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Ten years on, how my trip to Epsom Downs was dashed
It began with a coin flip at Christmas. The bride and I had differing views about where we should make our first ever excursion to Europe the following summer, so I proposed that the toss of a quarter settle the matter.
As one of the primary goals ...
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American Pharoah continues to look sharp in Haskell preparations
Exactly one week after returning to the worktab with a three-furlong move in :36 2/5, Triple Crown champion American Pharoah stepped it up to a half-mile at Santa Anita on Monday and drilled in a sharp :47 3/5.
The Bob Baffert pupil is scheduled ...
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Trainer Profile: Kenneth Roberts, Sr.
Currently running at Delta Downs, Roberts has become an icon at the Louisiana track, where he won 50 races last year to take his third consecutive training title, and sixth overall. He will be prominent on their closing night as he has qualifiers ...
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Ballet Diva dances her way into the spotlight
I always loved the juveniles racing at Calder over the summer. There was just something about those babies that caught my attention. I’d pick a couple of favorites – Jackson Bend, Awesome Feather, etc. – and follow them throughout the rest of their c ...
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H2W Delivers Four Double-Digit Winners; Sun Stakes Sizzle And Fizzle
The July 4 Sun Stakes Saturday at Pocono put to rest most suspicions, including our own, that Wiggle It Jiggleit was learning to be short since he was challenged and lost. His Max Hempt Final victory was stupendous. Brushing to the top he fired to th ...
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American dominance on Stars & Stripes Day
When Belmont Park first announced the grand remodeling of the Jamaica and Garden City into the lucrative Belmont Derby (G1) and Oaks (G1) respectively, and their switch from fall to July 4 weekend, it was only natural to think that the inevitable Eur ...
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Flying Fired Up Soars to Victory!
The winner of the 2015 SOUTHLAND DERBY is FLYING FIRED UP after his impressive performance Friday evening in the very exciting Race 11 finals of the stakes contest. FLYING FIRED UP had the 5 box and broke 5th but was 3rd at the turn, 2nd down th ...
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Quick profiles of internationals in Belmont Derby & Oaks
If you're cramming for today's Grade 1s -- the Belmont Derby (8TH scheduled for 4:32 p.m. EDT) and Belmont Oaks (10TH scheduled for 5:46) -- here are quick profiles of the four international shippers.
First, the Belmont Derby duo:
Postulation ...
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Palm Beach All Star Award Feature Race
Prediction This looks like whoever has the lead early is going to win this thing. From what I’ve seen, #6 Atascocita Clo has the best chance of getting out in front here and looks to be on a mission this season. I think Clo will go this aft ...
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Is Golden Horn unassailable in Eclipse?
Undefeated Epsom Derby (Eng-G1) hero Golden Horn is the prohibitive favorite for Saturday's Eclipse (Eng-G1) at Sandown, with his odds currently hovering around 4-11.
His ever-forthright trainer, John Gosden, described that price as "pretty ridicu ...
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ON POINT: An Outstanding Pick to Beat Lady Eli in the Belmont Oaks
July 3, 2015
Sometimes you try to beat a favorite because you don't think s/he is the best horse, and other times you just can't ignore the price on another logical contender, and so it goes for Ed DeRosa & James Scully who tab Outstanding to ...
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Gratto seeks to rake in the Green at Belmont Park
A quick look at Saturday’s $400,000 Belmont Sprint, the last of six graded events on a blockbuster Independence Day program, identifies an abundance speed in the eight-horse field.
Bay of Plenty can zip from his rail position and Private Zone is a ...
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Picks and prices for Queen's Plate Day stakes at Woodbine
Sunday’s card at Woodbine is highlighted by the 156th running of the C$1 million Queen’s Plate, the first jewel in Canada’s Triple Crown, and also includes three competitive graded stakes on the track’s expansive E.P. Taylor turf course.
Here’s a ...
