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Melatonin gets perfect setup at generous odds in Big 'Cap
BY DICK POWELL
I have written in the past that for various reasons, we spend as much time handicapping jockeys and trainers as we do the horses themselves.
Since today’s horses race so infrequently, compared to only about 30 years ago, we are ...
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Southland Quarterfinals Recap
An amazing 3rd round of stakes racing is in the books at the Southland track as the quarterfinals of the 2016 Southland "Hound Madness Stakes" were run on Wednesday, March 16. There were 64 talented and hard running greyhounds entered in this treme ...
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Pugh Plots Rebel From Start To Finish
BY LAURA D. PUGH
The Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park has been one of the most competitive and productive Kentucky Derby preps in recent years, and 2016 looks like it will be no different with an imposing field of 14 set to face the starter ...
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Yonkers’ ‘Levy’ Series Launches Top Seasonal Events With Sextet Of Splits For Stalwart Stallions
It’s that time of the year when the big switch (without baiting) takes place. The TwinSpires harness blog begins to headline the sport’s top races in all of the divisions with, mostly, counter offers for contenders.
So, it’s off to Yonkers Rac ...
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Levy series set to begin at Yonkers
While many sports enthusiasts are eagerly looking forward to the next round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament on Thursday, standardbred racing fans are already gearing up for some "March Madness" of their own this weekend as the George Morton L ...
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Our Favorite Looks in the New Vineyard Vines Kentucky Derby Fashion Collection
What I like about the Vineyard Vines Kentucky Derby Collection is that it’s uniquely Kentucky Derby. Each collection attempts to capture the style of the Kentucky Derby rather than what is trendy at the time. As Jim Steinman says about the populari ...
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Taris brings stellar form into Santa Margarita stretch out
A top female sprinter the past two seasons, Taris had little difficulty recording her first two-turn victory in the 1 1/16-mile La Canada (G2) on January 16, rolling to a 5 ¼-length decision. The 5-year-old mare will attempt to carry her outstandin ...
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Salutos Amigos rallies for Tom Fool win but speed still strong at Aqueduct
AQUEDUCT NOTEBOOK
There was a single graded event at Aqueduct this past week.
Tom Fool H. (G3): Trainer David Jacobson and Southern Equine’s SALUTOS AMIGOS (Salute the Sarge) moved eight wide at the top of the lane and put in a huge late ral ...
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Kentucky Derby Report (3/16): Danzing Candy impresses with speed, Destin makes it two straight
Danzing Candy sped forward at the start and made all the pace in Saturday’s San Felipe (G2) at Santa Anita, establishing himself as a prominent Kentucky Derby contender. Mor Spirit rallied too late to catch the winner but displayed the late ...
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Looking for a Cheltenham Alternatif? Candice Hare has Smart Talk
by CANDICE HARE
Cheltenham’s second day was one of minor upsets, none more popular than the legendary Sprinter Sacre reclaiming his Champion Chase crown. Setbacks, including a heart irregularity had left the once dominant force on the National Hu ...
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Azeri will provide clues as to where Untapable stands
Untapable , a brilliant champion at three in 2014, had a good season last year. However, with only one win in six starts, it naturally paled in comparison to the heroics of a sophomore campaign that included wins in the Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) and ...
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Churchill announces 2016 Kentucky Oaks Survivors Parade participants
Edited Press Release
Churchill Downs Racetrack and its charitable partners Bright Pink® and Horses and Hope on Wednesday announced the 142 breast and ovarian cancer survivors selected from across the nation to walk in the 2016 Kentucky Oaks Surv ...
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Suddenbreakingnews drawn wide again for Rebel
An extremely wide draw proved no obstacle for Suddenbreakingnews in last month's Southwest (G3), who broke from post 13 and rallied from last in a field of 14 to win by 2 3/4 lengths. On Saturday, the Mineshaft gelding will break from the outermost ...
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Mardi Gras Futurity Set
Ten finalists will return to Louisiana Downs Sunday for the Mardi Gras Futurity Both races were both originally scheduled to be run on March 12 but were postponed when Louisiana Downs was forced to evacuate all horses and people from its stab ...
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Preakness heads Pimlico stakes schedule worth $3.7 million
Edited Press Release
The Maryland Jockey Club has announced it will offer a $3.7 million stakes schedule this spring at Pimlico, highlighted by the $1.5 million Preakness (G1), $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2), and $300,000 Pimlico Special (G3).
