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San Felipe comes up tough with Mor Spirit & Exaggerator as top draws
The most accomplished 3-year-old on the West Coast, Nyquist, will remain on the sidelines as he readies for a match-up with Mohaymen in the April 2 Florida Derby (G1), but Saturday’s $400,000 San Felipe (G2) at Santa Anita still has major Kentucky ...
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Effinex favored in soft renewal of the Big 'Cap
With most of the nation's leading older males either preparing for the Dubai World Cup (G1) later this month or presently sidelined, Saturday's renewal of the $1 million Santa Anita H. (G1) has come up rather soft. That might turn out to be good n ...
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Marquee Miss continues Oaklawn journey in Honeybee
Marquee Miss will go attempt to move her record to three-for-three on Saturday at Oaklawn Park when lining up against five rivals in the $200,000 Honeybee (G3) going 1 1/16 miles.
The bay daughter of Cowboy Cal is trying to sweep the three-year- ...
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Kentucky Derby Report (3/9); Shagaf grinds out Gotham
Shagaf rallied to a 1 ¼-length decision in Saturday’s Gotham (G3) at Aqueduct, remaining unbeaten in his third career start, and is now headed to the $1 million Wood Memorial (G1) on April 9.
The final time proved disappointing, nearly a second s ...
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Remington Park 2016 Quarter Horse Meet
Bv Midnite Express won the 2015 Heritage Place Futurity at Remington Park Visit remingtonpark.com for more information on upcoming stakes and special events. ...
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Ralis set to make seasonal bow in Rebel
Edited Press Release
Grade 1 winner Ralis will make his sophomore debut in the $900,000 Rebel (G2) on March 19 at Oaklawn Park, trainer Doug O'Neill said Tuesday night.
O'Neill said Mario Gutierrez will have the mount on the Southern Californ ...
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Shagaf overcomes bias in Gotham as speed mostly dominates on Aqueduct inner track
AQUEDUCT NOTEBOOK
There was a single graded event at Aqueduct this past week.
Gotham S. (G3) : Shadwell Stable’s homebred SHAGAF (Bernardini) moved three wide into the lane and finished best of all to remain unbeaten for conditioner Chad Brow ...
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Kentucky Derby Will Miss One True Star
5. Mo Tom - Watch the race. Pay attention to the 2-Mo Tom. Trip handicappers should be all over this guy. Mo Tom could have won this race if not for what many perceived as a speed bias in the Risen Star. What you have to like is how he went inside ...
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Zenyatta, Rachel Alexandra lead 10 nominees for Hall of Fame
Edited Press Release
Four jockeys, four Thoroughbreds and two trainers comprise the 10 finalists on the National Museum of Racing's 2016 Hall of Fame ballot, as selected by the Museum's Hall of Fame Nominating Committee. The finalists are: jockey ...
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Tuesday Opener at Rosecroft
When Rosecroft Raceway kicked off its 2016 spring meet on Tuesday evening, much of the focus was on a pair of races on the latter one-third of the card and a quartet of older pacers raced superbly over the Maryland five-eighths mile oval. A field of ...
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Celebrating John Henry’s birthday; a beloved Grand Warrior, Underdog & Horse with Attitude
BY TAMMY SITERS
Forty-one years ago, on March 9, 1975, a small, ill-tempered and unfashionably-bred colt was born on Golden Chance Farm in Paris, Kentucky. He was also born back at the knees, a fault which can make horses unable to handle the st ...
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Songbird continues to dominate like a superstar; ‘no idea how good she actually may be’
SANTA ANITA NOTEBOOK
A superstar topped the stakes action over the weekend of the winter/spring meeting at Santa Anita.
Santa Ysabel S. (G3) : Fox Hill Farms’ champion SONGBIRD (Medaglia d’Oro) sped to the lead and was never challenged in pos ...
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Polar River unlikely to contest Kentucky Oaks
The three-year-old filly Polar River, who has gained a worldwide following during her four-race career in Dubai, has essentially been ruled out of the $1 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) on May 6 by trainer Doug Watson.
Polar River has won her four race ...
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Get Away Day at Sam Houston Race Park
Today is closing day at Sam Houston Race Park, and it’s a corker of a 12 race card with an average of 11 entries per race.
