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Hambletonian highlights stellar card at Meadowlands on Saturday afternoon
This coming Saturday afternoon the Meadowlands Race Track in northern New Jersey will take center stage among serious and novice harness racing fans alike when the famed one-mile oval hosts the latest edition of the Grade I, $1 million Hambletonian f ...
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Saratoga Handicapper's Sheet for Friday Aug. 4, 2017
The Saratoga Handicapper's Sheet for Friday August 4, 2017
The highlight of Friday's race card at Saratoga is the Racing Hall of Fame Stakes, race 9 on the card. Scroll down for handicapping information and bets on races 4 and 9.
The Hall of Fa ...
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Test no longer an Alabama prep but still features fast fillies
by Dick Powell
As time goes by, I keep sounding more and more like the “Old Guy” but sometimes the shoe fits.
When Saratoga was a 24-day meet, Opening Day was usually the first Wednesday in August. Without racing for 48 weeks, it was usually ...
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How To Bet $8,756 Arlington Pick 5 Carryover
What better a reason to use the FREE Arlington International Race Course Premium Past Performances from Brisnet.com than a Pick 5 carryover at Chicago's premiere racing destination? There is $8,756 in the Thursday, August 3, sequence that begins wi ...
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Updated Travers Stakes Top 5 Power Rankings
Non-horseplayers might believe that this group of three-year-olds aren't special. That makes sense. After a multitude of three-year-old races, including the entire Triple Crown, a star has yet to emerge. But while most casual horse racing fans aren't ...
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Attacking Thursday’s Late Pick 4 at Saratoga
Thursday’s card at Saratoga concludes with a challenging and potentially lucrative four-race sequence and I will try to take down the Late Pick 4.
Race 7 : KAHRUMANA (5-2) gets the rail and was last seen breaking her maiden at Belmont Park for co ...
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Hambletonian Program Swarming With Stakes And Sport’s Top Stars At The Meadowlands
It’s Hambletonian weekend so this week’s preview column concentrates on the parade of stakes on Aug. 5 at the Meadowlands, where we will be live to cover the classic trot and all of the action adorning the Saturday afternoon program. Watch for tweets ...
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Hambletonian #92 Gathers 19; Ariana G Leads Into Hambletonian Oaks
The Hambletonian Day program is set at the Meadowlands for Saturday, Aug. 5, headlined by the $500,000 Hambletonian Oaks and the $1-million Hambletonian. After months battling down the Hambletonian Trail, one filly and one colt will have conquered th ...
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Travers next major stop for 3-year-old puzzle
With an up-for-grabs divisional race, the $1.25 million Travers (G1) at Saratoga on August 26 will be as important as ever. And following the results of last weekend’s Jim Dandy (G2) at Saratoga and Haskell Invitational (G1) at Monmouth Park, let’s h ...
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Practical Joke is for real
I will be the first to admit I was not a firm believer in the ability of multiple Grade 1 hero PRACTICAL JOKE earlier this year. But following a huge third in the Haskell (G1) at Monmouth Park on Sunday, my opinion has changed.
Trained by Chad Bro ...
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The Whitney 'Runner' 'Keen' to Dominate the Breeders' Cup Classic Prep
"Gun Runner will have a tremendous opportunity to raise his stock"
With three-year-olds virtually dominating the discussion last weekend, older horses will be more under the spotlight this coming Saturday at Saratoga.
The $1.2 million Whit ...
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Haskell one-liners
Sunday’s $1 million Haskell Invitational (G1) is a microcosm of this year’s three-year-old crop: a competitive field of seven with each entrant a legitimate win candidate in the right circumstances.
While Monmouth Park’s marquee race is valuable i ...
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Fear The Dragon Defies Outside Trip, Targets Huntsville To Win Adios; Favorites Rule In ‘Oaks’ Elims; $15 Win Price Tops Lot; Frosh Threesome Scores
Fear The Dragon—always Fear The Dragon.
Our influence suggesting great horses, no less average horses, to win still doesn’t affect the greater betting public strongly, which is good, because when a great horse comes along and we present ...