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Drivers post 'hat tricks' at Rosecroft
It was difficult to separate whether horses or drivers deserved top billing on Tuesday evening at Rosecroft Raceway as two drivers each won three races and at least one horse they drove delivered a sharp score. Trainer-driver Donald Dancer won with ...
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The Four Plays Candice Hare Is Making On Day 2 of Cheltenham
As expected, the first day of the Cheltenham Festival was dominated by the powerful owner/trainer duo of Rich Ricci and Willie Mullins. Led by their trio of Douvan, Annie Power, and Vroum Vroum Mag, together they won three of the day’s seven races, w ...
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Collected among dozen in Sunland Derby substitute
An outbreak of EHV-1 (Equine herpesvirus) over the winter forced a cessation of racing at Sunland Park for a month, and the fallout from the cancellations prompted track officials earlier this month to cancel both the Sunland Derby (G3) and Sunland P ...
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Southland Quarterfinals
Another very competitive round of stakes racing takes place tomorrow at the Southland track as the quarterfinals of the 2016 SOUTHLAND "HOUND MADNESS STAKES" will be run on Wednesday, March 16. There were 64 talented and hard running greyhounds ent ...
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Big stakes weekend at Santa Anita highlighted by a trio of front-running winners & a pair of deep closers
SANTA ANITA NOTEBOOK
The signature race of the meet highlighted a big weekend of racing at Santa Anita.
Santa Anita H. (G1) : Tarabilla Farms’ MELATONIN (Kodiak Kowboy) went to the front out of the gate and held off all comers in posting a 16 ...
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Derby Comp Shows Up for Mohaymen
Danzing Candy - The Clifford Sise trainee aired in the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes over the weekend. Danzing Candy took the lead around the first turn and never looked back. Under Mike Smith, Danzing Candy ran off the first quarter mile in a blisteri ...
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Dubai World Cup night trends
Rummaging through the Dubai World Cup night results, we can try to detect trends both positive and negative.
Not-so-Super Saturday? The first observation is how often the Super Saturday form either fails to translate, or is reversed, on the big ...
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Dover and Rosecroft offer solid Tuesday cards
With milder temps expected to return on Tuesday, a trio of events for pacing fillies and mares will garner the spotlight at Dover while a full field of eight older pacers will head the Open 2 that same evening at Rosecroft. Just past the midway poin ...
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Mullins It Over: Candice Hare's Day 1 Cheltenham Picks
by CANDICE HARE
As always, the first day of the Cheltenham Festival begins with the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, during which the roar from the crowd annually makes for one of the greatest spectacles in racing, and we'll be following along trying to ...
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The time is right for a Big 'Cap date change
A friend of nearly two decades offered some interesting takes on Twitter this past Saturday in regards to the current status of the $1 million Santa Anita H. (G1). Enamored with and well-versed about the sport's history and best traditions as anyone ...
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Weekend Pick 3 (3/14/16)
Destin getting up in time (photo by Doug DeFelice/Eclipse Sportswire/Getty Images) Tampa Bay Downs has gone from a mid-level winter track to one of the best winter meets in the country. Their showcase day was Saturday and it was a memorable one ...
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Songbird overwhelming favorite in Kentucky Oaks Future Wager
Edited Press Release
Songbird (#18), the runaway winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) and reigning two-year-old filly champion, was the emphatic odds-on choice to win the $1 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) following three days of wagerin ...
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Mohaymen favored in Pool 3 of KDFW
Edited Press Release
Mohaymen (#13) and reigning two-year-old champion Nyquist (#15) – unbeaten rivals headed toward a pre-Kentucky Derby (G1) East-West showdown in the $1 million Florida Derby (G1) on April 2 – stood as the clear individual cho ...
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Older Pacers continue to impress
One week before the lucrative and ultra-competitive George Morton Levy Memorial Series is set to get under way at Yonkers Raceway in New York, a bevy of pacers tuned up for the five prelims and possible berth in either the final or consolation on Apr ...
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Generosidade lives up to her name with $144.80 upset of San Luis Rey
Overlooked as the longest shot on the board at 71-1, Uruguayan-bred mare Generosidade shocked the boys in Sunday’s $201,725 San Luis Rey (G2) at Santa Anita and sparked a generous win mutuel of $144.80.