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Big Morning Line Prices On Top At Ellis
Ellis Park kicks off its summer meeting today (Friday, July 3), and if the morning line is correct then I will have two big plays on the card: #6 Swartz (15-to-1 ML) in the second race and #7 Vigorous Titan (10-to-1 ML) in the seventh race.
Admitt ...
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An Outstanding Pick from Brisnet.com on Belmont’s Stars and Stripes Festival
Six graded stakes highlight Saturday’s 2 nd annual Stars and Stripes Festival at Belmont Park and Brisnet.com is looking forward to the exciting racing action, including the return of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Texas Red in the $500,000 Dwyer Sta ...
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Queen's Plate Kickoff: Friday Woodbine ABC Grid
Woodbine already kicked off Queen's Plate week with its Canada Day card on Wednesday, but now it's officially Queen's Plate weekend with Friday's 9-race card at the Toronto-area oval.
It's hard not to look ahead to Sunday's blockbuster day of raci ...
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How to Be a Better Bettor
I hate excuses.
In fact, one of the things that makes playing the ponies so appealing to me is that bad luck is irrelevant. Sure, one can whine and complain that their horse missed the break, they got a bad ride or — my personal favorite — the tra ...
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2015 Southland Derby Final
The Friday evening card at Southland will be highlighted by the running of the Finals of the 2015 $50,000 SOUTHLAND DERBY stakes contest. The Consolation race is in the 9th and Race 11 will be the Finals . I have listed below my original ...
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American Pharoah to Haskell: it's 'logical' and 'obvious'
When owner-breeder Ahmed Zayat told ESPN.com's Bob Ehalt that American Pharoah would make his next start in the $1 million Haskell Invitational (G1) at Monmouth August 2, few could have been surprised.
The 1 1/8-mile contest seemed the natural spo ...
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AQHA World Champion Jrc Callas First
It was a thrill of his lifetime for the Strouds; Dana had sold her Paint horse to help Stroud with the purchase of Jrc Callas First. Jrc's career earnings of $227,914 helped the Strouds build their dream home in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Constructi ...
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California Chrome to ship to Arlington Monday
Horse of the Year California Chrome, whose recent foot bruise ruled him out of the June 17 Prince of Wales's (Eng-G1) at Royal Ascot, is scheduled to ship out of Rae Guest's Newmarket yard Monday bound for his next assignment: the August 15 Arlington ...
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Let 8 Ride Returns to Arlington
Race 8 is a big deal today at Arlington International Racecourse, as the nightcap on the Chicago-area track's first Thursday card of the meeting not only features a $44,138 carryover in the jackpot Super High 5 but also the return of the $1,500 add ...
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Palm Beach Final Top 10 Rankings 2014-2015 Season
*SM Houndman* Honorable Mention Kb’s Gold Rider, Java Beretta, Paid Vacation, Aye Doctor Ron, Pat C Shyne, Daily Prayer, SM Houndman, Mrl Gettin Even, Food Bank, Amf Pushover, Just For Kicks, Bae Sang, Cbj Jackie O, Loop A, Atascocita C ...
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Pocono Sun Stakes Saturday In The Spotlight
This holiday weekend we begin on Friday, July 3 with our features, on the East Coast at the Meadowlands and in the Midwest at Northfield.
Pocono Downs’ annual Sun Stakes Saturday sparks the Fourth of July with explosive finals and top-class af ...
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Four lucrative finals set for Saturday at Pocono Downs
While many Americans will find an ideal spot to watch fireworks this weekend, standardbred fans are going to pay close attention to the races at Pocono Downs on Saturday night when the Pennsylvania five-eighths mile oval presents four lucrative stake ...
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Suburban features key player in older horse division
After serving as a premiere event for many decades, the Suburban Handicap was downgraded from Grade 1 to Grade 2 status in 2009. The move came as a no surprise following consecutive wins by a trio of unheralded horses -- Political Force, Frost Giant ...
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TURF TALK: Ed DeRosa & Vance Hanson Discuss the Older Male Division
June 30, 2015
The older male division has not yet delivered on the promise it held coming into the season, but Vance says "fear not!" in this latest edition of TURF TALK, noting that the 2nd half of the year is when championships are decided. ...
