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Sweet Loretta, Pretty City Dancer produce first ever Spinaway dead heat
The historic Spinaway (G1) at Saratoga, first run in 1881 and having its 125th edition on Saturday, recorded its first ever dead heat when two daughters of Tapit, Sweet Loretta and Pretty City Dancer, reached the wire together after seven furlongs. ...
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Inspector Lynley puts all pieces together in Saranac
Stuart S. Janney and Phipps Stable’s Inspector Lynley didn’t have the best of trips when a closing third in the July 16 Kent (G3) at Delaware Park, but the promising turf sophomore enjoyed much better luck in Saturday’s $300,000 Saranac (G3) at Sar ...
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Scully: Cash Control, Ancient Warfare attractive singles in Kentucky Downs All-Stakes Pick 4
Kentucky Downs offers an all-stakes Pick 4 on the final four races Saturday (7-10) and I’ll build my tickets utilizing a pair of singles: Cash Control in the Ladies Turf and Ancient Warfare in the Juvenile.
The Ladies Turf kicks off the sequen ...
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Five things to know for Woodward Day
From top older males on dirt to turf performers to promising two-year-olds, Woodward Day at Saratoga has it all.
Here are five things to know about Saturday at the Spa:
1. Frosted hopes to become the first to turn the Metropolitan H. (G1), Whi ...
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Del Mar Futurity pits Fire versus Aces, Klimt
The phrase “small but select field” can be overused, especially when it’s just small and not so select, but the line rings true for Monday’s $300,000 Del Mar Futurity (G1) . Although only six are entered, the race serves as a proper showdown for the ...
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Lady Shipman marquee attraction in Philly on Labor Day
There are more lucrative races with deeper fields on Monday's card at Parx, but the featured performer of the day, Lady Shipman , will ply her trade in the $200,000 Turf Amazon H. The five-furlong Turf Amazon is the first of four stakes on the Lab ...
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Bitumen, Classic Empire square off in Hopeful
The curtain comes down at Saratoga on Labor Day, but the play’s just beginning for a cast of seven promising juveniles entered in Monday’s 112th running of the $350,000 Hopeful (G1) .
Protagonists include Sanford (G3) victor Bitumen (pictured), B ...
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Horses to Watch at Randwick for King of Australia Final Round
In Friday night's Final Round of the King of Australia contest, 544 TwinSpires.com account holders will square off to determine who will win a trip for two to the Melbourne Cup (G1) on November 1, plus assorted other prizes.
Official, detailed ...
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Out Cap Da Shap Daily Pick 4 tickets
Scott Shapiro's Late Pick 4 Tickets at Del Mar
All tickets will be placed for the base value of 50 cents and will be posted after early scratches
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
After missing out on the Wednesday and Thursday Pick 4’s, ...
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Something for Everyone
The weekend is upon us once again here at bestbet Jacksonville, and to our chagrin, we have cards loaded with talent over 550, 660, and even 770 yards. Loads of great greyhounds to wager on, and no matter your personal preference, we have you covered ...
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Slumpbustertember? Turning the calendar page to break out of wagering slump
This is a great weekend to exercise our handicapping skills with the hopes of exorcising some demons.
I’m in a slump—a historically bad slump. I’ve tracked every bet on horse racing I’ve made since January 1, 2010, and the good news is there have ...
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How to Wager on the Del Mar Debutante
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
Saturday’s feature at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club is the Del Mar Debutante (G1).
Fox Hill Farms’ Songbird won last year’s rendition en route to the Eclipse Award for champion two-year-old filly. While it is doubtful that any ...
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Michelle Yu's Picks for the All American Futurity
Two year old races are tricky because you don't know who will show up, who will bounce and who is just figuring it all out. Based on the way he won I have to use The Marfa Lights on top because if he figures out what racing is all about he ...
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Stellar Saturday cards at Mohawk Raceway and Yonkers Raceway on tap
Saturday night a pair of races just past the midway point of the card at Yonkers will enable the three-year-old colts of oth gaits to garner the spotlight. The eighth race is the Grade I, $500,000 Yonkers Trot for three-year-old colt trotters, the m ...
