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Fair Grounds - New Orleans Handicap, March 29, 2014
Fair Grounds 10 | 6:25 pm ET
G2 New Orleans Hcp for 4&Up going 1-1/8 mi NORMANY INVASION will not be his morning line of 7-2 when the gates open so there is no value there. PALACE MALICE is the morning line favorite at 8-5 and it's possible th ...
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#DWC2014 coverage sponsored by TwinSpires
The Dubai World Cup is the world's richest race and TwinSpires is proud to be partnering with The Jockey Club Tour on FOX and Horse Racing Radio Network (HRRN) to bring you the best coverage. The 2014 Dubai World Cup looks to light up the desert ...
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Australia Racing Preview for 3/27/2014
by Grant Davies Friday racing will take us to Cranbourne so we can start to make sure the wallets are a little thicker in anticipation for the superb racing that is approaching this weekend. So let’s just take a look at a few races and see what w ...
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Thursday Harness Preview for 3/27/2014
Perhaps with spring finally to take hold in the Mid-Atlantic region, things will warm up on several levels as Dover Downs and Yonkers host competitive standardbred cards on Thursday evening. Dover Downs typically reserves its best cards for Thu ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/27/2014
by Mel Daniels Santa Anita race 5 | 6:03 pm ET
Claiming (25-22) for 3&up F&M going 1 mi. (T) 3 Incredible Journey This filly by Lemon Drop Kid is rounding into form, making her 4th start after a seven month layoff. Two starts bac ...
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$3,000 for Three Group 1s Down Under
I don’t see a whole lot of separation amongst these sprinters in the Galaxy Stakes (G1) so the question is whose turn is it to win?
Last spring, SESSIONS won a group two stakes race at course and distance in fast time then missed by a length on th ...
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Racing Rarities: Marathon Distances
Saturday's feature race at Santa Anita Park is the G3 Tokyo City Cup. It's a rarity in modern American horse racing, a 12-furlong affair that promises to be much more about stamina and grit than speed and flash. Why is it, though, that longer-d ...
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Greyhound Preview: Palm Beach for 3/27/2014
by Palm Beach Jason 15 terrific races for your Thursday enjoyment will be on display at the Palm Beach Kennel Club. World famous announcer Mike Jameson will be calling them home for you all day long. Here are the top races I will be following at “ ...
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Santa Anita Pick 6 - $115,862 Carryover, March 27, 2014
Race 1 Post Time: 4:00 pm ET
Race 3 Post Time: 5:01 pm ET Race 3: DO SOME MAGIC just finished second by a head at this level and is the horse to beat as we kick off another carryover in the pick-6 at Santa Anita. UNUSUALLY GREEN also is coming of ...
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Wednesday Harness Preview for 3/26/2014
by Ted Black One day after another post-winter storm made for interesting scenes at several harness racing tracks along the East Coast, chilly and much drier conditions should prevail at Dover Downs on Wednesday and ideal conditions should be on t ...
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Meet The Man Alive For $1-Million
It took nine races to eliminate 98% of those who started, but just one race to eliminate 98% of the remaining 2%, and only one man left standing on the TwinSpires.com Road to the Kentucky Derby SHOWdown competition.
Steve Metzler of Louisville i ...
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Greyhound Preview: Palm Beach for 3/26/014
by Palm Beach Jason Many of Palm Beach’s superstars will be on display in the Wednesday Matinee performance. There also will be some real up and coming greyhounds worth taking a look at as well. 15 fantastic races to watch all day long. Here are t ...
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Australia Racing Preview for 3/25/2014
by Grant Davies Midweek racing is down the coast at Mornington today, let’s try and get some bank building done for the weekend approaching! MORNINGTON – AUS A RACE 3 - ORBIT FITNESS HANDICAP 1200m $35,000 (AUS) Would expect GIRL GUIDE ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/25/2014
by Mel Daniels Sunland Park race 4 | 4:10 pm ET
Claiming (15) for 3&up NM-breds going 5.5f 6-Reeser This baby of the bunch has just 3 career starts and has won 2 of those. In his last start ou,t he set very fast fractions, running the ...