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Boys Battle For Real In ‘Beal’ As Top-10 Contenders For August Surface
Colt trotters will receive the spotlight this weekend at Pocono Downs with the $500,000 Earl Beal Jr. Memorial Final at Pocono Downs, along with its $75,000 consolation, both attracting the highest talent of the sophomore trotting division.
Th ...
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The Los Al Thoroughbred Experiment
The Los Alamitos Experiment has too much going against it to be successful. The location isn't conducive to garner the required on-track attendance. The handle will suffer due to unfamiliarity and the meet is too short for horseplayers to direct eno ...
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Palm Beach Matinee Preview 6/30/2015
The final Top 10 Rankings for the season will come out this Thursday! I think this guy named Storm Control may find himself right near the top of this list. Follow me on Twitter- @JasonPalmBeach Facebook- PalmBeachJason ...
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Pacing fillies on display on Tuesday
While the first round of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund eliminations for three-year-old pacing colts got under way on Monday evening at Harrington Raceway, the sophomore pacing fillies will take center stage on Tuesday in a trio of DSBF elim ...
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American Pharoah cruises in return to worktab
Triple Crown champion American Pharoah has continued to present a magnificent appearance in the three weeks since completing his historic sweep -- as if the rigors of the Kentucky Derby (G1), Preakness (G1) and Belmont (G1) had little effect on his c ...
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Scores At Pocono, Meadowlands, Produce; $22 Northfield Winner Tops Lot
Our week began on an up note, with a winner in the Meadowlands’ $50,000 Open on Friday, June 26. We took it straight up with Obrigado ($10.20, $5.00, $2.80).
Pocono’s Sun Stakes Saturday’s overture featured a bevy of eliminations on June 27 to ...
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Include Betty refuses to be left out in Mother Goose
Saturday’s Mother Goose S. (G1) at Belmont Park turned into a tour de force, but not for the expected fillies.
The 1 1/16-mile contest showcased the return of Eskenformoney (Eskendereya) off a troubled 10th-placing in the May 1 Kentucky Oaks (G1), ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - Monday, June 29
At Southland this month we have been featuring greyhounds who have been on winning streaks of two or more as a different angle in which to watch at the track. Here is our update of the month long series along with the results of those we highligh ...
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Eliminations highlight dampened Pocono Downs card
A series of heavy downpours that swept through the Mid-Atlantic region may have left numerous standardbred racing ovals sloppy on Saturday night, but the off going at Pocono Downs certainly could not dampen the enthusiasm of owners, trainers and spec ...
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Monday card at Harrington offers plenty of intrigue
While many of the sport's top three-year-old pacing colts competed Saturday night in a trio of eliminations for the Max Hempt Memorial final slated for July 4, more than a dozen state-bred sophomore pacers will clash in a pair of Delaware Standardbre ...
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Top 5 Horse Racing Trainers of the 1990's
Mott saddled back-to-back Breeders Cup Distaff winners in Ajina in 1997 and Escena in 1998. Mott also trained Favorite Trick, who went undefeated in 1997 and not only took home two-year-old honors, but also Horse of the Year honors. The great Bill Mo ...
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Churchill Downs ABC for getaway night spiraling to Ellis Park
Churchill Downs drops the curtain on its 2015 spring-summer meeting on Saturday, June 27, and it's a tough 11-race card featuring four Pick 4s, including an all-stakes sequence with a pair of juvenile stakes.
As evidenced by the grid below I'm esp ...
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Five Promising Greyhounds Arise
Welcome to another Southland monthly preview of the Five Up & Coming Young Greyhounds To Watch at Southland and July's selections certainly look like they will give a solid showing in the coming weeks and months as their young careers hav ...
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Seeking Aces in the Gold Cup
Hard Aces makes his fourth start for trainer John Sadler in Saturday’s Gold Cup at Santa Anita and the late runner figures to receive a prime set-up in the 1 ¼-mile race, with three confirmed speedsters (Batti Man, Big Casanova and Moreno) guaranteei ...
