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The Player’s Edge – March 22, 2013: Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita, Turfway Park & Sunland Park
Gulfstream Park - Pan American Stakes
Santa Anita - Tokyo City Cup
Turfway Park – Spiral Stakes
Sunland Park - Sunland Derby
Gulfstream Park - Pan American Stakes
Marathoners on the Lawn
The feature race on ...
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Pick 6 Preview: Santa Anita $43,178 Carryover - March 22, 2013
Pick-6 carryover of just over $43,000 on Friday at Santa Anita, which starts with race three, post time 5:00 ET. Let’s take a look at some of the contenders.
Incetivize, Russel’s Run, Candy’s Jewel, Southern Heart, Indian Gods and Sports Report a ...
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Weekend Harness Stakes at Yonkers: Levy and Matchmaker Series Begin
Bluechip Matchmaker
The Bluechip Matchmaker preliminaries start at Yonkers Raceway on Friday, March 22nd. This is the first of five legs and will provide plenty of racing action. Third time entrant Androvette's connections are probably hoping t ...
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Kentucky Derby Preview: Future Wager Pool 3 – March 22, 2013
The final Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool is this weekend and for the first time this year, the field will most likely not be favored. The undefeated Verrazano was 11-1 in pool one, 9-1 in pool two, but will open the wagering as the morning line fav ...
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‘Levy’ Stampede Sextet
Six divisions, each worth $50,000, launch the George Morton Levy Series for older pacers at Yonkers Raceway on Saturday, March 23. The aged-pacing mares begin The Blue Chip Matchmaker Series on Friday, March 22 with a quintet of divisions. More ha ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 03/27 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio
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Harness Racing Handicapping: Layoffs
Last week, the Meadowlands released this announcement:
The Meadowlands Racetrack program will now include enhanced information on horses showing no race lines for three weeks or more. In the comment section for each race, those horses with 21 d ...
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Greyhound Handicapping: Spot Plays and Special Situations
I play a lot of spot plays. I also handicap every race, no matter how good a spot play looks. It's tempting when I find
a spot play to just play it and hope for the best, but that doesn't give me a positive Return On Investment (ROI).
What does hel ...
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Greyhound Stakes Races Coming Up The Week of March 18th
Greyhound Stakes Races Coming Up This Week It starts on Monday at Mardi Gras . Both the early and late cards have Round 3 races in the American Greyhound Derby Stakes and there are some outstanding greyhounds running today. This afternoon's races ...
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Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes
There were only two minor features in the sport this week, both at the New Meadowlands and both dominated by public choices. Our picks, Yo Cheyenne Rocky finished third at an astounding 51-1 and Volare De Vie watched all of his foes make it over the ...
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Race Preview: Inside Information Stakes - Gulfstream Park, March 17, 2013
The Sunday feature this weekend at Gulfstream Park is the 37th running of the Grade 2 Inside Information. Last year the race was won by Musical Romance, who won the 2011 Eclipse Award for Filly and Mare Sprinter. This year's race drew a field of ten ...
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Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita & Oaklawn Park
Gulfstream Park – Honey Fox Stakes Oaklawn Park – Rebel Stakes Santa Anita – Santa Margarita Stakes Santa Anita – San Luis Rey Stakes Gulfstream Park – Honey Fox Stakes
Fillies and Mares on the Turf The feature ...
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Using Past Odds to Predict Present Results
(Click on image to enlarge) Granted, a 3.4 percent return on investment (ROI) is not likely to get one invited to yacht parties with the rich and famous, but it’s not bad considering that the only criterion was that the h ...
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Pick-5 Preview: Fair Grounds $283,472 Carryover – March 15, 2013
photo: Matt Carter
No one has hit the pick-5 at Fair Grounds yet as the jackpot carryover has now reached just over $283,000. Night racing Friday and what better way to spend the evening than handicapping horses.
The pick-5 starts in race ...