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Greyhound Preview: Palm Beach for 3/25/2014
Great card on tap for Tuesday at the Palm Beach Kennel Club. 15 fantastic races for players and fans to follow all day long. Here are my top races I will be following at the track: Race 1 Grade M 545 Yards
The #1 OlTimeRockenRoll is a fu ...
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Monday Harness Preview for 3/24/2014
by Ted Black Once again this evening the Monday standardbred cards at Dover Downs, Pompano Park and Yonkers Raceway will center around the pacing fillies and mares and, as has been another common theme, inclement weather could play a belated facto ...
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Player Quick Pick: G3 Sunland Derby for 3/23/2014
It's Sunday Funday! Sunland Park race 11 | 7:40 pm ET
G3 Sunland Derby for 3yo going 1-1/8 mi. 1- Bourbonize : undefeated before a troubled trip in the Southwest
2- Garen : became a different horse on the lead and the stretchout
3- Commiss ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/23/2014
by D.S. Williamson The beautiful weather at Gulfstream these past few weekends means that horseplayers should definitely take advantage of turf betting at Florida’s premier track. That’s exactly what we’ll be doing with today’s two races. Gulf ...
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Sunland Park - Sunland Derby, March 23, 2014
Sunland Park 11 | 7:40 pm ET
G3 Sunland Derby for 3yo going 1-1/8 mi Trainer Bob Baffert holds a pair of aces in the Grade 3 Sunland Derby with MIDNIGHT HAWK and CHITU , two colts that have been running against the best three-year-olds in Southe ...
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Weekend Harness Preview
by Ted Black With spring weather perhaps having finally arrived, at least temporarily, the racing action will certainly heat up at several tracks along the East Coast on Saturday night with stakes action at two of them and a bevy of overnights at ...
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Player Quick Pick: G3 Spiral Stakes 3/22/2014
Turfway Park race 11 | 6:28 pm ET
G3 Spiral Stakes for 3yo going 1-1/8 mi. (A) 1- Big Bazinga : big effort sprinting on the turf last out
2- Asserting Bear : stepped up with good effort against open stakes company
3- Poker Player : will be ro ...
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Player Quick Pick: G3 Bourbonette Oaks for 3/22/2014
Turfway 10 | 5:42 pm ET
G3 Bourbonette Oaks for 3yo F going 1 mi. (A) Though not the “A-list” for Kentucky Oaks hopefuls, the G3 Bourbonette Oaks should prove to be a competitive race for young three-year old fillies, with Wayne Catalano r ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/22/2014
by D.S. Williamson Gulfstream’s feature on Saturday is the Grade 2 Inside Information. Before they run that race, is Race 7 where a 10 to 1 morning line shot looks like the perfect key horse in a wide open event. Gulfstream Park 7 | 4:03 pm ET ...
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Santa Anita Saturday Pick 5 - March 22, 2014
Santa Anita 1 | 3:30 pm ET
Pick 5 featuring G2 San Luis Rey (Race 4)
4&up going 1-1/2 mil (T) Race 1: OBSESS has not won in his last seven starts, dating back to September 2012, but this may be the spot to right the ship. Not to mention he is ...
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Australia Racing Preview for 3/21/2014
Big say ahead here at Rosehill Gardens with some serious Graded Stakes races and 2 huge Grade 1’s in the COOLMORE CLASSIC and the RANVET STAKES. It is sure to be a magnificent day of racing so let’s try and line our pockets with some dollars! ...
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Spiraling to the Kentucky Derby and $1-million
Fifty TwinSpires.com players remain alive for $1-million in the Road to the Kentucky Derby Showdown , and those who survive this weekend’s races—the Spiral Stakes on Saturday at Turfway Park and the Sunland Derby on Sunday at Sunland Park —wi ...
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Autumn View's Aim at Glory?
Race 1: Post time 4:00 pm ET
Race 3: Post time 5:01 pm ET Started strong in the pick-6 on Thursday and ended with the double, but missed the three races in between. Let's try to better that on Friday. Race 3: AUTUMN VIEW is going to be a single ...
