Dubai Carnival beads: World Cup night landscape after Super Saturday, I

Mon Mar 07 2016Kellie Reilly

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 ...
The Kentucky Derby field: Will Points Ever Not Matter?

Mon Mar 07 2016Ed DeRosa

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 ...
Joseph O'Brien calls it a day on riding career

Mon Mar 07 2016Vance Hanson

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 ...
Steve Asmussen's Top 5 Horses

Mon Mar 07 2016D.S. Williamson

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 ...
Five Grade 1s highlight Santa Anita spring meet; Vanity shortened

Mon Mar 07 2016TwinSpires Staff

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 ...
Southland - Monday, March 7

Mon Mar 07 2016MoneyMaker Mike

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

Mon Mar 07 2016Jason Beem

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 ...
Cards at Dover Downs and Rosecroft

Mon Mar 07 2016Ted Black

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 ...
Older pacers continue to impress

Mon Mar 07 2016Ted Black

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 ...
Unbeaten Shagaf doing well after Gotham win; Lady Eli continues training for comeback

Sun Mar 06 2016TwinSpires Staff

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 ...
Sunland Derby, Oaks canceled: the effect on Kentucky Derby & Oaks points picture

Sun Mar 06 2016Kellie Reilly

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 ...
Miami Valley’s $30 Winner Nabbed; Freehold Co-Favorites In $77 Pick 3; Tweets ‘Tween Blogs Continue

Sun Mar 06 2016TwinSpires Staff

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 ...
Grand Tito parlays good trip into Mac Diarmida victory

Sun Mar 06 2016James Scully

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 ...