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Springing Into Stakes Season
This weekend the New Meadowlands offers a pair of seasonal series finales while the casts for Yonkers’ late-March battles continue with more on the horizon. Along with the stakes we continue to bring you TwinSpires’ exclusive harness horses to watch ...
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Pick-6 Preview: Santa Anita $94,395 Carryover - March 14, 2013
Pick-6 carryover of just under $95,000 on Thursday at Santa Anita; let's take a look at some of the contenders.
Race three kicks off the sequence, a one-mile turf race for $40,000 claiming fillies. All seven of the four-year-olds have a shot on t ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 03/13 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio
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Harness Handicapping: Track Conditions
We've had a lot of rain and snow in the last few months. My friend, Bill, who's a thoroughbred player is pretty dadblamed disillusioned with the weather, I'll tell you. He loves to play the Florida tracks, especially the turf races, but lately almost ...
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Greyhound Handicapping: How To Decide If A Race is Playable
If you're like a lot of people, every race is playable. You go to the greyhound track or play online once in a while and when you play, you want action. You want something going in every race and you'll find a play no matter how hard it is to find a ...
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Greyhound Stakes at Bluffs Run and Palm Beach Kennel Club Coming Up
$60,000 Team Survivor Stakes at Bluffs Run on Wednesday, March 13th
How about a program with 15 stakes races on it? That's the card for Bluffs Run's first round of the Team Survivor
Stakes. Every race is contentious and there are more outstandi ...
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Dubai Hat Winners
Congratulations to our 100 Dubai hat winners. Please allow up to 3 weeks for delivery. Thanks to everyone for playing the Dubai Super Saturday card with TwinSpires.com.
ANDREW WA
BRAD LE
BRENT PA
BRIAN LE
BRIAN RO
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1st Round American Greyhound Derby at Mardi Gras March 11, 2013 Afternoon and Evening Programs
1st Round American Greyhound Derby
Afternoon
Races 8 and 9 start the American Derby's first round and they're both tough handicapping races. In race 8, we have dogs coming from stakes and dogs coming from sprints and marathons. There are also d ...
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Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes
The exclusive horses-to-watch (H2W) list needs a two-week overhaul due to the absence of the blog so in this review we are going to include the results for all of March so far. We hope to add more to next week’s list and continue as planned, as well ...
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The ‘Real’ Derby Record of Today’s Top Trainers
(Click on image to enlarge) So, using the results obtained from the chart above, I thought it might be interesting to look at how Todd Pletcher and other top trainers performed in Louisville on the first Saturday in May. Pri ...
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Race Preview: Hillsborough Stakes - Tampa Bay Downs, March 9, 2013
photo: Matt Carter
The supporting feature on Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs is the Grade 3 Hillsborough Stakes for fillies and mares, three-year-olds old and upward. The turf race at the about distance of nine furlongs drew a full field of 12 wi ...
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The Player’s Edge – March 8, 2013: Tampa Bay Downs, Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita & Oaklawn Park
photo: Matt Carter
Tampa Bay Downs - Tampa Bay Derby
Gulfstream Park - Gulfstream Park Handicap
Santa Anita - San Felipe Stakes
Oaklawn Park – Razorback Handicap
Tampa Bay Downs - Tampa Bay Derby
Verrazan ...
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Harness Pick 4 Central
Click the links below for FREE Pick 4 PPs courtesy of TrackMaster DATE TRACK - (Links activate when files become available) Monday March 1 ...
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Delta Let-8-Ride Update - 3/15
Let-8-Ride: March 13-16 Correction: 9 players wagered the required $38 and lost. Insurance pays $55.56. 12 players wagered the required $114 on Saturday night and earned $83.34 each. Congratulations to our three winners who parlayed $8 into $9 ...
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Dubai Super Saturday: Win a Cap, Earn 10X Points!
With Breeders' Cup Turf Champ Little Mike and Pacific Classic winner Dullahan prepping for the Dubai World Cup, the excitement building around the Super Saturday program from Dubai has never been higher. Plus, when you wager $50 or more on the Dubai ...
