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Restless Rider the key in Fleur de Lis Pick 4 and Churchill's late Pick 4
Saturday's Golden Rod (G2) and Kentucky Jockey Club (G2) at Churchill Downs are part of the inaugural Fleur de Lis Pick 4 and Churchill's own Late Pick 4, both of which are intriguing sequences. Here's how we'll be playing both wagers, starting wi ...
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How to Bet the 2018 Kentucky Jockey Club
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
The final graded stakes event of the year in Kentucky drew a full field of two-year-olds in search of 10 “Road to the Kentucky Derby ” leaderboard points to the winner.
The Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) attracted the sec ...
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What constitutes a race foul needs to be more properly defined
by DICK POWELL
The newly-minted Thoroughbred Idea Foundation (TIF) came out with their second report titled "Changing the Rules." It recommends that North American racing adopt the International Horse Racing Federation's Category 1 interference ...
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Bessarabian Stakes Offers Rematch of Ontario Fashion Stakes Rivals
If the field for Sunday’s $175,000 Bessarabian Stakes (gr. II) at Woodbine seems a bit familiar, that’s because the seven-furlong all-weather sprint is essentially a rematch of last month’s Ontario Fashion Stakes (gr. III) over the same track. ...
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2019 Kentucky Derby Sire Future Wager Pool: Who Offers the Best Value?
If you’re planning to play Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 1 this weekend—and let’s face it, if you’re a Derby fan, how can you skip it?—you might also want to take a look at the lesser-known Kentucky Derby Sire Future Wager Pool that will ...
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2019 Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 1: Three Longshots to Consider
On a busy weekend with two Kentucky Derby prep races in the United States and Japan, bettors will have an opportunity to lock in early value on some of the top Derby contenders thanks to Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 1.
This special wageri ...
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Taking a swing at the Fleur de Lis Pick 4
by JOHN MUCCIOLO
The inaugural “Fleur De Lis Pick 4” will be held on Saturday. This cross-track wager will feature a pair of races from both Churchill Downs and Fair Grounds , with a pair of graded races in the sequence.
I feel as though th ...
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How to Bet the 2018 Clark Handicap
by SCOTT SHAPIRO
The Clark Handicap (G1) headlines a strong 12-race card on the final Friday of live racing in 2018 at historic Churchill Downs . The $500,000 event conducted at 1 1/8 miles drew a field of eight headlined by the runner-up in the ...
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Playing Against the Favorites in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes
Full field? Check. Competitive betting race? Check. Official Kentucky Derby prep race? Check again.
The 2018-19 Road to the Kentucky Derby will resume on Saturday with the $200,000 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (gr. II) at Churchill Downs, a ...
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Restless Rider Stands Out in Golden Rod Stakes
There are some very promising young fillies entered in Saturday’s $200,000 Golden Rod Stakes (gr. II) at Churchill Downs , but by pretty much any metric you choose, #5 Restless Rider is the horse to beat.
Already the daughter of Distorted H ...
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Fall Final Four At Meadowlands Overture; Marion Marauder’s Money Shot; A Moot McWicked Mile
This is it. After this blog and our weekly review (a day short this week due to the U.S. holiday that is dark for racing on Nov. 22), we return to our winter schedule, with selected features and strikes at single- and multi-race exotics. Th ...
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Churchill Downs, Fair Grounds to offer Fleur de Lis Pick 4 on Saturday
Churchill Downs and Fair Grounds have teamed to offer horseplayers the cross-track "Fleur de Lis Pick 4" on Saturday with a minimum wager of 50 cents.
Here's the sequence for the inaugural Fleur de Lis Pick 4, which features 40 entries ( ...
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Will Chicago Style Upset the Hollywood Turf Cup?
In my opinion, one of the most interesting handicapping challenges of the week is the $200,000 Hollywood Turf Cup (gr. II) on Friday at Del Mar , a 1 ½-mile turf race that pits established stars in questionable form against a handful of up-and- ...