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Top standardbreds compete day and night on Saturday
Most harness racing fans are accustomed to seeing the sport's biggest events contested at night, but on Saturday afternoon at the Meadows and again on Saturday evening at the Meadowlands many of the sport's best sophomores of both gaits were on displ ...
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How to bet the Clement L. Hirsch using Stellar Wind
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
Del Mar's second week of racing concludes Sunday with a strong nine-race card headlined by the Clement L. Hirsch (G1).
The five-horse field with the scratch of #5 Shenandoah Queen is led by 2015 champion three-year- ...
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Bird Song the pick on cut back
Saratoga features four graded stakes Saturday and the $350,000 A.G. Vanderbilt (G1) is the most appetizing from a betting prospective. A solid field of eight will travel 6-furlongs including defending champion A.P. Indian.
It’s easy to respect A.P ...
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Arlington Million winner Mondialiste seeks turnaround at York
Winless since last summer’s Arlington Million (G1), Mondialiste hopes for a revival of fortune in Saturday’s York S. (G2). The 10 1/2-furlong test is scheduled to go off at 10:15 a.m. (ET), shortly before Ascot’s King George VI & Queen Elizabeth ...
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Top standardardbreds on display day and night on Saturday
Tomorrow afternoon and again tomorrow evening at a pair of harness racing venues that typically have little in common in terms of size and location, both the Meadows near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the Meadowlands in northern New Jersey in the shad ...
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Drefong No Single On Shapiro's Del Mar Pick 4 Ticket
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
After one of the bigger upsets in Del Mar history last Saturday when Arrogate never picked up his feet at 1-to-20 in the San Diego Handicap, we return for the second weekend of racing “Where the Turf Meets the Surf.”
Un ...
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Historical trends favor Cloud Computing over Always Dreaming in Jim Dandy
The clash of Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Always Dreaming and Preakness (G1) hero Cloud Computing has elevated Saturday’s $600,000 Jim Dandy (G2) at Saratoga above the typical Travers (G1) prep. Although both have an eye toward that “Midsummer Derby” ...
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Spot Plays for Jim Dandy Day at Saratoga
Jim Dandy Saturday at Saratoga features a clash between classic winners in the feature, but there are several more enticing wagering options in several of the undercard races. Here are a few I'll be giving a long look at.
Race 6 -- #2 TATHQEEF ...
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Conditions suitable for Jack Hobbs in King George VI
It's overshadowed in the American racing fan's consciousness this weekend by the excellent renewals of the Jim Dandy (G2) and Haskell Invitational (G1), but the weekend will kick off with a bang Saturday morning (10:35 a.m. EDT) with the $1.4 million ...
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Harrington Raceway Hosts Lucrative Governor's Day Card
While many harness racing enthusiasts are already looking forward to the Adios Pace at the Meadows on Saturday afternoon and the Hambletonian Oaks eliminations at the Meadowlands later that evening, many standardbred fans were given an added treat wh ...
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Trainer Profile: Brad H. Cox
One of the best trainers in the country right now, Brad H. Cox, isn't a household name. In fact, if you concentrate on races on both sides of the coast, you're not likely to know who he even is. Make no mistake, Cox has been one of the best conditio ...
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Semi-Finals bestbet Sprint Classic
The Semi-finals of the 2017 bestbet Sprint Classic should be a while affair and 14 of the top 24 remaining greyhounds are just a win away from the point lead and everyone still might have a chance, if the cards play out right, to make it into the fi ...
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Handicapping Saturday’s Late Pick 4 at Saratoga
by Dick Powell
There’s no bet at the racetrack that leads to more “woulda,” “coulda,” and “shouldas” than the Pick 4. Everyone you meet seems to have a tale of woe. “I woulda had it if my single hit the first leg.” “I coulda had it if spread ...
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Adios Pace Showdown; Big Time Massachusetts Trots; Green Trotters Battle For Berths
Just when you thought this time of the harness stakes season couldn’t become more jazzed, along comes a new huge event to commingle with the attractions on tap. Of all places, Plainridge Racecourse hosts the first Spirit of Massachusetts Trot and som ...
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Eighteen Fillies Fight In Set of ‘Oaks’ Elims; Colts Undergo Final Hambo Preparations
The two eliminations for the 2017 renewal of the Hambletonian Oaks are set for the Saturday, July 29 program at the Meadowlands, with two sets of glamour-boy trots on the undercard featuring potential starters for the $1.5-million Hambletonian.