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Australia Racing Preview for 3/20/2014
by Grant Davies Friday night and everything is going to be alright….we have Grade 1 racing at Moonee Valley with the William Reid and it’s a good night to start that bank for the weekend! Rosehill Gardens is putting on a huge day with no less tha ...
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Lucky 7s Draws Pair of Rosehill Group 1s
The Coolmore Classic (G1) has drawn 17 females going 7 ½ furlongs around the right-hand course of Rosehill. The horses drawn wide will have to expose their hand early the inside posts will be caught in traffic unless they are hard used into the turn. ...
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Thursday Harness Preview for 3/20/2014
Harness racing fans will gladly bid the winter a fond farewell as spring arrives and those who venture to Dover Downs on Thursday evening will benefit from the warmer temperatures and the contentious action of the 15-race card, literally from st ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/20/2014
by Mel Daniels Fair Grounds Race 8 | 5:55 pm ET
Optional Claiming (12.5) | 4&up going 1 mi. (T) 2-Quietdetermination He came off of a long layoff last time out going 1m 1/16 against the same he will face today. He rode the rail and wen ...
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Can Pulpit's Express Claim Victory Again?
Race 1: Post time 4:00 pm ET
Race 3: Post time 5:01 pm ET Thursday's pick-6 carryover at Santa Anita starts in race 3, a $40,000 claiming race for four-year-olds and upward going one mile on the main track. Race 3: Not an easy way to kick off the ...
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Wednesday Harness Preview for 3/19/2014
Although the two standardbred tracks are a considerable distance apart, the similarities between Dover Downs and Pompano Park, both five-eighths mile ovals take on an added dimension each Wednesday when their cards feature trotters. But with al ...
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Australia Racing Preview for 3/18/2014
Mid-week racing is again at Sandown so let’s see what we can find and try and get some money in our pockets! SANDOWN HILLSIDE – AUS A RACE 1 - EQUIANO - KING OF SPEED HANDICAP 900m $35,000 (AUS) EVA'S DAY is the only one to have raced ...
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Tuesday Harness Preview for 3/18/2014
While racing cards at most harness tracks on Tuesday evenings often leave little to the imagination, the standardbred programs at Rosecroft Raceway in Maryland and Yonkers Raceway in New York actually have plenty to offer this evening. Yonkers ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/18/2014
by Mel Daniels Turf Paradise 6 | 6:32 pm ET
AOC (20) for 3&up going 7.5f (T) My top selection 1-Macias has scratched. This makes my top pick 2-King of the Sky . This gelding is coming into this fresh off of a 75k dirt stakes race. ...
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Monday Harness Preview
Monday evening a trio of harness tracks along the East Coast will offer cards that highlight pacing fillies and mares and two of those ovals could be affected by the impact of Winter Storm Wiley, hopefully the last of the nearly alphabetically e ...
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Future Star Update: Only I Know
Owning an undefeated colt in March of his 3yo year is a big deal. A really big deal. It's a take-over-the-front-page-of-your-local-sports-section big deal. And this is exactly the adrenaline rush that Flying G Racing and Debra Rombis are experienc ...
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Racing's Luckiest Moments
Afleet Alex rises from his knees to win the Preakness Just over 18 years later, Afleet Alex channeled Alysheba at Pimlico. The beaten favorite in the 2005 Kentucky Derby took flight around the far turn, only to clip heels with Scrappy T. For a ...
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Player Quick Pick: Success Story for 3/17/2014
What does having a fantastic Saturday at TwinSpires look like? Just ask racingform, a TwinSpires account holder who scored a monster $3,736.50 betting the $.50 Gulfstream Park Pick 4 five times. To hit the Pick 4, he had to correctly select ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/16/2014
by D.S. Williamson A couple of great turf races at Gulfstream Park makes up Sunday’s two best bets. Sunshine once again promises for a fair track. Gulfstream Park 9 | 5:05 pm ET
Optional Claiming (25) for 4&up F&M going 1-1/16 mi. ( ...
