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 […]

Every team has a behind the scenes person who tends to the details and getting everything ready to roll. They do the jobs that few will see, but when they do right it becomes bright and clear. Rich Strike is tended to by many for Eric Reed. The hands who ready the horse to train, […]

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 free selections from Belterra Park. – Ohio racing can offer up some nice payoffs no matter the field size or track condition.  Best of luck and enjoy the racing!   Belterra Park   Race #1 #2 – Plate it up = 3rd off the layoff and just missed last out by 3/4. Abel […]

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 […]

Once upon a time racing used to have overnight sheets with fields to the brim and also-eligible runners. But something has happened to big fields and horsemen trying to get their horses in a race. Where did they go in a matter of years? Mountaineer has cancelled a few days already, Keeneland and Churchill have […]

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 […]