Woodbine has a stellar card slated to do battle today. That is the easy part. The challenging stage is finding our way across the sweeping turf and cashing tickets. Hopefully, this will stimulate some thought into a great day of racing. The weather is a beautiful 76 degrees with partly sunny skies in the forecast. [...]

Winners of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness will battle Saturday in the 143rd Belmont Stakes for the first time in six years.  In 2005 Preakness champ Afleet Alex triumphed while Derby upsetter Giacomo finished seventh. Animal Kingdom, the 2 ¾-length winner of this year’s Kentucky Derby under jockey John Velazquez, is attempting to become the [...]

This is the third time during the past two decades that the Preakness has a full field – 14 horses going 1 3/16 miles at Pimlico on Saturday.  Both times the favorites in the second leg of the Triple Crown bounced back from defeats in the Kentucky Derby. Back in 1992, Pine Bluff, who finished [...]

Horses exiting the Kentucky Derby have a leg up in the Preakness. A remarkable 23 of the past 26 Derby runners captured the second leg of the Triple Crown. The exceptions came during the 21st Century: Rachel Alexandra, ’09; Bernardini, ’06; and Red Bullet, ’00. Four Derby champs the past decade were successful at Pimlico: [...]

No, not your favorite baseball team….. It is Keeneland time!  For racing fans, it is like going to the circus and riding all the rides at the amusement park. It does not get any better, and lets jump right in and fire away! Keeneland Race #1 #1 Gentlemans Code & 1A Everyday Dave – They [...]

Sunday is just a few days away and it is never too early to get your plans together. I like two plays on the Gulfstream card, it may be worth a few shekels. Gulfstream Park It is the Florida Derby, and that signals to horse players all over, that the big dance is about 5 [...]

There are some big guns aiming for Sunday’s $1 million Florida Derby. Winners of the Fountain of Youth (FOY) have won Gulfstream Park’s showcase event more times than the other two traditional preps combined during the past 20 years. That’s a good omen for Soldat, who captured the 65th FOY at 1 1/8th miles by [...]

Likely heavy favorite Uncle Mo will face five outclassed rivals in the $100,000 Timely Writer at Gulfstream Park. The 2-year-old Eclipse champion, trained by Todd Pletcher, has been working well in South Florida at Palm Meadows since winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile by 4 ¼ lengths, with jockey John R. Velazquez aboard at Churchill Downs [...]

I have been watching the “Big Cap” saga, and there is so much on YouTube, that it is hard not to find anything. But, after further review, I have come away with a feeling in my gut. Chantal Sutherland is a bright star. She rode the winner Game on Dude to victory in the $750,000 Santa [...]

Walking around the track every Saturday will give you a very unique perspective around 4:00pm EST. That is when most of the big races on the east coast are going to post, and as usual, never to doubt. The arguments get better by the week…. First – The Fountain of Youth is about the start [...]