For fans of multi-race wagers in particular, Sam Houston has an extremely friendly wagering menu with rolling doubles ...
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Racing mourning the loss of Norman Casse
Edited Press Release
The racing world is mourning the passing of Norman E. Casse after a long illness on Sunday at the age of 79. A co-founder of Ocala Breeders' Sales Company in 1974, he served as chairman of the OBS board for 28 years until ste ...
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Songbird favored at 3-1 on Kentucky Oaks Future Wager morning line
Edited Press Release
Fox Hill Farms ’ unbeaten 2-year-old filly champion Songbird (#18 ) is the solid favorite in a strong group of 3-year-old fillies listed as individual betting interests in the 2016 pool of Churchill Downs Racetrack’s Kentu ...
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Unbeaten Kentucky Derby contenders Mohaymen, Nyquist head Future Wager Pool 3
Edited Press Release
A pair of unbeaten stars in Shadwell Stable ’s Fountain of Youth (G2) winner Mohaymen (#13) and Reddam Racing LLC ’s reigning American 2-year-old champion Nyquist (#15) , the winner of the San Vicente (G2) at Santa Anita ...
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Which Palm Beach Final Is On Your Bucket List?
*Pat C Rendezvous*
If I could only choose one Final to be at, I'd have to go with the Derby. The history of it all and the longer distance just beams with excitement and is diffidently on my bucket list to attend.
Someday.
Which Stake ...
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Dover Card offers some fast miles
While Yonkers Raceway might offer the best overnight cards of the weekend on Saturday nights, the best program to kick off the work week begins each Monday evening at Dover Downs where pacers of all ages have the chance to display their ability for l ...
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Dubai Carnival beads: World Cup night landscape after Super Saturday, III
Concluding the discussion from Vol. I on the Dubai World Cup and Vol. II on the other dirt races ...
Postponed photo courtesy Dubai Racing Club/Andrew Watkins.
Thankfully, the Meydan turf course was a comparative haven on Super Saturday, ...
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Dubai Carnival beads: World Cup night landscape after Super Saturday, II
Continuing the discussion from Vol. I, focusing on the Dubai World Cup...
Polar River photo courtesy Dubai Racing Club/Andrew Watkins.
UAE DERBY
The 3-year-old male division has been weak all Carnival, an impression that wasn’t dispe ...
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Dubai Carnival beads: World Cup night landscape after Super Saturday, I
Special Fighter photo courtesy Dubai Racing Club/Andrew Watkins.
Super Saturday left more questions than answers on the dirt, thanks to a blatant track bias that not merely carried, but propelled, front runners on the inside. Anyone trying to imp ...
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The Kentucky Derby field: Will Points Ever Not Matter?
Maybe it’s the former editor in me or that I’m just a persnickety fusspot in general, but one of my pet peeves on the Triple Crown trail is anyone saying fillies have to “face males” to run in the Kentucky Derby.
People need to stop saying that f ...
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Joseph O'Brien calls it a day on riding career
Joseph O'Brien, a leading retained rider for Coolmore and his father, trainer Aidan O'Brien, has told Racing Post that his abbreviated career as a jockey is over.
The 22-year-old's career was always expected to be brief due to his height and wei ...
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Steve Asmussen's Top 5 Horses
5. Tapiture - Under jockey Rosie Napravnik, Tapiture was oh so close to taking home the Breeders cup Dirt Mile in 2014. Goldencents held off Tapiture, but, man, it was a close race! Some may believe that Tapiture doesn't belong on this list. I thin ...
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Five Grade 1s highlight Santa Anita spring meet; Vanity shortened
Edited Press Release
With the $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita (G1) poised to serve as its highlight, Santa Anita's 2016 Spring Meeting, which begins May 5 and runs through July 10, will offer fans and horsemen 34 stakes, with 16 graded events th ...
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Southland - Monday, March 7
What an exciting day it was at the Southland track as the 2016 SOUTHLAND "HOUND MADNESS STAKES" competition got underway on Sunday. There were 64 talented and hard running greyhounds who were entered and who were after the stakes title. I selecte ...
