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The 53rd Kentucky Futurity Headlines Star-Studded Sunday Stakes Program At Red Mile
Here is our special addendum TwinSpires harness blog with our examination of the major races at The Red Mile on Sunday, Oct. 7, the last program of the Grand Circuit meet in Kentucky.
ALLERAGE RAVE ON
The women pacers an ...
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Keeneland Spot Plays for Sunday, October 7
Keeneland (c) Coady Photography
by Dick Powell
Keeneland ’s Sunday 10-race card can get off to a good start in RACE 1.
Portal (#2) (9-2) looked like he might have a future last year when he broke his maiden going two turns on the dirt ...
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Key horses for Keeneland’s Sunday program
Keeneland (c) Coady Photography
by Scott Shapiro
The first weekend of the Keeneland fall meeting concludes on Sunday with a 10-race card headlined by three “Win & You’re In” Breeders’ Cup races .
Here are a few horses I will build ...
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Scully: Stakes selections at Keeneland Saturday
It’s a blockbuster Saturday card at Keeneland with five graded stakes races, none with less than 10 horses entered. Mike Smith ranks 11 th all-time in stakes wins at the Lexington, Kentucky venue and I’ll lean on “Big Money” more than once this afte ...
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Thoughts on the All-Stakes Pick 5 at Keeneland
Saturday's All-Stakes Pick 5 at Keeneland is seemingly as tough and competitive a sequence as you'll find anywhere. We'll sprinkle some longer shots in among logical contenders in several of the races.
Race 6 -- Woodford (G2)
#10 WILL CALL ( ...
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How to bet the Frizette Stakes
Covfefe takes her maiden debut at Churchill Downs (c) Coady Photography
Eight two-year-old fillies will vie in Sunday’s $400,000 Frizette Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park . The “Win & You’re In” Challenge series affair offers a Breeders’ Cu ...
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How to bet the First Lady
A Raving Beauty captures the Just a Game Stakes (G1) (c) NYRA/Viola Jasko/Adam Coglianese Photography
by Dick Powell
The $400,000 First Lady Stakes (G1) will be run at one mile on the turf at Keeneland this Saturday. With an automatic b ...
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How to bet the Flower Bowl
Holy Helena wins the Sheepshead Bay (G2) (c) NYRA/Adam Coglianese Photography
Seven fillies and mares will travel 1 1/4 miles on the inner turf course at Belmont Park in Sunday's $500,000 Flower Bowl Stakes (G1) . The winner of the affai ...
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How to bet the Spinster Stakes
Blue Prize (right) just outgames Champagne Problems (left) in the Locust Grove (c) Churchill Downs/Coady Photography
A field of 11 will go postward at Keeneland on Sunday to contest the $500,000 Spinster Stakes (G1) . The Breeders’ Cup “Win ...
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How to bet Saturday’s All-Stakes Pick 4 at Keeneland
Vertical Oak wins the Open Mind Stakes (c) Churchill Downs/Coady Photography
by Scott Shapiro
The first Saturday of the Keeneland fall meeting offers horseplayers a loaded 11-race card headlined by a $350,000 guaranteed Pick 4 comprised o ...
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Rhododendron Seeks Repeat Win in Prix de l'Opera Longines
Fans of international horse racing are well aware that the first Sunday in October is the date of the much-anticipated Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Fr-I) at Longchamp, the most prestigious race in Europe and—perhaps—the entire world.
The Arc is a gr ...
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Scully: Keeneland opening-day plays
The sprint division has plenty of heavy-hitters and three of them will be contesting today’s Phoenix (G2) on the opening-day program at Keeneland. I take nothing away from Promises Fulfilled and Limousine Liberal, but Whitmore (#2) is a strong pl ...
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Harrington and Rosecroft offer freshmen finals
Harness racing enthusiasts often dread midweek cards, but this past Wednesday both Harrington Raceway and Rosecroft Raceway offered a quartet of lucrative stakes finals for two-year-olds of both gaits and genders that would serve as a genuine break f ...
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Breeders’ Cup Classic and Turf Future Wagers on tap this weekend
The second and final Breeders’ Cup Classic Future Wager will be held this weekend while the lone Breeders’ Cup Turf Future Wager is also on the slate.
Both wagers open Friday at noon (ET) and conclude on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. (ET).
FREE Brisnet ...
