By Noel Michaels Saturday’s loaded 11-race card at Churchill Downs is headlined by a $500,000 guaranteed-pool Pick 5, which starts in Race 7 and is bookended by the two stakes races on the card, the...
By Ed McNamara The trees are budding out and the flowers are up, even in the unseasonably chilly Northeast. Pleasant sights, especially in a disease-ravaged world, but to horseplayers they’re just M...
By Ed McNamara The trees are budding out and the flowers are up, even in the unseasonably chilly Northeast. Pleasant sights, especially in a disease-ravaged world, but to horseplayers they’re just M...
By Noel Michaels Arkansas Derby Day is here – three weeks after originally scheduled and with a whole different perspective as Oaklawn Park is ready to host a loaded 14-race card on closing day. Wit...
By Ed McNamara The first Saturday in May with no Kentucky Derby? That’s like the Fourth of July without the fireworks, Thanksgiving without the turkey or Christmas without the tree. We’ll have to ...
Saturday’s Del Mar feature races are the Del Mar Handicap, a 1 3/8-mile turf affair for older horses, and the Del Mar Oaks, a 1 1/8-mile turf event for sophomore fillies. Both offer full fields ...
With California Chrome competing in the Winter Challenge Stakes at Los Alamitos this weekend, I thought it would be a fantastic time to talk about a great racehorse making one of the final starts of h...
As most regular readers know, I’m kind of a stats geek. Not only do I maintain my own horse racing databases, but most of my “handicapping” these days is based on what I’ve gleaned from gather...
US Racing members can get free handicapping reports for the big day of racing at Belmont Park, Churchill Downs and Santa Anita Park on Saturday, Oct. 1, below: Pace Profile Reports Belmont Park (BEL...
US Racing members can get get their Race Report Cards for Sept. 23-25 by clicking on the applicable links below. I’m also making my Win Factor Report and Pace Profile Report for Saturday’...