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American Pharoah is Special But How Special Do You Have To Be To Win a Triple Crown?
by LAURA PUGH
It takes a special horse to complete a Triple Crown sweep. The question is how special?
Thirteen horses since 1978 have won both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, and all failed to win the Belmont Stakes, including some of ...
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Southland Preview - 5 Up & Coming Greyhounds to watch in June
Welcome to another Southland monthly preview of the Five Up & Coming Young Greyhounds To Watch at Southland and June'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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Baffert on American Pharoah: 'maybe this is the one'
Listening to Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert talk American Pharoah on Thursday's NTRA conference call, I was buoyed by an increasing hope that our Triple Crown drought could really be nearing its end. It would be going too far to describe his tone a ...
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Does Materiality take it to American Pharoah in 2015 Belmont Stakes?
American Pharoah continues to train forwardly in advance of the June 6 Belmont Stakes and at face value, no rival appears capable of stopping him. However, the grind of the five-week Triple Crown trail, coupled with the 1 ½-mile Belmont distance, can ...
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Swift And Strong Sophomores Pacing For Plentiful Purses
Sophomores are beginning to steal the headlines as summer looms boldly. At Yonkers on May 30 the Art Rooney Memorial Final brings together the early season colt-pacing stars and the Lismore has fillies. Across the river at the Meadowlands, New Jersey ...
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Swift And Strong Sophomores Pacing For Plentiful Purses
Sophomores are beginning to steal the headlines as summer looms boldly. At Yonkers on May 30 the Art Rooney Memorial Final brings together the early season colt-pacing stars and the Lismore has fillies. Across the river at the Meadowlands, New Jersey ...
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Swift And Strong Sophomores Pacing For Plentiful Purses
Sophomores are beginning to steal the headlines as summer looms boldly. At Yonkers on May 30 the Art Rooney Memorial Final brings together the early season colt-pacing stars and the Lismore has fillies. Across the river at the Meadowlands, New Jersey ...
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Top three-year-olds ready to roll
[Montrell Teague] will put his perfect record on the line when he goes postward in a $75,000 Indiana Sire Stakes final. Wiggle It Jiggle It, who has won all eight of his starts this year and boasts an eye-opening 1:49 mark at Harrington Raceway, a h ...
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Turf Talk - Ed & Vance discuss stakes-laden big event days and food trucks
May 26, 2015
The racing calendar is shifting in favor of bigger days of racing, as tracks employ other methods of coaxing people to attend their races particularly around the holidays, but aren't food tracks just carnival concession stands in dis ...
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State-Bred Finals And Takter Troup On Tap
More sires stakes present Hambletonian Trail rollers this coming weekend, including New Jersey Sires Stakes (NJSS) finals at the Meadowlands for both trotting divisions. Also, a few hopefuls set sail in condition events on the NJSS finals program. Ot ...
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American Pharoah’s return to worktab brings sense of Déjà vu
Tuning up for his date with destiny, the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on June 6, American Pharoah returned to the worktab Tuesday at Churchill Downs with another eye-catching exercise, breezing four furlongs in 48 seconds with exercise rider Martin Ga ...
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Anatomy of a stallion deal: American Pharoah and a Triple Crown winner's future
Before I marketed Brisnet.com and communicated about TwinSpires.com for Churchill Downs Inc., I wrote full time about the Thoroughbred racing and breeding industries for Norman Ridker’s now-defunct Thoroughbred Times rag.
One of my primary beats w ...
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American Pharoah's Memorial Day exercise
Triple Crown-seeking champion American Pharoah took to a sloppy track at Churchill Downs on Memorial Day morning, and once again displayed the easy, effortless action that's become his trademark.
His routine 1 1/4-mile gallop was posted on YouTu ...
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Palm Beach $10,000 Rooneys Cup Race Previews
Enjoy the races today everyone! ~All photos provided by PBKennelClub.com ...