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Irish Derby: Epsom Derby form is positively Golden
Going into Saturday's Irish Derby at the Curragh, the major interpretive key appeared to be a battle of formlines between the Epsom and French Derbies. With placegetters from each lining up, the Irish classic loomed as a "proxy war" between the respe ...
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The Real Value of a Length
Perhaps the oldest and silliest horse racing rule of thumb in the history of old and silly horse racing rules of thumb is the notion that a length equals a fifth of a second. Although it has been shown — repeatedly — that this rule is not accurate, m ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon
In the News & Notes segment, TwinSpires' Derek Simon opines on American Pharoah's next start, as well as the gutty win by Mr. Z in the Ohio Derby.
In a special History segment, the post-Belmont start of another Triple Crown hero is di ...
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Habitat to Take Home the Million?
One week after Mohawk Raceway in Canada offered a stellar card that featured the $1 million North America Cup for three-year-old pacing colts, many of those same sophomores will be on hand at Pocono Downs on Saturday night as that five-eighths mile o ...
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Filly smorgasbord on tap this weekend
A pair of sophomore filly stakes and one juvenile miss contest are on tap this weekend around the country.
The biggest event is the Mother Goose S. (G1) at Belmont Park, which features the return of Eskenformoney (Eskendereya) and Wonder Gal’s (Ti ...
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The SouthLand Derby Stakes Finale
The Saturday evening card at Southland will be highlighted by the 4 races of the 2015 $50,000 SOUTHLAND DERBY stakes contest. There were 88 greyhounds who entered this championship racing and the field has now been reduced to 32 for Round 4 ...
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Pedigree analysis of Debutante runners
Picking up where we left off from the Bashford Manor, here are the pedigree notes for the fillies in Saturday’s Debutante S. at Churchill, again in program order:
#1 Langstars Charmer is by Canadian champion sprinter Langfuhr, who has transcended ...
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Pedigree analysis of Bashford Manor runners
When looking at two-year-old races, pedigree can be a helpful tool to analyze prospects with limited past performances.
So to gear up for Saturday night’s Bashford Manor (G3) and Debutante S. at Churchill Downs, here are some pedigree notes on the ...
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Who'll Get The Next Star At Palm Beach?
JS SpeedyPebbles
Probably a big long shot to make the Walk of Fame, but she has been quite the athlete here since arriving in 2013. Has the Palm Beach record for winning her first 8 starts in her career and has 53 career wins currently. ...
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Brisnet.com sets sights on Prairie Meadows for Pick
Saturday marks the biggest day of the Prairie Meadows meeting, with three graded races offered on the nine-race evening card, and Brisnet.com is tabbing Golden Lad (#4 in Race 7) as the most likely winner on the program.
Listed at an enticing 9-2 ...
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Go-Go Glamour Divisions
Sophomore pacers and trotters flood a stakes weekend that brings back many of the stars from last week in Canada. We are in the Pocono Mountains for this week’s action, on June 27 at Pocono Downs’ five-eighths mile, arguably one of the fastest three- ...
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Trotters’ Agenda Includes ‘Beal’ Elims And Sires Stakes
Both sophomore trotting sexes continue to venture towards possible glory as they progress down the Hambletonian Trail, with the fillies gathering at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Thursday, June 25 for three divisions of the $219,664 Pennsylvania Sires Sta ...
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Southland Preview: Wednesday Twilight, June 24
Race 10, Grade A - 583 yards
(#1) PAOLI PRIDE (Morning Line 4-1)
She's going for 4 in a row and has drawn the rail where she likes to run. Tons of early speed for her inside running style and despite facing her toughest field in several ...
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Zprise in Ohio Derby could bode well for rest of the season
Mr. Z finally snapped a 13-race losing streak in last Saturday’s Ohio Derby, gamely outfinishing Tencendur and Divining Rod to win by a nose, and the Malibu Moon colt may have turned the corner for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas.
It happened ...