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Covfefe Makes Stakes Debut in Frizette Stakes
There are some pretty good fillies entered in Sunday’s $400,000 Frizette Stakes (gr. I) at Belmont Park . That’s not surprising with a “ Win and You’re In ” berth to the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I) available, along with 17 q ...
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Chad Brown Holds Strong Hand in Flower Bowl Stakes
Ten furlongs on turf? At Belmont Park ? For fillies and mares?
Those are the conditions of Sunday’s $500,000 Flower Bowl Stakes (gr. I) , and if the race seems tailor-made for the deep stable of female turf stars trained by Chad Brown, then it s ...
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Keeneland Spot Plays for Saturday, October 6
by Dick Powell
Keeneland has an 11-race card on Saturday that is chock full of betting opportunities. The 50-cent Pick 5 wagering begins in RACE 1 and we will try to start our day right.
RACE 1
IPANEMA BEACH (#1) (5-2) is still a maid ...
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Keeler Johnson's Picks and Plays for Keeneland Opening Weekend
Get ready, everyone! The much-anticipated Keeneland fall meet kicks off on Friday, and opening weekend is packed with top-class stakes races featuring some of the best horses in the country.
With high-class competition, large fields, and low-t ...
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How to bet opening day of the 2018 Keeneland fall meet
by Scott Shapiro
Opening day of the fall Keeneland meeting is upon us and that means a juicy 10-race card to get things rolling in Lexington, Kentucky.
There are a number of attractive wagering opportunities spread over the Friday slate, but ...
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Eskimo Kisses, Blue Prize Among Big Names in Keeneland's Spinster Stakes
There’s a good chance that when the dust settles after Sunday’s $500,000 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes (gr. I) at Keeneland , a new Grade 1 winner will have been crowned.
The 1 1/8-mile race has attracted a deep, competitive field of eleven filli ...
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Betting Longshot Signalman in the Breeders' Futurity
What do you do when faced with handicapping a full field of fourteen lightly-raced two-year-olds, the majority of them stretching out around two turns for the first time?
Well, pretty much the best you can do is analyze the field, pick a few horse ...
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The Red Mile Blazes With Classic Stakes Featuring Divisions’ Stars With Action For Profit-Hunters On Final Weekend
The Grand Circuit’s penultimate weekend of stakes before the best of the best head for the Pocono Mountains is the focus of some traditional late-season stakes involving all major divisions at the Red Mile. The action includes the classic K ...
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Endorsed, Trophy Chaser Look Live in Deep Champagne Stakes
Some of the most promising two-year-olds on the East Coast are set to face off in Saturday’s $500,000 Champagne Stakes (gr. I) at Belmont Park, a “ Win and You’re In ” qualifier for the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) that also figures t ...
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Why I'm Betting Analyze It in the Shadwell Turf Mile
Generally speaking, large fields with a half-dozen or more viable win contenders are the best betting events in the sport of horse racing, and if you cash an exotic wager like the trifecta or superfecta in such a competitive race, your reward will b ...
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Keeler Johnson's Breeders' Cup Distaff Top 10: Setbacks for the Favorites
The disqualification of Monomoy Girl. The no-show effort from Abel Tasman. The season-ending injury to Elate.
Suffice to say, the top contenders for the November 3rd Breeders’ Cup Distaff (gr. I) at Churchill Downs have had some setbacks in re ...
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Frosh-Colt Trotters Aim For Pocono, Eye Soph Season On The Hambletonian Trail In Red Mile International Stallion Stakes
Here are the races for week eight of the 2018 Breeders Crown Countdown (BCC), the exclusive blog that coordinates with our weekly harness blog at TwinSpires.com and the Hambletonian Society to find great wagering opportunities for "Crow ...
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Breeders Crown Top Fives
(NE) = Not Eligible – can Supplement
Oct. 4—Oct. 11
TWO-YEAR OLD COLT TROT (no change)
1. GIMPANZEE
2. GREEN MANALISHI S
3. DON’T LET’EM
4. GREENSHOE
5. GERRY
TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY TROT (no chang ...
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Shapiro discovers these factors in search for Keeneland Fall Meet biases
Keeneland betting stategies for the Fall Stars meet
by Scott Shapiro
October means the start of the Keeneland Fall Meeting, and this year’s 17-day stand begins Friday, Oct. 5, and concludes Saturday, Oct. 27.