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San Diego proved a perfect spot for ‘bridgejumpers’
by Dick Powell
There’s an old horse racing saying about “They all get beat.”
While that is not always true, it certainly did not seem like it would apply to ARROGATE (Unbridled’s Song) in Saturday’s San Diego Handicap (G2) at Del Mar.
Sent ...
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A Tale of Two Fillies
One was making her graded debut; the other sought a third straight Grade 1.
One drew off to win by nine lengths; the other barely scored a head victory.
The fillies in question – Dream It Is and Abel Tasman – are both now riding a three-race wi ...
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Pup Sensation Rules in Round 3
The third round of the 2017 bestbet Sprint Classic was ruled by longshots. Only one single favorite took home the top spot in the 4 rounds, and that win belonged to the new Sensation at the racetrack. Pure Sensation broke on top in the 7 th race on ...
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Harrington Raceway hosts Governor
While most thoroughbred and standardbred race tracks typically offer their best cards on the weekends, Harrington Raceway in Delaware will buck their trend twice this season and the first of those occasions will take place on Thursday when the track ...
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Wednesday Del Mar Pick 6 observations from Shapiro
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
The racing week at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club commences Wednesday afternoon with a Pick 6 carryover of $96,599.72 in addition to the jackpot for a single ticket of $89,338.58.
The sequence starts in Race 3 with an open $32 ...
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Main track produces slower times, race-riding tactics in spotlight during opening week at Saratoga
By DICK POWELL
The first four days of Saratoga are in the books and some interesting things happened that bear watching.
This year, there was clay and sand added to the main track in an effort to get all three main tracks at NYRA as similar a ...
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How To Bet the Prince of Wales 2017 at Fort Erie
The second jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown is Tuesday, July 25, at Fort Erie Racetrack, and I have a strong opinion that the favorite is worth a win bet at 6-to-5 or better.
I have made a fair odds line for the 7-horse field and based on the mo ...
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Jockey Profile: Luis Contreras
Last Friday, in the first graded race of the 2017 Saratoga Meet, Luis Contreras rode Dream It Is to a win. Contreras has spent most of his career riding up in Woodbine. It was interesting to see Contreras take the call aboard Dream It Is. Because hi ...
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Siding with potential over experience in Prince of Wales
Besides the improbability of getting qualified under the current Road to the Kentucky Derby Series points system, on its face it seems extremely far-fetched that America's most revered race could ever be won by a horse making its second lifetime star ...
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Short but select field expected for Jim Dandy
Triple Crown race winners Always Dreaming and Cloud Computing will bring star power to Saturday’s $600,000 Jim Dandy (G2) at Saratoga. A prep for the $1.25 million Travers (G1) on August 26, the 1 1/8-mile event is often overshadowed by the $1 mi ...
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Enable may aim to dethrone Highland Reel in King George
After demolishing fellow three-year-old fillies in the Oaks (G1) at Epsom and the Irish Oaks (G1) last time out July 15, Enable appears set to wheel back versus older males in Saturday’s King George VI & Queen Elizabeth (G1) at Ascot.
The “W ...
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bestbet Sprint Classic Round 3
Round 3 of the bestbet Sprint Classic runs on Monday evening July 24 th at bestbet Jacksonville. Although the field has gotten smaller and competition has gotten taller. Only 4 races remain in the stakes and every point counts from now on out i ...
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A tale of two superstar favorites: Lady Eli lives up to billing, Arrogate flops
If Lady Eli’s Diana (G1) was just the dandy we eagerly hoped for, Arrogate’s flop in the San Diego (G2) was a letdown as gigantic as it was unexpected.
Their divergent performances on Saturday throw into relief their long-term career contrasts.
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2017 Mid-Summer Derby Travers Stakes Rankings
The 2017 Mid-Summer Derby, the Travers Stakes, takes place on August 26. The 3 winners of the Triple Crown races: Derby winner Always Dreaming, Preakness winner Cloud Computing, and Belmont winner Tapwrit, are likely to show up in the Travers' starti ...