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Weekend Pick 3 Recap--3/7/16
Another race and another paid workout for Songbird who just continues to crush her foes. This race was almost a carbon copy of her last win where she goes to the front, receives not much pressure and then buries her competition on the turn. This time ...
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Cards at Dover Downs and Rosecroft
Warmer temperatures are expected to meet horses, drivers and fans on Monday and Tuesday as Dover Downs again offers another solid, lucrative Monday card and Rosecroft Raceway kicks off its 2016 winter-spring meet on Tuesday. A compact field of six o ...
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Older pacers continue to impress
As mentioned before, while many thoroughbred racing fans are scouting the various Triple Crown prep races to see which sophomore colts - or possibly fillies - might peak on the first Saturday in May, standardbred racing fans are following the numerou ...
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Unbeaten Shagaf doing well after Gotham win; Lady Eli continues training for comeback
Edited Press Release
Shadwell Stable's undefeated Gotham (G3) hero Shagaf came out his 1 1/4-length victory in good order, according to trainer Chad Brown at Aqueduct on Sunday afternoon.
"He looks great this morning, he ate up well," Brown r ...
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Sunland Derby, Oaks canceled: the effect on Kentucky Derby & Oaks points picture
Under quarantine since the cases of EHV-1 were diagnosed in January, Sunland Park is calling off its marquee races, as we know them, on the road to the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1).
The Blood-Horse ’s Jeremy Balan reports that the S ...
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Miami Valley’s $30 Winner Nabbed; Freehold Co-Favorites In $77 Pick 3; Tweets ‘Tween Blogs Continue
Again this week, Twinspires Twitter members were treated to special picks for Buffalo Raceway. The March 2 sextet of suggested contenders was tweeted from @FrankCotolo on Twitter and retweeted by @twinspires and @BuffaloRaceway. This week, one of six ...
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Grand Tito parlays good trip into Mac Diarmida victory
Grupo 7C Racing Stable’s Grand Tito surged to a clear lead off the far turn and easily withstood the late bid of Kaigun in Saturday’s $200,000 Mac Diarmida (G2) at Gulfstream Park, scoring by 1 ¼ lengths. Now a two-time graded stakes winner for tra ...
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Songbird turns Santa Ysabel into cakewalk
Perhaps somewhere, in an obscure dimension of alternate reality, or an unknowable corner of the multiverse, there was an upset in the $101,380 Santa Ysabel (G3) . But not in our universe.
Logic, form, and class reigned supreme as undefeated champ ...
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Saturday Meydan card proves revealing
Thoroughbred racing fans had to arise bright and early on Saturday morning to catch the Super Saturday card from Meydan Race Course in Dubai or perhaps wait until the early afternoon to watch the replays, but the seven-race program proved to be somew ...
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Blofeld catches Stanford in final jumps, returns to spotlight in Gulfstream Park H.
It took 16 months but Blofeld is back, displaying the winning form that made him such a heralded 2-year-old prospect in Saturday’s $500,000 Gulfstream Park H. (G2) . The 4-year-old colt was forced to the inside in upper stretch and rallied dete ...
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Shagaf overcomes speed-favoring track, takes Gotham
Shadwell Stable will enter the final round of Kentucky Derby (G1) preps next month in very solid shape after its undefeated colt Shagaf turned in an impressive stretch rally to take Saturday's $400,000 Gotham (G3) at Aqueduct.
By winning the 1 1 ...
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Mor Spirit tops San Felipe workers
Edited Santa Anita press release by Ed Golden
With the Man Upstairs set to unleash a deluge around 8 o’clock tonight, the Men Downstairs flooded the track with horses getting in their final major licks before next Saturday, when Santa Anita pres ...
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Olorda leads Brown trifecta in The Very One
Chad Brown-trained horses comprised half of the six-horse field, but all of the top three placings, in Saturday's $150,000 The Very One for fillies and mares at Gulfstream Park. Not only did Olorda defeat odds-on favored stablemate Dacita and anoth ...
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Special Fighter smashes track record as Keen Ice flops at Meydan
Special Fighter photo courtesy Dubai Racing Club/Andrew Watkins.
American shippers have underscored the quality of US dirt form over the course of the Dubai Carnival, but that trend was abruptly halted when Keen Ice was a distant seventh in Satur ...