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Stella di Camelot Stands Out in Mrs. Revere Stakes
Technically speaking, Friday’s $200,000 Mrs. Revere Stakes (gr. II) at Churchill Downs is a Grade 2 event, and understandably so. The 8.5-furlong turf race for three-year-old fillies has been won by some very good horses over the last decade o ...
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Is Seeking the Soul Unstoppable in the Clark Handicap?
As we approach the end of 2018 and enter the winter racing season, only two Grade 1 dirt races for older horses remain to be run this year, and one of them—the $500,000 Clark Handicap (gr. I) at Churchill Downs —is coming up this Friday.
That ...
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Playing the Exacta in the Cardinal Handicap
The majority of the entrants in Saturday’s $100,000 Cardinal Handicap (gr. III) at Churchill Downs are veterans with more than a dozen races on their records, but the filly that interests me most in this nine-furlong turf test is the most ligh ...
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Keying Divine Miss Grey in the Falls City Handicap
From a BRIS speed figure perspective, it’s hard to look past #1 Divine Miss Grey in Saturday’s $200,000 Falls City Handicap (gr. II) at Churchill Downs .
In a race that didn’t draw the toughest field for its grade, Divine Miss Grey appears ...
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Quality racing during week of Thanksgiving
While many Americans will be on the highways on Wednesday afternoon and evening heading toward their Thanksgiving Day destinations, serious racing fans of both breeds will keep a close eye on the action that evening at Penn National and Dover Downs. ...
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European Road to Kentucky Derby midterm report: Godolphin’s Royal Marine and O’Brien’s armada
At the comparable midway stage last year on the inaugural European Road to the Kentucky Derby , Aidan O’Brien’s Saxon Warrior topped John Gosden’s Roaring Lion on the leaderboard, with no dirt prospects in sight. While only time will tell if the cur ...
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Powell: Baffert loaded for 2019 Kentucky Derby
by DICK POWELL
After winning the Triple Crown in 2015 with American Pharoah, it took Bob Baffert only three years to do it again with Justify. To raise the ante, Justify did it while undefeated, joining Seattle Slew. If you think Baffert is going ...
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2019 Kentucky Derby Future wager, Sire Future Wager on tap Thanksgiving weekend
The fourth annual Kentucky Derby Sire Future Wager (KDSW), which provides bettors with a unique opportunity to wager on select breeding stars and their entire crop of juveniles with the hope of winning next year's Kentucky Derby, will be offered conc ...
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Harrah's, Rosecroft and Pompano offer Sunday cards
While many sports enthusiasts were keen on watching the National Football League games throughout the day, many harness racing fans focused their attention on the trio of five-eighths mile oval that offered ample action for roughly 10 hours. In the ...
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Eight Fillies Seek Graded Victory in Comely Stakes
Calling all three-year-old fillies! Friday’s $200,000 Comely Stakes (gr. III) might not be the most anticipated race on Thanksgiving week, but the nine-furlong event at Aqueduct does represent the penultimate opportunity for sophomore fillies ...
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2019 Pegasus World Cup Power Rankings
The 3rd Annual Pegasus World Cup takes place on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019 at Gulfstream Park. When they ran the first Pegasus World Cup in 2017, some felt it might not become the spectacle it's turned out to be. One of the reasons for the race's popul ...
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How Studying Stallions Can Yield Profitable Pedigree Plays
It’s a known fact that the progeny of some stallions prefer racing on dirt rather than turf (or vice versa), but did you know that these preferences can be even more subtle than that—all the way down to showing a preference for certain turf course c ...
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Two Of Four Matron Hits With $17 Best W; $35 Winner At Cal-Expo Opener; 51 % In-The-Money Finishers
Dover finished off the Matron Stakes with sophomore finals and the Meadowlands had three elimination events for the Fall Final Four, which will be the main feature races in our Nov. 22.
Here are the results and some brief notes on our successe ...
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Yonkers and Meadowlands offer Saturday night cards
One week before it is set to offer a stellar card filled with lucrative stakes, the Meadowlands offered a bevy of elimination races and several overnight events with horses gearing up for stakes action while Yonkers Raceway presented a bevy of solid ...