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All American Futurity and All American Derby Set for This Weekend
Apolltical Chad, shown winning the Ruidoso Futurity, is the favorite for Monday's All American Futurity The draw for the 2016 All American Futurity took place on Thursday with Apolltical Chad, the Ruidoso Futurity winner set as the 5-2 favorite ...
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Overflow field in contentious Del Mar Derby; Sobradora Inc tops Mabee
The final Sunday of Del Mar’s summer meet features a pair of Grade 2 turf stakes. The $250,000 Del Mar Derby (G2) has attracted an overflow field of 16, led by the winners of the first two legs of the sophomore turf series, Monster Bea (pictured) a ...
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Breeders Cup Classic Rankings Top 5 with Personal Odds
5. Melatonin - 12/1
After watching his Holllywood Gold Cup win this past June again, one word comes to mind: guts. This horse is one gutsy animal. Guts will only get you so far when you're facing monsters like California Chrome, Arrogate and B ...
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How to Bet the Woodward
By DAVE LITFIN
Five horses showed up to chase Frosted in the $1.25 million Whitney (G1), but four weeks after a comprehensive victory he now faces eight challengers for less than half the money in Saturday’s Woodward (G1).
Go figure.
Anot ...
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Powell analyzes Arrogate's 'jaw-dropping' Travers
by DICK POWELL
Thank goodness I am not a track announcer. Besides having been stuck with a voice that would be hard for racing fans to understand, I am liable to say anything. So when ARROGATE (Unbridled’s Song) drew off in the stretch to win the ...
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Mohawk Scorched With Talent On Metro Pace Program; Yonkers Presents ‘Trot’ And Messenger
Saturday, Sept. 3, delivers big Labor Day Weekend stakes. At Mohawk, two-year-old pacers take the spotlight in the annual Metro Pace and the She’s A Great Lady finals. The latter marks the return of Thats The Ticket, last week’s monumental pick that ...
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Battle Beckons Big-Boy Pacers; Green Gals Trot For Big Bucks
This week, the Breeders Crown Countdown addresses the older male pacing division and the freshman filly trotters.
Older pacers face another huge purse while competing against most of the same foes they’ve faced through the season when Mohawk p ...
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How we're betting the 2016 Kentucky Downs meeting
Kentucky Downs is utterly unique as a racetrack in North America, but handicapping this all-turf racecourse in bucolic Kentucky does not require a unique approach to handicapping.
Kentucky Downs begins its five-day all-turf meeting on Saturday, Se ...
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Kentucky Downs opens 5-day run with full fields & a quartet of lucrative stakes
Featuring low takeout and record purses, Kentucky Downs begins its popular five-day run on Saturday with a 10-race card packed with horses. A staggering 136 horses were entered for the opening-day program at the turf-only venue featuring an undulatin ...
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American Cleopatra tops Del Mar Debutante
A field of seven has been entered in Saturday’s $300,000 Del Mar Debutante (G1) going seven furlongs, but all eyes will be on one filly making her stakes bow in the race.
That filly would be American Cleopatra, a full sister to Triple Crown cham ...
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Sweet Loretta, Pretty City Dancer among seven entered for Spinaway
Seven juvenile fillies are set to line up in Saturday’s $350,000 Spinaway Stakes (G1) at Saratoga, and two of those already bring a stakes win into the seven-furlong affair.
That would be Sweet Loretta and Pretty City Dancer, who captured the Sc ...
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Frosted seeks third straight Grade 1 win in Woodward
With startling, eye-catching performances from California Chrome and Arrogate the last two weeks, connections now have an idea what kind of competition lies ahead for Frosted two months from now in the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). On Saturday, the G ...
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Arrogate bounce discussion inevitable, sprint stars also on display
Arrogate’s Travers (G1) stretch run was a thing of beauty as the lightly-raced colt stretched a short lead into a 13 ½-length tour de force, smashing the 37-year-old track record as he completed 1 ¼ miles in 1:59.36. The Bob Baffert-trained son of Un ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Wednesday, August 31
was going to be keeping up with 3 or 4 different Southland kennels each week and checking results from several days each week. People have often asked me over the years if it pays off to keep up with the them and my answer has always been yes, it de ...