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Counter Forces Rule ‘Cup’ Card; Tweets Top Best Returns
The past stakes-loaded weekend presented many surprises and unusual—if not unpredictable—results that qualify to be categorized under “A” for anomaly. These things happen. Persistent bettors are used to counterintuitive streaks and they know mathemat ...
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2015 SOUTHLAND DERBY 3rd Rnd Monday, June 22
The Monday twilight card at Southland will be highlighted by the 6 races of the 2015 $50,000 SOUTHLAND DERBY stakes contest. There were 88 greyhounds who entered this championship racing and the field has now been reduced to 48 for Round 3 . I ...
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Stellar Wind determined and lucky in Summertime Oaks
Stellar Wind (Curlin) had an eventful return to competition in Saturday’s Summertime Oaks (G2) at Santa Anita Park, but showed her class to emerge a nose winner over a very stubborn Tara’s Tango (Unbridled’s Song).
The 1 1/16-mile race lost four r ...
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California Chrome & American Pharoah To Battle
Art Sherman versus Bob Baffert, Victor Espinoza on the Derby winner and a Hall of Fame rider, Gary Stevens or Kent Desormeaux or Mike Smith on the 2014 Derby winner. California Chrome versus American Pharoah at Keeneland . Could horse racing fan ...
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Palm Beach Fathers Day Race Preview
I have to go with the top talent here in his favorite setup. Pat C Short Cut is the best chance this track has at a National Championship this Winter and today is a shot to prove it. The Koppe, Staats & Collins Team celebrates tonight. ...
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Royal Ascot Postscripts, Day 5: Undrafted, Brazen tactics & the chances of Snow
Hopes were high that an Australian would lift Saturday's closing day feature, the Diamond Jubilee -- specifically, the brilliant Brazen Beau .
Mostly that's in recognition of the world-class sprint scene Down Under. Logic was supplemented by fe ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - June 21
The Sunday matinee card at SOUTHLAND features 2 races in which a couple of greyhounds will be trying hard to keep their winning streaks going as they battle paw to paw from start to finish. Several of you have asked for some different angles to loo ...
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Royal Ascot Postscripts, Day 4: The human dimension, Moore Aloft & Muhaarar
Illuminate , a smashing winner on her Salisbury debut when upsetting stablemate Great Page, duly followed up with a convincing score in Friday's Albany .
But over and above stamping herself as a proper two-year-old, the Richard Hannon pupil gave ...
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Royal Ascot Postscripts, Day 3: Ryan Moore, Gold Cup & Time Test
All-world jockey Ryan Moore , who had won three on Tuesday and two on Wednesday, continued his almost impossibly hot streak by adding three more to his total Thursday. That tied the modern-day record of eight winners at Royal Ascot.
Remarkably, ...
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Royal Ascot Postscripts, Day 2: Free Eagle, loyalty & trainer confidence
Loyalty can be a hindrance in handicapping, but sometimes it's rewarded, and so it proved when I stuck with Free Eagle in Wednesday's Prince of Wales's .
To be sure, this was hardly a profile in courage since he was the favorite. But the Dermot ...
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Royal Ascot Postscripts: Solow & Gleneagles the stars of Day 1
Since this was my worst Royal Ascot in three years (when it took a couple of legends named Frankel and Black Caviar to rescue me), there were a lot more lowlights in terms of my handicapping.
But the beauty of Royal Ascot (like so much else) is th ...
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Are Racehorses Getting Slower?
When American Pharoah became just the 12 th Triple Crown winner in history on June 6, 2015, he did so in style, recording the sixth-fastest time in Belmont Stakes history. Yet, as the Wall Street Journal pointed out in graphic fashion , the 2:26. ...
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Stellar Wind kicks off the summer at Santa Anita Park
Saturday’s Summertime Oaks (G2) was transferred to Santa Anita Park and renamed after previously being run at the now-defunct Hollywood Park as the Hollywood Oaks.
But all that’s in the past.