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Thoughts on the $1,000 Show-Place-Win bonus at Churchill Downs
The sun is back shining in Kentucky for most of the weekend, and TwinSpires.com will be offering a chance to share in a $1,000 bonus on Saturday's Churchill Downs card.
Opt in to the Show-Place-Win promotion and then cash a $20 Show bet in Race ...
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When Do Kentucky Derby Winners Typically Debut?
There can be no denying that the 2018 Kentucky Derby victory by Justify has signaled a significant shift in the way that horses are being prepared for that tough test on the first Saturday in May.
With horses racing less and less prior to the K ...
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Persian Knight, Mozu Ascot Among Major Names in Mile Championship
If your weekend plans include handicapping high-class, ultra-competitive races with huge fields, then Sunday’s Mile Championship (Jpn-I) at Kyoto in should absolutely be on your radar.
Eighteen horses have been entered in the prestigious 1,600- ...
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Dover Downs hosts four more Matron Stakes
A mild winter storm that brushed the Mid-Atlantic region five weeks early may have left the track sloppy at Dover Downs on Thursday evening, but it could hardly dampen the enthusiasm surrounding the solid card that evening which included four lucrati ...
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Keying Avie's Flatter in the Coronation Futurity
This is hardly a creative opinion—to the contrary, it’s an opinion that will surely be shared by many—but it’s rather difficult to envision a scenario in which #3 Avie’s Flatter loses the $225,000 Coronation Futurity for Canadian-breds at Wood ...
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How to Bet the River City Handicap at Churchill Downs
By DICK POWELL
A field of eight will contest Saturday’s River City Handicap (G3) for three-year-olds and up going 1 1/8 miles on the turf at Churchill Downs . There are no three-year-olds entered and the spread of assigned weights range from 121 ...
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How to Bet the Red Smith Handicap at Aqueduct
By DICK POWELL
Like most sportswriters of his time, Red Smith knew all there was to know about baseball, boxing and horse racing. For most of his career, he was a columnist but wrote in a clear and concise style without the flowery language other ...
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How to Bet the Bob Hope at Del Mar
By DICK POWELL
I love the names of the stakes races for the fall meeting at Del Mar. It shows my age but they make sense when you understand the demographics of horse racing.
Bob Hope was as big a star as there was when I was growing up. A maj ...
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Is Monte Man Unstoppable in the Heitai Stakes?
As of last October, #1 Monte Man was a nothing more than a decent claimer on the New York circuit. Fast forward a bit more than a year, and Monte Man is the 8-5 morning line favorite for Saturday’s $50,000 Heitai Stakes for Louisiana-breds at ...
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Dover Hosts Three-Year-Old Matron Finales; Fall Final Four Elims At Meadowlands Overture To Stakes Season’s End
All four sophomore divisions put a lid on their season with the Matron Stakes at Dover on Nov. 15. Not all of the season’s heroes made it to Delaware but most in the fields are recognizable.
The curtain falls for the frosh season wit ...
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How to Bet the Red Smith Stakes
Just how many times has trainer Mike Maker claimed turf horses, stretched them out in distance, and turned them into graded stakes winners?
The list goes on and on—I even wrote a whole article about it earlier this year —and the latest example ...
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Baffert Runners Look Tough in Bob Hope Stakes
If Del Mar ever decides to rename the $100,000 Bob Hope Stakes (gr. III) , all they would really have to do is change “Hope” to “Baffert” and it would be perfectly understandable, considering how thoroughly the Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert ...
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Why I'm Betting Mr. Misunderstood in the River City Handicap
He’s arguably the fastest horse on paper, he has a perfect record over the local turf course, and he’s dropping in class out of a Grade 1 race. What’s not to like about #3 Mr. Misunderstood in Saturday’s $100,000 River City Handicap (gr. III) at ...
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Monomoy Girl comparison to past divisional champions
By DICK POWELL
The other day, I ended my analysis of the 2018 Horse of the Year debate by asking why isn’t MONOMOY GIRL in the conversation? So let’s look at her sophomore season, in which she captured five Grade 1 stakes races and finished f ...