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Santa Anita - Santa Ana Stakes, March 16, 2014
Santa Anita 7 | 6:34 pm ET
G2 Santa Ana for 4&Up F&M going 1-1/8 mi (T) EMOLLIENT is a Grade 1 winner on turf and synthetic and even money on the morning line, but if you are going to take a shot and wager against her, this is the race. The Emp ...
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Weekend Harness Preview for 3/15/2014
by Ted Black Saturday evening will mark of the last weekend of winter and the racing action at a quartet of standardbred ovals of varying sizes and locales is already starting to warm up. At The Meadowlands on Saturday evening, the New Jersey mil ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/15/2014
MOST PROBABLE WINNER: 3-Tapiture
Coming into the last prep race for the Arkansas Derby next month, the horse in The Rebel that has the fewest question marks has to be Tapiture. The chestnut colt by Tapit out of Free Spin has the pedigree to ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/15/2014
by D.S. Williamson The rain at Oaklawn forces me back to the sunshine in southern Florida today. Let's see if we can't find some great betting opportunities! Gulfstream Park 6 | 3:32 pm ET
Optional Claiming (25) for 4&up going 1-1/16 mi. ...
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Santa Anita - Irish O'Brien Stakes, Saturday, March 15, 2014
Santa Anita 4 | 5:00 pm ET
Irish O'Brien for 4&Up F&M going 6.5f (T) The state-bred Irish O'Brien Stakes is a key race on Saturday at Santa Anita as it's part of the pick-5, early pick-4 and pick-6. Morning line favorite and mare to beat is ...
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Australia Racing Preview for 3/14/2014
Big Saturday at Royal Randwick! Seven graded stakes races highlighted by the two grade 1’s. The $500,000 GUINNESS CANTERBURY STAKES and the $600,000 ROYAL RANDWICK GUINEAS! Both will be fantastic races and let’s make sure we are right in the finish! ...
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Arkansas Derby Preview Day Preview Blog
As I discussed in varying ways on the Hello Race Fans Derby Prep Alert and Steve Byk’s At The Races Radio Program, I don’t expect a lot of sexy results on Saturday at Oaklawn Park in terms of payoffs, but it will be fun to watch some (future) s ...
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Cheltenham Gold Cup Day Live Blog
Wow, what a great racecall by Mark Johnson!
Lord Windermere gets the job done for jockey Davy Russell and trainer Jim Culloty--my old pal who rode Best Mate to three Cheltenham Gold Cups. Not to take anything away from the top finishers, but it di ...
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Santa Anita - Santa Margarita Stakes, March 15, 2014
Santa Anita - Santa Margarita Stakes Santa Anita 7 | 6:30 pm ET | Saturday, March 15, 2014
G1 Santa Margarita for 3&Up F&M going 1-1/8 mi. SPELLBOUND was the pick to upset the Grade 2 La Canada back in January and she did just that, comi ...
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Australia Racing Preview for 3/13/2014
Friday night racing is back on at the valley, so we can all breathe a sigh of relief and get to making ourselves a bankroll for the weekend! Graded racing at Royal Randwick tomorrow so we need a good night and there is some good racing here! ...
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Thursday Harness Preview for 3/13/2014
While most tracks save their best cards for the weekend, Dover Downs offers its best programs every Thursday and this evening is no exception. Of course, unlike the previous three nights when warmer temperatures made viewing races outside appeal ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/13/2014
by Mel Daniels Oaklawn 8 | 5:42 pm ET
Allowance for 3yo going 6f The first horse I want to look at is the 10-Gigi's Alina. This filly has placed in 5 of 6 career starts. She made her 3yo debut back on Jan. 25th with a win. She had a nice worko ...
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Group 1 Double Headlines $2,000 Lucky 7 Promotion
Nearly $1-million will be on the line among the two Group 1 races on Saturday in Australia, and another $2,000 is up for grabs at TwinSpires.com during week two of its Lucky 7s promotion .
Playing Lucky 7s requires a trio of $7 bets on each of th ...