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Player Quick Pick: Santa Anita 5/25/2015
It's Memorial Day and like every Memorial Day Santa Anita has a great card for horseplayers. The feature is Race 8, the Grade 1 Gamely for $300,000. 10 fillies and mares are entered for what should be an incredible betting race. Santa Anita - Race ...
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Triumphs With Takter Trotter And Pacer; Northfield Winners Pay Off Big
The weekend, through Sunday, May 24, produced strong winners for us in our featured events and our horses-to-watch (H2W) list, which presented a 22-percent winner rate and a 52-percent in-the-money rate. From the features, the big Sunday invitational ...
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The inside track at Belmont and Churchill Downs
by Chad Summers, Bruno De Julio and Brandon Stauble
Belmont Competitors were out in force today but not so fast, not ready to hand trophy over yet ....
Over the last 30 years of close but no cigars we've always been quick to anoint ...
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Southland 2015 Razorback Classic Stakes Championship takes center stage on Monday, May 25
I like Boc's Yohanblake to come out fast on the rail and get the win with Pj Yankees and Souperdog battling for second place. Thanks for reading and good luck with your wagers. ...
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On Point - American Pharoah, Ed, & James ready for Triple Crown try
May 22, 2015
Kentucky Derby & Preakness Stakes winner American Pharoah will try for the Triple Crown in the Belmont Stakes on June 6 at Belmont Park, and Ed DeRosa & James Scully will be there, but first they discuss what they want to see ...
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Turf Talk - What Could Stop American Pharoah?
May 19, 2015
Ed DeRosa & Vance Hanson gear up for the excitement that is a Triple Crown chase and discuss the hurdles Kentucky Derby & Preakness Stakes winner American Pharoah could face in the Belmont Stakes: ...
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Congrats to our other big winners in TwinSpires.com Showdown
After three years of nobody running the table on the Triple Crown trail with $20 show bets, an amazing 10 players this year completed the 20-race journey culminating in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and winning $100,000 each.
But the ...
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Southland Preview - Razorback Classic Stakes Finals Set For Monday, May 25
The SOUTHLAND 2015 $40,000 RAZORBACK CLASSIC STAKES Finals and Consolation races are set for Monday, May 25 and will be the highlight of the holiday card. There were 96 greyhounds who entered this very competitive stakes contest over the 660 ya ...
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Don't Count American Pharoah out Just Yet
Don't let history talk you off of American Pharoah winning the Belmont Stakes on June 6. Since
2000 either the Belmont favorite has been upset by a horse that figured to run well, something crazy has happened to destroy the best horse's chances at ...
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Bob Baffert Triple Crown Bid: It's About Time with American Pharoah
by BRUNO De JULIO
Hall of Fame Trainer Bob Baffert’s decision to train Kentucky Derby and Preakness-winner American Pharoah at Churchill Downs leading up to the Belmont has elicited an avalanche of opinions. But there is one big question: Can A ...
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Past time for American Pharoah to give us a Triple Crown sweep
I’m one of those weird people who actually enjoy spring cleaning. You just never know what gem you’re going to find hiding in a box stuffed in the corner of your closet.
This year’s find was made even more poignant when a Triple Crown sweep became ...
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American Pharoah needs perfect storm to win 2015 Belmont Stakes
American Pharoah probably didn’t need the help, but a perfect storm played a part in washing away the chances of his main rivals in last Saturday’s Preakness.
In order to sweep the Triple Crown in the June 6 Belmont Stakes, American Pharoah needs ...
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Threes-And-Up Conflicts Abound For Big Bucks, Big Action
We’re back at Yonkers this week on May 23 for stakes; this time with sophomore pacers battling for berths in next week’s Art Rooney Memorial. Two elims gather the fields of prospective “Rooney” finalists. But the guys don’t out-number the girls this ...
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Three-year-old pacers take center stage
During the middle of the Saturday program at Yonkers, the New York half-mile oval will host a pair of $40,000 eliminations for the Art Rooney Stakes , with the lucrative final slated for the following weekend. The field from the rail out in the fir ...