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Justify's brief season enough for Horse of the Year
by DICK POWELL
I have an Eclipse Award vote, but I wait for the year to be finished before I fill out my ballot. There are still meaningful Grade 1 stakes left in the last six weeks of the 2018 calendar and not until all the major stakes races a ...
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Early Impressions on the Road to the 2019 Kentucky Derby
With less than six months remaining until the 2019 Kentucky Derby , we’re about to enter what I like to consider the second stage of the qualification process.
The first stage included the major Breeders’ Cup prep races such as the Champagne St ...
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Five-eighths mile ovals host Sunday cards
While fans of the National Football League were keen on watching several contests on Sunday afternoon, standardbred racing fans were focused on the action at a trio of five-eighths mile ovals. Sunday evening at Rosecroft Raceway, Cool Casper (Roger ...
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GoFundMe page set up to help family of fallen exercise rider Acuna
Odanis Acuna (c) Churchill Downs/Coady Photography
Trainer Kenny McPeek has set up a GoFundMe page following a tragic training accident Saturday morning at Churchill Downs that claimed the lives of veteran exercise rider Odanis Acuna and the ...
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Keeler Johnson's Kentucky Derby Top 10: Pedigree Ratings
Analyzing pedigrees is a big part of searching for promising Kentucky Derby contenders. A horse might show promise sprinting, but does it have the pedigree to excel going the Derby distance of 1 ¼ miles?
With this in mind, I’ve poured over the ...
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Betting Races on Soft Turf, Part 1: Why Europeans Can Have an Edge
Relatively speaking, racehorses in North America don’t get many opportunities to run on truly soft, rain-inundated turf courses. When heavy rains strike, turf races are frequently transferred to the dirt track in order to preserve the grass.
But i ...
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Sunset On Stakes Season; Hit And Miss At Dover Matrons; $13 Win Topper; 38 Percent Hit The Board
Post-Breeders Crown territory is wide and cold. In deep November the season’s stakes program shrinks to only a few six-digit events. More two-year-olds were featured in the Matron finals, the traditional follow-ups to the Breeders Crown. Do ...
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Yonkers and Meadowlands offer solid Saturday night cards
While many of the sport's best older horses have already been turned out for the year, save those few gearing up for the $100,000 Potomac Pace at Rosecroft Raceway next month, both Yonkers Raceway and the Meadowlands offered intriguing cards on Satur ...
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How to play the $19,541 Pick 5 carryover at Turf Paradise
It typically doesn't get much love or attention from bettors nationwide on the weekends as it does on weekdays, but Turf Paradise does have a $19,541 carryover in its 50-cent Pick 5 Saturday afternoon that's enough of an enticement to give the sequen ...
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Breeders’ Cup Champions Saturday Recap
The 2018 Breeders' Cup is in the books with some of the top horses in the world providing exceptional performances. Although Triple Crown winner Justify couldn't participate due to his retirement after the Belmont Stakes, two-time Prix de l'Arc de Tr ...
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Maryland-breds returning to national prominence
Horse racing in Maryland has certainly endured its share of ups and downs over the past three decades for numerous reasons, but one genuine sign the Free State may be on a genuine upswing stems from the efforts of thoroughbreds and standardbreds the ...
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Breeders' Cup Future Stars Friday Recap
It's been a week since the best horses in the world descended upon Churchill Downs for the 2018 Breeders' Cup. On Friday, Nov. 2, the top juvenile runners battle it out for some of the biggest purses they'll ever run for. Check out a recap of what ha ...
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Mozu Katchan Seeks Repeat Win in Queen Elizabeth II Cup
The autumn racing season in is well underway, and the weekly parade of Group 1 races will continue on November 11th with the Queen Elizabeth II Cup (Jpn-I) at Kyoto, a 2,200-meter event that serves as a major prize for some of the nation’s best f ...
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Matron Stakes highlight Dover Downs Thursday card
While many standardbred racing fans are unaccustomed to seeing many of the sport's top trotters and pacers compete in lucrative stakes during the week, many of them were quick to focus on the action at Dover Downs on Thursday as the Delaware five-eig ...