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Running Aces’ Amazing $54 Winner; Century Score At $34; Fear The Dragon Vs. Huntsville Next Week
Check out the horses-to-watch list for our headline winners at Running Aces and Century Downs.
Next week’s Adios Pace at the Meadowswill match the glamour-boy-pacing division’s two top colts, Fear The Dragon and Huntsville. Both won their Adio ...
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Harness Races Highlighted by the Meadows and Saratoga
While many thoroughbred racing fans were keenly watching the action at Del Mar Race Course in California and Saratoga Race Course in New York - the sport's two concurrent premier tracks each summer - harness racing enthusiasts got their fair share of ...
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Del Mar’s upcoming 7TH race features Futurity nominees
Among the warm-up acts for Arrogate at Del Mar today, the most intriguing may be the 7TH race (8:03 p.m. ET). The five-furlong maiden for two-year-olds has attracted seven Del Mar Futurity (G1) nominees, including two expensive sales juveniles whose ...
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Exotic plays with Arrogate
Arrogate, the world’s top-ranked horse, returns to action in Saturday’s San Diego H. (G2). Scheduled for 9:03 p.m. (ET), the 1 1/16-mile race attracted five undistinguished challengers and Arrogate should be 1-9 on the tote board as he seeks his eigh ...
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How to bet Del Mar's Late Pick 4 starring Arrogate
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
The first Saturday of the Del Mar summer meeting is upon us and is headlined by the presence of the great Arrogate.
The 2016 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner has not been seen since his last to first victory in the $10 million dol ...
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Pair of Saturday plays at Saratoga
A nice card awaits horseplayers on Day 2 at Saratoga and I will recommend a pair of horses on the 11-race program. Both will be used prominently in any multi-race wagers.
Race 8 (5:02 p.m. ET) is a one-mile allowance/optional claiming event ...
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Three spot plays on the grass Saturday at Saratoga
A pair of grass allowances and the Diana (G1) are the focal points for our spot plays on the first Saturday of the Saratoga meet.
Trainer Wesley Ward has two intriguing imports in the 7th race, a 5 1/2-furlong N2X allowance/optional claimer. Evacu ...
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Pedigree notes for Saratoga: Sanford plus two maidens on undercard
It’s been about a decade since the historic Sanford (G3) has produced a winner who progressed into a major three-year-old, so here’s hoping that one member of Saturday’s 103rd cast can erase the stat.
Free Drop Billy , despite his homespun-sound ...
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The Curious Case of Arrogate as an Overlay at 1-to-20
Arrogate will be 1-to-20 odds in the San Diego Handicap on Saturday at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club.
Those odds indicate he should win this race 95.24% of the time. It's an extraordinary statement that might actually shortchange last year's champion ...
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Mrs McDougal key to Friday's Pick 4 at Del Mar
The Osunitas Stakes (race 7, 10 p.m. [ET] post time) serves as the featured race at Del Mar Friday evening and Mrs McDougal will make her first start for Richard Mandella in the 1 1/16-mile turf affair. A three-time stakes winner, the 5-year-old ma ...
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How To Bet Saratoga 2017 opening day
Opening day at Saratoga is finally here, and my approach to the 10-race card in Upstate New York is pretty similar to how I approached the 10-race opening day card at Del Mar on Wednesday: I want to hit the Pick 5; I want to hit the Pick 4s, but my b ...
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How to find value in the San Diego Handicap
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
On Saturday afternoon Southern California racing fans will be fortunate to see one of the most impressive racehorses -- Arrogate -- I have ever set eyes on. The 2016 Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) winner returns to the races for the ...
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Free Picks for Saratoga And Handicapping Information
The Saratoga Race Course meeting is finally here, and Brisnet.com and TwinSpires.com have teamed to offer bettors great handicapping information absolutely free during the 40 days of live racing.
The action begins Friday, July 21, and runs through ...
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Horse-for-course angle in Saratoga opening-day Late Pick 4
Saratoga opens Friday with a 10-race program featuring a pair of graded stakes. The Late Pick 4 sequence starts with a turf allowance (race 7) and I like a horse for the course who is exiting a better-than-it-looks effort at Belmont Park.
#6 Red ...