What’s in the present is the fact that top three-yea ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - June 20
The Saturday evening card at SOUTHLAND features 3 races in which several greyhounds will be trying hard to keep their winning streaks going as they battle paw to paw from start to finish. Several of you have asked for some different angles to look ...
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Royal Ascot a humbling but learning experience
Not only is this week's Royal Ascot meeting one of the greatest in the world, it can also be one of the most humbling for bettors.
Despite some success in the first couple of races on Friday's card, it's been a very difficult week for me at the wi ...
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Top 5 Horse Racing Trainers of the 1980's
Every decade in thoroughbred racing has produced its share of top horses, jockeys and trainers. There are legends from every decade in the Sport of Kings. But, for some reason, the 1980's feels like the decade that really showed us training legends. ...
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North America Cup Special Edition, Including Pick-4s Analysis
In April of 2015, the Pepsi North America Cup Spring Book (CSB) listed its evaluation of eligible horses to the $1-million “Cup.” Based on their freshman resumes, only four of the top 10 has made it to the final. The spring-book odds explain a few th ...
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Tencendur rates upset chance in Ohio Derby
The Triple Crown is over but a number of familiar faces will resurface in Saturday’s Ohio Derby, with six of the nine runners competing in either the Kentucky Derby or Preakness Stakes. And that doesn’t include the 3-1 morning line favorite, Whiskey ...
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Super Program At Mohawk For North America Cup; Graduates Gather In N.J.
The first major stakes for the glamour-boy pacers takes place this Saturday, June 20. It’s the $1-million Pepsi North America Cup, which leads a huge menu of stakes on the Mohawk Raceway program—Fan Hanover, Roses Are Red, Armbro Flight, Goodtimes an ...
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$1m North America Cup Preview at Mohawk Raceway
Since the three elims winners were permitted the luxury of choosing their post positions, the other seven got thrown into the random draw and as luck would have it Artspeak (Scott Zeron), last year's champion two-year-old colt pacer and the beaten fa ...
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Brisnet.com Opening Day Pick at Pleasanton
Thoroughbred racing returns Thursday to the Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack at the Almeida County Fairgrounds in Northern California and Brisnet.com has tabbed Grey Girl Gone (#6 in Race 6) as the most likely winner on the program.
Utilizing ...
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Goodtimes Trotting And Fillies In Sires Stakes
The $233,000 Goodtimes final has drawn five Hambletonian hopefuls alongside five other trotters on the under-card of the North America Cup Saturday, June 20 at Mohawk. Heading the hopefuls is Canepa Hanover, who put in a powerhouse performance in his ...
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$1 million North America Cup Preview
Last weekend's trio of eliminations for the $1 million North America Cup for three-year-old colt pacers and the two elims for the $480,000 Fan Hanover for three-year-old filly pacers helped explain the results and may prove insightful into this weeke ...
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Season Track Championship at Palm Beach
2014 Champ - Kb's Like A Fox
Who in the world wants to win this thing?
With just two weeks left in the racing season at Palm Beach , the question on everybody's mind is....who is going to take the season championship for wins here? I ...
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2015 Southland Derby Stakes Championship
The highlight of Wednesday's twilight card at Southland will be the running of the 2nd Round of the 2015 SOUTHLAND DERBY stakes championship. There are 18 races on the program and 11 of them are stakes races so get ready to enjoy some top notch c ...
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Royal Ascot 2015: Overview & Race Schedule for All Five Days
The highlight of the summer season, Royal Ascot begins Tuesday and runs through Saturday.
Daily selections for all of Royal Ascot’s Group races are free at Brisnet.com , with Tuesday’s sheet already available and Wednesday’s due to be posted this ...
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Two Upsets Come Through Among Double-Digit Winners
The high-tension program at Mohawk June 13 produced a few surprises, two of which we supported. One of these took place in a North America Cup elimination when the mighty Artspeak was passed aggressively by the only horse we thought could topple his ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - June 15
Monday's twilight card at SOUTHLAND features 5 races in which several greyhounds will be trying hard to keep their winning streaks going as they battle paw to paw from start to finish. Several of you have asked for some different angles to look at ...