The 1 1/2-mile turf test served up a stron ...
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History Making Weekend at Palm Beach
As it turned out, "Kid Dynamite" Superior Tyson from B & B Racing was best of all. Tyson broke with the pack initially and waited his chance to strike. With a lethal haymaker of a move on the backstretch, Tyson roared around the curve a ...
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Santa Anita Derby rematch in the cards for San Felipe top two
Edited Press Release
If all goes well, it’s on to the $1 million Santa Anita Derby (G1) and a rematch between Danzing Candy and Mor Spirit, the one-two finishers from Saturday’s San Felipe (G2) .
Both three-year-olds came out of the race ...
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Whitmore works half-mile in the mud at Oaklawn for Rebel
Edited Press Release
Co-owner/trainer Ron Moquett called an audible Sunday morning at Oaklawn Park, working Southwest (G3) runner-up Whitmore in company ahead of Saturday’s $900,000 Rebel (G2).
Breezing over a muddy, sealed surface with Greta ...
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McLaughlin: ‘Frosted is ready’ to run big in Dubai World Cup
Frosted is firing on all cylinders ahead of the March 26 Dubai World Cup (G1), trainer Kiaran McLaughlin tells godolphin.com.
"He has never been better," McLaughlin said of the Tapit colt, who romped in track-record time in his Dubai debut in the ...
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Surgical Strike scores exciting win for Battaglia’s last call
Edited Press Release
Nearly last in the early going, Surgical Strike made a powerful move leaving the backstretch, went wide for running room in the stretch and blew by the field to take the $92,357 John Battaglia Memorial S. by 2 1/2 lengths ...
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Two Miami Pick-4 Legs Right On; Mid-Week Tweet Winners; Biggest Prices To Place
Last Wednesday, March 9, Twinspires Twitter members were again treated to special picks for Buffalo Raceway. The March 9 quartet of suggested contenders was tweeted from @FrankCotolo on Twitter and retweeted by @twinspires and @BuffaloRaceway. This w ...
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Kobe’s Back rallies to top gray trifecta in San Carlos
Kobe’s Back made it two in a row on Saturday at Santa Anita Park when rallying down the center of the track to prevail in the $301,035 San Carlos (G2) under jockey Gary Stevens.
The gray son of Flatter just made his five-year-old debut a half-le ...
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Melatonin opens up late to upset Big 'Cap
Melatonin, whose only previous stakes placing occurred last October in the Eddie D (G3), a turf sprint, lorded over eight rivals at a 1 1/4-mile on the main track Saturday when upsetting the $1,001,035 Santa Anita H. (G1) .
The Big 'Cap appeared ...
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What a View turns out to be lone speed in Kilroe
Saturday’s $400,345 Frank E. Kilroe Mile (G1) at Santa Anita had no shortage of potential pace players – chief among them Midnight Storm and Om – but when none wanted the lead, the only other entrant with early speed, What a View, took the pole pos ...
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Danzing Candy a sweet winner of the San Felipe
Danzing Candy jumped into the Kentucky Derby picture with a smashing two-length victory in Saturday’s $400,345 San Felipe (G2) at Santa Anita, leading wire to wire in his stakes debut. Trained by Cliff Sise Jr., the dark bay colt has no ...
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Tepin runs down Isabella Sings in course-record Hillsborough
If you were an opposing general trying to figure out how to neutralize the shock effect of Tepin’s acceleration, you’d order a ferocious early pace. Stretch out the battlefield, so to speak, and hope that the champion turf mare wouldn’t have quite th ...
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Terra Promessa stings rivals in Honeybee
Stonestreet Stables LLC’s homebred Terra Promessa was making her stakes debut in Saturday’s $200,000 Honeybee (G3) at Oaklawn Park and passed the black-type test with flying colors when pulling off for a 6 1/2-length victory.
The bay daughter of ...
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Destin tops Pletcher exacta in Tampa Bay Derby
Outwork made the pace and Destin finished the job as the Todd Pletcher-trained duo finished one-two in Saturday's $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby at Tampa Bay Downs.
Tracking three wide in third as Outwork set splits of :24.04, :47.88, and 1:11.43, De ...
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Southland - Sunday, March 13
Another very entertaining evening of greyhound racing at the Southland track as Round 2 of the 2016 SOUTHLAND "HOUND MADNESS STAKES" was run on Friday, March 11. There were 64 talented and hard running greyhounds entered in this tremendously exci ...