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Pedigree notes for Schuylerville and Friday juvenile maiden at Saratoga
Saratoga is synonymous with promising two-year-olds, so it’s apt that the historic meet wastes no time in featuring the emerging youngsters. Friday’s co-feature, the $150,000 Schuylerville (G3), begins the Spa series for juvenile fillies that continu ...
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The Meadows and Saratoga Offer Solid Saturday Cards
This coming Saturday standardbred racing fans will have the chance to watch quality pacers compete during the afternoon and then well into the evening as The Meadows hosts a solid daytime card featuring a pair of eliminations for the Adios Pace while ...
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Pace yourself and other tips for betting Saratoga
by DICK POWELL
Del Mar opened on Wednesday and Saratoga opens on Friday. California usually races four days a week but Del Mar increases it to five and Saratoga is the last track in America to race six days a week so there are full menus to choos ...
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2017 Saratoga Race Meet Preview
The 2017 Saratoga Meet opens Friday, July 21. Some of the best horses, trainers, and jockeys are going to be at The Spa. Just like every year, summer racing at Saratoga produces some great, gigantic, payoffs. Arrogate, who ended up becoming the best ...
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Aiming At The Adios; PA Parades State-Breds; Saratoga’s Super Stake Sends Stars To Battle
It’s that time of the season when it seems there is no relief for division stakes and the stars, co-stars and string-alongs keep pushing their ways through high-powered fields and high-purse events. Elims for the Adios Pace at the Meadows highlight t ...
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Final Stops On The ‘Trail’ Include Tompkins-Geers
With three weeks until the first Saturday in August, some colts and fillies will be making their final preparations for the Hambletonian in their respective splits of the Arthur Tompkins Memorial.
The $49,870 filly dash of the Arthur Tompkins ...
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Bucking a Mountaineer Trend And Singling a Closer in Pick 5 Carryover
Several favorites look vulnerable in the Pick 5 tonight (Wednesday, July 19) at Mountaineer, including morning line choices of 4-to-5, even money, and 9-to-5, but one favorite I will lean on is #7 Divine Connection--5-to-2 on the race 7 morning line. ...
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How to bet Del Mar 2017 Opening Day Summer
Navigating the initial card of the 36-day summer meeting at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club is like a 10-race choose your own adventure about an international espionage plot. I.e., Who do you trust?
Unfortunately for me as a multi-race player, my ...
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Speed play on Del Mar’s opening day
Del Mar opens Wednesday with a contentious 10-race program and the Late Pick 4 (races 7-10) concludes with a one-mile claiming event that lacks front-running types. I will take a stand in the finale with inside speed.
#2 Anxious Times has fallen ...
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2017 Del Mar Race Meet Preview
Del Mar's annual summer meet begins this Wednesday, July 19. Del Mar's Meet runs from July 19 through Sept. 4. As always, some of the best horses in the nation are set to run at Del Mar. The very best horse in the world, Arrogate, is scheduled to run ...
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Four Horses To Use In Your Del Mar Bets On Opening Day 2017
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
Wednesday marks one of my favorite days on the calendar: Opening Day at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club , and hopes are high as we embark on another journey “Where the Turf Meets the Surf.” For opening day handicapping reports,&nb ...
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The 2017 Saratoga Race Meet Betting Guide
Opening Friday, July 21 and concluding on Monday, September 4, the 2017 Saratoga meet continues the prestigeous tradition of quality racing at the Spa. As one of racing's most prized meets and anticipated events on the calendar, the botique racing pr ...
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The 2017 Del Mar Race Meet Betting Guide
Starting Wednesday, July 19 and concluding on Monday, September 4, the Del Mar Turf Club summer meet holds a wealth of racing and wagering action. With only a few years under it's belt since switching back to dirt, and with the Breeders' Cup coming i ...
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Two spot plays for Del Mar's opening day card
I'm hoping that relative back class and fondness for Del Mar will play a role in the ultimate success of my two main plays on Wednesday's opening day program at the San Diego-area course.
Race 6: Among the candidates in this second-level allowan ...