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Two Grade 1s On Day 3 of Cheltenham Live Blog
The last two are tricky and I haven’t exactly acquitted myself well today but let’s see if we can tab a winner and turn things around,
The Fifth is Byrne Group Plate , a Grade 3 Handicap Chase going 2 miles and 5 furlongs.
#2 JOHN’S SPIRIT is ...
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Wednesday Harness Preview for 3/12/2014
by Ted Black Once again the Wednesday cards at Dover Downs in Delaware and Pompano Park in southern Florida will highlight the trotters and for the first time this winter the two five-eighths mile ovals might also offer comparable temperatures. T ...
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Ladies' Day At Cheltenham Live Blog With P.T. Fornatale
OK, we’ll cover the last three races today in one fell swoop so I can get started working on tomorrow – that’s the trouble with a four day meet – the first two days are pretty easy to find time to do the work for but the last two can get short shrift ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/11/2014
by Mel Daniels Mountaineer Race 8 | 9:41 pm ET
Allowance for 3&up going 6f The first one I want to look at is the 1A-Valient Tenabob . This veteran of the bunch has 46 career starts placing in 29, while winning 12 for almost 200k in earning ...
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Day 1 Cheltenham Live Blog with P. T. Fornatale
The seventh is a listed handicap Novice chase. Let’s take a few shots. The main play is #5 ART OF LOGISTICS. I’m impressed by the betting on this Irish raider. Sean Clancy’s looks play is #8 PENDRA. He is pretty good at spotting future jumps stars an ...
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Monday Harness Preview for 3/10/2014
One week after several standardbred tracks cancelled because of Winter Storm Titan, harness racing fans will have the chance to enjoy much warmer weather - at least temporarily - on Monday when they venture to several tracks. Perhaps in an unwr ...
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Fornatale Is Pumped Up As Cheltenham Looms Boldly
It’s hard to explain Cheltenham to the uninitiated because in some ways it must be experienced in the flesh to truly appreciate it.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t try, and what better way to take in the greatest, most fun, most exciting race meet ...
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Horse Sense: Handicapping the Hall of Fame
Ashado : This hard-knocking filly was on the ballot last year and lost out to Invasor, Lure, Housebuster, and Calvin Borel. This year, Curlin is a lock, and we'll get to a near-lock later on in the column. As good as she was (and at her peak, she ...
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Taking On the TwinSpires.com Mob to Win $1-Million
If you’re one of the TwinSpires.com players still alive for the $1-million prize in our Road to the Kentucky Derby SHOWdown game , then you probably feel like the “one” Bob Sagat is always cheerleading against a mob of diminishing stature.
Going ...
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Australia Racing Preview for 3/9/2014
Labour Day holiday in Melbourne will see us treated to some racing at Moonee Valley! So let’s take advantage of this little treat and see if we cannot make some early week money! MOONEE VALLEY – AUS A RACE 2 - ESSENDON HYUNDAI ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/9/2014
by D.S. Williamson Best Bet – Race 5 – $52,000 Optional Claimer, 1 mile over turf For Four Year Olds and Up Which Have Started for a Claiming Price of $25,000 or Less 5 – Screenplay – 6/1 – Saving ground around that first turn is a doozy, ...
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Santa Anita Sunday Pick 5 - March 9, 2014
Santa Anita
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Race 1 Post Time 3:30 pm ET Race 1: In a race that appears to have a lot of pace, MARY HELEN'S STORM may be the right horse to back in the opener. He is light on speed figures, but the race sets up for him and ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/8/2014
by D.S. Williamson Gulfstream Park Race 8 – Maiden $47,000, 1 1/8 miles over turf for 3yo 9 – Picozza – 3/1 – Jockey John Velasquez is going to have to hustle the Todd Pletcher trained colt sired by More Than Ready to the front early before ...
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Weekend Harness Preview for 3/7/2014
With one winter storm long gone and the prospect of another close at hand, harness racing fans will likely savor their chance to enjoy a hint of milder temperatures when they venture to a pair of tracks along the East Coast this weekend. The Sa ...
