill, again in program order: #1 Langstars Charmer is by Canadian champion sprinter Langfuhr, who has transcended ...
Pedigree analysis of Bashford Manor runners

Fri Jun 26 2015Kellie Reilly

When looking at two-year-old races, pedigree can be a helpful tool to analyze prospects with limited past performances. So to gear up for Saturday night’s Bashford Manor (G3) and Debutante S. at Churchill Downs, here are some pedigree notes on the ...
Who'll Get The Next Star At Palm Beach?

Fri Jun 26 2015Jason Michael

JS SpeedyPebbles Probably a big long shot to make the Walk of Fame, but she has been quite the athlete here since arriving in 2013.  Has the Palm Beach record for winning her first 8 starts in her career and has 53 career wins currently.  ...
Brisnet.com sets sights on Prairie Meadows for Pick

Thu Jun 25 2015TwinSpires Staff

Saturday marks the biggest day of the Prairie Meadows meeting, with three graded races offered on the nine-race evening card, and Brisnet.com is tabbing Golden Lad (#4 in Race 7) as the most likely winner on the program. Listed at an enticing 9-2 ...

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