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Kentucky Derby Pedigree Profile: Game Winner
Game Winner wins the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) at Churchill Downs (c) Coady Photography
by Dick Powell
Gary and Mary West’s GAME WINNER capped off his brilliant juvenile campaign with a fine tally in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) ...
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2018 Breeders’ Cup Wrap-Up
Churchill Downs (c) Coady Photography
The 35th Breeders’ Cup featured two days of notable performances at Churchill Downs . Here is a brief recap of the 14-race program.
FUTURE STARS FRIDAY
Juvenile Turf Sprint
Bulletin ...
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How to bet the 2018 Commonwealth Turf
Churchill Downs (c) Coady Photography
by Dick Powell
A field of seven is entered for the Commonwealth Turf (G3) at Churchill Downs for straight three-year-olds going 1 1/16 miles on the turf. Let’s take a deep dive on the runners.
RE ...
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Two-Year-Old Matron Stakes Featured At Dover; More Freshmen In Garden State Splits At Meadowlands
The remaining stakes for 2018 trail through November and end with the traditional Matron Series, which has been presented at Dover since moving north years ago. For the two-year-olds there will only be a trio of Matrons available for bettin ...
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Mad Luther Ships In for Golden Nugget Stakes
Although five local runners are set to defend their home track in Saturday’s $50,000 Golden Nugget Stakes at Golden Gate Fields , the one shipper from the East Coast appears to stand a solid chance at coming away with the winner’s share of the p ...
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2yos Take to the Turf in Aqueduct's Atlantic Beach Stakes
As the saying goes, a Kentucky Derby winner can come from anyone, so as we head into winter with roughly six months remaining until the first Saturday in May, it could pay to keep an eye on every stakes race of significance open to the three-yea ...
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Melbourne Cup a triumph for Godolphin, lesson in rule enforcement
by DICK POWELL
Following international racing and having the experience of attending races around the world gives you a different perspective on how things are done.
Godolphin has had a spectacular season in 2018. "The Boys in Blue have" been ...
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How to Bet the Commonwealth Turf Stakes
Seemingly every time we turn around, Ken and Sarah Ramsey have been named the leading owner at another Churchill Downs race meet, so it’s hardly surprising to see that they will start one of the favorites in Saturday’s $100,000 Commonwealth Tur ...
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The legend that is Enable and other Breeders' Cup reflections
by DICK POWELL
How lucky are we that superstar horses like ENABLE and WINX are still racing? This is a great time to follow horse racing around the world with legendary horses competing and still building their reputations. Take a moment and ...
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Observations on Breeders' Cup weekend betting pools
With several days of reflection and a review of the charts, here are random thoughts on some of the betting that occurred during Breeders' Cup weekend at Churchill Downs.
Juvenile Turf Sprint
By far the strangest odds discrepency involved r ...
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Takeaways from Breeders' Cup Future Stars Friday
Breeders' Cup Friday was for the youngsters and some sensational performances took place. The race for champion two-year-old male is over with Game Winner clinching that award with his Juvenile (G1) triumph. Colt is four-for-four this season for B ...
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Horses to watch in the 2018 Melbourne Cup
Europe has come loaded for bear in Monday night's Melbourne Cup (G1) at Flemington, which can be watched and wagered on at TwinSpires.com .
#1 Best Solution , the 127-pound highweight, has won four straight in Britain, Germany, and Australia. # ...
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Keeler Johnson's Kentucky Derby Top 10: Game Winner the Early Leader
Well, the 2018 Breeders’ Cup is in the history books, and you know what that means—it’s time to start looking ahead toward the 2019 Kentucky Derby !
A handful of official prep races on the Road to the Kentucky Derby have already been run, inc ...
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Top 10 Highlights of the 2018 Breeders' Cup World Championships
What were your favorite moments of the 2018 Breeders' Cup? ...
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Monomoy Girl Keeps On Winning in Breeders' Cup Distaff
"She ran the way she was training,” Cox told Churchill Downs after the race. “She was training like a monster and she ran like a monster. She is a special filly, one of a kind, an unbelievable filly." Monomoy Girl recorded a final time of 1:49.79 wh ...