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Older horses again prove their worth
In consecutive nights of racing at Harrington Raceway in Delaware and Rosecroft Raceway in Maryland, a bevy of older trotters and pacers displayed their talents in the various overnight races those tracks offer. In the opening race on the Tuesday ev ...
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The Ghosts of Belmont Stakes Past
Will American Pharoah do what the 12 Derby-Preakness winners in the videos below could not and win the Triple Crown of American Thoroughbred racing by capturing the Belmont Stakes? (I'll Have Another won the Derby-Preakness in 2012 but did not start ...
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Habitat Chases Streak; Sires Stakes Battles All Weekend
This week the Hambletonian Trail starts on Thursday, May 21, with glamour-boy colts on the Yonkers half mile in New York Sires Stakes (NYSS) divisionsworth $54,000-plus each.
The first NYSS split has three eligibles in its six-colt field. It w ...
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Speed is key for American Pharoah in 2015 Belmont Stakes
American Pharoah carried his speed all the way in sensational fashion at Pimlico, a stark contrast to the Kentucky Derby where he rated a couple of lengths behind pacesetter Dortmund down the backstretch before working hard to grind out a one-length ...
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What To Watch For The Rest of The Season at Palm Beach
"The Pride of Toledo" SM Houndman for owners Mike Seeger & Nancy Meyer will be a must watch the rest of this season and beyond to see if he can continue to knock off the top greyhounds at this track. Starting to get more and more attenti ...
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Southland Preview - Round 4 of Razorback Classic Stakes Championship is in the books
Now that Round 4 of the SOUTHLAND 2015 $40,000 RAZORBACK CLASSIC STAKES Championships is in the books we can look forward to the Finals which are set for Monday, May 25. The 4 stakes races from yesterday were some of the most competitive grey ...
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Preakness Recap: The good, the bad and the ugly
He came. He saw. He conquered.
After giving his all to win the Kentucky Derby by a hard-fought length, American Pharoah cruised in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown, pulling away to a 7-length score in the Preakness Stakes, while his two closes ...
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Open events - Tuesday Card at Rosecroft
A trio of Open events for pacers on the latter one-third of the Tuesday evening card at Rosecroft Raceway may not enable fans of Maryland racing to quickly forget last weekend's Preakness Stakes, but they will offer plenty of value since the outcomes ...
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American Pharoah: A consummate professional chases history
by Laura Pugh
The day of the 140th Preakness Stakes started out with an abundance of sun. It was a bright, warm, beautiful day. That is until 10 minutes before post time. The small promise of rain began to be fulfilled just as the field made their ...
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Century Downs Coup With Trio Of $30-Plus Winners; $20 Upsets In Sires Stakes Scores
Between the suggested action on the features and the horses-to-watch (H2W) list from this blog and the cluster of races offered on the Hambletonian Trail blog, we were productive in the profit department.
The highest prices of the coverage wer ...
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How I talked myself off American Pharoah
Some horses you just don't connect with, while others easily number you among their natural constituency. If American Pharoah were in the former camp, my hesitancy to embrace him in the first two classics would be chalked up to an underappreciation o ...
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Southland Preview - Round 4 of the Razorback Classic Stakes is Monday, May 18
The highlight of the Southland greyhound card on Monday, May 18 will be the 4 races of Round 4 of the 2015 $40,000 Razorback Classic Stakes Championship. The field of 96 greyhounds who entered the competition has been reduced to just 32 and among ...
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Player Quick Pick: Santa Anita 5/17/2015
Santa Anita Race 8 at 7:14 pm ET AOC $40K for 3 and up going 6.5f downhill turf course 8-Something Unusual, 3/1 - The 7-year-old gelding trained by Mike McCarthy has been consistent in terms of speed ratings in his last 3 races. Even though he ...
