Winning underlay or losing overlay? The Players Pool conundrum

Thu Jun 27 2013Ed DeRosa

You are offered two games of chance with fixed odds. In the first game, you flip a coin and get 4-to-5 odds on your choice (heads or tails). In the second game, you roll a standard six-sided die and get 6-to-1 odds on your choice (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 ...
Young Guns, Glamour Groups, Fire

Thu Jun 27 2013TwinSpires Staff

Even though Pocono Downs gets the week’s top headlines with Saturday, June 29’s finals at the Pennsylvania oval next week, including another appearance by Captaintreacherous, the weekend agenda launches herds of freshmen onto the 2013 scene. Frosh- ...
Contest Races for Thursday and Friday

Wed Jun 26 2013TwinSpires Staff

CLICK HERE FOR CONTEST DETAILS CONTEST RACES FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 27 1) Belmont 7 – OCL, 1M, Dirt – 4:13 2) Churchill 8 – AOC, 1 1/16M, Dirt – 4:29 3) Belmont 8 – OCL, 6F, Dirt – 4:45 4) Churchill 9 – CLM, 1M, Dirt – 4:59 5) Belmont 9 – CL ...
Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes

Sun Jun 23 2013TwinSpires Staff

Captaintreacherous did it again this weekend, winning on Pocono’s five-eighths track in one of three elims for next week’s Max Hempt stakes. The champion glamour boy pacer paid $2.40 but our best pick was in the first “Hempt” elim, where we nailed Em ...
Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Fri Jun 21 2013Derek Simon

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Rocking Around the Clock on Saturday at TwinSpires.com

Fri Jun 21 2013Ed DeRosa

Near-around the clock action is nothing new on TwinSpires.com, but the class of the races offered on Saturday-- with group and graded stakes action beginning with Royal Ascot in the morning and concluding with Churchill Downs "after dark" --is pretty ...

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Pocono’s Powerhouse Features

Thu Jun 20 2013TwinSpires Staff

Pocono Downs shines with features on Sun Stakes Saturday, June 22,with eliminations for finals at the Pennsylvania oval next week, including a big event on the Hambletonian Trail which you can read about on the excluscive blog. Soph-colt pacers ...
TwinSpires Horse Racing Podcast w/Derek Simon 06/19 by TwinSpires Radio | Blog Talk Radio

Wed Jun 19 2013Derek Simon

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TwinSpires player turns $20 to show on Orb into $6,705.67 pay day

Wed Jun 19 2013Ed DeRosa

For those who thought (as I did) that Orb was the most likely winner of the Belmont Stakes, nearly even money (19-to-20, paying $3.90) to show on the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands winner in the third jewel of American Thoroughbred racing's ...
Cotolo’s Harness Review, News And Notes

Sun Jun 16 2013TwinSpires Staff

Aside from the accolades, we told you that at 1-1 or up Captaintreacherous would be an overlay. He paid a remarkable $4.80 to win. The buzz horses were all zapped by the stretch to the point where the longest shot on the board—Twilight Bonfire—who go ...
Pace Handicapping: A Practical Demonstration

Fri Jun 14 2013Derek Simon

(Click on image to enlarge) (Click on image to enlarge) The first thing to take note of regarding this race is that the average early speed ration, or ESR, is on the moderate side for a sprint rac ...
A Bettor’s Grand Guide To The North America Cup

Fri Jun 14 2013TwinSpires Staff

What follows is an exclusive bettor’s look at the horses in the North America Cup. You can read their stats, drivers and trainers on the program pages and you can read the human-interest stories at a lot of websites. This text is only about the horse ...
Marvelous Menagerie At Mohawk And More

Thu Jun 13 2013TwinSpires Staff

It’s one of the biggest programs of the season, headlined by the Pepsi North America Cup on Saturday, June 15. There is so much material to accompany analysis of the races on the Mohawk Raceway program that night that we have split the difference wit ...