2013 Preakness picks, odds & analysis.
Joel Rosario, the nations sixth leading rider by earnings, is leaving southern California in favor of the New York circuit. Represented by agent Ronnie Ebanks, the Dominican jockey has won riding titles at Santa Anita Park, Hollywood Park and Del Mar. Rosario faced some of the toughest names in racing while winning those titles. The [...]
Union Rags (Dixie Union x Tempo by Gone West), seventh in the Kentucky Derby, will try to stop I’ll Have Another in the Belmont Stakes on June 9. The Michael Matz pupil was second betting choice in the Derby and will have plenty of support racing at Big Sandy. So much support, that he is [...]
Bodemeister seemingly had the 2012 Kentucky Derby in his pocket turning for home under the Twin Spires, but it was I’ll Have Another who rallied down the lane to register the 1 ½ length score. It was a neck back to the hard charging Dullahan and ¾ of a length behind that one was Went The Day [...]
Northern Kentucky doctor Kendall Hansen isn’t worried about his Breeders’ Cup Juvenile champion Hansen. He thinks it’s the opposition that should be worried. “He’s ready to run right now. At this point in time I’m not sure there is a horse out there that could beat him,” Hansen said. “Mike Maker wishes the Kentucky Derby [...]
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 [...]
In 2011 Team Valor International privately purchased a three-year-old filly named Summer Soiree that would go on to win three graded stakes races, capped by the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks. Table Three Ten could turn into the 2012 version of Summer Soiree for her Kentucky Derby winning connections. The daughter of El Prado won [...]
2011 was a year of pure mediocrity, but we did see diamonds in the rough. Animal Kingdom ran off to win the Kentucky Derby; Havre de Grace beat the boys in the Woodward; and Hansen stayed undefeated in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. All three of those horses could potential be rewarded with horse racing’s versions [...]
$150,000 is on the line Thursday at Saratoga in the Grade 2 With Anticipation Stakes for two-year-olds going 8 ½ furlongs on the turf at Saratoga. The race is likely to have Breeders Cup implications and you can expect to see the winner in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf later this year at Churchill Downs. Captain [...]
The Grade 2 Bernard Baruch Handicap is for three-year-olds and upward going 9 furlongs on the grass at Saratoga. Notable winners include 1994 victor Lure who twice won the Breeders Cup Mile, Yagli who won the United Nations and Manhattan in the year following his win in this race and 2004 Breeders Cup Mile winner [...]
The Continental Mile is a one mile turf race for two-year-olds at Monmouth Park worth $65k. Last year’s winner Rustler Hustler hasn’t turned out to be much of a horse, but the 2011 field has great potential. Wes Ward’s gelding Black Rhino (El Corredor x Foreign Aid by Danzig) looks to be the pacesetter. [...]
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