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Will American Pharoah win the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown
In a week that didn’t lack for drama leading into the Preakness Stakes, the race delivered on all that and then some as the skies opened and thunder accompanied the start of the race.
And American Pharoah put on a show fit for a Broadway stage, go ...
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American Pharoah sloshes to Preakness 2015 victory
Zayat Stables' American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) didn't have any trouble taking the second leg of the Triple Crown despite a waterlogged track that turned Preakness 140 into a sloppy affair.
The rain hit just as the call came for the riders to ...
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How Ed DeRosa is betting the Preakness Stakes
Betting this year’s Preakness Stakes is sort of like a Choose Your Own Adventure book.
“If you want American Pharoah to win, select #4”; “If you want Firing Line to win, select #1”; “If you select Bodhisattva to win your quest has been vanquished” ...
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How California Chrome is spending 2015 Preakness Day
When California Chrome kept his winning streak alive in the 2014 Preakness (G1), and fueled hopes of a Triple Crown, few could have imagined where the popular colt would wind up a year later. On the third Saturday in May 2015, the U.S. Horse of the Y ...
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Longshot play in Dixie Stakes
Ironicus brings a strong finishing kick to Saturday’s Dixie Stakes, the 12 th race at Pimlico, and I’ll take a stab at the four-year-old in a wide-open race.
The scratch of probable favorite War Correspondent could hurt his price (15-1 morning li ...
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Fish Whistler's Win Hints At Quality Rail
The first dirt race of Preakness day was a 1 1/16-mile starter handicap, and Fish Whistler went about gate-to-wire in winning the race, but not without some drama as Photogenic ranged up on the outside and actually headed the eventual winner, but Fis ...
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The Dortmund Conspiracy: Why Baffert Is Running Him in the Preakness
Dortmund is not in the Preakness Stakes because he can’t win; he’s in the Preakness Stakes because he has a better chance of winning the Belmont Stakes.
One of the more interesting storylines surrounding the Kentucky Derby was what Racing Hall of ...
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Preakness Day ABC Grid: Looking To Keep It Going
Happy Preakness Stakes day! We did well yesterday so we’re looking to keep that going today, but it won’t be an easy task. These are competitive fields, and navigating them correctly will require knowing which “A”s to zero in on throughout the day. ...
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Palm Beach Saturday Matinee Preview 5-16-2015
#2 SM Houndman Short Cut will have to deal with “The Pride of Toledo” #2 SM Houndman from owners Mike Seeger & Nancy Meyer. Houndman loves the inside like I love the Florida sunshine and is sitting in a perfect spot this afternoon. If ...
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Our Best Longshots for the 2015 Preakness
In addition to our top selections , the team has pegged a few outsiders worth a look…
Kellie Reilly : It's tough to see past the top three from the Kentucky Derby, but the upwardly mobile Divining Rod could make his presence felt at odds of 1 ...
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Will Luminance become the next notable Black-Eyed Susan graduate?
by Laura Pugh
Black-Eyed Susan Day is here, meaning it is only a mere day before the Preakness (the second jewel of the Triple Crown) is run.
Today, like Kentucky Oaks Day, features the fillies all day long, with their finale coming in the Bla ...
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Horses to watch on Preakness Day undercard
As promised, here’s a look at some non-favorites I’ll be taking a look at in some of the Preakness Day undercard stakes at Pimlico on Saturday.
Sir Barton (Race 7) – Conquest Bigluck E was precocious enough to win at first asking last June goi ...
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Black-Eyed Susan Stakes day ABC
On the surface, Thursday’s AAXAACAAA handicapping performance at Pimlico Race Course doesn’t look awful, but when you consider the “A” picks were all favorites, and the “X” and “C” races were the longest prices on the card it really is awful.
I ...
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Changing Timing of Triple Crown Makes No Sense
This week we've been inundated with discussions regarding the Triple Crown. Some believe, like Randy Moss in this article in the Wall Street Journal , that there should be more time between races. Moss and others believe that by having more time bet ...