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Accelerate Completes Sensational Season with Breeders' Cup Classic Victory
Long ago, there was some doubt about Accelerate’s ability to handle 1 ¼ miles in top company. He was more of a miler, or so the thinking went; a talented horse no doubt, but not exactly a superstar.
But Accelerate has proven to be a classic exam ...
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Game Winner Gamely Wins the Breeders' Cup Juvenile
Game Winner’s final time of 1:43.67 was 0.05 slower than Jaywalk ran while winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I) earlier in the day, but focusing on the final time misses how much adversity Game Winner had to overcome with his wide tri ...
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Jaywalk Cruises to Victory in Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies
Trained by John Servis, Jaywalk has now won four straight races, a streak that includes a late-running victory in the White Clay Creek Stakes at Delaware Park and a front-running 5 ¾-length triumph in the Frizette Stakes (gr. I) at Belmont that was e ...
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‘Crown’-Alumni Sophomores Pay Off At Hoosier; 48 Percent Hit The Board On ‘Watch’ List
Before we review the results of our features’ contenders, make note that we have already and will continue to add to our horses-to-watch list (H2W) all horses that raced in the 2018 Breeders Crown finals no matter where they finished in the events on ...
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Meadowlands and Rosecroft offer Saturday night cards
On the same night that Churchill Downs offered nine Breeders Cup races on turf and dirt that may have settled every divisional honor other than champion three-year-old colt and horse of the year, the Meadowlands offered an intriguing card in which ju ...
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Accelerate and Enable lead star-studded cast on Breeders’ Cup Saturday
Enable completed the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe/Breeders' Cup Turf double in the same year on Saturday at Churchill Downs (c) Coady Photography
A monstrous day of racing at Churchill Downs on Saturday was capped by the $6 million Breeders’ Cup ...
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Playing the mandatory Rainbow 6 payout at Santa Anita Park on Sunday
Santa Anita Park (c) Cecilia Gustavsson/Horsephotos.com
Those looking to re-invest their Breeders' Cup winnings or get back any losses won't have long to wait as there will be a mandatory Rainbow 6 payout at Santa Anita on Sunday, closing da ...
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Rainbow Heir and other plays on Breeders' Cup Saturday
With the scratch of morning line favorite Polydream from Saturday's Breeders' Cup Mile (G1), I admit to no longer having a great feel for that race. Therefore, Pick 4s and 5s involving the Mile will not be a focal point of my wagering plans.
As ...
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Best plays on Breeders' Cup Saturday
Here are four horses I look forward to playing on Breeders’ Cup Saturday:
Turf Sprint : World of Trouble drew well in post 11 and exits a pair of sharp stakes wins in turf sprints, including an easy tally in the Quick Call at today’s 5 ½-furlon ...
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Top juveniles step up on Breeders’ Cup ‘Future Stars Friday’
Game Winner and Joel Rosario capture the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) at Churchill Downs (c) Rickelle Nelson/Horsephotos.com
The youngsters took center stage on Breeders’ Cup “ Future Stars Friday ” at Churchill Downs , and we witnessed some f ...
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2018 Breeders' Cup News & Notes
The 35th edition of the Breeders' Cup World Championships returns to historic Churchill Downs on November 2-3, and TwinSpires.com is your one-stop shop for news, analysis and more.
The final major preps have now taken place, so it's full speed ...
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2018 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint international scouting report: Havana Grey, Lost Treasure try to end shut-out
Havana Grey (c) Jamie Newell/Horsephotos.com
European sprinters are winless so far in the 10-year history of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1), but there was no international representation at all in a few of those runnings. And with the dist ...
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Handicapping Breeders’ Cup Friday
Juvenile Turf Sprint
Soldier’s Call (#2) and Sergei Prokofiev (#8) are top contenders from overseas but I lack a strong opinion in the inaugural running of the Juvenile Turf Sprint. Stillwater Cove (#4) , Moonlight Romance (#6) , Pocket Dy ...
