2013 Preakness picks, odds & analysis.
The Grade 1 Malibu Stakes is a dirt sprint at the distance of seven furlongs for three-year-olds. The Santa Anita race is worth $300k and will go forward at 3:37 PT as the eighth of nine races. Trainer Bob Baffert has always been high on FED BIZ. The son of Giant’s Causeway disappointed when last [...]
The six furlongs Grade 1 VOSBURGH STAKES gathered a field of 10 competitors for its $500k purse. The Belmont Park event is race 7 on Saturday and will go to post at 4:04 EST. The victor will gain automatic entry to the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on November 5. POSEIDON’S WARRIOR [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In a year that has yielded some pretty unpredictable results in major prep races, it was only fitting that the final, “last-chance” Derby prep ended with a 70-1 long-shot crossing the finish line first. All Squared Away, who was the longest shot in the field for the Grade 3 Coolmore Lexington Stakes, took the lead [...]
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 [...]
The talented and charismatic Alpha has proven to be an enigma for handicappers and horseracing fans this season. After a successful juvenile campaign, Alpha was on most early Kentucky Derby watch lists. However, a strange prep schedule has left most baffled about how good Alpha really is. Saturday, the son of Bernardini will finally [...]
The anticipation can officially begin. The most action-packed weekend of prep races so far this year is only three days away, and the fields for the trio of major preps for Saturday has been set. The top east-coast and west-coast preps plus a crowded Midwest race are all on tap for April 7. Starting in [...]
The lead story today was Hero of Order‘s win in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby for Russian immigrant trainer/owner Gennadi Dorrochenko. Click here to read more. Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club winner Gemologist breezed five furlongs in 1:00.44 at Palm Meadows. Trainer Todd Pletcher was reportedly happy with the work and is very high on [...]
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