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Preakness Belongs in Baltimore
The Kentucky Derby—for being the greatest race in the world—has a tendency to bring out some pretty strong criticism from people. The Preakness Stakes doesn’t.
That’s not to say the Preakness is a more prestigious race than the Kentucky Derby or a ...
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Top 3 picks for Black-Eyed Susan plus Longshot play
Friday’s Black-Eyed Susan S. (G2) at Pimlico, the sister race to the 140th running of the Preakness S. (G1) on Saturday, features a head-scratching field of nine sophomore fillies ready to go 1 1/8 miles.
Head-scratching because the group features ...
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Our top picks for the 2015 Preakness
Who does our team like best in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes (G1)? Depends on who’s answering the question…
James Scully: Dortmund didn’t run poorly finishing third in the Kentucky Derby, but I doubt we saw his best at Churchill Downs and belie ...
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SOUTHLAND 3rd Round Razorback Stakes
Wednesday's twilight session at Southland was highlighted by the six races of the 3rd Round of the SOUTHLAND 2015 $40,000 RAZORBACK CLASSIC Stakes championship and while there were a few surprises, the favorites for the most part ran very strong. ...
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Friday's value plays at Pimlico
A virtual smorgasbord of opportunities await bettors this Preakness weekend at Pimlico, with 28 races scheduled between sunrise Friday and sunset Saturday. If the weather holds and there is no stampede by trainers to scratch, we could be looking at r ...
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Will Golden Horn get his chance at Epsom Derby glory?
Imagine that you owned an unbeaten horse who just won the season's deepest Epsom Derby (Eng-G1) trial in the manner of a top-class prospect, propelling himself into the forefront of the betting market. Yet the colt hadn't been made eligible for the D ...
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The One Play Brisnet.com Wants You to Make on Preakness Day at Pimlico
We’re taking a strong stand with Blame Jim in Saturday’s 10 th race at Pimlico, the $100,000 Chick Lang Stakes. The 10 th race kicks off the late Pick 4 that offers a $1.5 million guaranteed pool and concludes with the 140 th running of the Prea ...
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DeRosa Kicks Off Preakness Week With Thursday Pimlico Selections
The TwinSpires.com content team is live from Pimlico Race Course all week, and while more eyes will be on the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes/Pimlico Special day card on Friday, and the most eyes will be on the Preakness Stakes card Saturday, there are some ...
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As Preakness Approaches American Pharoah Negative Buzz Surfaces
One of the great things about covering racing as a blogger now instead of as a reporter is that I can write whole posts around something a couple unnamed sources said. My grandfather’s folk called that grist for the mill back when his folk worked in ...
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Sophomore Stampede Across The Continent
More sophomore pacers take the limelight on Saturday in Pennsylvania Sires Stakes (PASS) and New Jersey Sires Stakes (NJSS) and New York Sires Stakes (NYSS). These state-bred events turn out a good number of divisions at a few different tracks, which ...
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Pros & Cons of 2015 Preakness field
Here are my Pros & Cons for the Preakness contestants, listed in post position order:
American Pharoah
Pros : Outstanding colt heads a deep crop of three-year-olds and exits the first real test of his career, posting a one-length decisio ...
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Preakness Stakes could be instant replay of Derby
Perhaps the best horse with the chance of putting an early end to American Pharoah's bid for the Triple Crown is the same colt that finished second to him in Louisville - Firing Line . Six weeks after he had romped to a 14-length score in the Sun ...
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Aged pacers call on back class for wins
If there was a common theme to the racing card at Rosecroft Raceway on Tuesday it was the ability of several aged pacers to rebound from a series of setbacks to garner victories that many might have presumed would never occur again. In one of the ea ...
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Inside post a tricky obstacle for American Pharoah in 2015 Preakness
Kentucky Derby winner American Pharoah was installed as the 4-5 morning line favorite for Saturday’s $1.5 million Preakness at Pimlico, second leg of the Triple Crown, but the expectation this would be an easy task was thrown into question when the c ...
