The heat is cranking up and no bitching about the sweat rolling off your brow. I’ll remind you sometime in February when the ice covers your car and driveway. – Live racing is ready and sunshine means turf racing. What more could a gambler ask for?   Belterra Park / Wednesday   Race #1 #4 […]

The weather in the Ohio valley region is calling for hot temperatures in the 90’s and possible heavy thunderstorms. It looks like summer is in full effect, and racing may heat up at the windows as well!   Belterra Park / Tuesday   Race #1 #2 – Carmen O’Electra = Speedy gal from the Elliot […]

As we shake off the BBQ hangover and get back to work. Don’t forget there is some good value to be had at Belterra Park. – This week will start off hot, a little rain, and on Friday for the $500,000 Best of Ohio it will be sunny and 75 degrees! – In the meantime, […]

Nothing like a little something extra to get that bankroll building for the Belmont. – Field size alert. There are going to be some small fields in play, and whatever you don’t pass on that $5.20 winner as the odds weren’t big enough. – Take what you can get and thank me later.   Belterra […]

If you didn’t have the winner of the Derby or Preakness; you are not alone. Most horse racing fans are coming up empty in chat rooms, social media, and in person. – I wasn’t even close. – But don’t despair. In three weeks, we get another guessing contest. After Rich Strike won the Kentucky Derby […]

The second leg in the Triple Crown happens this Saturday. Sorrowful to say the Derby winner Rich Strike will pass on this race and enjoy the extra time needed to prepare for the Belmont. The team involved feel this is best and felt if they would have had another week, he would have been ready. […]

As I walk through the paddock, chatting a bit while the majestic horses thunder past, snorting and whinnying as workout riders become one with the animal. That is my office for the day, and there hasn’t been a time when I haven’t loved every second and think I never will. Kentucky Derby 148 went to […]

It is a thing of beauty when you get to make a trek down to Keeneland. From the drive down enjoying the beauty of the spring to walking past the ancient Sycamore in the paddock. – Words will never do it justice. But, for this handicapper it will be a day well-spent in the bucolic […]

In racing, I have had the distinct pleasure of watching the big boys and the little tracks. Both have merit, and my learning from one helped me with the other. I used to have to ultra focus on pennies just so we could have a fan-friendly event for the smaller venues, and when breaking into […]

We live in times of putting our masks away only to pull them out again at a later time. During this time many yearned to try and get back to normalcy and enjoy the things the pandemic put on hold. As I watched the opening of Keeneland yesterday, I think we may have a new […]