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Salutos Amigos mows down rivals, repeats in Tom Fool
Salutos Amigos launched his rally off the far turn, closing dramatically down the middle of the Aqueduct inner track, and easily proved best for the second consecutive year in Saturday’s $200,000 Tom Fool H. (G3) , scoring by 2 ½ lengths. Cornelio V ...
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Baciami Piccola rallies for Florida Oaks victory
Amerman Racing LLC’s Baciami Piccola rallied on the outside from the back of the pack to capture her U.S. debut in the $155,000 Florida Oaks (G3) at Tampa Bay Downs on Saturday.
The Equiano filly broke from the 13 post and settled in 10th on the ...
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Probable field of 13 for $900,000 Rebel at Oaklawn
Edited Press Release
Following a flurry of recent additions and subtractions, the field for the $900,000 Rebel (G2) next Saturday at Oaklawn is coming into sharper focus. The race is the final major local prep for the $1 million Arkansas Derby (G ...
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Expecting Brody’s Cause to come back strong in Tampa Bay Derby; playing speed in San Felipe
The Tampa Bay Derby (G2) has a need-the-lead type in Awesome Banner and Outwork figures to be prompting a solid pace as well. Brody’s Cause has displayed an excellent late kick in all three dirt starts and figures to benefit from the projected set- ...
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Louisiana Downs Update
Severe weather and flooding has forced cancellation of the weekend's races at Louisiana Downs ...
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Winless Kentucky Derby Dream Bets Turning Into Nightmare for DeRosa
As exciting as two Kentucky Derby Championship Series races on the same day are, I’m even more excited about two opportunities to qualify for the Kentucky Derby Dream Bet since I’ve yet to pick a winner ( Bistraya in the Risen Star, Zulu in th ...
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Kellie Reilly picks the Tampa Bay Derby & San Felipe for Kentucky Derby Dream Bet
Saturday offers two more chances to qualify for the Kentucky Derby Dream Bet ’s Final Round. If you haven’t qualified in the contest’s first three races, just cash a $15 win bet on Saturday’s Tampa Bay Derby (G2), or San Felipe (G2), and you’ve clea ...
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Mohaymen breezes half-mile for Florida Derby
Edited Press Release
Undefeated multiple Grade 2 winner Mohaymen breezed a half-mile Friday morning in preparation for his next start in the $1 million Florida Derby (G1) on April 2 at Gulfstream Park.
With regular exercise rider Miguel Jaime ...
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Older horses to take center stage
Both thoroughbred and standardbred racing fans who enjoy watching the older horses compete will have a chance to see the world's best over the next two weekends as Yonkers Raceway offers round one of the lucrative George Morton Levy Memorial series f ...
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Midnight Storm can get jump on Bolo, Om in Kilroe Mile
Having opined on the $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby and $400,000 San Felipe (G2) elsewhere , there is still yet more great stakes action on the Tampa Bay Downs and Santa Anita cards on Saturday. Here are few horses that have caught my eye perusing the pa ...
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Kentucky Derby Dream Bet picks for San Felipe, Tampa Bay Derby from James Scully
TwinSpires.com players have two chances Saturday to cash a $15 win bet and qualify for the final round of the $25,000 Kentucky Derby Dream Bet , with the San Felipe (G2) and Tampa Bay Derby (G2) in the spotlight.
The San Felipe will feature only ...
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Kentucky Derby Dream Bet Tampa Bay Derby, San Felipe picks from Vance Hanson
Saturday offers two opportunities to cash a $15 win bet to qualify for the final round of TwinSpires.com's $25,000 Kentucky Derby Dream Bet contest. A competitive group of 10 is expected to start in the $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby (G2), while a small ...
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Kentucky Derby Dream Bet Tampa Bay Derby and San Felipe Stakes picks from Jennifer Caldwell
There are two opportunities on Saturday for those taking part in TwinSpires.com’s $25,000 Kentucky Derby Dream Bet contest to get a winner.
First up is the Tampa Bay Derby (G2) , which features a field of 10 going 1 1/16 miles. About a half-hou ...
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My Favorite Big Caps
Laffit Pincay III said:
"1986 Greinton. Obvious, biased selection, but it was my father's was 5th & final big cap win. Terrific stretch duel w/ Rafael Meza & Herat. Herat was 1,000/1 & you could have fit him in your pocket. ...