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A Kentucky Derby Dream Bet on a Horse Without Kentucky Derby Dreams
Just because the connections of Withers Stakes winner Sunny Ridge don't have aspirations of going to the Kentucky Derby with their Holy Bull gelding doesn't mean those betting on him don't.
It's understandable that New Jersey racing stalwart Denni ...
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2016 Hound Madness Stakes Begins
Welcome to what is sure to be an exciting day of highly entertaining greyhound racing at the Southland track as the 2016 Southland "Hound Madness Stakes" competition gets underway on Sunday. There are 18 races on the program for the twilight card ...
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James Scully’s Kentucky Derby Dream Bet selection
The Editorial staff is playing along for fun in the $25,000 Kentucky Derby Dream Bet at TwinSpires.com and Saturday’s $400,000 Gotham (G3) at Aqueduct serves as the lone qualifier this weekend. Players need to cash a $15 win bet on one of the nin ...
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Meydan Offers Morning Card
Thoroughbred racing fans will have to rise at the crack of dawn on Saturday morning to catch the Super Saturday card at Meydan Race Course in Dubai. Saturday's seven-race card, designed as a prep for the ultra-lucrative Dubai World Cup card, will st ...
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The Dispatch Box: Flintshire comes to US; Solow, Duramente bound for Dubai
Flintshire photo courtesy of NYRA/Coglianese Photography/Susie Raisher .
Before getting into the victorious comebacks of Dubai World Cup night threats Duramente and Solow, I’ve got to comment on the international bombshell that was lobbed to US fa ...
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Kentucky Derby Dream Bet Gotham Stakes pick from Vance Hanson
After shooting fish in a barrel selecting Mohaymen to take last week's $400,000 Fountain of Youth (G2), the pressure is now off now to cash a $15 win bet to qualify for the final round of TwinSpires.com's $25,000 Kentucky Derby Dream Bet contest. ...
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Political Saturday Night at Los Alamitos
Leading Quarter Horse sire Apollitical Jess has four runners in Saturday's Elan Again Handicap Apollitical Jess was an AQHA Champion Quarter Horse. He is retired and as a stallion, producing excellent crops of runners. Four of his offspring wi ...
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Southland - Saturday, March 5
Welcome to another Saturday doubleheader of highly entertaining and exciting greyhound racing at Southland as there are 18 races on the program for both the matinee and evening cards for your viewing and wagering pleasure. This week MoneyMaker Mik ...
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Kellie Reilly picks the Gotham Stakes for Kentucky Derby Dream Bet
After siding with Gun Runner and Mohaymen in the first two races of the Kentucky Derby Dream Bet ’s Qualifying Round, the law of averages is bound to catch up with me in Saturday’s Gotham (G3) at Aqueduct. So consider that a reader warning, or for ...
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Effinex settles in at Santa Anita ahead of Big 'Cap
Edited Press Release
Effinex, the probable favorite for the $1 million Santa Anita H. (G1) on March 12, arrived safely from Florida early Thursday evening and was bedded down in trainer Eoin Harty's barn to prepare for the prestigious 1 1/4-mile ...
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Five underrated Gotham winners that should not be forgotten
Like most New York features the Gotham (G3), which will be renewed at Aqueduct on Saturday, has a rich and storied past. However, it's impact on the classics has lessened since the days when it preceded the Wood Memorial (G1) by two weeks and the Ken ...
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Meydan, Dubai, Saturday 3/5 Preview
[Meydan, 13.35] and he’s the pick. The official feature, the Group I Maktoum Challenge, has been contested by the eventual World Cup winner five times, and Godolphin have used it well. Therefore their Watershed [Meydan, 14.55] must be respected, ...
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Battaglia to hang up mic, takes role as Turfway Park Associate Vice President
Edited Press Release
Mike Battaglia, whose association with Turfway Park stretches back almost half a century, will step down from the announcer’s booth to assume the role of associate vice president at the Northern Kentucky Thoroughbred race tra ...
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Live Meydan Blog – Saturday, March 5th
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What I’m looking for on Dubai’s Super Saturday
The action-packed card at Meydan on “Super Saturday” can be approached two ways: first, for the betting opportunities at hand, and second, for its impact on the March 26 Dubai World Cup night blockbuster.