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Road to the Derby Showdown - Shareholders Board
Official results after five races Players with 5 winners - 59 Players with 4 winners - 168 Players with 3 winners - 236 Players with 2 winners or less ...
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2012 Dan Patch Award Winners
2012 Dan Patch Award Winners The 2012 Dan Patch Awards were presented at a banquet hosted by the US Harness Writers Association in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on Sunday night. Here's a list of the equine award recipients: Older Male Trotter of the Year ...
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Top Twenty Harness Drivers of 2013, Part 2
Last week, I wrote about the ten top earning harness drivers on a list of twenty. Today, I'll write a little about the next ten who made the list. Jason Bartlett grew up in Maine, a state where harness racing is taken seriously and has a long hist ...
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Greyhound Handicapping With False Favorites
Sometimes, it's easy to see why a dog is the favorite in a race. It has much better speed, class, form or all of the
above than the other dogs. But at other times, I look at a race and can't for the life of me figure out why a dog is at
less than e ...
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Pick 5 Preview: Santa Anita $226,901 Carryover - March 1, 2013
A rare pick-5 carryover spices up the Friday card at Santa Anita; let's take a look at some of the contenders and how we are going to play the sequence.
Based on last out speed figures, race one is between the three horses drawn in posts one, two ...
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Kentucky Derby Preview: Future Wager Pool 2 – March 1, 2013
Friday is the opening of the second Future Wager pool for the 2013 Kentucky Derby so let’s take a look at some of the contenders with their opening odds.
The favorite for the pool to start, and most likely when it closes on Sunday, is “All Other T ...
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How to Determine the Pace of Today's Race
(Click on image to enlarge) Yet, it is my contention that the -13 Fountain of Youth ESR was not only a non-surprise, it was predictable. In fact, I’m going to show you an easy and reasonably accurate (hey, you can’t expect easy and infalli ...
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Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 2 & weekend preview
The second (of three) Kentucky Derby Future Wager is this weekend, and unlike the first pool, some of the horses involved in this pool are running this weekend, so that changes the approach a little bit since what Overanalyze and Vyjack do in the Go ...
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The Rides Of March
It’s that time of the year when the very atmosphere is uncertain whether to be one season or another and the air can be thick with fog or blinding with snow. Either way, the months are taking dead aim at the coming of new star pacers and trotters, ju ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 02/27 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio
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All America Greyhound Team Announced
For 50 years, the American Greyhound Track Operators Association has picked 8 greyhounds to form their All America Team. This year's team is composed of 8 outstanding greyhounds from Southland, Palm Beach, Orange Park, Derby Lane, Bluffs Run and Tri ...
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Top Twenty Harness Drivers of 2013 Part 1
It seems like a simple question: Who are the top twenty harness drivers of 2013? But if you think about it, that means different things depending on who is asking it. I can give you the top twenty drivers by wins, the top twenty by UDR or the top twe ...
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Fair Grounds Black Gold Pick-5 Jackpot Thursday, February, 28, 2013 Carryover: $147,971
Please Check All Program Numbers Before Wagering First post at Fair Grounds on Thursday is 2:00 ET with the Pick-5 scheduled to break from the gate at 3:58. $0.50 Pick-5 Ticket (Race #5) ALL (Race #6) 3,6 (Race #7) 3,4,11 (Race #8) 3,6,9 (Race #9) ...
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Pletcher and the Derby: Better than most think
The only thing more fashionable than Todd Pletcher's charcoal gray suits on race day is bashing the five-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer's Kentucky Derby record . Admittedly, 1-for-31 isn't the most impressive stat, but it's also an unfair ...
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Race Preview: Sensational Star Stakes - Santa Anita, February 24, 2013
There is a pick-6 carryover on Sunday at Santa Anita of $100,001 with the feature race, the Sensational Star. A field of eight will line up for the turf sprint down the hill and contention runs deep.
