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...
It almost seems too ironic to believe. A talented yet unproven gelding named Melatonin would earn his first career stakes victory in one of the most historical and prestigious races on Daylight Saving...
After launching his patented last-to-first move and blowing by his rivals with ease in the stretch, CRK Racing’s Kobe’s Back captured the $300,000 San Carlos Stakes and keyed a rare all-gray trife...
Under normal circumstances in a Kentucky Derby (GI) prep, a well-bred three-year-old that counts Todd Pletcher as its trainer and Javier Castellano as its jockey would be bet. Heavily. Especially afte...
After the amazing racing year that was 2015, I’m starting to think that we — fans — have been lulled into a false sense of security. After all, we got from American Pharaoh last year what we’d...
The term “cheerleader effect” was coined in 2008 by Barney Stinson, a character played by Neil Patrick Harris on the hit television series “How I Met Your Mother.” This cognitive bias emerged ...