Let’s go methodically through the program ...
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Remembering the 1992 Gotham; ‘Lure & Devil His Due slugging it out for the entire mile’
The Road to the Kentucky Derby series takes another swing through Aqueduct Saturday for the $400,000 Gotham (G3), with a well-matched field of eight sophomores lining for the 1 1/16-mile test on the inner track.
Shagaf, a Bernardini colt who share ...
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SOUTHLAND - Friday, March 4
Welcome to another Friday doubleheader of highly entertaining and exciting greyhound racing at Southland as there are 18 races on the program for both the matinee and evening cards for your viewing and wagering pleasure. This week MoneyMaker Mike ...
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Mohaymen continues to answer every question; Bernardini represented by a pair of up-and-coming runners
BY DICK POWELL
MOHAYMEN (Tapit), once again, answered every question posed to him in last Saturday’s Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) at Gulfstream Park and right now, he looks unstoppable on his march to the Kentucky Derby (G1).
What will make t ...
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Geroux believes Da Big Hoss can compete anywhere in the U.S.
Edited Press Release
Jockey Florent Geroux believes that Da Big Hoss, winner of last September’s $600,000 Kentucky Turf Cup (G3) at Kentucky Downs, can compete with any horse in the country at 1 1/2 miles on turf.
The 5-year-old son of Lemon ...
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NTRA announces dates for Eclipse Awards, NHC
Edited Press Release
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) on Thursday announced the dates for next year’s renewals of its marquee events, with the 46 th Annual Eclipse Awards set for January 21 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale ...
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The day Hialeah served chicken with its Flamingo
They mercilessly booed the horses, owners, trainers, and jockeys for the better part of half an hour. Even Bing Crosby, on hand to present the winning trophy, was not immune to the vitriol of the disgruntled 30,011 in attendance on a gorgeous, 80-deg ...
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Horse Racing Free Picks among great TwinSpires.com Brisnet.com Handicapping Information
Whether you want picks, information to make better picks, or (if you’re like me) both, TwinSpires.com & Brisnet.com offer a variety of products and services to improve your wagering experience.
The products can be found at the link. The serv ...
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Promising Prices For Exotics And Spot Plays Around The Ovals
We would like our bettors to enter March like the proverbial lion and continue to roar, so let’s begin the month that ends with strong late-winter series as spring stakes races loom boldly with features and our signature horses-to-watch list (H2W). A ...
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Judd Kearl and Omar Reyes Top Standings at Hialeah Park
Omar Reyes, leading rider for the 2016 Hialeah Park Quarter Horse meet Reyes does not regret any of the sacrifices he is making at this stage of his career. "Right now, my camper is my home, but that's okay," said Reyes. "I know if I work hard ...
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Songbird seeks win No. 6 in Santa Ysabel
Having successfully returned a winner in the February 6 Las Virgenes (G2) in her sophomore bow, undefeated champion Songbird will tackle nine rivals in the $100,000 Santa Ysabel (G3) at Santa Anita Park as she goes for a perfect six-for-six.
The ...
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Pletcher enters four of seven in Gulfstream Park H.; Brown has three in Very One
Leading trainer Todd Pletcher will send out four of the seven entrants in Saturday’s $500,000 Gulfstream Park H. (G2) , one of three graded events on a 13-race card along with the $200,000 Mac Diarmida (G2) and $150,000 Very One (G3) .
Among t ...
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Southland - Thursday, March 3
Welcome to another Thursday twilight program of highly entertaining and exciting greyhound racing at Southland as there are 18 races on tap on the card for your viewing and wagering pleasure. This week MoneyMaker Mike will be selecting several ra ...
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Withers hero Sunny Ridge faces seven in Gotham
S unny Ridge 's status for the Kentucky Derby (G1) remains up in the air, but the gelded son of Holy Bull can continue to accumulate eligibility points toward the year's first classic in Saturday's $400,000 Gotham (G3) at Aqueduct.
Currently eig ...
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Kentucky Derby Report (3/2); Mohaymen posts another easy win ahead of showdown
Mohaymen eliminated any suspense leaving the far turn in Saturday’s Fountain of Youth (G2), drawing away smartly through the short stretch of the 1 1/16-mile race at Gulfstream Park, and the stage is now set for a showdown between unbeaten stars in ...