The morning line favorite for the race is Cir ...
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Sun, 2013-02-24 09:16
2012 National Handicapping Championship winner and TwinSpires.com VIP Michael Beycho k takes Las Vegas by storm (again!) this week as he competes in the Ho rse Player World Series at the Orleans Casino . Beychok, whose handicapping exploit ...
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Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes for Feb 24, 2013
The winners from our exclusive H2W series continue to spark our best weekly action. Lebanon Raceway was added this week, delivering two of the 14 winners listed.
Feature-wise we were second at the Meadowlands with Yo Cheyenne R ...
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Race Preview: Turf Maiden Special Weight - Gulfstream Park, February 23, 2013
One of the best betting races on the Saturday card at Gulfstream Park is the last race, a full field of three-year-old maiden special weight runners going one mile on the turf. Of the 12 runners in the field, only two are greater than 12-1 on the mo ...
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In the hunt and engaging end game strategy
2012 National Handicapping Championship winner and TwinSpires.com VIP Michael Beycho k takes Las Vegas by storm (again!) this week as he competes in the Ho rse Player World Series at the Orleans Casino . Beychok, whose handicapping exploit ...
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Final Round of the $50K James W Paul Derby at Palm Beach Saturday Afternoon February 23, 2013
Final Round of the $50K James W Paul Derby
Race 12 will be the final round and determine the winner of this route series. #3 Verdun is the morning line favorite at 3-1. Last round's favorite, #2 WWK Payless Shoes is listed at 9-2 as are #5 TK ...
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Your Insight: Valentine's Day Surprise
In last week’s newsletter offer we asked you to tell us how you thought your significant other might react to a surprise Valentine’s Day at the track. And if you didn’t have a particular Valentine this year, we asked you to think of the most outrageo ...
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The Player’s Edge – February 22, 2013: Fair Grounds and Gulfstream Park
photo: Matt Carter
Fair Grounds - Risen Star Stakes
Gulfstream Park - Fountain of Youth
Fair Grounds - Fair Grounds Handicap
Gulfstream Park – Canadian Turf Handicap
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Coulda Shoulda Woulda has no place in Winning Contest Psychology
2012 National Handicapping Championship winner and TwinSpires.com VIP Michael Beycho k takes Las Vegas by storm (again!) this week as he competes in the Ho rse Player World Series at the Orleans Casino . Beychok, whose handicapping exploit ...
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Win $1 Million Betting to Show
Note: If two or more horses were tied for the same position, their rankings were averaged. For example, if two horses tied for the top spot in a particular category, each was assigned a ranking of 1 ½ (average of positions 1 and 2); if three horse ...
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Pick- 6 Preview: Santa Anita $113,777 Carryover – February 21, 2013
It’s pick-6 carryover time at Santa Anita with a pool that will start at almost $114,000. The sequence on Thursday starts in race three, a maiden special weight on the downhill turf course.
A field of nine Californa-breds will line up to kick off ...
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Hot On The Tracks
The winter chill continues as February winds down but at the harness tracks of North America we remain fiery with winter winners and red-hot contenders. Riding that wave, we go into the final week of February with more great expectations for the hors ...
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Road To the Derby $1-million Showdown
Look, I'm not going to sit here and tell you how easy it is to win $1-million playing TwinSpires.com's $1-million Road to the Derby Showdown . Sure, the show wager is the easiest bet to hit when playing the races, but 20 in a row on races we pi ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 02/20 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio
TwinSpires' Derek Simon discusses the Triple Crown trail with Ed DeRosa of brisnet.com and longshot handicapping with Dave Schwartz of thehorsehandicappingauthority.com . He also gives his opinion on the book "Overlay Handicapping" and details t ...
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Beychok sets sights on 2nd major
2012 National Handicapping Championship winner and TwinSpires.com VIP Michael Beycho k takes Las Vegas by storm (again!) this week as he competes in the Ho rse Player World Series at the Orleans Casino . Beychok, whose handicapping exploit ...
