TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 08/28 by TwinSpires Radio | Sports Podcasts

Wed Aug 28 2013Derek Simon

Derek Simon and Ed DeRosa discuss last weekend’s Pacific Classic and Travers Stakes, as well as Palace Malice’s poor Internet etiquette. Ed also gives his take on proper “twerking” technique. In the U. of Bet segment, Derek and Dave Schwartz disc ...
Game On Dude still the country's best horse

Mon Aug 26 2013Ed DeRosa

The results of this weekend's races--despite the favorite rolling in the Pacific Classic Stakes and an upset in the Travers--did nothing to change my thoughts on the championship picture for Horse of the Year and three-year-old male, respectively. ...
Wagering expectations of a public tout

Mon Aug 26 2013Ed DeRosa

My race selections on Twitter can best be summed by the Toby Keith song, "I Love This Bar": "We've got winners, we've got losers..." Sometimes we have both in the same race as was the case with the Pacific Classic Stakes on Sunday at Del Mar when 8- ...
Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes

Mon Aug 26 2013TwinSpires Staff

A mildly successful harness-betting weekend resulted from our Thursday blog, though certainly not one of our more prosperous efforts. This weekend’s choices spilled over into Sunday night, which is why this blog was posted later than usual.    At V ...
The Travers Stakes 'Conspiracy'

Fri Aug 23 2013Derek Simon

NOTE: Click HERE for a free sample report that explains what the data above means. Both horses like to be on or near the pace and, while I was not overly impressed with Verrazano’s latest score in the Haskell (I thought the -6 lat ...
The case for Orb to win the Travers Stakes

Fri Aug 23 2013Ed DeRosa

There are plenty of reasons not to like Orb: The Preakness was dreadful, and he flattened in the Belmont before an 11-week break into this. That'd be enough to pass at even money, but I'm hoping for 4-to-1 against a competitive group. His Kentucky De ...

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The battle for three-year-old supremacy

Thu Aug 22 2013Ed DeRosa

The winner of this year's Travers Stakes has a good chance to become the first champion three-year-old male to win the midsummer classic since Summer Bird in 2009 and just the second in the past seven years, third in the past 12, and fourth in the pa ...
The Jackpot 5 Show Parlay Opportunity

Thu Aug 22 2013Ed DeRosa

One thing I've tried to do lately is think of wagers as opportunities. If I'm not overjoyed at the chance to enter into a particular pool then it's not worth my money.  Different pools can work together to offer multiple opportunities. E.g., the win ...
Freshmen In Focus

Thu Aug 22 2013TwinSpires Staff

The green pacers and trotters have not been racing for long but the best of the frosh-colt pacers so far are about to strut their stuff in Metro Pace eliminations at Mohawk this Saturday, Aug. 24. The biggest feature for the future glamour boys is th ...
Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes

Sun Aug 18 2013TwinSpires Staff

Super Stakes Saturday at Pocono was not rife with big prices but we did score some winners that complemented our contenders’ list. The fields were in fast motion on the five-eighths oval and that produced a few world records, most opportunistic.    ...
The Million

Sat Aug 17 2013Derek Simon

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A-B-C-Deep on the Arlington Million day card at Arlington International Racecourse

Sat Aug 17 2013Ed DeRosa

You don't need a Ph.D. in Cristometrics to take a look at my ABC grid and figure out that I'll be leaning on the "A" column a lot. The internal conversation goes something like this, "If I'm using this horse then I have to use this horse." That' ...
Executive corner: Jeremy Clemons on Twinnovation, Jackpot 5, and TwinSpires mobile

Fri Aug 16 2013Ed DeRosa

Pardon me while I highjack the TwinSpires Blog from the normal in-depth handicapping and racing analysis provided by Ed, Derek, and Frank, but I wanted to share some thoughts on a  few recent innovations at TwinSpires.com--what we call "Twinnovations ...