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McLaughlin stars peaking at the same time
One of the best in his craft for a long time, Kiaran McLaughlin has endured a ton of success in his training career, saddling graded stakes winners for more than 20 years. The 55-year-old conditioner has been lucky enough to train sensational runners ...
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Debut runners prominent in Del Mar Horses to Watch list
Del Mar Horses to Watch
Thursday (8/25)
BITZKA enjoyed a dream trip in her debut, sitting in third behind a dueling pair, but I still came away impressed with her closing run as the two-year-old filly won going away beneath Chantal Sutherl ...
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Arrogate’s Travers victory earns Brisnet.com’s Highest Rating Ever
Arrogate won the $1.25-million Travers Stakes on Saturday August 27, at Saratoga Race Course. In doing so, he not only defeated the top 3-year-olds of 2016 but also all other horses who have raced since January 1, 1990, when Brisnet.com started assig ...
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Shapiro: How one big score can make a meet or season
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
Being an everyday horizontal horseplayer takes patience and knowledge that you will lose your daily budget much more frequently than you will add to it. However, it just takes one or two big days a year to turn an annual p ...
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With Anticipation, P.G. Johnson put spotlight on turf-oriented juveniles
Turf-oriented two-year-olds will take center stage midweek at Saratoga with Wednesday's $200,000 With Anticipation (G2) and Thursday's $100,000 P.G. Johnson for fillies potentially yielding a contender or more for the Breeders' Cup in two months ...
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Jockey Esgar Ramirez Aims for His Second All American Futurity Win
Esgar Ramirez rode Mr Piloto to victory in the 2010 All American Futurity "He was wide, but moving very well," recalled Ramirez. "Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the seven (Dominyun), but I never got anxious." It is the dream of every Quart ...
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Nyquist, Exaggerator to meet again in Penn Derby, but will it ultimately mean anything?
If everything falls into place, Nyquist and Exaggerator will face each other for a fifth time this year on September 24 in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G2) at Parx. As exciting a prospect as that would have sounded not too long ago, the questio ...
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Jockey, trainer races at Del Mar should come down to the wire
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
With just one week to go at the Del Mar 2016 summer meeting both the jockey and trainer titles are still up for grabs. Both will likely come down to next week's six-day racing schedule that concludes on Labor Day.
Fla ...
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Palm Beach Weekly Wrap Up 8/28/2016
That's all we have for this week. See you next time for the Wrap Up!
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Monday, August 29
start of August, I was going to be keeping up with 3 or 4 different Southland kennels each week and checking results from several days each week. People have often asked me over the years if it pays off to keep up with the them and my answer has alw ...
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Arrogate: the quintessence of a late-blooming superstar
Arrogate had his supporters in Saturday’s $1.25 million Travers (G1) but nobody could anticipate the scale of greatness at Saratoga. The sublime 13 ½-length, track record-setting victory is arguably the best performance in the 147-year history of the ...
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Season’s Highest Price From ‘Lady’ Winner At $119; Obrigado Best Trotter With $14 Score; 45-Percent In-The-Money Total
Two days of features and horses to watch (H2W) produced tepid win situations even with many contenders hitting the board but anything would have been overshadowed by the lucrative performance of a filly in the first of two She’s A Great Lady el ...
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Arrogate smashes track record in Travers runaway
Story & photos by Teresa Genaro
In the 147th Travers on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, some of the horses did what their form would suggest they would, and some didn’t. Laoban went to the lead, like he was supposed to, and Arrogate was t ...
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The dissimilarities of internationals at The Spa
by Ron Flatter
They both came to America with group wins from overseas. Both carried the ambitions of the Arab royalty that own them. And they are both six-year-olds in training with stud careers in their long-term future.
But for Flintshire a ...
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Lady Eli foiled in Ballston Spa – by Strike Charmer, and by tactics?