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Cal-bred stars among most underrated San Felipe winners
As the main lead-in to the Santa Anita Derby (G1), the 1 1/16-mile San Felipe (G2) has a rich and storied past all its own. First won by an eventual Kentucky Derby (G1) winner in 1954 by Determine, the race has also been taken down by fellow Derby he ...
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Palm Beach $50,000 St Patrick's Invitational
*Superior Tyson*
Picks 5-1-3-8
This is one wide open Final and should be very entertaining. From watching these 8 Finalists the past month, the strongest greyhound coming in looks like Superior Tyson. "Iron Mike" missed out on the He' ...
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Battaglia's Enthusiasm a Part of His Legacy Away From Announcer's Booth
There were no hashtags or top ten lists.
No weepy recollections about how his calls of bottom-level maiden claimers in driving snowstorms in December helped save Christmas.
There was just the announcement and quiet understanding that, yeah, may ...
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Mardi Gras Futurity Set For Louisiana Downs
Rdd Lajollanfastdash is the morning-line choice in Saturday's Mardi Gras Futurity The first official futurity of the year, the $273,054 Mardi Gras Futurity (RG2), is set for Saturday, March 12 at Louisiana Downs . From 111 juveniles that ran ...
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2016 Kentucky Derby Pedigrees: Zulu
Zulu, best of the rest behind Mohaymen in the Fountain of Youth (G2), is among the notable sons of Bernardini on the 2016 Kentucky Derby trail. Shagaf has just been the subject of a pedigree profile, while Greenpointcrusader is due for his own ...
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Jensen likely to skip Louisiana Derby in favor of Spiral
Edited Press Release
Trainer Larry Jones’ homebred Jensen is likely to skip the $1 million Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby (G2) on March 26 at Fair Grounds and instead ship to Turfway Park for the $500,000 Spiral (G3) on April 2 for his breeder-ow ...
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2016 Kentucky Derby Pedigrees: Shagaf
We continue our pedigree profiles of the 2016 Kentucky Derby hopefuls with Gotham (G3) hero Shagaf, who has joined fellow Shadwell Stable colorbearer Mohaymen as a prominent contender.
Unlike Mohaymen, a $2.2 million auction purchase, Shagaf i ...
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Remembering the 2007 Tampa Bay Derby; Street Sense & Any Given Saturday duel to the wire
Saturday’s $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby (G2) features the return of juvenile Grade 1 winner Brody’s Cause, a highly-ranked Kentucky Derby (G1) contender who was last seen rallying for third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1).
Others with Kentucky ...
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Ortiz brothers thriving at Aqueduct; Shagaf passes Gotham test in good fashion
BY DICK POWELL
Winter racing has not been bad at Aqueduct this year with fewer cancellations and much better weather. The four-day-a-week schedule for the first three months of 2016 have enabled field sizes to maintain and scheduled closures at P ...
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Churchill Downs partners with Ticketmaster for Kentucky Derby ticket resale
Edited Press Release
Churchill Downs Racetrack (CDRT) has launched the Kentucky Derby Ticket Exchange by Ticketmaster, the only online resale marketplace to provide fans with a secure, reliable and convenient place to buy and resell tickets to th ...
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Mid-March Madness For Harness Bets Across North America
At mid-March we are getting closer to official features and series, heading into April, hopefully, with all of our winter profits for springtime action. This weekend we diverge our features’ attractions, beginning Thursday, March 10 with Freehold and ...
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Yonkers and Rosecroft offer Solid Cards
This Saturday night Yonkers Raceway will offer local older pacers one last chance to prep for the ultra-tough and lucrative George Morton Levy Memorial Series that gets under way the following Saturday evening, then on Sunday evening Rosecroft Racewa ...
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Destin, Tepin star on Tampa Bay Derby Day
Destin captured the Sam F. Davis (G3) last out at Tampa Bay Downs and on Saturday will try to parlay that into a victory in the $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby (G2) with jockey Javier Castellano holding the reins.
The Tampa Bay Derby is part of the Roa ...
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San Felipe comes up tough with Mor Spirit & Exaggerator as top draws
The most accomplished 3-year-old on the West Coast, Nyquist, will remain on the sidelines as he readies for a match-up with Mohaymen in the April 2 Florida Derby (G1), but Saturday’s $400,000 San Felipe (G2) at Santa Anita still has major Kentucky ...