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Oaklawn Park - Honeybee Stakes, March 8, 2014
Grade 3 Honeybee Stakes
Oaklawn Park
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Race 6, Post Time 4:39 pm ET The majority of press at this time of year is on the Kentucky Derby trail, but the three-year-old fillies deserve top billing as well. This weekend the fil ...
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/Australia Racing Preview for 3/7/2014
What an amazing days races at Flemington today! Headlined by the two autumn classics, the Lexus Newmarket Stakes and the Darley Australian Cup. Throw in a few more graded stakes and it’s a great place to make some money. FLEMINGTON – AUS A ...
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A Racing Weekend Of Stars
If you’re the type who thinks that racing needs its stars to keep racing to increase interest, then this is the Saturday for you!
The one-two finishers and beaten favorite in America’s richest race all make the second start of their season on Sa ...
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Tampa Bay Downs - Tampa Bay Derby, March 8, 2014
Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby
Tampa Bay Downs
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Race 11, Post Time 5:25 pm ET COUSIN STEPHEN was the pick of the Stephen F. Davis, the local prep for the Tampa Bay Derby, in February, but he could not hold late and finished thir ...
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Australia Racing Preview for 3/6/2014
Friday racing sees us heading out to Cranbourne to try and build that bank for Saturday at Flemington, so let’s take a quick look and find some winners. CRANBOURNE – AUS A RACE 5 - THE CUP CLUB SHOWCASE F&M 0 - 64 HANDICAP 2025m of $30000 ( ...
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Thursday Harness Preview for 3/6/2014
The Thursday evening cards at Dover Downs and The Meadowlands offer a good blend of quality and quantity with full fields at both tracks that should lead to a handful of generous flat payouts. Thursday's Dover Downs card solid from top to botto ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/6/2014
by Mel Daniels Santa Anita Race 5 Post Time: 6:03 pm ET MSW for 3yo going 6.5f (T) The anticipation for the Santa Anita Handicap is at a high level being that it's just two days away. Lets get it even higher by cashing a ticket with the hor ...
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Starting Friday, Lucky 7s Adds Up to $21,000 on Australian Racing
If you’re playing the $21,000 Lucky 7s promotion over the next seven Friday nights at TwinSpires.com then the phrase that pays is Return on Investment (ROI) because that is how all the scoring is done.
Picking winners on Australian races is alwa ...
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Wednesday Harness Preview for 3/5/2014
With Winter Storm Titan having long passed and the alphabetical index of storms set to expire, standardbred owners, trainers and fans can head back to the track this week knowing that spring is, theorhetically at least, just around the corner. ...
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On Why Honor Code Is My Number One
With champion two-year-old male Shared Belief and Remsen Stakes winner Honor Code both unraced as three-year-olds, I’ve looked forward to each weekend of the TwinSpires.com Kentucky Derby Championship Series as a chance for some sophomore to take ...
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Australia Racing Preview for 3/4/2014
Mid-week racing is back on and it’s time to get the wallet fat for Saturday at Flemington. No night racing at the Valley on Friday because they have switched to the Monday, so let’s see what we can get here today. SANDOWN HILLSIDE – AUS A RACE ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/4/2014
by Mel Daniels Turf Paradise Race 7
Post time: 6:06 pm ET
Claiming (3.5) for 3&up going 1 mi. I want to start with the 8-Chase Man . After not faring to well in his last race on turf, he comes back to the dirt where he won his last st ...
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Favorites Help Keep 255 Alive To $1-Million
If going into the TwinSpires.com $1-million Road To the Kentucky Derby Showdown game I had told you that the favorite would hit the board in each of the first six races, what percentage of starting players would you expect to be alive?
88.9% of ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/2/2014
by D.S. Williamson Best Bet – Race 5 – $75,000, Caixa Electronica, 6 furlongs for Four Year Olds and Up 4 – Hardened Wildcat – 8/1 – There appears to be a lot of speed in this race. We just saw yesterday how one of the best three-year-old s ...
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Santa Anita Sunday Pick 5 - Sunday, March 2, 2014
Santa Anita
Race 1, Post Time 3:30 pm ET Race 1: MISS AMERICAN PIE takes a massive drop in class for the Sunday opener, but it's her first start in nearly a year so we will try to beat her with CLEARLY CONFUSED and TEMPE . TEMPE is a new fac ...