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Our worst Preakness pick
This week, we're strolling down memory lane to revisit several Preaknesses that hold special personal meaning for us. Our second "team blog" looks back at the Preakness that brought us the biggest heartache and/or disappointment. You can read the fir ...
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Hopeful Colts And Fillies Storm Three State-Bred Divisions
Our coverage of the Hambletonian Trail starts on Thursday, May 14, with glamour-boy trotters in Pennsylvania Sires Stakes (PASS) splits worth $63,000 plus at Harrah’s Philadelphia. Twenty-three eligibles are strewn across the lucrative splits.
...
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Your A-to-Z Guide to the 2015 Preakness
The countdown is on to Saturday's Preakness (G1), so here's one way to approach the middle jewel of the Triple Crown.
A is for American Pharoah , the Kentucky Derby (G1) champion who aims to justify favoritism again. But the perennial "A" of th ...
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Our biggest Preakness heartache/disappointment
This week, we're strolling down memory lane to revisit several Preaknesses that hold special personal meaning for us. Our second "team blog" looks back at the Preakness that brought us the biggest heartache and/or disappointment. You can read the fir ...
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1962 Preakness was tip of the iceberg for Jolley at Pimlico
Hall of Fame trainer LeRoy Jolley was a major presence on the racing scene for more than three decades, training a handful of champions and winning the Kentucky Derby with Foolish Pleasure in 1975 and the filly Genuine Risk in 1980.
Although he ha ...
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Pletcher sticks to philosophy, rules Materiality out of 2015 Preakness
Todd Pletcher initially considered the Preakness Stakes for all three of his Kentucky Derby starters as well as Competitive Edge, winner of the Pat Day Mile on the Derby undercard. In the end, the 14-day interim proved too high a mountain to climb.
...
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Southland Preview - 3rd Round of 2015 Razorback Classic Stakes set for Wednesday, May 13
The highly competitive 2015 SOUTHLAND RAZORBACK CLASSIC Stakes championship continues on Wednesday, May 13 with 6 races on the twilight card. The very talented field has been reduced from the 96 greyhounds who started the competition down to the ...
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2015 Preakness BRIS Speed Rating Report
American Pharoah will attempt to capitalize upon his Kentucky Derby success as a solid favorite in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes. A winner of five straight, the Bob Baffert-trained colt appears unlikely to regress from a BRIS Speed rating perspective, ...
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Our favorite renewals of the Preakness
This week, we're strolling down memory lane to revisit several Preaknesses that hold special personal meaning for us. Our first "team blog" looks back at our favorite Preakness renewals.
James Scully: The 1989 Preakness ranks as one of my all-t ...
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A Confederation Cup Elims Sweep And Top-Dollar Winners In Canada
This week’s winners came from all over last week’s blog, including some features and the horses-to-watch (H2W) list. Let’s start with Sunday, May 10, where we took on and scored in both eliminations of the Confederation Cup at Flamboro Downs.
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Fathers and sons in the 2015 Preakness
Although this year's renewal of the Preakness (G1) doesn't offer as many father-and-son story lines as the Kentucky Derby (G1), there are still a few intriguing connections.
Two contenders are by Preakness winners -- Dortmund is by Big Brown (2008 ...
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Santa Anita Park Fast Choices
After yesterday's awesome day at Belmont Park, you'd think that the stakes racing wouldn't be as good today. Although that's probably true overall, the G3 Laz Barrera at Santa Anita Park has come up tough. Odds abound with one horse in particular sta ...
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Is Madefromlucky this year's equivalent of Commissioner?
Over the course of the 2015 Triple Crown trail, I've occasionally wondered if Madefromlucky could be this year's version of Commissioner -- another Todd Pletcher trainee with a steady, grinding running style who nearly upset the 2014 Belmont S. (G1). ...
