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Shapiro's tips on how to bet Santa Anita
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
Happy Holidays racing fans!
I hope everyone gets to enjoy the coming days with family and friends, but also can find the time to get involved with the start of the racing season at beautiful Santa Anita Park.
Once again ope ...
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California Chrome's trip around Los Alamitos reminiscent of Ussery's Alley
by DICK POWELL
Farewell tours seem to be in vogue in sports lately. Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter and David Ortiz each took a whole baseball season to say goodbye.
Not to be outdone, horse racing has joined the trend as CALIFORNIA CHROME (L ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Thursday, December 22
Race 1 - 334 yards - Grade TAA - CRAIGIE RENEGADE (3 box) highlights the twilight performance as he goes for his 8th straight win while HS LONE SURVIVOR (5 box) tries to make it 6 wins in his last 7 races. Also in this tough field is DIGITAL D ...
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Holiday Harness Features Sparkle In Three States; Exotics Ripe For Profits
A short week of harness-racing between blogs is presented as the Christmas and Hanukah holidays fall upon Saturday and Sunday in the last week of December. Many tracks will abandon those two days, going dark as the calendar of 2016 enters its final s ...
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Christmas Eve Contests + Santa Anita Opening Day
It’s Santa Anita Opening Day and a reliably big day from Gulfstream Park.
Check out these Guaranteed Contests taking place on Monday:
$1,000 Gulfstream High Stakes - $125 Entry
$1,000 Gulfstream Handcuff - $35 Entry
$ ...
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(The best of) Hanson's Hot Takes in 2016
We're nearing the end of another year blogging at TwinSpires.com , and this quiet week on the racing front is a good time to bring back to readers' attention some of my better (IMHO) takes, historic and contemporary, during 2016.
Before diving in ...
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Why California Chrome vs. Arrogate is Kinda Like Rocky III
Scott Serio/ESW/CSM And fear not Chromies. It's ok to be afraid. This opponent is like nothing we've ever seen. But just like Adrian said to Rocky on the beach. "There's nothing wrong with being afraid, you're human ain't ya?" And if Chrome los ...
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Tis the Season for Filling Out Ballots
Trotter of the year went to three-year-old champion Marion Marauder, who literally edged Hannelore Hanover by one vote, 73-72. Hannelore Hanover, champion older mare trotter, actually finished third in the horse of the year voting, while Marion Marau ...
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Weather is a Winner at Turf Paradise
The Fales family are frequent visitors to the Turf Paradise winner's circle Track announcer Robert Fox returned to Turf Paradise again this year. Fox is the longtime voice of Ruidoso Downs during the summer months. Post time daily is 12:55 p. ...
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Secrets to California Chrome's Success
Jockey Victor Espinoza
Before winning the Kentucky Derby with California Chrome in 2014, Victor Espinoza had won the Derby and Preakness with War Emblem in 2002. That was a seriously talented field in 2002 with Harlan's Holiday, the brilli ...
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Palm Beach Weekly Wrap Up 12-18-2016
That's all we have for this week. We'll see you next time for the Wrap Up!
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And the champion two-year-old filly is…
Two-Year-Old Filly – Champagne Room, Noted and Quoted, Sweet Loretta, Union Strike, etc.
OK, I held off as long as I could, hoping the last few juvenile filly graded races of 2016 would provide some clarity.
They didn’t.
Instead, the trend ...
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Chrome by 12, onto the Pegasus!
Story and photo by Scott Shapiro
In a race written to prepare the star five-year-old for his final career start next month in Florida, 2014 Horse of the Year California Chrome easily disposed of an overmatched group of California based rivals in t ...
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Northlands Bomb At $40 Tops Win List; Hot Place-Priced Scores Partner With Favorites In Strong Exotics
The mercury dipped to dangerous levels for all the participants in our personal features this weekend but the results were as mixed as ever. Our two feature winners turned out to attract the bulk of the bettors, much to our surprise and, as usual, we ...