In advance of Saturday’s $400,000 Ballston Spa (G2) at Saratoga, I kept trying to tamp down my own expectations about Lady Eli’s comeback. Just getting here was a moral victory in itself, after a near-fatal attack of laminitis last summer. Surely i ...
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Travers 2016 Transcript & Quotes
147TH TRAVERS STAKES TRANSCRIPT
August 27, 2016
John Chandler
Mike Smith
Bob Baffert
THE MODERATOR: Good evening, everybody. On behalf of the New York Racing Association, we'd like to welcome the connections of the 147th run ...
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Nyquist Still Leads Three-Year-Old Male Division Even After Arrogate's Scintillating Travers Victory
In arrogating the Travers Stakes, Arrogate is in a position to arrogate the three-year-old male division and even Horse of the Year.
Arrogate was 11-to-1 when winning the Travers Stakes on Saturday, August 27, at Saratoga Race Course, and would pr ...
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A. P. Indian much the best in Forego
A. P. Indian made short work of nine rivals in Saturday's $700,000 Forego (G1) , thus sweeping both of Saratoga's Grade 1 sprints for older horses and punching a ticket to the TwinSpires.com Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) at Santa Anita November 5.
Un ...
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Flintshire lives up to expectations in Sword Dancer
As just about everyone’s single, Flintshire justified 1-5 favoritism with an emphatic repeat victory in Saturday’s Sword Dancer Invitational (G1) at Saratoga. The Juddmonte homebred retained his position as the divisional leader ahead of the Breede ...
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Cavorting dances to Personal Ensign score
Stonestreet Stables’ Cavorting earned her third straight graded victory when taking Saturday’s $695,000 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1) at Saratoga by a half-length under jockey Javier Castellano.
The duo settled in the rear of the five-distaffer fi ...
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Drefong dazzles in King’s Bishop
Drefong sped to the lead at the break and dominated Saturday’s $500,000 King’s Bishop (G1) at Saratoga, establishing himself as a serious Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) prospect for Bob Baffert in his stakes debut. A winner of four straight from five ca ...
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Haveyougoneaway takes Ballerina to sweep Spa sprints for fillies and mares
Haveyougoneaway made it a clean sweep of Saratoga's graded sprint offerings for fillies and mares with a 10-1 upset of Saturday's $500,000 Ballerina (G1) .
Not only did the five-year-old daughter Congrats add the Ballerina to a prior win in the ...
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How to Bet the Torrey Pines
by Scott Shapiro
The penultimate Sunday of the Del Mar summer meeting is upon us and the feature is the Grade 3 Torrey Pines Stakes. The one-mile event for three-year-old fillies is conducted over the main track and is headlined by undefeated Cali ...
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Travers News & Notes
A full field of 14 was drawn for the 147th running of the Travers Stakes (G1) on Saturday at Saratoga, and the star-studded group includes Preakness Stakes (G1) and Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) winner Exaggerator and Belmont Stakes (G1) victor Cr ...
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Mucciolo: Destin-ed to win the Travers
It is hard for me to go against Exaggerator in Saturday’s $1.25 million Travers S. (G1) at Saratoga after his fine win in the Haskell Invitational (G1) where I thought he might be a race short but still pulled clear late, but it is also hard to swall ...
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Seven things to know for Travers Day
In light of Saturday’s blockbuster card at Saratoga, “five things to know” just can’t be enough. So we’ll make it a list of seven, one for each stakes on an action-packed Travers Day.
1. A Travers (G1) victory by Exaggerator would go a long ...
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Tonight’s Run to the Rose: Winx’s half-brother, Godolphin quartet, Star Turn
One week after supermare Winx kicked off her Australian season with a scintillating win in the Warwick (G2) at Randwick, her younger half-brother, El Divino , contests Friday night’s Run to the Rose (G2) at Rosehill. A prep for the Golden Rose (G1), ...
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Saratoga Hosts Stellar Card on Saturday
Preakness Stakes and Haskell Invitational Exaggerator (Kent Desormeaux) looms as the 3-1 choice in the Travers, but onlookers are weary of his fast track form. Granted, he did finished second to Nquist in the Kentucky Derby over a fast Churchill D ...