Before the summer boutique mee ...
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Restless Rider Faces Full Field in Keeneland's Alcibiades Stakes
Just as the Saratoga and Del Mar race meets are synonymous with summer in the sport of horse racing, Keeneland ’s annual October race meet is synonymous with the arrival of fall.
This year’s much-anticipated fall meet kicks off on October 6th, an ...
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Handicapping Insights: Jockey Club Gold Cup
By Dick Powell
In the 1978 Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1), Triple Crown winners Affirmed and Seattle Slew met for the second time, the second time such a meeting had ever occurred. The first came earlier in the fall in the Marlboro Cup (G1) at nine fu ...
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Harrington and Rosecroft host lucrative freshmen finals on Wednesday
While many harness racing enthusiasts are accustomed to seeing the sport's best trotters and pacers compete on weekends, a pair of tracks in adjacent states in the Mid-Atlantic Region will offer a twist in that usual array when both Harrington Racewa ...
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Bellafina Completes Rare Sweep in Chandelier Stakes
If there’s one thing you can knock about Bellafina’s performance, it’s that she did not finish particularly fast, coming home the fourth quarter-mile in :26.36 and the final sixteenth in :07.12 to record a final time of just 1:44.59 for 8.5 furlongs, ...
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Lexington and Rosecroft offer solid Sunday cards
While many National Football League fans were glued to the television sets on Sunday afternoon, harness racing enthusiasts made their plans to focus on the stakes-filled card at Lexington's famed Red Mile and at Rosecroft Raceway later for a solid ov ...
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Breeders’ Cup Championship Saturday Favorites Predictions
With some prep races still to be run, I thought it might be a good idea to make my predictions for Breeders' Cup Championship Saturday. As opposed to last year, the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships has decided to run all juvenile races, ...
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Breeders' Cup Distaff Top 5 Final Rankings
Because we're only a month out from the 2018 Breeders' Cup, I thought it important to publish my final Breeders' Cup Distaff Top 5 Rankings. As to be expected, I've got Abel Tasman and Elate in the top couple of spots. Also as to be expected, Monomoy ...
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2018 Breeders' Cup Classic Final Top 5 Rankings
The most important prep races for the 2018 Breeders' Cup Classic are in the books. I figured it's a good idea to offer up a final Breeders' Cup Classic Top 5 before we head into October. Like everyone else, my BC Classic Top 5 starts with California ...
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Breeders’ Cup Future Stars Friday Favorites Predictions
This year's Breeders' Cup Friday is all about the 2-year-olds. Dubbed Breeders' Cup Future Stars Friday, the Breeders' Cup races on Nov. 2 showcases plenty of talented 2-year-olds who could end up top 3-year-olds next year. Check out my predictions f ...
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Red Mile Grand Circuit Week One Is Flowing With Bluegrass Stakes, Sprinkled With Easy-Pick Choices
The Red Mile opened its first week featuring harness racing’s Roarin’ Grand and we were on top of their trademark Bluegrass Stakes on the first three programs.
Here’s how our featured events played out:
Thursday, Sept. 27
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Red Mile and Yonkers offer solid Saturday cards
Harness racing enthusiasts had the chance to kick off the weekend a little early when Dayton Raceway hosted a pair of $150,000 events for older trotters and pacers and then Yonkers and Lexington kept the action going on Saturday with competitive card ...
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Downs After Dark All-Stakes Pick 3 Play
C Z Rocket wins the Kelly's Landing Stakes (c) Churchill Downs/Coady Photography
The Lukas Classic (G3) and Ack Ack (G3) have Breeders’ Cup implications and the Jefferson Cup kicks off the stakes action on today’s Downs After Dark program at ...
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Shapiro’s Late Pick 4 analysis for Breeders’ Cup Challenge Day at Santa Anita
Accelerate wins the Pacific Classic (G1) at Del Mar (c) Benoit Photos
by Scott Shapiro
A quartet of “Win & You’re In” events headline a massive day of racing on Breeders’ Cup Challenge Day at Santa Anita Park .
The American Pharoa ...
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How to bet the Belmont Super Saturday stakes
Imperial Hint wins the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes (G1) at Saratoga (c) NYRA/Elsa Lorieul/Adam Coglianese Photography
by Scott Shapiro
A trio of “Win & You’re In” Breeders’ Cup races headline an 11-race card at Belmont Park on Super ...