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Round 2 of the 2015 Southland Razorback Classic Stakes is in the books
The 2015 SOUTHLAND RAZORBACK CLASSIC STAKES 2nd Round ran Thursday and the talented greyhounds sure did put on a show. While there were a few surprises in Round 2, the theme of the twilight session was favorites as nine of the 12 stakes races were ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon
Host Derek Simon recaps the 2015 Kentucky Derby and looks forward to the Preakness Stakes.
Check Out Sports Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with TwinSpires Radio on BlogTalkRadio ...
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The Triple Crown Requires Greatness
It's fitting that on the same day that the most hyped horse since Fusaichi Pegasus in 2000 marched to a Kentucky Derby victory was the same day that the most hyped boxing match since Mike Tyson versus Evander Holyfield ended up as one of the big ...
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Palm Beach Friday Matinee Preview 5/8/2015
*Short Cut* Race 14 Grade A 545 Yards All eyes of the greyhound world will be on the new King of this track #4 Pat C Short Cut from the suddenly hot Koppe, Staats & Collins Kennel. 6 straight wins for a sprinter at Palm Beach is ve ...
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Monday feature offers plenty of possibilities
Both thoroughbred and standardbred horse players tend to avoid short fields, noting that the races often offer little value. But the Monday feature at Harrington Raceway, the $16,000 Open Handicap comprised of only five older pacers, is clearly the m ...
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Kentucky Derby Recap
Before Saturday’s 141 st running of the Kentucky Derby, nearly everyone agreed that this year’s crop of three-year-olds was special.
It took a shade over two minutes for some to question that view — 2:03.02 to be precise. That was the time it ...
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Fiery Harness Harangues On Tap
Grand Circuit action continues to roll as deep spring presents the hottest temperatures North America has dreamed about through a seemingly endless winter of bitter cold and precipitation.
Reynolds and Simpson stakes keep the three-year-olds l ...
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Trotters Tap National And State Stakes
By Frank Cotolo
The Hambletonian Trail ensues this week with Grand Circuit and state-bred stakes, offering hefty purses for eligibles to the big events in August.
Friday, May 8, filly trotters arrive at the Meadowlands for a national e ...
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2015 Razorback Classic - Rnd 2, May 7
Round 2 of the Southland 2015 $40,000 Razorback Classic Stakes contest will be run on Thursday, May 7 with 12 of the 18 races being stakes races. There were 96 hard running greyhounds entered for this stakes championship and who are hoping for a ...
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Ocho Ocho Ocho Propels TwinSpires.com Player to Contest Win
The winner of the second annual TwinSpinres.com dartboard Kentucky Derby eliminator contest came down to the tiebreaker of picking the last-place horse, and it was Skyler H. of Wisconsin whose tab of Ocho Ocho Ocho to finish last propelled him to v ...
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Points Makes the Pace Makes the Race
Churchill Downs implemented a new Kentucky Derby qualifying system in 2013—switching from graded earnings to points—and many people initially believed it would mark the end of Derbys being run at insanely fast early paces. The new point system d ...
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American Pharoah in the Preakness: Likes and Dislikes
With Kentucky Derby 141 now in the books, the big question on everyone’s mind is whether American Pharoah will replicate his Derby victory in the $1.5 million Preakness at Pimlico on May 16, thus setting up a Triple Crown bid at Belmont Park on June ...
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American Pharoah intimidating but questions remain for horse players
American Pharoah was clearly best in the Kentucky Derby, edging away to a one-length victory as the 5-2 favorite, and the talented colt may have more to offer in the final two legs of the Triple Crown.
But his 100 BRIS Speed rating, one of the lo ...
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Cheeky Hambo Hunters Score; Top Prices For Overnight Achievers
The Hambletonian Trail began last week, pitting soph colt and-filly trotters against one another in lucrative contests at Freehold and Pocono. This is where our feature results excelled. Remember, the Hambletonian Trail blog is exclusive on these Twi ...
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