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Scully: Gift Box in Travers, three value plays on undercard
Saturday's $1.25 million Travers (G1) doesn’t have the star appeal of last year with American Pharoah, but it’s a much better betting race. And outside of the Sword Dancer (G1) with Flintshire, the undercard is dynamite as well for horseplayers.
I ...
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Quarter Horse Triple Stakes Action Saturday at Indiana Grand
Coco Beach will run in the QHRAI Stallion Service Auction Derby at Indiana Grand But he throws down the gauntlet with six qualifiers to the $192,739.00 QHRAI Stallion Service Auction (SSA) Futurity, which in its 17th running, boasts a record ...
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Is California Chrome One of the Greats? Yes!
2016 Pacific Classic - This solidified California Chrome's greatness in my mind. The race occurred about a week ago. Yes, if Beholder or Dortmund had gone with Chrome, things may have turned out differently. This is especially true for Beholder who ...
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Hanson: Several in Travers Day Grade 1 stakes pique interest
A blockbuster Travers Day program at Saratoga on Saturday includes a difficult all-Grade 1 Pick 6, difficult that is except for the Sword Dancer Invitational (G1), where I presume most will rightly single FLINTSHIRE (#6, 1-5). While I probably won't ...
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Shapiro’s Travers Day $1 million guaranteed All-Stakes Pick 4 Analysis
BY SCOTT SHAPIRO
Saturday is Travers Stakes Day at Saratoga Race Course and wow did the New York Racing Association put together an amazing card.
The Grade 1 events commence in Race 6 with the Personal Ensign for fillies and mares and run thro ...
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Red Hot Races This Weekend
Back at it again at bestbet Jacksonville with some of the best greyhounds here in the feature races for this weekend. We have top grade events over 550 and 660 yards and we get another Marathon in the mix for those of you that like the added, added d ...
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One Mean Man takes show on the road to Canterbury for Mystic Lake Derby
Not only is Saturday the biggest day of the Saratoga meet, but Canterbury Park in Minnesota also has one of the richest days of its season that evening. Conveniently, there is no overlap among the two cards with first post at Canterbury scheduled for ...
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Play 2016 Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge online exclusively with TwinSpires
Edited Press Release
The Breeders’ Cup, in conjunction with TwinSpires.com , Friday announced that for the first time fans can now register and play online in the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge (BCBC), exclusively with Twinspir ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Friday, August 26
start of August, I was going to be keeping up with 3 or 4 different Southland kennels each week and checking results from several days each week. People have often asked me over the years if it pays off to keep up with the them and my answer has alw ...
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A tribute to Shared Belief
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
Thoroughbred racing has been fortunate of late to have several extremely talented and well-accomplished runners. On Friday afternoon, Del Mar remembers the career of the one of the most gifted this decade with the running of the ...
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Monaco could be Pletcher’s next big one
Tough to dub a horse a ‘star’ before he or she ever steps foot on the racetrack, but I have a hunch we will see a fine performance from a Todd Pletcher first-time starter in Saturday’s opener. In what appears to be a loaded maiden field, MONACO wil ...
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Litfin: How to Bet the Travers
by DAVE LITFIN
Those who make it through five races of Saturday's all-Grade 1 $250,000 pick six or the first three of the $1 million pick four at Saratoga must still come up with the Travers winner to collect.
Even with Flintshire, whose pictu ...
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Powell looks for Creator to rebound in Travers
by DICK POWELL
This Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, one of the best racecards ever assembled at the historic venue will be run. From top to bottom, the races are deep and talented and they provide both quality and quantity for the horseplayer t ...
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Genaro previews Travers Day
by TERESA GENARO
There was no way this year’s Travers (G1) would get the buzz that last year’s did, when American Pharoah descended on Saratoga Springs like a visiting head of state and was treated accordingly. No Triple Crown winner this y ...
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Why is everyone picking against Exaggerator to win the Travers Stakes?
Here is the list of three-year-old males who have won three Grade 1 races this year:
1. Exaggerator
Not much of a list.
