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Among the Giant's killers, Beau Purple was best

Fri Mar 20 2015Vance Hanson

Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens, who died this week at 85, is best remembered for defeating great champions rather than training them. Indeed, only one in his plethora of stakes winners – Sky Beauty in 1994 – ever topped a year-end poll as divisio ...
Hare's Five to Show for Rosehill Group 1 Quintet

Fri Mar 20 2015TwinSpires Staff

As if we needed any more incentive to bet the quality racing featured this autumn in Australia, each Friday night beginning on March 20, Australian Racing and TwinSpires are teaming up for the $10,000 Five For Five Fridays ! For this promo, we pl ...
Palm Beach Friday Matinee Preview 3/20/2015

Fri Mar 20 2015Jason Michael

Top Pick Race 14- #8 Storm Control Enjoy the racing today everybody! Follow me on Twitter- @JasonPalmBeach Facebook- Palm Beach Jason ...
SOUTHLAND - 2015 $20,000 HOUND MADNESS STAKES quarterfinals update

Thu Mar 19 2015MoneyMaker Mike

Yesterday's results in the 2015 Southland $20,000 HOUND MADNESS STAKES quarterfinals leaves just 8 talented and hard running greyhounds in the chase for the title. The SLEEK 16 are now down to the GREYT 8 and these eight will be running on Marc ...
My Top Jockeys of the 1980s

Thu Mar 19 2015D.S. Williamson

Craig Perret – One can easily go with Jacinto Vasquez in the fifth spot but I decided to go with Perret. Craig Perret won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in 1990 at the tail end of the 80’s. The horse that made his year was Unbridled, wh ...
TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon

Thu Mar 19 2015Derek Simon

Host Derek Simon discusses the jockey boycott at Parx Racing and the dearth of horses competing at Mahoning Valley, Mountaineer and Turfway Park. In a special History segment, Derek looks back at the spectacular career of trainer H. Allen Jerk ...

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Breaking Down the Brisnet Prime Power Rating

Thu Mar 19 2015Derek Simon

It’s no secret that, for many moons now, I have been trying to beat the game with mechanical methods of play. In large part, because I simply don’t have time to handicap like I did 5-6 years ago… nor do I enjoy the process like I used to.   ...
Older Pacers Poised To Pounce For Six Weeks In Definitive Yonkers Duels

Thu Mar 19 2015TwinSpires Staff

The Ides of March behind us, the scourge of winter degenerated, the season’s traditional marathon for older pacers of both sexes plunges into action. The George Morton Levy Memorial and Blue Chip Matchmaker, surface on the Friday, March 20 and Saturd ...
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 ...

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