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Class Prevails on Saturday Night Card at Yonkers
One race later on the card, Bartlett and Bamond were back in the winner's circle after the track's leading driver steered Mach It So to a pocket-trip score in the $45,000 Open Handicap in 1:52.3. A six-year-old Mach Three gelding trained by Bamond ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Sunday, December 18
Race 2 - 703 yards - Grade TA - KL'S DENZEL (3 box) - Going after his 4th win in 5 races but the competition will be the toughest he has faced as it's his first time in Grade A. Race 4 - 660 yards - Grade A - DUTCH BOGIE (2 box) - He's on a 2 ...
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Palm Beach Superstar Saturday Preview 12-17-2016
*Whirlin Toodlelu*
Race 15 Grade A 545 Yards
The only greyhound to even come within sniffing distance of Ethel Is Here's popularity is the one they call "Toodles."
#1 Whirlin Toodlelu from the Douglas Kennel has made fans around ...
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Yonkers Offers Final 2016 Saturday Card
Then just before the midway point of the card, give the edge to Democracy N (George Brennan) in a non-winners of $15,000 last five starts class for pacers. Last week against slightly tougher, Democracy N finished second after a long, first over journ ...
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Seldom Told Going for 9 Straight
Another great weekend of racing action here at bestbet Jacksonville. It might not be 12 stakes races, but we do have most of the competitors, and even some of the winners, taking to post in these feature races. Let’s take a closer look and see if we ...
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Four Stakes Set for Closing Night at Evangeline Downs
Eye N Capo with Damian Martinez in the irons, will run in the Evangeline Downs Futurity Saturday night The marquee stakes of the evening is the $317,500 Evangeline Downs Futurity, which features the ten fastest qualifiers from trials run on Nov ...
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How to Wager on the Horizontals involving the Winter Challenge
by Scott Shapiro
The Winter Challenge headlined by 2014 Kentucky Derby winner and Horse of the Year California Chrome is the Saturday feature at Los Alamitos Race Course.
The Challenge is the 9TH and final race on the card and is the final leg ...
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12 Races of Christmas Recap
The final stakes final on the card came in the 13 race and once again it was the favorite that shined brightest. Once again, the lure rumbled by the box, and it was another strong break by a greyhound, but this time around, the race was not over from ...
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Rosecroft Titles Come Down To the Wire
Then in the very next race on the program Plante drew even again when he guided the classy Rhapsody Rose to a gritty victory as the 6-5 choice in the $12,000 Maryland Special Open Handicap for pacing fillies and mares. Rhapsody Rose notched her se ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Friday Evening, December 16
Race 1 - 820 yards - Grade TAA - Southland gets things started with the always exciting super marathon race and the show stopper here is the aptly named SHOW ON THE ROAD (6 box) going after his 5th straight win. This extremely talented greyhou ...
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How to Earn 5% Cash Back on Handicapping Contests
This weekend’s big Thoroughbred contests: $550 Gulfstream Friday High Stakes - $125 Entry
$500 Gulfstream Friday Handcuff - $35 Entry $1,000 Gulfstream Saturday High Stakes - $125 Entry
$1,000 Gulfstream Saturday Handcuff - $35 Entry ...
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How to wager on the Winter Challenge
by Scott Shapiro
The second week of the Los Alamitos winter meeting is headlined by the $180,000 Winter Challenge.
The race written for local hero and 2014 Horse of the Year California Chrome drew a field of 10 and is the 9TH and final race on ...
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Tribute to Garrett Gomez
By Dick Powell
The news that Garrett Gomez was found dead on Wednesday at the age of 44 at a casino hotel south of Tucson, Arizona hit like a punch below the belt. Even when bad news is not surprising, it is still shocking when it arrives with t ...
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Rosecroft Hosts Fall Meet Finale on Thursday
Then one race layer in a non-winners of $1000 last five starts class for trotters, an otherwise non-descript bottom-level event will take center stage since Plante will guide favored Lucky Mass from post eight, while Foster steers Swan Anna Miss from ...
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Blistering Heats For Arctic-Atmosphere Features; Poised For Profits With Promised Prices
Across North America’s northlands, weather forecasts call for a bitter-cold weekend and snowfalls. Our harness-racing forecasts call for more personal race features—hand-picked overnight events from raceways on the TwinSpires track menu. Of course, t ...
