This year marks the 61st running of the historic Mother Goose Stakes (GII) — the first time it’ll be run as anything other than a Grade 1 since grades were first assigned to races in 1974. The 1 1...
Consider this the second big stakes night of probably 30 we’ll encounter over the course of this harness racing season. Sun Stakes Saturday gathers the best of each division to see which horse I fas...
Yesterday, social media was all abuzz over a horse named Awesome Actor, who was entered in tonight’s fourth race — a waiver claiming (think starter allowance) event — at Charles Town Racetrack i...
If there is one mistake that I see both new and veteran handicappers make time and time again it is confusing probability with profitability — often in very inconsistent and haphazard ways. For inst...
Ask bettors why they lose and/or what keeps them from making more money gambling and, chances are, most will point to a lack of money management acumen — “my betting sucks” being a popular, if n...
Elimination races are fun to watch, kind of like watching a Little League baseball game. Betting on them, however, is like being the dad watching his kid play in a Little League game, shouting from th...
Saturday marks the final day of the prestigious annual Royal Ascot meeting at Ascot Racecourse outside London and after a week of fallen records, both in temperatures and course records, only one Grou...
A field of 14 will go postward in the third race on closing day at Royal Ascot — the 1 ½-mile Hardwicke Stakes (GII) for 4-year-olds and upward. The Queen’s Dartmouth, who won this event last yea...
One of the great mysteries of the world — less decipherable to some than quantum theory, chatty dentists or the “poke” option on Facebook — is first-time starters. For those who are equally be...
Magnier, Tabor and Smith’s Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf (GI) hero Highland Reel, who may be the most well-traveled racehorse in the world, having been to America, the Far East and Australia, return...