Here is a list of Grade 1 winners in this year’s Travers Stakes (click link for FRE ...
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Palm Beach Top 10 Racing Names 2016
"Kid Dynamite" Superior Tyson Honorable Mention ToSheetzToDaWind, Barts Iron Paws, B's Ben Dover, BartsHelloImLate, JS Jet Pack, Blazing Pandora, JS RedneckNation, Donald Trump, KawPeeWrite, CRT Full Of It, Killer Happy, BeFastOrBeLast, Whir ...
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Metro Pace Elims Highlighted At Mohawk; Top Aged Fields Fire At Vernon On Stakes-Filled Weekend
August winds down with more money-driven miles, stakes aplenty north and south of the border, as division leaders and spoilers aim toward the championships. At Mohawk, eliminations for another huge race card include three eliminations for the prestig ...
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Three Divisions Preps Move Yonder To Yonkers
Saturday, Aug. 27 at Yonkers Raceway presents the finals of the $118,574 Hudson Filly Trot (soph-filly trotters) and $109,050 Lady Maud (sofp-filly pacers) as well as the $40,000 elimination for the Yonkers Trot (soph-colt trotters).
The Hudso ...
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Wavell Avenue, Carina Mia star in Ballerina
While the Personal Ensign Stakes (G1), which kicks off the Saturday stakes action on Travers Day 2016, looks pretty well matched, the $500,000 Ballerina Stakes (G1) one race later is a bit murkier. The seven-furlong sprint drew 10 runners, includin ...
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Personal Ensign attracts well-matched field of five
Five distaffers will take their place in the Saratoga starting gate for Saturday’s $750,000 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1) on the Travers undercard, and any one of the quintuplet could end up in the winner’s circle in the end.
I’m a Chatterbox drew ...
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Mohaymen turns back in King’s Bishop, A.P. Indian seeks fifth straight in Forego
Fourth in the Kentucky Derby (G1) two starts ago, Mohaymen will turn back to a sprint for the first time since his juvenile season when he lines up for the $500,000 King’s Bishop (G1) at Saratoga. The gray Tapit colt tops a nice field of 13 3-yea ...
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Appearances by Flintshire, Lady Eli bookend Travers
Appearances by the country's leading older turf male and a beloved filly making a remarkable return to the races will bookend Saturday's Travers (G1) at Saratoga. Flintshire will look to make it three-for-three this season in the $1 million Sword ...
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A look at the Travers 5 without Triple Crown experience
For only the second time in its 147-year history, the $1.25 million Travers (G1) will feature a full field of 14. And most names are familiar, with nine entrants competing in Triple Crown races this spring, including Preakness (G1) winner Exaggerator ...
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Yonkers Hosts Solid Saturday Night Card
Doctor Butch, who competed in the Quillen two years ago, arrives with a solid 4-7-5 slate and $160,000 bankroll from 25 starts this year and will leave from post four. McArdles Lightning ended the Meadowlands meet on a roll, taking his last two start ...
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To Favorite or Not To Favorite
When a contest player breaks down a contest to its simplest form, it really is all about decisions. Whether it be what contest to play on a given day to what handicapping information to use, making decisions, right or wrong, will dictate most aspects ...
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Exaggerator receives post 7, early 3-1 favorite in 14-horse Travers
Exaggerator will try to strengthen his hold upon divisional honors in Saturday’s $1.25 million Travers (G1) , but the three-time Grade 1 winner will face no shortage of challengers in a capacity 14-horse field at Saratoga. The Keith Desormeaux-trai ...
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Horses to watch at Warwick Farm for King of Australia contest
Although I was humbled when my latter two selections backed out after setting the pace over soft ground, it was still a profitable evening last Friday at Randwick when Divine Prophet kicked things off with a last-to-first rally to narrowly take t ...
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SOUTHLAND preview - Wednesday, August 24
It's week 4 of MoneyMaker Mike's short kennel study that is being done this month and I'm going with 3 more kennels which you will find listed below. The entries have been posted for the Wednesday and Thursday performances and I've listed the kenne ...