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Sunland Park Live Racing Season Begins Friday, December 16
Zoomin Effortlessly won last year's Championship at Sunland Park Jockeys Adrian Ramos and Salvador Martinez tied for leading rider honors in the 2015-2016 Quarter Horse meet at Sunland, with Jose Ortiz and Esgar Ramirez also having strong meets ...
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Mastery Unleashed: Bob Baffert Ready for the 2017 Triple Crown
Klimt - I'm not ready to give up on Klimt, either. The three-year-old son of Quality Road bombed in the BC Juvenile. But, he wasn't expected to do much. He gave it his all. Klimt just couldn't accelerate enough in the stretch. I'm not as bullish on K ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Wednesday, December 14
Race 10 - 583 yards - Grade AA - This race stands out to me as the most competitive contest of the program as you have three outstanding runners going paw to paw in the quest for a hard earned win. NASHAPELLI (2 box) is posted well for his ins ...
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Todd Pletcher's Hot Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks Hand
Bode's Dream - Sure, the House Party Stakes this past weekend was at 6 furlongs. Yes, it was muddy at Gulfstream Park over the weekend. But, I have reasons why I love Bode's Dream's House Party win. The way she runs reminds me of the terrific Street ...
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Palm Beach Weekly Wrap Up 12-11-2016
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Rosecroft Honors Top Horses on Tuesday
Looking to play the spoiler role for the final Maryland Special of the meet are Hi Sir (Russell Foster), a multiple horse of the meet champion locally, Get Outta Eyre N (Jason Thompson), a winner against much lesser two starts back for owner-trainer ...
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Maurice the personal highlight of HKIR day and week
HONG KONG - The Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) on Sunday had a little bit of everything.
The massive upset of Highland Reel in the Vase (G1) by Satono Crown.
The home court defenses of the Sprint (G1) by Aerovelocity...
and t ...
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Yonkers Offers Revealing Saturday Card
Then one race later in a split, non-winners of $15,000 last five starts class for pacers, Cowboy Terrier (Jason Bartlett) quarter moved to command, got a breather to the half in 57.3 and edged clear late to score in 1:52.3 for Milici. The six-year-ol ...
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Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) News & Notes
If you've missed any of TwinSpires.com and Brisnet.com 's coverage of Sunday's Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) at Sha Tin, you can find it all here:
Breaking news: Pure Sensation scratched from Hong Kong Sprint
Selections by Vanc ...
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Features On Fire With Exotic Additions; Pompano’s $15 Winner Tops Selections
This weekend our three personal features came from programs in the Northeast—New York, Delaware and New Jersey—and one from the Midwest—Ohio. Winter conditions ruled near Cleveland, with sub-freezing temperatures and scattered snow showers at Northfi ...
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Looking to Japan for Hong Kong Sprint, Mile winners
HONG KONG - Sunday's Hong Kong Sprint (G1) and Hong Kong Mile (G1) , unlike the other two HKIR events, appear more wide open with the potential of longer-priced payoffs. As far as the Sprint goes, Japanese representative Big Arthur, who figures to ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Sunday, December 11
(4 box) who is a top notch rail runner going for his 4th straight win and FLYING BIG WOLF (5 box) who had his own 3 race winning streak snapped last time out by the above mentioned runner. He will be trying to make it 4 wins out of his last ...
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Playing Saturday’s Gulfstream Pick 5 Carryover
A $40,342 Pick 5 carryover awaits horse players at Gulfstream Park and any time spent handicapping turf form is worthless as the three turf races in Pick 5 sequence (races 7-11) have been moved to the wet main track.
Here are my thoughts on the ra ...
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Short-priced Highland Reel, Maurice likely to achieve HKIR glory again
HONG KONG - They're all Group 1 events, but the Hong Kong Vase and Hong Kong Cup stand out in star power among the four Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) at Sha Tin on Sunday. However, chances are good said stars will perform to expectation, t ...
