PaceMakeTheRace Podcast featuring Dave Schwartz and Derek Simon: Are you still handicapping like people did back in the 1980s? The 1980s were a great time to be handicapping. Pace handicapping was a s...
Many horseplayers live by the rule of thumb that favorites win about 33 percent of the time for a 17 percent loss per wager. While not too far off the mark, you need to consider that there are ...
US Racing members can get free Pace Profile Reports, Race Report Cards and Win Factor Reports for this Saturday’s action at Aqueduct, Keeneland and Santa Anita Park. Pace Profile Reports Aquedu...
We are now just one week away from the beginning of our adventures through the Standardbred stakes season with the Blue Chip Matchmaker and George Morton Levy series. However, we must go through anoth...
US Racing Editor Derek Simon and Dave Schwartz of www.pacemakestherace.com discuss creative ways to use or modify speed ratings. Is using average daily variants a good idea? (Derek and Dave actually ...
In my everyday life, I have a difficult enough time attempting to communicate my thoughts to others, so I recognize that my harness jargon in this thoroughbred world reads like Cantonese to a Mandarin...
It’s March 2017 already, an unbelievable thought considering it was just February and, before that, January, and even before that, 2016. We’re weeks away from the first stakes events of the harnes...
We continue to journey through the winter months, dry of any kind of stakes action, as well as any kind of moisture in the air. Instead, overnights continue to be the featured harness events across th...
Harness racing is a sport that brings together the masses. Week in and week out, it offers entertainment all across the globe and this weekend promises excitement of historic levels, levels never befo...
Now that we have reached the second week of the New Year, harness tracks around the continent are awaking from their hibernations to resume hosting races. Our journey this week initiates at The Meadow...