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The big stakes glut won’t happen until Saturday, of course, with six consecutive graded events–a $1 Pick Six for you horizontal-phobes. But Friday is not
If Saturday’s Belmont Stakes weren’t a classic, part of Triple Crown lore, and “just” another Grade 1 race for three-year-olds not named Kentucky Derby, most
I’m a big fan of opening days. And given today’s realities, more so now than ever. Santa Anita opens today; Churchill Downs Saturday and New
Edited Churchill Release – Horses are back at Churchill Downs and they are ready to run. Saturday’s Opening Day program of the 2020 Spring Meet
By Churchill Downs Press Staff – It was a welcome sight to the entire horse racing community as the first vans arrived into the Churchill
We’re letting the weather handicappers point me in the direction I prefer to go. Every map I looked at promised rain in South and North
If the “tennis star” gets beat in the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes at 1-1/16 miles, Bob Baffert has his built-in excuse: He drew the rail.
By Gary West — The Kentucky Derby will be run May 2 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., over the classic distance of 1 1/4
The 1-1/16 miles of the Southwest Stakes for three-year-olds, the first significant Arkansas Derby and Kentucky Derby prep in Hot Springs, is one for Triple
By Gary West — The Kentucky Derby will be run May 2 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., over the classic distance of 1 1/4
Two For the Money: Loved the efforts made by the exacta finishers in the Lecomte Stakes Saturday at the Fair Grounds. It might have been
By Dave Valento — I stumbled across a thread I started on the paceadvantage forum nearly five years ago. It’s a screen shot of a
HRI EDITED RELEASE – Three-year-old trotting colt Greenshoe, who was the highest money-winning trotter in North America during 2019, had the largest margin of victory
Thursday JAN 2 at 2 pm was the deadline for casting Eclipse Award ballots, a copy of which was cut and pasted below. First a
HRI Edited Release — Remington Park’s top 2-year-old stakes event, the $400,000 Springboard Mile, drew a maximum field of 12 for Sunday’s final race date of the
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