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Stakes action kicks off at Dayton on Friday night
Harness racing fans may have to wait another month until the Breeders Crown races at Pocono Downs on October 27, but this weekend many of the horses seeking to cap their campaign with a win that coveted score will be in action this weekend at Dayton ...
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How to bet the Zenyatta
Abel Tasman (inside) wins the Personal Ensign (G1) at Saratoga (c) NYRA/Adam Coglianese Photography
by Dick Powell
A field of six fillies and mares will take the main track at Santa Anita Park on Sunday for the 1 1/16-mile Zenyatta Stakes ...
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How to Bet the American Pharoah
Saturday’s $300,000 American Pharoah (G1) honors the 2015 Triple Crown winner, who captured the same race when it was known as the FrontRunner Stakes in 2014. A short field of five has been entered for the second of 35 races in the Road to the Kentuc ...
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How to bet the Awesome Again
Two standouts on class, kin to a Triple Crown winner, and some additional filler comprise the six-horse field for Saturday's $300,000 Awesome Again (G1) at Santa Anita, a 1 1/8-mile "Win & You're In" Breeders' Cup Challenge prep for the Nove ...
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Abel Tasman Stands Out in Zenyatta Stakes
In this day and age, with an increasing number of top-class horses skipping the final round of Breeders’ Cup prep races in favor of training up to the championship, it’s encouraging to see the highly accomplished Abel Tasman among the six fillies ...
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How to bet the Vosburgh
Imperial Hint wins the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes (G1) at Saratoga (c) NYRA/Elsa Lorieul/Adam Coglianese Photography
by Dick Powell
Saturday’s Vosburgh Stakes (G1) has attracted IMPERIAL HINT (#6) (1-5) and six others going six furlo ...
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How to bet the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic
Robert Bruce prevails in the Arlington Million (G1) (c) Jamie Newell/Horsephotos.com
Eight turf stayers will contest the $500,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic (G1) at Belmont Park on Saturday, with an entry in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) awaiti ...
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Betting the stakes action on Churchill’s ‘Downs After Dark’ Saturday card
"Downs After Dark" at Churchill Downs (c) Coady Photography
by Scott Shapiro
The lone September “Downs After Dark” card at legendary Churchill Downs on Saturday night includes three Thoroughbred stakes events over the strong 11-race slate ...
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Will Someone Upset Bellafina in the Chandelier Stakes?
If you have a strong opinion on who will win Saturday’s $300,000 Chandelier Stakes (gr. I) at Santa Anita , feel free to let me know, because in my opinion you can make a reasonably strong case for every filly in this field!
That’s not to say t ...
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How to bet the Jockey Club Gold Cup
Diversify wins the Whitney Handicap (G1) (c) NYRA/Adam Coglianese Photography
A fascinating field of eight will go 1 1/4 miles in Saturday’s $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) at Belmont Park . The octet features the defending champ as well a ...
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How to bet the Rodeo Drive
Vasilika captures the John C. Mabee Stakes (G2) at Del Mar (c) Benoit Photo
by Dick Powell
A field of eight goes to the gate in the Rodeo Drive Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita Park on Saturday. For fillies and mares, the Rodeo Drive is run a ...
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Royal Lodge Stakes Could Have Breeders' Cup, Kentucky Derby Implications
Whether you’re interested in the Breeders’ Cup, the Kentucky Derby, the 2019 European classics, or all of these combined, you absolutely won’t want to miss Saturday’s Juddmonte Royal Lodge Stakes (Eng-II) at Newmarket in England.
Won in the last ...
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Vasilika, Cambodia Meet Again in Rodeo Drive Stakes
Every year, the $300,000 Rodeo Drive Stakes (gr. I) at Santa Anita serves as the West Coast’s major prep race for the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. I) , and this year is no exception, with the 1 ¼-mile race pitting some of the best ...
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Autumn In Kentucky—The Red Mile Hosts Grand Circuit With Fields Of Bluegrass, Waves Of Betting Opportunities
Autumn arrives on time, as do the top standardbreds in all divisions to Lexington, Kentucky, where the “Roarin’ Rollin’ Grand Circuit” meet settles for two full weeks. All the big name horsemen and horses stop here en route to the championships, this ...
