When you visit a thoroughbred racetrack, there is a lot of variety. There are turf races, inner turf races and dirt races that can range from 5 furlongs to 1 ½ miles or longer. There truly is som...
US Racing contributor Ray Wallin explains why and how horse bettors can wager on exactas (or “exactors” as they are called in Canada) and perfectas. Ray WallinRay Wallin is a licensed civi...
In 2002, trainer Donna Keen (then Donna Gowdy, as she’d yet to marry husband Dallas Keen) was early into what is now known as her passion — saving discarded and slaughter-bound former racehorses f...
The Clark Handicap (GI) at Churchill Downs has been consistently won by top racehorses, many of whom moved on to be champions or important stallions. Last year, Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Gun Runner,...
The Kentucky Derby Future Wager will be offered this weekend and I’ve got a strategy that has generated a 100 percent ROI since the inception of the bet(s). Conceived in 1999, the Kentucky Derby Fut...
There are basically three ways to make money at the racetrack — two, if you’re averse to wearing a ski mask and passing threatening notes to the mutuel clerks. The first is by identifying and bett...
The Meadowlands had 91 days of racing last year; in 2018, it will have 90. On the surface, that looks about the same, but there have been some changes. Gone, for the most part, are three-day racing we...
On Jan. 19, 2014, Peyton Manning passed for 400 yards in a 26-16 victory over the New England Patriots that catapulted the Denver Broncos into Super Bowl XLVIII — which they lost in humiliating fash...
Not so long ago at a local OTB, I couldn’t help but get drawn into a heated discussion between two horseplayers. One gentleman had bought a tip sheet for Churchill Downs, which listed three selectio...
Over the last eighteen years, colts that have been victorious in the Kentucky Derby have followed a fairly specific training pattern. The majority of Derby winners from 2000-2017 won their maiden betw...
