Category: Horse Racing Analysis

Blink and you’ll miss it! High stakes turf racing is back at Kentucky Downs to begin the month of September, but you’ll have only five racing days over the course of two weeks to get …

The names of eight horses were dropped into Del Mar’s entry box for Saturday’s $200,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes (G2), with six runners coming from the barn of two leading trainers — John Sadler and Phil …

The Lake Placid Stakes (G2) for 3-year-old fillies on the turf — which is officially rated as “soft” at press time — and the Alabama Stakes (G1) for sophomore fillies on the dirt run as …

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 …

Like many 40-somethings, I grew up in the era that featured a wonderful television show that my mom would roll her eyes at every time it came on. I can still picture the host: slim …

Trainer Todd Pletcher, who has won five previous editions of the $200,000 Adirondack Stakes (G2) at Saratoga (including the last two), will send out a pair of talented fillies in search of his sixth winner …

Saturday’s $200,000 Best Pal Stakes (G2) at Del Mar is the first main graded stakes event for 2-year-olds in Southern California and also a first glimpse into the future star quality of the juvenile crop racing …

Arlington’s International Festival of Racing is set to be contested on Saturday, Aug. 11. Headlined by the 36th running of the Arlington Million (G1), along with the Beverly D. (G1) and the Secretariat Stakes (G1), …

By Derek Simon In an excellent article that appeared in the Thoroughbred Daily News, “Lasix: Why the Effinex Team Just Said Yes,” author Bill Finley recounts the story of Effinex, a four-year-old colt that recently …

A field of ten 2-year-old fillies will race 6 furlongs in the 33rd running of the $200,000 Sorrento Stakes (GII) at Del Mar on Sunday — a race which serves as the traditional prep for …

A field of nine sophomore fillies is expected to head postward and tackle the seven-furlong distance of the $500,000 Test Stakes (GI) Saturday at Saratoga. The Whitney Stakes (GI) undercard feature serves as the primary …

Diversify and Mind Your Biscuits headline a field of eight in Saturday’s 1 1/8-mile, $1.2 million Whitney (GI) at Saratoga Race Course, with the winner receiving an automatic berth into the $6 million Breeders’ Cup …

A compact but talented field of six will square off in Sunday’s $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (GI) at Del Mar, the 2018 meeting’s second Breeders’ Cup Championship “Win and You’re In” event — this …

US Racing contributor Ray “Ace of Pace” Wallin discusses the likely pace scenario of the 2018 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park. Ray Wallin Ray Wallin is a licensed civil engineer and part-time handicapper who has had …

Racing’s summer hot spots — Del Mar and Saratoga — are now up and running and both have great races slated for this weekend, including Sunday’s Coaching Club American Oaks (GI) at Saratoga, which lured …