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Effinex favored in soft renewal of the Big 'Cap
With most of the nation's leading older males either preparing for the Dubai World Cup (G1) later this month or presently sidelined, Saturday's renewal of the $1 million Santa Anita H. (G1) has come up rather soft. That might turn out to be good n ...
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Marquee Miss continues Oaklawn journey in Honeybee
Marquee Miss will go attempt to move her record to three-for-three on Saturday at Oaklawn Park when lining up against five rivals in the $200,000 Honeybee (G3) going 1 1/16 miles.
The bay daughter of Cowboy Cal is trying to sweep the three-year- ...
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Kentucky Derby Report (3/9); Shagaf grinds out Gotham
Shagaf rallied to a 1 ¼-length decision in Saturday’s Gotham (G3) at Aqueduct, remaining unbeaten in his third career start, and is now headed to the $1 million Wood Memorial (G1) on April 9.
The final time proved disappointing, nearly a second s ...
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Remington Park 2016 Quarter Horse Meet
Bv Midnite Express won the 2015 Heritage Place Futurity at Remington Park Visit remingtonpark.com for more information on upcoming stakes and special events. ...
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Ralis set to make seasonal bow in Rebel
Edited Press Release
Grade 1 winner Ralis will make his sophomore debut in the $900,000 Rebel (G2) on March 19 at Oaklawn Park, trainer Doug O'Neill said Tuesday night.
O'Neill said Mario Gutierrez will have the mount on the Southern Californ ...
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Shagaf overcomes bias in Gotham as speed mostly dominates on Aqueduct inner track
AQUEDUCT NOTEBOOK
There was a single graded event at Aqueduct this past week.
Gotham S. (G3) : Shadwell Stable’s homebred SHAGAF (Bernardini) moved three wide into the lane and finished best of all to remain unbeaten for conditioner Chad Brow ...
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Kentucky Derby Will Miss One True Star
5. Mo Tom - Watch the race. Pay attention to the 2-Mo Tom. Trip handicappers should be all over this guy. Mo Tom could have won this race if not for what many perceived as a speed bias in the Risen Star. What you have to like is how he went inside ...
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Zenyatta, Rachel Alexandra lead 10 nominees for Hall of Fame
Edited Press Release
Four jockeys, four Thoroughbreds and two trainers comprise the 10 finalists on the National Museum of Racing's 2016 Hall of Fame ballot, as selected by the Museum's Hall of Fame Nominating Committee. The finalists are: jockey ...
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Tuesday Opener at Rosecroft
When Rosecroft Raceway kicked off its 2016 spring meet on Tuesday evening, much of the focus was on a pair of races on the latter one-third of the card and a quartet of older pacers raced superbly over the Maryland five-eighths mile oval. A field of ...
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Celebrating John Henry’s birthday; a beloved Grand Warrior, Underdog & Horse with Attitude
BY TAMMY SITERS
Forty-one years ago, on March 9, 1975, a small, ill-tempered and unfashionably-bred colt was born on Golden Chance Farm in Paris, Kentucky. He was also born back at the knees, a fault which can make horses unable to handle the st ...
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Songbird continues to dominate like a superstar; ‘no idea how good she actually may be’
SANTA ANITA NOTEBOOK
A superstar topped the stakes action over the weekend of the winter/spring meeting at Santa Anita.
Santa Ysabel S. (G3) : Fox Hill Farms’ champion SONGBIRD (Medaglia d’Oro) sped to the lead and was never challenged in pos ...
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Polar River unlikely to contest Kentucky Oaks
The three-year-old filly Polar River, who has gained a worldwide following during her four-race career in Dubai, has essentially been ruled out of the $1 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) on May 6 by trainer Doug Watson.
Polar River has won her four race ...
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Get Away Day at Sam Houston Race Park
Today is closing day at Sam Houston Race Park, and it’s a corker of a 12 race card with an average of 11 entries per race.
For fans of multi-race wagers in particular, Sam Houston has an extremely friendly wagering menu with rolling doubles ...
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Racing mourning the loss of Norman Casse
Edited Press Release
The racing world is mourning the passing of Norman E. Casse after a long illness on Sunday at the age of 79. A co-founder of Ocala Breeders' Sales Company in 1974, he served as chairman of the OBS board for 28 years until ste ...