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Thoughts on Friday's Breeders' Cup Pick 5 and an undercard Spot Play
There will be 50-cent minimum Late Pick 5s on Friday and Saturday encompassing the final five races of the Breeders' Cup each day and with a nifty 15 percent takeout. My ticket for Friday's all-juvenile sequence will closely follow my selections fo ...
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Breeders Cup could offer plenty of value
Thoroughbred racing fans and players from across the globe will be seeking to cash tickets on Saturday afternoon when Churchill Downs hosts the 35th edition of the Breeders Cup Championships and several races include short-priced favorites who may be ...
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Keeler Johnson's Post-Breeders' Cup Santa Anita Spot Plays
If the Breeders’ Cup has you in the mood for playing the races and you find that you’re not ready to call it quits at the end of the Saturday card, never fear—there’s plenty more memorable racing on Sunday, including a nice card at Santa Anita ...
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2018 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint international scouting report: Sergei Prokofiev, Soldier's Call set the standard
Panoramic photo of Soldier's Call (c) Jamie Newell/Horsephotos.com
The inaugural Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint was expected to be of interest to Europe’s speedy brigade, and so it proved with half of the 12-horse field shipping across the ...
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Keeler Johnson's Breeders' Cup Saturday Spot Plays
As usual, the Breeders’ Cup Saturday card is packed with large fields, competitive races, and exciting wagering opportunities. When you pit this many talented horses against each other, you’re bound to find an abundance of live contenders offering a ...
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How to bet the early Pick 4 on Breeders’ Cup Saturday
Breeders' Cup saddle cloths at Churchill Downs (c) Rickelle Nelson/Horsephotos.com
by Scott Shapiro
If you are a Pick 4 player, the Breeders’ Cup World Championships is a wonderful two-day experience and, with three opportunities each on ...
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How to bet the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile/Classic Daily Double
The Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs (c) Coady Photography
by Scott Shapiro
Myriad wagering opportunities await horseplayers at the Breeders’ Cup World Championships , including a few Daily Double wagers linking Friday and Saturday races. ...
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Sophmores Stampede At Hoosier; Classic Kids In Combat At Meadowlands
The Breeders Crown winners are in the books. This weekend, though, some may be back because as November enters, the harness racing calendar is not want for more big events. On the penultimate weekend for Hoosier Park, 2018 there are several ...
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2018 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf international scouting report: Just Wonderful, East top European hopes
Unlike the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1), where Europeans tend to prosper, the Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) has been a haven for the home team. North American-based fillies have won eight of 10 runnings. Chad Brown is responsible for exactly half ...
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Banking on the Breeders’ Cup Head2Head wagers
Churchill Downs (c) Coady Photography
One of the fascinating new wagers that will be held during Breeders’ Cup weekend is the Head2Head (H2H). The incredibly attractive format has a minimum $10 base with a miniscule 10 percent takeout. Seven ...
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Longchamp post positions could offer insight into Breeders’ Cup performances
Enable readies for the Breeders' Cup Turf (G1) at Churchill Downs (c) Rickelle Nelson/Horsephotos.com
by Dick Powell
Seven of the 14 Breeders’ Cup races this weekend at Churchill Downs will be run on the turf. Some have raced at Longcha ...
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Five Breeders' Cup longshots to follow
Noting a few horses who, though they didn't quite make my personal Breeders' Cup cut, might still prove dangerous at a price.
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Aqueduct another racing highlight on Breeders' Cup weekend
If the weather forecast is correct, the welcome respite from rain between last weekend's closing of Belmont Park and the meet lid-lifter at Aqueduct on Friday will come to an end at the wrong time.
An annoyingly wet season during the first half of ...
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2018 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf international scouting report: Anthony Van Dyck, Line of Duty spearhead raiding party
The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) has gone to Europe seven times in its 11-year history, and the renewal on “Future Stars Friday” may well add to the tally. Arguably the premier domestic hope, Fog of War, is sidelined, while the international te ...
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My Breeders' Cup Classic Picks
This is easily the deepest, hardest to handicap, Breeders' Cup Classic I can remember. It's hard to pick the winner of the Classic, but, usually, I've got an idea of how the race might run. In 2014, I thought Shared Belief might follow Bayern around ...
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