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12 Stakes Over All Distances Saturday
What a huge card we have for you this Saturday evening at bestbet Jacksonville. In conjunction with our 12 Races of Christmas Promotion, we are 12 stakes races on the card, along with a grade B sprint, and 2 grade A sprint races for a fantastic 15 ra ...
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How to wager on the Starlet
by Scott Shapiro
The $300,000 Starlet is the second of two Grade 1 events on Saturday’s nine-race card at Los Alamitos Race Course. The event is contested at a mile and a sixteenth and features a field of nine two-year-old fillies.
#7 American ...
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Louisiana Champions Day at Fair Grounds
Jet Black Zoomer, with Antonio Alberto in the irons, returns to Fair Grounds Saturday afternoon. "He’s a very playful horse; full of himself and last year still had no idea what he was doing!”, said Alberto. “It was a big win and meant a lot to ...
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How to wager on the Los Alamitos CashCall Futurity
by Scott Shapiro
The first of two Saturday cards at the Los Alamitos winter Thoroughbred meeting features two Grade 1 events for two-year-olds.
The Starlet for fillies is the more competitive of the duo, while the Los Alamitos CashCall Futurity ...
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Earn 5X Rewards for Weekend Contest Play!
TURFWAY PARK CONTESTS
NEW TO THE CONTEST LOBBY Turfway Park has kicked off their winter season of racing and we're adding the Kentucky racetrack to the nightly rotation of Handicapping Contests! Look for Turfway Park contests on Wednes ...
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Jose Ortiz is riding his way to an Eclipse Award
by Dick Powell
Jose Ortiz is a man on a mission and is finishing up 2016 so strong that he has now inserted himself into the conversation for the Eclipse Award for leading rider. He has been that good.
Jose started out his career in the shadow ...
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Happy Valley a place to rejuvenate your racing soul
HONG KONG - When the Hong Kong Jockey Club announced attendance of around 29,600 for Wednesday night's International Jockey Championship at Happy Valley Racecourse, my first thought, and not in a negative way, was "That's it?"
In truth, it was a t ...
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Maurice, A Shin Hikari continue to shine ahead of Sha Tin showdown
HONG KONG - One thing that has gone perfectly this trip is the weather. Granted, I've only been here a little over two days, but you couldn't have picked a nicer morning for Thursday's trackwork at Sha Tin. And the forecast continues to look good thr ...
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Features Parade Across America; Overnights Offer Opportunities
Our personal features—specifically chosen races at various harness meets running on the TwinSpires track menu—are complemented by the TwinSpires’ exclusive, productive horses-to-watch list (H2W). The 2016 stakes season is over as the year offers only ...
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Palm Beach $20,000 Futurity Tournament Preview
Experience, speed, motivation. Wicked Twista & their team seem to have the right mojo heading into this tournament. The North Shore Kennel wins their first ever Futurity title and gives me one heck of a story to write about for the holida ...
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Hong Kong: a good morning at Sha Tin and clean clothes for Happy Valley
HONG KONG - The pleasant commute from central Hong Kong to Sha Tin Racecourse in the New Territories for Wednesday morning's HKIR trackwork was leisurely compared to the trackwork itself, which seemed, to this newbie, to come fast and furious and was ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Wednesday, December 7
(1 box) who is a top notch rail runner going for his 3rd straight win and FLYING BIG WOLF (8 box) who is trying to make it 4 straight wins and 5 out of his last 7 races. It should be nip and tuck battle for the early lead so keep an eye on th ...
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Dover Downs and Rosecroft Offer Solid Thursday Cards
Then one race later in the $27,500 Delaware Special for older pacers, Little Ben (Victor Kirby) looks to regain his winning ways while starting from post five for trainer Jim King, Jr., while both Mustang Art (Sean Bier) and Remember Me VK (Teague) w ...
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The Rise of Trainer Chad Brown
Is Practical Joke Chad's Derby Horse? He could be. First, he can run all day. Practical Joke's sire is Into Mischief, who was sired by Harlan's Holiday. On his dam's side, the name Distorted Humor pops up. Practical Joke won't have any issues with e ...