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Accelerate vs. West Coast in the Awesome Again: Who Will Prevail?
There might be six horses entered in the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes (gr. I) on Saturday at Santa Anita , but from all appearances, the race is shaping up to be more of a match race between #5 West Coast and #6 Accelerate .
On paper, these ...
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Game Winner, Rowayton Face Off Again in American Pharoah Stakes
The field for Saturday’s $300,000 American Pharoah Stakes (gr. I) at Santa Anita might be lacking in quantity, but it’s certainly not lacking in quality!
Five promising two-year-old have been entered in the 8.5-furlong “ Win and You’re In ” pr ...
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Why I'm Betting Robert Bruce in the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic
There are plenty of talented horses entered in Saturday’s $500,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic (gr. I) at Belmont Park —five Grade 1 winners, a Canadian classic winner, a Grade 1-placed runner, and a European invader.
Still, I find it hard to look ...
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Quintet Of Simpson Stakes For Frosh Fillies Storm Philly With Last-Chances For Fame In October
Here are the races for week seven of the 2018 Breeders Crown Countdown (BCC), the exclusive blog that coordinates with our weekly harness blog at TwinSpires.com and the Hambletonian Society to find great wagering opportunities for "Crow ...
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Up, Down, Steady: A look at the prospective Breeders' Cup Classic field
One month has passed since the first pool of the Breeders' Cup Classic Future Wager , and there have been some crucial developments with more to come in advance of the second pool on October 5-7 .
In the intervening four weeks of observation, ...
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Breeders Crown Top Fives
(NE) = Not Eligible – can Supplement
Sept. 27—Oct. 4
TWO-YEAR OLD COLT TROT
1. GIMPANZEE (Last Week: 2)
2. GREEN MANALISHI S (Last Week: 1)
3. DON’T LET’EM (Last Week: 1)
4. GREENSHOE
5. GERRY
TWO-Y ...
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Handicapping Insights: Stewards got it right
By Dick Powell
Does it count when the stewards get it right using the wrong process? Saturday’s $1 million Cotillion Stakes (G1) for 3yo fillies was a perfect example of the stewards eventually making the correct call but if it was up to them, th ...
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Older and younger horses on display
One week after hosting the $150,000 Bobby Quillen Memorial Invitational for Free-For-All pacers, Harrington Raceway offered a solid card on Monday evening one night after Rosecroft Raceway hosted a good blend of overnight races as well to cap off a w ...
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Keeler Johnson's Breeders' Cup Classic Top 10: Yoshida Enters the Picture
A lot has changed since I posted my last Top 10 ranking of contenders for the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) at Churchill Downs .
Major races like the Travers Stakes, Woodward Stakes, and Pennsylvania Derby have significantly influe ...
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‘Jug’ Win A Perfect Forecast With Courtly Choice; Ohio Fair Topped With $48 Winner; Best NYSS-Champ Offered Pays $42
The Little Brown Jug was an exclusive success for TwinSpires harness bettors as we backed, with strong conviction, the best glamour-boy pacer of this season—Courtly Choice. The report is below, along with the numerous successes and failures during an ...
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Racing fans will have ample action day and night
Thoroughbred and harness racing fans will have plenty of stakes action to watch throughout the day and evening on Saturday as Laurel Park, Charles Town, Mohawk Park and Yonkers Raceway all offer stakes-filled cards that should keep onlookers captivat ...
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Powell’s Spot Plays at Parx Racing on Penn Derby Day
by Dick Powell
The temptation on a day like Saturday at Parx Racing, where they will have a bunch of big-money races, is to play them and ignore early opportunities. Yes, the Pennsylvania Derby (G1) and Cotillon Stakes (G1) have $1 million pu ...
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How to bet the Kelso Stakes
Battle of Midway (c) Benoit Photo
The $300,000 Kelso Handicap (G2) at Belmont Park on Saturday will see seven go postward in the one-turn mile feature. And a logical case could be made for any horse in the field.
BATTLE OF MIDWAY (#1) (2 ...
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How to bet the Dogwood Stakes
Churchill Downs (c) Churchill Downs/Coady Photography
A field of 11 sophomore fillies will vie in the $100,000 Dogwood Stakes at Churchill Downs on Saturday. And it looks like an excellent betting opportunity with little separation in the cast ...
