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A Hot Hiatus Before Heading For Ohio
This week the Grand Circuit pauses for a well-deserved hiatus, catching its breath before it rolls into Delaware, Ohio, testing all eight divisions in one form or another on the speedy half-mile track for a week ending with the Jugette and Little Bro ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 09/12 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio
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East Coast bias
It's not that I think there is an East Coast bias, it's that when the only full-time Turf writers west of the Mississippi work for Daily Racing Form , the scale of information is definitely going to tip in the directions of the East Coast and Midwes ...
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Fun with names
I think someone should name a horse Madeinnewyorkcity so that every time his/her name is said during the post parade, race, etc., the crowd can yell out, "NEW YORK CITY?!! Get a rope!" Announcers could have all sorts of fun with it, too. "Madei ...
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Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes
A lot of the season’s top horses, trotters and pacers, from almost every division, played a role in the stakes-filled weekend. We couldn’t nail but a single winner, suffering our greatest heartbreak in the Sept. 8 Champlain at Mohawk when our 10 ...
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The Fall of Champions
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Stakes Have Stars Spread Out For Action
National stars spread out this weekend to address some state-bred purses and more Grand Circuit events before all eyes focus on the herd’s arrival at Delaware, Ohio for Little Brown Jug week. Let’s look at the swarm of events that may warrant som ...
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Stars? We don't need no stinkin' stars
Exhibit "A" is this year's Travers Stakes, a Grade 1 race in which the only Grade 1-winning entrant (Liaison) was on a seven-race losing streak. As I said in a previous blog post , this field was more like a bunch of also rans playing out the loser' ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 09/05 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio
In between lamenting the fact that they are not qualified to be sports mascots, host Derek Simon and Ed DeRosa of Brisnet.com discuss the Paynter situation, the crisis in Canada and a host of other things. In the U. of Bet segment, Derek talks ab ...
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Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes
A lot of the season’s top horses, trotters and pacers, from almost every division, played a role in the stakes-filled weekend. Keep up with race stories and pre-race analysis’s at our exclusvie Breeders Crown Countdown blog and the Hambl ...
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A more telling weekend
The Pacific Classic had a bigger say on this year's three-year-old male division than did the Travers Stakes. Theoretically either Alpha or Golden Ticket could sneak into the Eclipse Award discussion by pointing toward the Breeders' Cup Classic foll ...
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The Science of Betting
Originally, I’d planned on discussing a variety of racetrack issues in this week’s column — Dullahan’s surprise (at least to me) victory in the Pacific Classic, hopes that Frankel may travel to Paris, etc. But some comments on a coupl ...
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‘Captain’ My Captain; Big Finals Highlight Giant Harness Weekend--Update on Cane Pace
There is a herd of progeny from Somebeachsomewhere on the tracks this season. The incredible beast that paced a hole in a lot of winds and retired to stud after a monstrous sophomore season, winning $2.4 million and taking a mark of 1:46.4, presents ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 08/29 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio
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TwinSpires.com bettor plays name game to scoop Pick 6 at Del Mar
A name he liked coupled with a jockey he recognized led Mr. Hariri to scoop Thursday’s Pick 6 at Del Mar for gross winnings of $495,060.80 on a $146 play. Playing through TwinSpires.com , the West Coast resident took a stab at Thursday’s $89,785 Pi ...
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Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes
If you are one of “the crowd” then you cashed a few tickets this weekend, though most of the returns were pale and paltry. You may have, however, zeroed in on one of our choices, Prestidigitator, from our Breeders Crown Countdown blog, and ...
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Speedy Weekend Expected, Updated
Harness drivers will have their “pedal to the metal” this weekend, no doubt, as they gun for big purses and prestige over profit. TwinSpires carries the DuQuoin State Fair from Illinois and even with reduced status and purses, there is plenty the ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 08/22 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio
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Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes
Some weeks don’t look as promising as others for a betting bankroll and those turn out to be terrific times, while others look good enough to eat and those wind up not being able to be digested fully. So it is that the three-day-full-of-action weeken ...
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International Festival of Racing-Arlington Million day
It's a great 12-race card on Million day with two Pick 4s, including a $200,000 guaranteed late Pick 4 on the last five race, and an all-stakes $100,000 guaranteed Pick 5. My strategy will be to get Jakkalberry home in the St. Leger and eithe ...
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Analyzing Arlington
(Click on image to enlarge) Let’s take a look at each of the top contenders: (Click on image to enlarge) The first thing that strikes me about Wild Command is that he’s a frontrunner with a closer’s pace ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 08/15 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio
Host Derek Simon and Ed DeRosa of Brisnet.com discuss Dr. Kendall Hansen’s assertion that Hansen (the horse, not the good doctor) was “unethically targeted” in the West Virginia Derby. They also analyze Wise Dan’s Horse of the Year chances and Ed giv ...
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Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes for Nov 8, 2012
In the way we offered a win wager on the Confederation Cup at Flamboro Downs, Aug. 12, you should have had Pet Rock. We mentioned that if the colt would be worth a price it would be in the elim heat, not the final. As it turns out we were on the mone ...
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Winning with Style
(Click on image to enlarge) Personally, I think that’s a load of malarkey — although Hansen was very headstrong (he often is), the fractions of the West Virginia Derby were far from taxing. Still, Hansen’s blue-tail beatdown does highlight ...
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The Heat Is On In Confederation Cup; State-Breds Battle Aplenty
With the Hambletonian in the history books, the action turns back to soph-colt pacers and heads north to Hambletonian Trail blog that covered months of preps for two divisions leading to the August classics has its final entry now listed. The H ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 08/08 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio
Was Hansen cooked in a speed duel in the West Virginia Derby? Did Hero of Order engage in a Kamizakee mission of destruction? Host Derek Simon and Ed DeRosa of Brisnet.com discuss it, as well as speed duels in general. In the U. of Bet segment, Dere ...
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Test of the Champion and the Test
Dreaming of Julia wowed Saratoga Race Course observers on Monday with a 10 1/2-length victory on debut, prompting thoughts not only of what she might accomplish as a two-year-old but also beyond. One tweet proclaimed, "I found my [Kentucky] Oaks fill ...
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Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes
Thanks to the Hambletonian Trail blog. The two features on Friday night started us off with strange twist concerning the next day’s trotting classic. In the Townsend-Ackerman, which consisted of trotting colts that did not make it into the ...
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Greek peaked or still climbing?
It's rare that a race outside the Breeders' Cup can define a horse as the best in the country, but that mantle is on the line for Ron The Greek in the Whitney Handicap on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course. Ron The Greek is the onl ...
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At the races and on stage with The Hold Steady's Craig Finn
When Craig Finn talks about his song “Chips Ahoy!”, the lead singer of The Hold Steady sounds like The Most Interesting Man in the World , but he’s talking gambling instead of alcohol.
“I'm not much a gambler,” Finn said. “But if you're going ...
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The Skinny on Overweights
When I used to go to the races as a kid, I followed the same pattern. I’d get a program to supplement my tattered and marked-up edition of the Daily Racing Form , find a comfortable table and chair in the gazebo and accept the offer of an ice-cold P ...
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TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 07/18 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio
Ed DeRosa of Brisnet.com and Derek Simon share their thoughts on the opening of Del Mar and Saratoga. Derek also explains why Saratoga is called the "Graveyard of Favorites" and discusses the nuances of making a fair odds line.
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