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Meydan, Dubai, Thursday 3/3 Preview
[Meydan, 16.10] seems as close a one as possible in the UAE Oaks, in which she faces a paltry pair of rivals. She continues to “do everything right,” at home according to her trainer and defeat is almost unthinkable, with chief rival Vale Dori havin ...
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Inner oval continues to play fairly; maiden winners Amoral, Tapa Liath among horses to watch at Aqueduct
AQUEDUCT NOTEBOOK
There was no graded stakes action at Aqueduct this past week.
Track Stats
A total of 36 races were held over the inner strip at the Long Island, New York venue, with favorites winning at a 31 percent rate and the top two ...
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Live Meydan Blog – Week 9
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Palm Beach Top 10 Rankings February 2016
Amf Wild Burst, Sg's Tom Seaver, Jims Full Count, SM Red Wing, JohnnyCantWait, JS ToHotToHandle, Blu Too Tarmac, JS SpeedyPebbles, Omega Point, JS Just Do It, NB's KissTheRoad, Blu Too Ataree
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Top Horses on display
On Wednesday and Thursday mornings on the East Coast, both standardbred and thoroughbred racing fans will have the chance to see several proven stars compete as well as a number of budding stars, although not all of the races will offer wagering. On ...
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TURF TALK: The lost art of the Win Parlay
February 29, 2016
It's not the sexiest way to make a buck at the track, but the win parlay can turn 2-to-5 into 5-to-2 without a lot of effort. Ed DeRosa discusses with Vance Hanson his blog detailing how five odds on favorites could have returne ...
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Songbird heads 112 Kentucky Oaks nominees
Edited Press Release
Fox Hill Farm Inc.’s unbeaten Songbird , the champion 2-year-old filly of 2015 and winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) at Keeneland, tops an accomplished and exciting roster of 112 3-year-old fillies made eligible du ...
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Debut quintet of Bako Sweets, Ghostslayer, Indavidualist, Insubordination & Redeeming Quality make Horses to Watch list at Santa Anita
SANTA ANITA NOTEBOOK
There was no graded action over the weekend of the winter/spring meeting at Santa Anita.
Track Stats
From a total of 34 races held at the Arcadia, California racetrack during the past week, favorites won at a 38 perce ...
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California Chrome Ascends in Dubai
5. Mubtaahij - Last year's UAE Derby winner has his prep for the March 26 Dubai World Cup this Saturday on March 5. If Mubtaahij runs well in the G1 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 3, he'll have to be considered a contender to win the Dubai World Cup. H ...
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Older horses prep for Levy series
While thoroughbred racing fans are eager to see undefeated three-year-old colts Mohaymen and Nyquist meet in the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park in early April and unbeaten sophomore fillies Songbird and Cathryn Sophia clash in the Kentucky Oaks on ...
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Dubai Carnival beads: Chrome polished, but Marking offers more food for thought
California Chrome made short work of his overmatched handicap opponents last Thursday, but his polished performance isn’t a game-changer from a Dubai World Cup (G1) perspective.
“Chromies” can take encouragement from the fact that he’s coming up ...
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Santa Ysabel a race unworthy of a Songbird
Sunday morning at Santa Anita, champion juvenile filly Songbird turned in her final work in advance of the $100,000 Santa Ysabel (G3) this upcoming Saturday. When news of this impending engagement was made public in the last week or so, I was rath ...
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Why a win parlay on Fountain of Youth Day would have been a good play
I think it was Andrew Beyer who in one of his earlier books retold the classic parlay story. A man goes to the track, starts a $2 win parlay and hits the first eight races. He continues to ride the wave into the final race and bets it all...and loses ...
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7 times racing got Awk(ward)
I’ve kind of always found beefcake photos a little awkward. But when you are on horseback with no shirt on (Putin I’m looking at you!) it’s gonna be weird. So when the jockey’s got together to make a beefcake calendar back in 2011, it was a little ...
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Keen Ice entered vs Mubtaahij, Watershed on Dubai’s Super Saturday
Judging by the early entries published for Saturday at Meydan, the card is living up to its moniker of “Super Saturday.” The seven prep races for Dubai World Cup night hold no shortage of interest.
