This year marks the 80th running of the Santa Margarita Stakes (GI) for older fillies and mares. And since the race was first contested in 1935, a venerable “who’s who” of the best race mares of...
The richest race so far this year on the road to the Kentucky Derby (GI) is Saturday’s $900,000 Rebel Stakes (GII) at Oaklawn Park, which is also the final prep for the track’s centerpiece event o...
The Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap has been a prestigious race for older fillies and mares since 1935, when the race was open to three-year-old females and older; it was restricted to older fil...
Champion Untapable is back and will kick off here five-year-old season with a start in the $350,000 Azeri Stakes (GII). She hasn’t raced since finishing second in last year’s Spinster Stakes (GI) ...
Saturday’s eighth race at Oaklawn is the 57th running of the Razorback Handicap (GII), the last local prep for the Oaklawn Handicap (GI) on April 16. Ralph Evans’ Upstart, a highly regarded runner...
Cathryn Sophia was brought to Gulfstream Park for her 2016 debut, the Forward Gal, where she crushed the field. She romped again in the Davona Dale Stakes over the same track, making it natural to ass...
Understanding how the race conditions are written for a claiming race can be especially confusing, but such knowledge can offer the informed handicapper a big edge. Not all horses running for the same...
The NCAA tournament selection committee has performed the unenviable task of deciding which 68 teams will vie for the National Championship. Not only were their selections scrutinized, the seedings at...
Over the last twenty years, colts that have been victorious in the Kentucky Derby have followed a fairly specific training pattern. The majority of the Derby winners from 1990 – 2015 made their init...
Danzing Candy was the “buzz” horse the week before Santa Anita’s San Felipe Stakes. He is a brilliant son of the brilliant Twirling Candy, how could he not be? He is a tall, dark and strapping y...