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$10K Joe Ryan Jr. Memorial Sprint at Mardi Gras on Friday Evening February 22nd
World Classic champion, Kiowa Producer and Cry Concho, who chased him to the wire for second will face off again in the Joe Ryan Jr. Memorial Sprint at Mardi Gras this Friday evening, February 22nd. With Siturockindaboat in the 1 box, Kiowa Producer ...
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Harness Handicapping: Driver Changes, Scratches and Odds
One of the things I like about the harness races is that they don't usually have as many scratches as there are at the
thoroughbred races. They do have them though. Once in a while, a horse comes up lame or a trainer reads the
condition book and re ...
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Greyhound Handicapping: Winning Is Worth Waiting For
I start my day by reading greyhound programs. I look at the tracks that are running and scan the names of the greyhounds in every race. I have a list of greyhounds to watch and if I see a dog that's on it, I handicap that dog in that race. It takes a ...
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Harness Update--Buffalo Pick-4 bonus watch
Here is a harness blog update, with our choices for the TwinSpires 10-percent bonus for Buffalo Raceway’s Wednesday Pick 4 on Feb. 20. This is not a ticket combo, per se, just suggested contenders that may offer value to whatever ticket you create. ...
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Race Preview: Southwest Stakes – Oaklawn Park, February 18, 2013
The feature race on Monday, President’s Day, at Oaklawn Park is the 48 th running of the Grade 3 Southwest for three-year-olds who are looking to be running in Kentucky on the first Saturday in May. This year’s race drew a field of 10 with trainer ...
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Weekend Stakes Results for Meadowlands Harness
Something For Doc Leaves It Til Late to Win the Open Handicap at Yonkers For three-quarters of Saturday night's Yonkers $35K Open Handicap, Matt Kakaley and Something For Doc were just chillin' at the rail. They watched, seemingly unconcerned, w ...
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Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes
The winners from our exclusive H2W series continue to spark our best weekly action. Feature-wise we took on the Junior Trendsetter leg divisions on Feb. 15 and the Exit 16W splits on Feb. 16 at the New Meadowlands. In the former, we were second ...
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Race Preview: Sweet Life Stakes - Santa Anita, February 16, 2013
While the feature race on Saturday at Santa Anita is the Grade 2 Santa Maria, one of the better betting races on the card is the supporting stakes, the Sweet Life. The down hill turf sprint drew a field of nine led by morning line favorite, Jubilant ...
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Laurel Park, Santa Anita, Golden Gate & Gulfstream Park
Laurel Park – Barbara Fritchie Handicap Santa Anita – Santa Maria Stakes Golden Gate Fields – El Camino Real Derby Gulfstream Park – Mac Diarmida Stakes Laurel Park – Barbara Fritchie Handicap
Nicole H Looks to Rebound ...
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Animal Kingdom: To Move or Not to Move?
(Click on image to enlarge) (Click on image to enlarge) FREE Weekend Win Factor Reports Saturday (02/16/13) Aqueduct (AQU) Beulah Park (BEU) Gulfstream Park (GP) ...
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Gulfstream Thursday February 14
The Rainbow^6 carries on at Gulfstream, and so, too, does my attempt to hit a Pick 4 at this meeting. Did OK yesterday if you ignore the fact that both my "had to win" singles lost. Definitely a loser on the day, but a couple spot exacta pla ...
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Pacing Past Punxsutawney
If that rascally rodent is correct and the winter is going to surrender a few weeks, then regardless of storms still forecast to sweep through the northeast, spring is just around the corner. Last week, again, the New Meadowlands cancelled a progra ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 02/13 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio
H. Graham Motion , trainer of Animal Kingdom, drops by to discuss his career and the future plans for the 2011 Kentucky Derby champ. TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 02/13 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog ...