Travers (G1) hero Keen Ice (pictured) is set to ...
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Maryland-breds shine on dirt, turf and sandstone
Saturday afternoon and evening proved to be a banner occasion for Maryland-bred thoroughbreds and standardbreds alike as products of the Free States's breeding industry reached the winner's circle at Gulfstream Park and Yonkers Raceway. Saturday aft ...
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Kentucky Derby Pedigrees: Gun Runner
Gun Runner’s pedigree offers an attractive blend of high-class speed and routing capacity over every surface.
His sire is the brilliant and unbeaten Candy Ride, who secured championship miler honors in his native Argentina with a pair of Group 1 r ...
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Gotham hopefuls out in force over the weekend
Edited Press Release
Sunny Ridge took to the fast Belmont Park training track Friday morning for his second breeze since his Withers (G3) victory last month for trainer Jason Servis.
The gray Holy Bull gelding covered four furlongs in :51.80, ...
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Mor Spirit, Songbird ready for next starts with Santa Anita moves
Edited Press Release
Working in company with stablemate Hoffenheim, Mor Spirit had his mind on business Sunday morning, breezing five furlongs in :59.80 under Martin Garcia for the $400,000 San Felipe (G2) going 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita Park ...
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Black Ops looking to join Rebel picture with strong performance Friday
Edited Press Release
A 1 1/16-mile, entry-level allowance Friday at Oaklawn Park could produce a starter for the $900,000 Rebel (G2) on March 19.
Owner Richard Keith said Sunday morning that Black Ops will be wheeled back in the Rebel with a ...
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Mobile Bay guts out neck score in Maxxam Gold Cup
Edited Press Release
Saturday night’s Maxxam Racing Festival featured four stakes highlighted by the running of the $100,000 Maxxam Gold Cup . A field of 11 was assembled for the 1 1/8-mile event and the winner was Mobile Bay.
This ...
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Pair Of $18 Winners Top 15 Total Scores; Strong 47 Percent Across-The-Board Contenders Pay Off
This past week, on Feb. 24, a day before TwinSpires harness blog’s weekend edition appeared, @FrankCotolo on Twitter posted selections at Buffalo Raceway for the second-straight Wednesday. All but one of the selections hit the board. The single winne ...
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Rachel Alexandra's 5 Best Career Races
5. 2009 Woodward Stakes - The field was nothing spectacular. Still, Rachel beat older males in the Woodward Stakes. She also did it at Saratoga, the Graveyard of Favorites. Let's not look past that fact. Saratoga is a funky track. American Pharoah ...
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Mohaymen continues to star in Fountain of Youth, anticipation grows for Florida Derby
Shadwell Stable’s Mohaymen put away Zulu in upper stretch and drew off to a 2 ¼-length decision in Saturday’s $400,000 Fountain of Youth (G2) at Gulfstream Park, remaining unbeaten and satisfying his many supporters as the 2-5 favorite. With the 50 ...
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Mo d’Amour captures Busher
In 2013, King of Prussia Stable utilized Aqueduct’s three-year-old filly series of stakes as a springboard to Kentucky Oaks (G1) glory with Princess of Sylmar.
That chestnut miss captured the Busanda and Busher, ran second in the Gazelle (G2) and ...
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Castellano masterminds Palm Beach trip for Converge
Unlike Catch a Glimpse in Saturday's Herecomesthebride (G3) , the $150,000 Palm Beach (G3) didn’t feature as clear-cut a favorite. That parity was borne out by a blanket finish and a tale of tripsat Gulfstream Park.
The Chad Brown-trained Conve ...
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Heart to Heart, Faufiler employ contrasting styles on Gulfstream turf
Former Canadian champion Heart to Heart again demonstrated how dangerous he is on an uncontested early lead in Saturday’s $150,000 Canadian Turf (G3) at Gulfstream Park. But just one race later, thanks to a diametrically opposite pace scenario, Eur ...
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Rebel workers out in force at Oaklawn Park on Saturday
Edited Press Release
Whitmore worked a bullet half-mile in :48.20 Saturday morning at Oaklawn Park, the gelding’s first breeze since finishing second in the February 15 Southwest (G3).
The chestnut gelding is scheduled to make his next start ...
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