By Derek Simon Every year at around this time, Churchill Downs unveils its Kentucky Derby Future Wager (pool 1), in which 23 live entrants and “All Other Three-Year-Olds” compete for the attention...
By Derek Simon Remember when Thanksgiving Day consisted solely of eating those jellied cranberries for the first — and only — time all year and watching/wagering on the football games? Well, times...
US Racing’s Derek Simon discusses the recent announcement by Andrew Beyer that his famous speed figures have changed. Derek also explains how teaser betting works and how players can turn the odds i...
By Derek Simon In between e-mails informing me that I “may already have won” a prize of considerable value and those beseeching me to be “a better lover” (my wife claims she’s only trying to...
US Racing‘s Derek Simon discusses this Saturday’s Delta Jackpot and Delta Princess with Delta Downs track announcer and handicapper Don Stevens. They also talk about “bullring”...
By Derek Simon The $1 million Delta Jackpot headlines the weekend stakes action, as two-year-olds vie for the 17 points (10 to the winner) up for grabs in one of the last Road to the Kentucky Derby ra...
By Derek Simon I can’t take it anymore. I’m so exasperated that I used “bogus” in the title of this blog — and I can’t guarantee that you won’t see a “rad” or “F-in A, dude” befo...
By Derek Simon Provided that Saturday’s turf contests at Aqueduct stay on the green, there’s a strong possibility that the sixth and seventh races will be heavily influenced, if not entirely influ...
Host Derek Simon of www.usracing.com discusses drugs in thoroughbred horse racing as well as Dallas wide receiver Dez Bryant’s latest outburst. In the handicapping segment, Kevin Rogers of ...
By Derek Simon As I sit down to write this, the 142nd Kentucky Derby is 176 days, 22 hours, 23 minutes and two seconds away… and I haven’t even picked out what I’m going to wear yet! I jest, any...