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Harmonize, Time and Motion impress on both coasts
We saw two of the best horses in training appear on opposite coasts on Saturday and neither disappointed. Champion California Chrome roared home a sublime winner of the Pacific Classic (G1) at Del Mar, while the otherworldly Songbird strolled home to ...
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Prairie Meadows Kicked off its 2016 live Quarter Horse Meet Last Weekend
Ajs High, who has won two Bank of America Challenge stakes, is expected to return to action on September 17 Prairie Meadows will also host four regional Bank of America Challenge Championship races on Saturday, September 17, led by the 440-ya ...
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California Chrome’s Pacific Classic invokes memories of Ghostzapper’s Breeders’ Cup Classic
California Chrome deserves all the accolades for a grand performance in Saturday’s Pacific Classic (G1) at Del Mar, dominating from the outset in a five-length romp. His journey over the last couple of seasons has been remarkable.
Winner of the 20 ...
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Breeders’ Cup implications aplenty from York’s Ebor Festival
Potential contenders for several Breeders’ Cup races advanced their claims during last week’s Ebor Festival at York. Trying to pinpoint who’ll end up going where is a moving target, as it were, but these are the most salient points to emerge from the ...
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Bob Le Beau strong favorite to repeat in NY Turf Writers Cup
Although there may have been some anxious moments when he had 19 length-deficit to make up, Bob Le Beau did so and more when taking the A.P. Smithwick Memorial (G1) earlier this month. On Thursday, the nine-year-old will go for a sweep of Saratoga' ...
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Even without Firing Line, Brubaker divisions hold intrigue
Smart Transition photo courtesy NYRA/Coglianese Photography
Del Mar’s traditional opening day feature, the Oceanside S., wasn’t split this year, but in an historical novelty, Wednesday’s Harry F. Brubaker has proven popular enough to warrant two ...
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Chrome's Classic performance increasingly rare in historically marquee division
There is not much to add in the way of adjectives to describe California Chrome's performance in Saturday's Pacific Classic (G1), but there are few takeaways from the race.
The manner of his victory should not have come as a surprise. Even taking ...
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Palm Beach Weekly Wrap Up 8/21/2016
That's all we have for this week. See you next time for the Wrap Up! ...
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Maryland-breds earn the spotlight on Saturday
Saturday afternoon was "Maryland Pride Day" at Laurel Park as the 11-race card was designed specifically for Maryland-bred/sired runners perhaps looking to get an early prep for the upcoming Maryland Million card over the same venue on October 22. Bu ...
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Time catches up with Glimpse in Lake Placid
Time gets all of us in the end, and thanks to a Hall of Fame ride by John Velazquez, Time and Motion finally nabbed Catch a Glimpse in Sunday’s $300,000 Lake Placid (G2) at Saratoga. Thus the 3-5 favorite suffered her first career loss on turf, by ...
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Midnight Storm wires Del Mar Mile
A Venneri Racing Inc. and Little Red Feather Racing’s Midnight Storm continued his winning ways on Sunday with a half-length victory in the Del Mar Mile Handicap (G1) under jockey Rafael Bejarano.
The Phil D’Amato-trained five-year-old was sent ...
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Shapiro: Pacific Classic a one-horse race from start to finish
Photo & story by Scott Shapiro
A lifetime best Brisnet Speed figure of 112 in the Pacific Classic from California Chrome and a record all-sources handle at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club headlined a great day of racing on Saturday afternoon in ...
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Camp Creek sails to 26-1 upset in Breeders’ Stakes
Hillsbrook Farms’ Camp Creek broke his maiden on July 15 at Woodbine in his fourth career start, but it was also his first try on turf.
The gray gelding proved his love for the surface switch yet again on Sunday when upsetting Woodbine’s $389,433 ...
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Lady Aurelia workmanlike in Prix Morny
For the first time, Lady Aurelia had to work a little to secure Sunday’s Prix Morny (G1) at Deauville.
The Wesley Ward pupil had won her first two starts by a combined margin of 14 1/2 lengths – a track record-setting debut romp on the Keeneland d ...
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