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Pure Sensation finds right turn a learning curve in breeze for Hong Kong Sprint
The Christophe Clement-trained Pure Sensation ratcheted up a gear over Sha Tin’s turf course Tuesday morning, polishing off an approximately three-furlong breeze to set him up for Sunday’s Hong Kong Sprint (G1).
Under exercise rider Rudy Nerbonn ...
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Touting Daily Participation Key to Solving Racing's Identity Crisis
Racing has an identity crisis.
It’s a gambling game; no, it’s about the animal; it’s a live sporting event; it’s the sport of kings; $2 bettors; Zenyatta.
Of course, racing is all these things and more, but first and foremost from where I sit ( ...
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More HK travel woes and thoughts on the International Jockey Challenge
HONG KONG - If you thought my 24-hour delay arriving in Hong Kong was the worst of it , let me tell you it was purely an appetizer.
It's late Tuesday night and I am where I need to be (finally) at the media hotel, but with neither of my suitcase ...
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Pure Sensation's chances in Hong Kong Sprint: a look at trends and Soumillon's take
Turf sprinter Pure Sensation represents the lone American chance in Sunday's Hong Kong International Races, and the Christophe Clement trainee must stare down two trends: the lack of American success on this program, and the prevalence of locally bas ...
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$600,000 Champion of Champions on Saturday night
Paul Jones, AQHA trainer of the year a record 14 times, has won six editions of the Champion of Champions.
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“Full of beans,” “kicking his brands off,” and other quotables from Hong Kong notes
While our own Vance Hanson is en route to Hong Kong after travel delays , the Hong Kong Jockey Club publicity team is again furnishing detailed notes in the build-up to Sunday’s International Races. Here’s a selection of the salient material from Mo ...
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Holiday Extravaganza Round 1
It might be a Monday at bestbet Jacksonville, but you will get to see 6 stakes races on the card. Two each over 550, 660, and 770, but the finals might be even more fun than the semi’s. The top 4 performers from each race will move on to the finals o ...
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Travel Woes Delay Hanson's Hong Kong Arrival But Don't Dampen His Spirit
Whenever there is racing involved, it appears I'm a particular target of the travel gods' schadenfreude.
Rather than taking in a late supper at the well-reviewed Megan's Kitchen on Wanchai Road Monday night as originally planned, I'll just be hopi ...
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Palm Beach Weekly Wrap Up 12-4-2016
That's all we have for this week. See you next time for the Wrap Up!
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Rosecroft Offers Solid Tuesday Card
Then one race later on another non-winners of $4000 last five starts class for aged pacers, Ramblin Bob (William Carter) and Cracker Pullet (Jared Moyer), one-two finishers at this level last week, will both seek to maintain their good recent form ...
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Drefong is easy but female sprinters are a little muddled
Rounding out my nominees and picks for the 2016 Eclipse Awards are the sprinters.
Male Sprinter – Drefong, A. P. Indian, Masochistic
It’s kind of hard to look past DREFONG for champion sprinter. The bay son of Gio Ponti is four-for-four on ...
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Miss Temple City prevails in Matriarch
Miss Temple City was sent off the 8-5 favorite in Sunday’s $302,070 Matriarch Stakes (G1) at Del Mar, and the popular filly lived up to all expectations with a hard-fought nose victory under Edgar Prado.
The dark bay miss tracked just a few hors ...
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Photo Gallery of 2016 Claiming Crown Winners
Claiming Crown Distaff Dash – SPECTACULAR ME
Claiming Crown Rapid Transit – SHAFT OF LIGHT
Claiming Crown Glass Slipper – TORMENTA DE ORO
Claiming Crown Express – DEFER HEAVEN
Claiming Crown Iron Horse ...
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Sound True hits a high note in Champions Cup
Edited Press Release
Hiroshi Yamada’s Sound True avenged a third-place finish in last year’s Champions Cup (Jpn-G1) when stealing away the 2016 title from race favorite Awardee in the last two strides.
Breaking smoothly from stall 8, Sound Tr ...