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Songbird favored at 3-1 on Kentucky Oaks Future Wager morning line
Edited Press Release
Fox Hill Farms ’ unbeaten 2-year-old filly champion Songbird (#18 ) is the solid favorite in a strong group of 3-year-old fillies listed as individual betting interests in the 2016 pool of Churchill Downs Racetrack’s Kentu ...
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Unbeaten Kentucky Derby contenders Mohaymen, Nyquist head Future Wager Pool 3
Edited Press Release
A pair of unbeaten stars in Shadwell Stable ’s Fountain of Youth (G2) winner Mohaymen (#13) and Reddam Racing LLC ’s reigning American 2-year-old champion Nyquist (#15) , the winner of the San Vicente (G2) at Santa Anita ...
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Which Palm Beach Final Is On Your Bucket List?
*Pat C Rendezvous*
If I could only choose one Final to be at, I'd have to go with the Derby. The history of it all and the longer distance just beams with excitement and is diffidently on my bucket list to attend.
Someday.
Which Stake ...
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Dover Card offers some fast miles
While Yonkers Raceway might offer the best overnight cards of the weekend on Saturday nights, the best program to kick off the work week begins each Monday evening at Dover Downs where pacers of all ages have the chance to display their ability for l ...
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Dubai Carnival beads: World Cup night landscape after Super Saturday, III
Concluding the discussion from Vol. I on the Dubai World Cup and Vol. II on the other dirt races ...
Postponed photo courtesy Dubai Racing Club/Andrew Watkins.
Thankfully, the Meydan turf course was a comparative haven on Super Saturday, ...
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Dubai Carnival beads: World Cup night landscape after Super Saturday, II
Continuing the discussion from Vol. I, focusing on the Dubai World Cup...
Polar River photo courtesy Dubai Racing Club/Andrew Watkins.
UAE DERBY
The 3-year-old male division has been weak all Carnival, an impression that wasn’t dispe ...
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Dubai Carnival beads: World Cup night landscape after Super Saturday, I
Special Fighter photo courtesy Dubai Racing Club/Andrew Watkins.
Super Saturday left more questions than answers on the dirt, thanks to a blatant track bias that not merely carried, but propelled, front runners on the inside. Anyone trying to imp ...
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The Kentucky Derby field: Will Points Ever Not Matter?
Maybe it’s the former editor in me or that I’m just a persnickety fusspot in general, but one of my pet peeves on the Triple Crown trail is anyone saying fillies have to “face males” to run in the Kentucky Derby.
People need to stop saying that f ...
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Joseph O'Brien calls it a day on riding career
Joseph O'Brien, a leading retained rider for Coolmore and his father, trainer Aidan O'Brien, has told Racing Post that his abbreviated career as a jockey is over.
The 22-year-old's career was always expected to be brief due to his height and wei ...
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Steve Asmussen's Top 5 Horses
5. Tapiture - Under jockey Rosie Napravnik, Tapiture was oh so close to taking home the Breeders cup Dirt Mile in 2014. Goldencents held off Tapiture, but, man, it was a close race! Some may believe that Tapiture doesn't belong on this list. I thin ...
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Five Grade 1s highlight Santa Anita spring meet; Vanity shortened
Edited Press Release
With the $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita (G1) poised to serve as its highlight, Santa Anita's 2016 Spring Meeting, which begins May 5 and runs through July 10, will offer fans and horsemen 34 stakes, with 16 graded events th ...
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Southland - Monday, March 7
What an exciting day it was at the Southland track as the 2016 SOUTHLAND "HOUND MADNESS STAKES" competition got underway on Sunday. There were 64 talented and hard running greyhounds who were entered and who were after the stakes title. I selecte ...
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Weekend Pick 3 Recap--3/7/16
Another race and another paid workout for Songbird who just continues to crush her foes. This race was almost a carbon copy of her last win where she goes to the front, receives not much pressure and then buries her competition on the turn. This time ...
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Cards at Dover Downs and Rosecroft
Warmer temperatures are expected to meet horses, drivers and fans on Monday and Tuesday as Dover Downs again offers another solid, lucrative Monday card and Rosecroft Raceway kicks off its 2016 winter-spring meet on Tuesday. A compact field of six o ...
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