2013 Preakness picks, odds & analysis.
The Grade 2 $400k Fountain of Youth Stakes (Gulfstream Park|Race 11|Sunday) has been quite productive in recent years. Among its winners are great horses like Eskendereya, Quality Road, Scat Daddy, and Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch. 2012 has produced a group with not one, but three horses capable of joining the ranks of the heralded [...]
Typically, a horse exiting a strong Breeders’ Cup performance makes for a good bet against opportunity. That doesn’t appear to be the case with Force Freeze in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Sprint Championship. (Gulfstream|Race 10|Saturday) The seven year old gelding will try for his first graded stakes win after finishing second by a neck [...]
The 2012 Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (Gulfstream|Saturday|Race 8) has attracted 10 entries with Turf Classic winner Get Stormy listed as the 121 lbs. high weight. The nine furlong turf race carries a purse of $300k. Recent winners include Breeders’ Cup Mile victors Kip Deville and Court Vision as well as multiple Grade 1 [...]
The Grade 2 Hutcheson Stakes (Gulfstream|Race 8|Saturday) serves as a key prep for the Florida Derby and therefore the Kentucky Derby. The seven furlong race carries a purse of $150k. Last year’s winner, Flashpoint, would go on to set the pace in the Preakness Stakes before fading. Can this year’s winner eek out a better future? [...]
The Florida Derby is perhaps the best prep race available for the Kentucky Derby. The purse is fat at $1,000,000, the distance is perfect at 9 furlongs and the 5 weeks away from the Run for the Roses is excellent timing. The last winner in the Kentucky Derby that the Florida Derby produced was Big [...]
I have had a love hate relationship with Gulfstream Park this meet. At times it has been good to me and at others it has been unbearable. I’m hoping to be saying that at the end of the day, in the words of Ice Cube, today was a good day. Let’s take a look at [...]
This weekend of racing at Gulfstream will be one of the best of the young year. The horses are on full tilt as they try to progress toward their respective goals such as the Florida Derby and then the Kentucky Derby. We have covered the races extensively this week. Some of the horses we like [...]
The Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes has been an excellent prep for the Florida Derby and subsequently the Kentucky Derby. The 1 1/8 miles race for three-year-olds has produced names like Eskendereya, Quality Road, Pulpit, Thunder Gulch, Dehere and Forty Niner. The 2011 Fountain of Youth field looks stellar, but living up to the [...]
The Grade 2 Davona Dale Stakes is contested as a one turn mile at Gulfstream Park. The race for three-year-old fillies is named in honor of Calumet Farm’s Kentucky Oaks and New York Triple Tiara winning filly. Last years race was won by Amen Hallelujah. Let’s take a look at the field of nine which [...]
Good horse betting races have been sparse this year, but it looks like we have a great one lined up for Saturday at Gulfstream Park in the form of the Grade 1 Donn Handicap. Last years edition of the 39 year old race was taken by Quality Road. The then four-year-old colt smashed the competition [...]
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