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Rosecroft Tuesday cards have become tougher

Thu Mar 19 2015Ted Black

There was once a time when harness racing fans looked down on the weeknight cards and preferred to wait until the weekends to wager on the best trotters and pacers that most standardbred ovals offer. But the weeknight cards at Rosecroft Raceway and D ...
Full fields await in Turfway Park’s graded stakes double

Wed Mar 18 2015Ed DeRosa

Turfway Park has the distinction of ending the Blue Grass state’s 112-day graded stakes drought when it plays host to the $550,000 Horsehoe Casino Cincinnati Spiral Stakes and $125,000 Bourbonette Oaks on Saturday, March 21. The races are the only ...
SOUTHLAND 2015 - Quarterfinals Of $20,000 HOUND MADNESS STAKES set for Wednesday, March 18

Tue Mar 17 2015MoneyMaker Mike

The 2015 SOUTHLAND $20,000 HOUND MADNESS STAKES QUARTERFINALS (SLEEK 16) are set for Wednesday, March 18 and the field is now down to 16 talented greyhounds vying for the championship. Listed below are the four races and the four greyhounds in each ...
Texas Red off Kentucky Derby trail but could still make a major impact

Tue Mar 17 2015James Scully

Texas Red, a smashing 6 ½-length winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, has been removed from Kentucky Derby consideration. His connections announced the decision on a Facebook post: To the fans of Texas Red and Thoroughbred Horse Racing, Con ...
The Power of Early Speed And the Power of Finding It

Mon Mar 16 2015TwinSpires Staff

In 2005 the Daily Racing Form database contained more than 200,000 Thoroughbred races run in North America, at more than 30 different tracks, over a nine-year period. Someone had the idea to run a query and see how horses performed when they made t ...
Saratoga Pick Pays $186.50 To Win; Northville Daily Double Is $529 Score

Mon Mar 16 2015TwinSpires Staff

This weekend’s horses-to-watch (H2W) list was written in gold dust, while our features’ contenders group had a silver lining. It’s all on the H2W list below. It began Friday the 13 th when skill met luck and The Filly Princess, our only conte ...

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Champ is back as American Pharoah rolls in Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn

Sat Mar 14 2015James Scully

Two-year-old champion American Pharoah showed no rust while returning from a 168-day layoff in Saturday’s Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park, confirming his status as a leading Kentucky Derby contender with a commanding 6 1/4-length decision. The Rebel ...
$20,000 HOUND MADNESS STAKES 2nd Round update

Sat Mar 14 2015MoneyMaker Mike

What an exciting evening of stakes racing it was at Southland last night with some of the best greyhounds in the country going paw to paw in their quest to advance to the next round of the 2015 $20,000 HOUND MADNESS STAKES . The results leave just 1 ...
Qualifiers help ignite older pacers

Fri Mar 13 2015Ted Black

For the second straight week the morning qualifiers at the Meadowlands Race Track have looked like an early preview for the numerous older stakes races this spring, summer and fall and harness racing fans perhaps should take note of how well the spor ...
Dubai: Super Saturday & the Peloponnesian War

Fri Mar 13 2015Kellie Reilly

Strained historical parallel alert: the results of the March 7 "Super Saturday" card at Meydan generally called to mind the outcome of the Second Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC). As my ancient history professor once pointed out, although Sparta defeat ...
Player Quick Pick: Oaklawn Park 3/14/2015

Fri Mar 13 2015D.S. Williamson

American Pharaoh returns in the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park . Untapable returns in the Azeri Stakes at Oaklwan. Due to the presence of those champions, horseplayers are going to find it difficult to make money in either the Rebel Stakes or the Azer ...
Where Will Shared Belief Run Next? Not Dubai, Maybe Met Mile, Maybe Sooner

Fri Mar 13 2015TwinSpires Staff

by LAURA PUGH You have to love the madness of Social Media. A mere day after Shared Belief’s incredibly easy Santa Anita Handicap score, it was reported that Jerry Hollendorfer had confirmed the gelding’s next major target would be the Metropolit ...
TwinSpires Player Sharp Is World's Hottest Gambler Right Now

Fri Mar 13 2015Ed DeRosa

How did R. F. Sharp celebrate the one-month anniversary of winning $188,491.40 on a Pick 6 at Santa Anita Park? By winning $1,078,668.22 on the Rainbow^6 at Gulfstream Park. That’s right; the same guy who celebrated this score a month ago is cel ...

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