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Debutante nominees abound in Wednesday maiden at Del Mar
While Wednesday’s Oceanside will produce contenders for Del Mar’s graded turf stakes for three-year-olds, the La Jolla H. (G3) and Del Mar Derby (G2), the 5TH race on opening day puts the spotlight on Del Mar Debutante (G1) hopefuls.
The five-fu ...
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Lady Eli-Antonoe clash in Diana highlights Saratoga stakes prospectus
Racing fans won’t have long to wait for fireworks at Saratoga’s 149th season: Lady Eli and Antonoe are expected to clash for the first time in Saturday’s $500,000 Diana (G1).
If Friday’s curtain raiser can’t equal that star power, its pair of $150 ...
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Jockey Profile - Joel Rosario
Jockey Joel Rosario rode 3 horses in 2003. In 2005, Joel rode 6 horses. 3 of the 6 horses that Rosario rode that year finished in second place. The following year, he rode 219 horses. Of his 219 mounts, 29 won, 33 finished second, and 30 finished thi ...
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How to Bet Del Mar 2017 Summer Meeting
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
On Wednesday afternoon the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club opens the gates for another exciting summer in San Diego County. For Del Mar handicapping reports, CLICK HERE .
The highly anticipated meeting runs through Labor Day w ...
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Freshmen Scores Over Features With Double Digits; Chalk Gets Meadowlands Pace And ‘Marauder’ Magnificent in ‘Maturity’
Our Freshman Frolic section was once again productive with three double-digit winners snatched from nine special two-year-old events around the ovals (see recap below for all frosh results).
Chalk was clouding the rest of the July 15 features ...
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Meadowlands Pace Highlights Stellar Card
While thoroughbred racing fans might have keenly watched the action at Delaware Park on Saturday afternoon when Songbird prevailed, unconvincingly, as the 1-20 favorite in the Grade I, $750,000 Delaware Handicap for fillies and mares, serious standar ...
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Maryland-bred Runners, Pacers, Trotters on Display
Saturday afternoon at Laurel Park a quartet of Maryland-bred three-year-olds of both genders were permitted to display their talents on the grass in a pair of stakes, but it was the only open stakes on the card that produced the winner with the most ...
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All-stakes Pick 4 play and thoughts on the Indiana Derby
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. -- Fans looking at Indiana Grand's big card on Saturday night will have noticed two all-stakes Pick 4s on offer: the one "wit" or "wit out" the Indiana Derby (G3), as our friends in Philly might say.
The one ending in the Indiana ...
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Bet the ‘Farm’ at Newmarket
Not really, but #4 Finniston Farm (7-1) does loom as a fascinating value play in Saturday’s Superlative S. (G2) on the final day of Newmarket’s July Festival.
Carded as the 5TH race (with an 11 a.m. EDT post time), the seven-furlong test for juv ...
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Saturday Spot Plays for Indiana Grand and Los Alamitos
by Scott Shapiro
The final weekend of racing before Saratoga and Del Mar kick in to high gear next week is upon us. Most of the top barns and horses are preparing for the spotlight of the summer meets, but there are still opportunities to pad the ...
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Solid program carded for Indiana Derby Day
by Scott Shapiro
It is Indiana Derby Day at Indiana Grand Racing and Casino on Saturday and that means a solid 10-race card filled with quality stakes action and solid opportunities for horseplayers all evening long.
Click here to find Scott ...
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The Night Goddess
bumped and cutoff the former stakes champion. That made this one a two-greyhound race coming home, and each team was represented as they started a battle for the finish line. Pullanallnigther, the female participant, was still clinging to a lead, bu ...
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Analysis of Belmont main track upgrades Songbird's Phipps, explains Keen Ice's Suburban
by DICK POWELL
The sensational SONGBIRD (Medaglia d’Oro) takes on five opponents in the $750,000 Delaware Handicap (G1) this Saturday at Delaware Park. Assigned 124 pounds under the handicap conditions, she has to concede as much as 13 to 9 poun ...
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Meadowlands Pace For A Price; Hambletonian Champ Dominates ‘Maturity’; Frosh Pacers Shoot For In ‘Sheppard’ Score
This weekend’s big feature may bring back some storied memories as we predict another upset in the Meadowlands Pace on July 15. It’s a big night of stakes and stars, pacers and trotters, colts, fillies, mares and horses.