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Overnight Overtures With A Pair Of $30-Plus Winners And More Double-Digit Scores, Including Win And Place
The Western Pacing Derby was the main event at Northlands Park on Dec. 3. As we warned, the king of Alberta harness, Keith Clark, won with his even-money colt, Appellate. We gave readers the place horse, which was our second choice, Blue Star Jet ($7 ...
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Yonkers Offers Solid Overnight Card
Two races later on the card, Provocativeprince N (Stratton) also made an immediate impression in his United States debut when he raced first over down the backside, fanned three-wide around Macintosh N (Shaun Vallee) at the top of the lane and overha ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Sunday, December 4
Race 7 - 703 yards - Grade TAA - KL'S FARLEY - (2 box) What an incredibly talented runner we have here, he's only had 11 races in his career but has quickly and impressively gotten 6 wins among his 9 top four finishes. First time in Grade A, he ...
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Palm Beach Top 10 Rankings November 2016
*Big Red Dog*
Honorable Mention
Big Red Dog, Pepper Cream, Janice Dean, Quick Reserve, O Ya Sunflower, Nb's Incredible, Bl Destiny, Amf Ex Queen, O Ya Maybelline, JS Tim Tation, Wicked Twista, Connie Stevens, Barts RockTheBoat, PJ Sm ...
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Tepin surpasses Flintshire and neither Found nor Highland Reel deserve an Eclipse Award
The title alone is probably going to get me in trouble, but please hold off with the skewering until you read my reasoning.
Turf Male – Flintshire, Twilight Eclipse, Ashleyluvssugar
This one is pretty short, but honestly, who doesn’t like FL ...
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Annals of Time rallies to earn first stakes win in Hollywood Derby
Annals of Time found a seam in the stretch and closed boldly to win going away in Saturday’s $300,000 Hollywood Derby (G1) at Del Mar, notching his first stakes victory with a 1 ½-length decision in the 1 1/8-mile turf affair for 3-year-olds.
Ja ...
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Vale Dori lives up to 1-2 favoritism in Bayakoa
Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al Maktoum’s Vale Dori was sent off the 1-2 favorite against seven rivals in Satuday’s $201,035 Bayakoa Handicap (G2) at Del Mar and easily scored a three-length victory under jockey Mike Smith.
The Bob Baffert-traine ...
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Highway Star shines in Go for Wand Handicap
Chester and Mary Broman’s homebred Highway Star rallied between rivals in Saturday’s $250,000 Go for Wand Handicap (G3) at Aqueduct to score a nose victory in a photo finish over High Ridge Road and Wonder Gal.
The Rodrigo Ubillo-trained daughte ...
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Lani faces half-brother and stablemate Awardee in tough Champions Cup
U.A.E. Derby (UAE-G2) hero and Belmont Stakes (G1) third-placer Lani will be sporting blinkers when he lines up Sunday at Chukyo Racecourse in the Champions Cup (Jpn-G1), formerly known as the Japan Cup Dirt.
The 1800-meter contest is in its thi ...
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Shapiro’s analysis of Del Mar’s closing-day Pick 6
by Scott Shapiro
Sunday marks the final day of the Bing Crosby meeting at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club and with that comes a mandatory payout in the Pick 6.
The exact amount up for grabs will be determined after the completion of the meet’s p ...
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East Coast longshots in play in Hollywood Derby
The East Coast contingent looms large in Saturday’s Hollywood Derby (G1). California’s 3-year-old turf division has been a mess all year, with former claimer Free Rose upsetting the La Jolla (G3) and Del Mar Derby (G2) before Frank Conversation poste ...
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Harness Racing Champions About to be Determined
Aged pacer - Throughout the season, Always B Miki and Wiggle It Jiggleit traded blows on the track and took turns occupying the top spot in the weekly Hambletonian Society Top 10 poll. Wiggle It Jiggleit, the 2015 harness horse of the year, concluded ...
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Final Stakes of the Zia Park Live Racing Season Set for Sunday
Imperial Eagle is the 3-1 morning line choice for Sunday's feature at Zia Park From seven starts in his freshman season, All American Futurity (G1) winner Imperial Eagle is the high money earner in the field with four wins and two seconds, b ...