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Courtly Choice wins Little Brown Jug
Much of the drama surrounding the latest edition of the Grade I, $600,000 Little Brown Jug for three-year-old pacing colts at the Delaware, Ohio Fairgrounds on Thursday afternoon ended two hours before the $400,000 final of harness racing's third Tri ...
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Mott duo poised to strike at Parx Racing
Hofburg winning the Curlin Stakes at Saratoga (c) NYRA/Chelsea Durand/Adam Coglianese Photography
The biggest day of racing on the Parx Racing calendar is Saturday. The $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G1) and $1 million Cotillion Stakes (G1) ...
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Little Brown Jug, New York Champs, Hoosier Harness Hoedown, Hawthorne Supernight; Mohawk Metro And More
Beginning our coverage with Thursday, Sept. 20 is The Little Brown Jug, as well as “Jug” day stakes. The following days of coverage are loaded with more feature events than usual as many super races converge on a few days. Sparing space, just scroll ...
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Breeders Crown Top Fives
(NE) = Not Eligible – can Supplement
Sept. 20—Sept. 27
TWO-YEAR OLD COLT TROT
1. GREEN MANALISHI S (Last Week: 2)
2. GIMPANZEE
3. DON’T LET’EM (Last Week: 1)
4. GREENSHOE
4. GERRY
TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY ...
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Charles Town Oaks the Highlight of Seven-Stakes Card at Charles Town
With seven stakes races on the agenda, the Saturday card at Charles Town is shaping up to be a memorable day of racing with large fields and some very talented horses in action.
Let’s take a quick look at all the action…. Race 5: West Virgi ...
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How to bet the 2018 Cotillion Stakes
Monomoy Girl (c) Jamie Newell/Horsephotos.com
Will Saturday's $1 million Cotillion (G1) at Parx for three-year-old fillies produce another coronation for divisional leader Monomoy Girl or is an upset possible?
That's the immediate questi ...
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Who Are the Top Contenders for the 2018 Breeders' Cup Classic?
In recent years, the Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) has not been the most competitive race from a handicapping perspective, turning instead into a showcase showdown between two star runners (Arrogate and California Chrome in 2016, Gun Runner and ...
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Keeler Johnson's Breeders' Cup Turf Top 10: Sorting Out the Euros
Getting an early start handicapping the Breeders’ Cup Turf (gr. I) is always a challenge, since European runners tend to have the advantage, but determining which ones might make the trip is easier said than done.
That said, with less than seven w ...
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Kentucky Derby Contender Profile: Cairo Cat
Kentucky Derby dreams can begin anywhere, anytime. If not for a rainy day at Saratoga, it’s very possible that Cairo Cat would never have emerged as the early leader on the list of qualifiers for the 2019 Kentucky Derby .
Suffice to say, Cair ...
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Historic Buckette And Jugette Stakes Test Sophomore Filly Pacers And Trotters At Delaware, Ohio Fair
Here are the races for week six of the 2018 Breeders Crown Countdown (BCC), the exclusive blog that coordinates with our weekly harness blog at TwinSpires.com and the Hambletonian Society to find great wagering opportunities for "Crown" eligible ...
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Kentucky Derby Pedigree Profile: Cairo Cat
Cairo Cat got the 2019 Road to the Kentucky Derby series started last Saturday when registering a half-length upset over favorite Tight Ten in the $150,000 Iroquois (G3) at Churchill Downs.
The 1 1/16-mile Iroquois, worth 10 Kentucky Derby ...
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Harrington Raceway hosts Bobby Quillen Memorial
Monday evenings are typically not high on the radar for standardbred races but this past Monday it was Harrington Raecway in southern Delaware that offered the latest renewal of the $150,000 Bobby Quillen Invitational for Free-For-All Pacers, the hal ...
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Fog of War Rallies to Victory in Summer Stakes
As a son of War Front out of the Grade 1-placed Galileo mare Say, Fog of War has a beautiful pedigree that screams “turf miler,” so his success over those conditions in the Summer Stakes was hardly a surprise. And with his “Win and You’re In” berth t ...
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Roaring Lion, Laurens among five Breeders' Cup Challenge winners over Irish Champions Weekend
by DICK POWELL
Ireland had five major stakes races that were designated Breeders’ Cup Challenge races where the winner is guaranteed a berth in their corresponding race, money towards pre-entry/entry fees and travel stipends. For these horses a ...
