The $200k Grade II Peter Pan Stakes on Saturday at Belmont Park is the best betting race of the weekend. The one turn, nine furlong race has attracted a contentious group of twelve sophomore contenders. It will go forward as race 8, making it the penultimate event of the $350k Guaranteed Late Pick 4. Mark [...]
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Jerome Could Be Proving Ground For Preakness and Belmont Hopefuls
Although it doesn’t appear than any of Saturday’s runners in the Grade 2 Jerome Stakes will go on to wear roses draped over their withers in two weeks, it is still an important graded stakes race for 3-year-olds. Should Stirred Up (who currently has $96,000 in graded stakes earnings) win the $200,000 Jerome, he would [...]
October 25, 2011 By 2 Comments
2011 Breeders Cup Juvenile sneak peek
by David Crone Before 2011 most racing fans would not have thrown Michael Matz on the list of best Juvenile trainers. Matz is a guy with a reputation for taking his time developing horses, and has had the majority of his success training horses over longer distances, and in many cases, on the turf. Despite [...]