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The Return of the King: Triple Crown Winner American Pharoah Parades At Churchill
American Pharoah came to Churchill Downs early to prepare for the Kentucky Derby and he stayed late to celebrate winning the Triple Crown, as a Downs After Dark crowd some estimated to be in excess of 40,000 cheered the champion as owner Ahmed Zayat, ...
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Player Quick Pick: Belmont 6/14/2015
The feature at Belmont Park on Sunday is the $100,000 Wild Applause Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. There is so much respect for trainer Todd Pletcher that Angela Renee, a horse that has never run over the turf before, is the morning line favorite at ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - June 14
Sunday's matinee card at SOUTHLAND features 3 races in which several greyhounds will be trying hard to keep their winning streaks going as they battle paw to paw from start to finish. Several of you have asked for some different angles to look at d ...
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A Realistic Look at American Pharoah and Secretariat
When American Pharoah became just the 12 th horse to sweep the Triple Crown — one year after Steve Coburn, co-owner of California Chrome, proclaimed the feat impossible — much of the talk centered not on the colt’s amazing accomplishment, but rath ...
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Preserving NYRA’s filmed history a worthy but costly undertaking
Through the efforts of numerous videographers, both professional and amateur, American Pharoah’s victory in the Belmont Stakes, when he became the 12th Triple Crown winner, will be one of the most preserved documents in Thoroughbred racing history.
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Oaks-Plate Trial Day Pick 4 Worth a Big Swing
There are some obvious favorites in the Queen's Plate Trial-Woodbine Oaks double that makes up half of the late Pick 4 on Sunday at Woodbine, and more importantly for people looking to play the $100,000 guaranteed pool, they're all vulnerable.
Tha ...
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With Triple Crown, Baffert Becomes Greatest of All Time
Although Bob Baffert has famously been quoted as stating that he had nothing to do with American Pharoah's Triple Crown win and that it was all about the horse, the truth is that without Baffert, American Pharoah may not have even raced at 3. Baffert ...
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Pick 4s Aplenty on Churchill Downs Stephen Foster Saturday Night Card
Churchill Downs put together an excellent Stephen Foster night card with 11 races--four of them graded, including the featured $500,000 Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap. As a multi-race bettor, the card is lousy with opportunities: 10 doubles, 9 Pick ...
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SOUTHLAND Preview - 2015 SOUTHLAND DERBY picks
Friday evening's card at Southland is highlighted by the 11 races of the 1st round of the 2015 SOUTHLAND DERBY stakes contest. As usual, I have listed my 8 selections to make the finals of this stakes competition and I will keep up to date with ...
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Harness Top 3-Year-Olds Take Center Stage
One week after thoroughbred racing fans and even sports fans in general celebrated the end of the 37-year Triple Crown drought when American Pharoah captured the Belmont Stakes by five lengths to become the first horse since Affirmed to turn the tric ...
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Commissioner surging into Stephen Foster Handicap
Commissioner’s five-month sophomore campaign was marked by inconsistent performances, the highlights being an early January allowance victory and a head second in the Belmont Stakes in the season finale, and he came back from a seven-month layoff thi ...
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TURF TALK: Vance & James wrap up American Pharoah's Triple Crown
June 10, 2015
Turf Point? On Talk? Where's Ed? These questions aren't answered, but Vance Hanson & James Scully have plenty of great perspective: ...
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California Chrome could face 10 in Prince of Wales's at Royal Ascot
The likely field for Wednesday's Prince of Wales's S. (Eng-G1) at Royal Ascot is beginning to come into sharper focus -- and along with it, the magnitude of the task facing California Chrome.
At the six-day entry stage, the robust international ca ...
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Palm Beach Thursday Matinee Preview 6-11-2015
Top Pick Race 14- #2 JS SpeedyPebbles Program: http://www.pbkennelclub.com/trackdata/Palm%20Beach-Jun11-Thursday-Afternoon-Program.pdf Enjoy the races today everybody! ...
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