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Player Quick Pick for 3/1/2014
by D.S. Williamson Welcome to March: Gulfstream Park should be beautiful today, nothing but sunshine and a high of 78... that's perfect betting weather! Race 5: N1X OC $62,500
4&up F&M going 1-1/6 mile (T) 8 – Profetiza – 4/1 – Jo ...
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Weight a Big Factor In Gotham
One of racing’s great ironies is the common lament, “I don’t regard weight to handicap races” (or some such).
In today’s parlance, “to handicap a race” usually means to figure out who’s going to win (or what chance each horse has of winning), but ...
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Tampa Bay Downs - Turf Dash, March 1, 2014
Turf Dash Stakes
Tampa Bay Downs
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Race 8, Post Time 3:55 pm ET ANCIL will need to work out a trip from the rail and is making his first start in five months, but he is worth making a wager on at a price. Trainer Joan Sco ...
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Samraat vs. Uncle Sigh - The Rematch
At Gulfstream Park we will have the 32nd running of the Grade 2, $200,000, Swale stakes at 7 furlongs. This race will feature the seasonal debut of Grade 1 Champagne Stakes winner Havana. The Todd Pletcher trainee has been working very well for th ...
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Weekend Harness Preview for 2/28/2014
While spring has hardly made an early arrival, things are certainly starting to heat up at several of the harness tracks along the East Coast this weekend as both The Meadowlands and Yonkers offer solid cards on Friday and Saturday nights. At T ...
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Australia Racing Preview for 2/28/2014
It’s Australian Guineas day at Flemington! The premier race for the autumn 3YR olds! Let’s see what we can find as we go in search of winning wagers and some greenbacks! With another 3 Graded races on the card there is some great racing and hope ...
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Palm Beach Stakes - Gulfstream Park, March 1, 2014
Palm Beach Stakes
Gulfstream Park
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Race 10, Post Time 5:41 pm ET STORMING INTI has won four straight races and the only blemish in his career to date was a third place finish in his debut last summer at Saratoga. The son ...
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Australia Racing Preview for 2/27/2014
Back to the home of ‘Night Racing’ before another big day at Flemington on Saturday with the Grade 1 Australian Guineas for the 3YR olds. Let’s take a peek at some of the shorter distance races and see if we can’t find some smart money. MOONEE VAL ...
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Thursday Harness Preview for 2/27/2014
With yet another arctic vortex - perhaps the future name for some standardbred, thoroughbred, quarter horse and greyhound - scheduled to make its presence felt this weekend throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, racing fans at several harness track ...
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Player Quick Pick for 2/27/2014
by Mel Daniels My original race was the 5th at Santa Anita, a Claiming (25) for 4&up F&M going a mile on the turf. However, Southern California is finally getting some much-needed rain and they have taken all races off the grass today. Ou ...
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Future Wagers Offer Chance To Drink Kool Aid
There is no shortage of opinions regarding a horse’s performance following races on the TwinSpires.com Kentucky Derby Championship Series , and the beauty of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager is that it allows bettors to put their money where ...
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Horse Sense: Understanding Takeout
A lot of people new to horse racing believe that a racetrack works like the average Vegas casino (think MGM, Caesar’s Palace, Red Rocks, Orleans, or Golden Nugget). But that’s not the case at all. Unlike a casino where the house makes money if you l ...
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Santa Anita Pick 6 - $198,609 Carryover, February 27, 2014
Santa Anita
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Race 1 Post Time: 4:00 pm ET
Race 3 Post Time: 5:00 pm ET There is rain in the forecast for Thursday at Santa Anita so make sure to check the late changes including scratches and surface switches. Race 3: ...
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Wednesday Harness Preview for 2/26/2014
It seems as though the Wednesday programs at a pair of five-eighths mile standardbred ovals tend to highlight the trotters and that is clearly the case again this evening as Dover Downs and Pompano Park offer cards that cater to the trotting gai ...
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