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Gulfstream Wednesday February 13
There is a $2.1-million Rainbow^6 carryover , but I'm passing on that bet in favor of the Pick 5 and late Pick 4 hinging on the winning performances of singles in races 6 and 10. Yes, both Core Inflation in race 6 and Diamondesque in race 10 are li ...
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Pick-6 Preview: Gulfstream Park Rainbow Pick-6 Carryover – February 13, 2013
The pool size of the Rainbow 6 at Gulfstream Park is at a point where it makes sense to play, even if you are not the only ticket. Last week the payouts for the 10-cent wager were $111,535, $4,429, $3,521, $1,590 and $18,246. The pool on Wednesday ...
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Harness Handicapping is More Than Picking a Good Driver
Although I usually play the races at home, online, once in a while, I meet my friend, Ed, at the harness track or OTB. He's a confirmed player of The Meadows, a Red Sox fan and not afraid to voice his opinion on anything, especially a driver's lack o ...
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Greyhound Handicapping For the Future
One thing that some people forget about greyhounds, is that they run about once a week. So, if you go to the dog track often, you're going to see the same dogs, over and over again. This can really help your handicapping if you take advantage of it. ...
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Round 3 of the $50K James W Paul 3/8ths Derby at Palm Beach Wednesday February 13, 2013
Can WWK Paylessshoes stay undefeated in this series? We'll find out in the 15th race on Wednesday afternoon when he faces 7 opponents in the 15th race at Palm Beach Kennel Club. Before that race though, there are three other races in the third round ...
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Calumet Farms Trophy Collection: Kentucky Horse Park
Calumet Farm dominated horse racing during the first half of the 20th century and produced some of the greatest Thoroughbred horses of all time. Calumet bred and raced horses which include two Triple Crown winners, Citation and Whirlaway, and in tot ...
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The race I most want to see & Derby futures
Fun conversation today... what racing is all about. Imagine if superstars like PoE & AK butted heads every week? — Ed DeRosa (@EJXD2) February 9, 2013 Not since Rachel Alexandra-Zenyatta have two horses ignited conversation like the way Poi ...
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Blizzard Doesn't Slow Down the Harness Horses at the Meadowlands
It takes more than a foot of snow to stop a Standardbred. Exit 61W and the roads leading to it were heavily sanded and ready for the fans who braved the cold and snow to watch the series named after the Meadowlands exit. From what I saw, watching at ...
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Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes
I don’t recall when the powers-that-be in meteorology began naming winter storms (I thought names were only for hurricanes) but a fierce blizzard given the name Nemo knocked out power on and off racetracks in the northeast this past weekend. Y ...
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Race Preview: Suwannee River Stakes - Gulfstream Park, February 9, 2013
The only stake race on Saturday at Gulfstream Park we haven't looked at is the Grade 3 Suwannee River for fillies and mares. The nine furlong race drew a field of eight with four graded stake winners.
Leading Astray won the Grade 3 Pucker Up at ...
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Pick 6 Preview: Santa Anita $47,834 Carryover – February 8, 2013
The pick-6 at Santa Anita proved too tough for bettors on Thursday so on Friday there will be a carryover of over $47,000. The sequence stars in race three, a claiming race for four-year-old fillies at one mile on the turf.
Funny Belle is the 5-2 ...
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The Player’s Edge – February 8, 2013: Gulfstream Park & Santa Anita
Gulfstream Park – Turf Handicap
Gulfstream Park – Donn Handicap
Gulfstream Park – Sprint Championship
Santa Anita – San Marcos Stakes
Gulfstream Park – Turf Handicap
Grade 1 Turf Horses
A great card this Saturd ...
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Your Insight: Best Horse Related Book
In last week’s newsletter offer we asked you to tell us which horse related book you would recommend the most. There wasn’t a clear overwhelming favorite amongst your responses, but you wrote several responses that went above and beyond passionate… ...
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Greatness at Gulfstream
(Click on image to enlarge) Kentucky Derby Future Pool #1 This weekend, one of my favorite bets is back. The Kentucky Derby Future Wager (Pool 1), which runs from Feb. 8-10, provides insightful gamblers with the o ...