Again this weeke ...
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August Campaign Reaches Trail Stretch With ‘Dancer’ And ‘Miller’ Memorials
Less than a month out from the August classic, the most significant prep events on the Hambletonian Trail are set to go on the under-card of the Meadowlands Pace Saturday, July 15 at the Meadowlands when the glamour boys compete in two divisions of t ...
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Meadowlands Offers Stellar Saturday Night Card
After months of being fed a steady diet of lower-level conditioned events perhaps more fitting of a B track, the Meadowlands will turn things up a notch or two this Saturday evening when it hosts a stellar card featuring many of the best older pacers ...
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A proper visit to Indiana Grand awaits for Indiana Derby Day
For a track only about a 2 1/2-hour drive from central Kentucky, Indiana Grand (nee Downs, which has held Thoroughbred racing since 2003) has unfortunately been stuck on the backburner for a long time as a place to take in a day of races.
Truth be ...
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Jockey Profile: Luis Saez
Jockey Luis Saez has become one of the absolute best riders in the nation. Saez, who usually rides between Gulfstream Park and on the New York circuit, started riding in 2009. In less than a decade, Saez's mounts have earned over $71.8 million dollar ...
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Caravaggio’s clash with sprint establishment anchors Newmarket July
Coming not long after Royal Ascot, Newmarket’s July Festival doesn’t match its breadth of star power, but the three-day stint will end on a spectacular note Saturday as unbeaten Caravaggio tackles older sprinters in the July Cup (G1).
Aidan O’Br ...
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Maryland-breds Continue to Impress at Several Venues
While Maryland-breds such as Lady Shadow and Devious Man have already earned their fair share of the spotlight on a national stage, several others garnered local bragging rights on Monday night at a pair of half-mile ovals in two different states. M ...
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Freshman Frenzy Features Have Top Winners, Including Best Price In ‘Sheppard’ Elims And More
Freshmen filled the agenda this weekend and we did very well with the winners and the winning prices. Our top horses-to-watch (H2W) list winner, Kadabra Queen was the top price at $20.00 in an Ontario Sires Stakes event for youngsters. And there were ...
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Meadowlands and Yonkers Offer Stakes Elims
Saturday night offered standardbred racing fans a chance to see some of the sport's top sophomore pacers and trotters compete at The Meadowlands and several promising two-year-old colt pacers clash in the Lawrence B. Sheppard eliminations at Yonkers ...
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Belmont Derby requires spread in all-stakes Late Pick 4
An all-stakes Pick 4 encompassing 80 percent of Belmont Park's graded stakes on Saturday is a bit of a challenge even with one planned single (and not the one you might expect) in the sequence. Here are my thoughts on the four races:
Belmont Spri ...
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How I’m betting Late Pick 4 on Belmont’s Stars and Stripes Racing Festival
Today’s $1.2 million Belmont Derby (G1) is ripe for an up-and-coming turf sophomore. I’m not keen on stakes veterans Oscar Performance, Good Samaritan, Ticonderoga and Big Score – they’ve taken turns beating each other with little separating the pack ...
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International scouting report: Belmont Derby Invitational
Pia Brandt isn’t a household name among American racing fans, but the French-based trainer sends out the most straightforward European challenger in Saturday’s $1.2 million Belmont Derby Invitational (G1).
Called to the Bar , despite not having a ...
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Meadowlands Pace Elims Take Center Stage
This weekend and perhaps each weekend into August, the Meadowlands will be the focal point of many of harness racings biggest owners, trainers, drivers and fans as Saturday night's card offers a handful of stakes including the famed Meadowlands Pace ...
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International scouting report: Belmont Oaks Invitational
Although repackaged as the $1 million Belmont Oaks Invitational (G1) in 2014, and accordingly luring international shippers, New York’s premier contest for three-year-old turf fillies has continued to go the way of U.S.-based performers.
That tren ...
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Ignoring Finest City in Saturday's Late Pick 4 at Los Alamitos
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
The first of two Saturday afternoon cards during the short Los Alamitos summer meeting offers a late Pick 4 sequence starting in Race 6 that is headlined by the Great Lady M (G2) featuring 2016 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprin ...
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