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La Pelosa Ships In, Runs Away With Natalma Stakes
Both the winner and the runner-up seem well-suited to a run in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on November 2nd at Churchill Downs, especially when you consider that the last three times the Breeders’ Cup has been held in Kentucky, the Juvenil ...
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Exclusive: ‘Jug’ Weekday Fair Racing Action Report
For weekday action through Wednesday, Sept. 19, check the TwinSpires harness blog for spot plays at the Delaware, Ohio County Fair.
The Breeders Crown Countdown will cover the Wednesday feature races, the Jugette and the Buckette for pacing an ...
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The Red Mile and Rosecroft offer Sunday stakes action
While many sports enthusiasts were closely monitoring the second weekend of action in the NFL, standardbred fans found ample time to watch the stakes action that unfolded at Lexington's Red Mile and Rosecroft Raceway, which kicked off its three-month ...
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Skitter Scatter Proves Much the Best in Moyglare Stud Stakes
On paper, Sunday’s prestigious Moyglare Stud Stakes (Ire-I) at the Curragh in Ireland appeared to be a wide-open event destined to produce a very close finish.
The seven-furlong “ Win and You’re In ” prep race for the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile ...
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Oscar Performances Out-Sprints Rivals in Woodbine Mile
That’s not meant to detract from Oscar Performance, who’s pure talent and speed is what enabled him to secure such a favorable setup. But at the same time, the late runners had no real chance at victory given how the race unfolded, so I’m inclined to ...
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Iroquois Stakes: Cairo Cat Wins First Prep Race for 2019 Kentucky Derby
Those two wound up pulling well clear of the rest while stopping the timer in 1:45.35, which translated to an 80 Beyer speed figure. Pole Setter flattened out late in the race to finish third, 3 ¼ lengths behind Tight Ten, while Tobacco Road also gre ...
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Serengeti Empress Scores Breathtaking Victory in Pocahontas Stakes
Trained by Tom Amoss, the daughter of Alternation stopped the clock in 1:45.47. Her clocking was a bit slower than the time of 1:45.35 posted by two-year-old colts in the Iroquois Stakes (gr. III) one race prior (and it translated to a Beyer speed fi ...
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Laurens Upsets Huge Favorite Alpha Centauri in Matron Stakes
It’s a fact that when a heavy favorite is upset in a major sporting competition, more attention is typically focused on the performance of the loser than the winner, and this is especially so when extenuating circumstances surround the defeat of the ...
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Roaring Lion Edges Saxon Warrior Again in Irish Champion Stakes
Roaring Lion stopped the timer in 2:07.21 seconds over a course labeled “good to firm.” The tight finish marked the third time Roaring Lion and Saxon Warrior have finished a neck apart at the conclusion of a Group 1 test; Roaring Lion edged his rival ...
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Scores In Mohawk Features Include Upsets At $11, $10 While Favorites Win Most; H2W Exacta Partners A-Plenty As 49 Percent Hit The Board
The major feature action on Sept. 14 at Mohawk resulted in a few decent prices for our contenders, decent considering the strength of public opinion on the stakes-laden program. The horses-to-watch list (H2W) delivered a lot of exactas with ...
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Mohawk card offers glimpse of future
The first five races on the Mohawk Park card on Saturday night offered harness racing fans a glimpse into the future as two-year-olds of both gaits and genders participated in lucrative finals and several elims leading up to finals next weekend. In ...
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Balloon Payouts the Last Time BC Held at Churchill Downs
This year, the Breeders' Cup takes place under the Twin Spires at Churchill Downs. The last time the BC took place at Churchill Downs, price horse after price horse dominated Saturday's card. I've chosen 4 prices to illustrate how crazy it actually w ...
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Breeders’ Cup Classic: Don’t Expect an Odds on Favorite This Year
Favorites have won several of the most recent Breeders' Cup Classics. Gun Runner dominated in 2017 and Arrogate, although technically not the favorite, beat California Chrome in 2016. The favorite's march to a Classic victory could be different thi ...
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Woodbine Mile international scouting report: Stormy Antarctic
A Group performer for all four seasons of racing, Stormy Antarctic has a newfound consistency since he was gelded last summer. The question is whether he can break through at the top level or continue to find one too good for him.
Stormy Antarctic ...
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