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The Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool One Feb 8-10
The Kentucky Derby Future Wager: Dates for the pools for the Kentucky Derby Future Wager are:
• Pool 1 - Feb. 8-10 (12 weeks in advance of Derby)
• Pool 2 - March 1-3 (9 weeks in advance of Derby)
• Pool 3 - March 22-24 (6 weeks in advance of ...
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Profit Targets
Some minor stakes-series action continues at the New Meadowlands this weekend. Other than that, we are scouting the overnights around North America for value plays. Also, this weekend, TwinSpires once again offers 10-percent bonuses on Pick-4 hits, ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 02/06 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio
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Finding value in pool 1 of Kentucky Derby future wager
My strategy in recent future wagers has been to play horses in the 20-to-50-to-1 range that I thought had a good chance of making the gate and showed talent enough to win it. It's a grind having many units tied up for months, but it paid off last yea ...
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Meadowlands Harness Stakes Start With Singer Memorial on Thursday February 7, 2013
Charles Singer Series for 4 YO trotters Round 1 at Meadowlands on Thursday February 7, 2013 Windsun Galliano, in Race 2, winner of the Meadowlands Super Bowl in January and Helios, in Race 4, the runner up
in the Super Bowl, are two of the trotte ...
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Greyhound Handicapping: Don't Lose by a Length
There's an old saying, "Little things mean a lot." This is certainly true in greyhound handicapping. How many times have you had your dog lose by a nose? That's not much of a difference, or much of a distance, but it means everything when you've onl ...
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Don't Burn Your Money Here
There's a lot of information to consider when you handicap a harness program. We all have our different techniques, but we probably all look at some of the same things. Speed, times - both final and fractional, post position, driver and trainer stats ...
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$50,000 James W. Paul 3/8ths Derby - Round 1 at Palm Beach Kennel Club Wednesday Afternoon February 6, 2013
Races 4, 6, 8, 10, 14 and 15 will feature the first round entrants in this series. With quite a few of the runners switching from sprints to routes, there may be some surprises in these races. Nothing perks up a route runner like a few sprints. Many ...
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Kentucky Derby 2013: Ranking by Points, First Look – February 5, 2013
In years past the starting gate for the Kentucky Derby has been filled with 20 three-year-olds determined by the amount of money earned in graded stake races. This year; however, Churchill Downs has gone to a point system with points given to horses ...
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Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes
A banner weekend for our horses to watch list (H2W) includes carpet-bombing cashing at the Meadows and a more-than-usual list of double-digit winners from other tracks that also contributed to some mighty exotic prices. The weather agreed wit ...
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The Long and Winding Road
(Click on image to enlarge) 1. I distrust trainer Todd Pletcher with horses coming off of great efforts; and Revolutionary’s last race was just that, as he recorded a lifetime-best 103 Brisnet speed figure (today’s par ...
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The Player’s Edge – February 1, 2013: Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita & Tampa Bay Downs
photo: Matt Carter
Gulfstream Park – Hutcheson Stakes
Santa Anita – Arcadia Stakes
Santa Anita – Strub Stakes
Tampa Bay Downs – Sam F. Davis Stakes
Gulfstream Park – Hutcheso ...
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Pick-6 Preview: Gulfstream Park - $1,007,646 Rainbow Carryover – February 1, 2013
Once again there were no single winning tickets in the Rainbow Pick-6 at Gulfstream Park so the carryover for the Friday card will be just over $1-million. The sequence looks like it could pay out as there are a total of, with scratches, 63 horses. ...
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Weekend Stakes at Mardis Gras and Orange Park, Friday and Saturday February 1st and 2nd, 2013
Second Round of the $75,000 World Classic at Mardis Gras on Friday Afternoon February 1, 2013. The exciting series continues on Friday afternoon's card. Some of the highlights - WW's Wild West in the 4th with two impressive wins, up against the l ...
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