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TwinSpires to Sponsor California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Awards
TwinSpires to Sponsor California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Awards in SAN FRANCISCO, December 6, 2016 – TwinSpires, the online advance deposit wagering website.
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Will the 2016 champion two-year-old filly please stand up
Okay, champion juvenile male was pretty easy to determine but the two-year-old filly division…still waiting on that one.
Two-Year-Old Male – Classic Empire, Not This Time, Practical Joke
I’m going to have to go with the Breeders’ Cup Juvenil ...
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Weekend Feature Races
Another exciting weekend of action here at bestbet Jacksonville. Loads of talent on tap over 550 and 660 yards, and as always, a little something for everyone. Some evenly matched up races, along with some stand out stars, and you get a good mix of c ...
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Penn Derby attains Grade 1 status for 2017; Wood, Blue Grass drop to Grade 2s
Edited Press Release
The American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association on Friday presented its listing of U.S. Graded and Listed Stakes Races for 2017, the results of its annual grading session conducted Nov ...
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Yonkers and Meadowlands Offer Solid Friday and Saturday Night Cards
That same evening at Yonkers Raceway, a competitive group will go postward in the $45,000 Open Handicap for pacing fillies and mares slated as the eighth race on the program. Mach It A Par (Jordan Stratton) and Krispy Apple (Jason Bartlett) were ass ...
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Compete in HUGE $20k, $15k & $5k Contests This Weekend!
MEADOWLANDS CONTESTS -
WEEKEND HARNESS ACTION
Thousands are dollars are at stake in guaranteed Harness handicapping contests featuring Meadowlands this Friday & Saturday! $1,000 Meadowlands Friday Game & $2,000 Meadowlands Saturday ...
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Miss Temple City draws far outside post against 11 rivals in Matriarch
Twelve distaffers were entered in Sunday’s $300,000 Matriarch Stakes (G1) on the closing day of Del Mar’s Bing Crosby Meet, and Miss Temple City will break from the far outside post in her first start since running fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Mile ( ...
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Connect, Gun Runner flatter Arrogate; Aqueduct observations
By Dick Powell
I can’t prove it but the Aqueduct main track, which concludes this Sunday for the switch to the inner dirt, seemed slow throughout the meet. Running times seemed to be off and speed did not seem to hold well.
It was not a stark ...
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Kentucky Downs winners Cammack, Daddy’s Boo head strong Kentucky contingent to Claiming Crown
by Jennie Rees
Kentucky will be well-represented among the 118 horses entered in Saturday’s nine Claiming Crown races at Gulfstream Park, including the impressive winners of Kentucky Downs’ pair of $75,000 automatic-qualifier preps in Cammack a ...
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Claiming Crown kicks off Gulfstream Park Championship Meet
Edited Press Release
Gulfstream Park’s Championship Meet kicks off Saturday with the 18th edition of the $1.1 million Claiming Crown, a nine-stakes showcase for horses that started for a claiming price at least once.
This is the fifth straigh ...
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Move the Jockey Club Gold Cup to Saratoga
With news via The Paulick Report that the Pennsylvania Derby is likely to receive Grade 1 status, the New York Racing Association should move the Jockey Club Gold Cup to the final week at Saratoga both as a sort of summer championship for the older ...
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Arrogate, Songbird shoe-ins for Eclipse Awards
With the big one out of the way, i.e. Horse of the Year, now comes my nominees and picks for the 2016 sophomore division.
Three-Year-Old Male – Arrogate, Nyquist, Exaggerator
This is a bit tougher. Not in terms of who to give the award to, b ...
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Contest Neophyte Turns to Gutfreund, Replays to Capture TwinSpires Online Handicapping Championship
Paul Fishman used his experiences as a financial advisor and lifelong horseplayer to outlast 558 entrants and claim the 6 th annual TwinSpires Online Handicapping Championship . He will be one of 15 players representing TwinSpires.com at the $2.5-m ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - December's 5 Up & Coming Young Greyhounds to Watch
potential to be Southland stars. As many of our regular readers probably know, the only requirement that I use in selecting the 5 up and coming young greyhounds to watch each month is that they have had no more then 10 official starts prior to bein ...
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