By Ed McNamara If you like your action fast and furious, the Cross Country Pick 5 is for you. Saturday’s challenge is to run the table in approximately 65 minutes in a race at Aqueduct, three from T...
Kentucky Derby Prep Races Betting: Saturday’s Risen Star (G2) at the Fair Grounds drew so many runners it was split into two full fields, which isn’t much of a surprise since it’s the first Kent...
Kentucky Derby Betting Prep Races: Since first contested in 1982, the El Camino Real Derby has endured its share of challenges, but it has still managed to remain a strong West Coast-based prep for th...
By Ed McNamara Not so long ago, the Fair Grounds was considered an unproductive outpost on the Kentucky Derby trail. Not anymore, because last year the winners of the Derby (Country House) and Kentuck...
By Mike Farrell It’s double gumbo for Triple Crown hopefuls on Saturday at the Fair Grounds. With an overflow field of 23 entered for the Risen Star (G2), management opted to split the field into tw...
Horse Betting Bankroll: The winter in the Northeast has been a bit balmy. As I am writing this article it is 62 degrees. Plants are confused and starting to bud and you can hear the groundhogs whistli...
Horse Racing Handicapping: Lifelong handicapper and race-tracker Thomas Goldsmith of Montgomery, California, is horse racing’s newest Handicapper of the Year. Goldsmith, who will be presented with a...
Yonkers Raceway Horse Betting: The Rooney name has all but disappeared. It’s all MGM Resorts now, and lots of tinkering has taken place since ownership of Yonkers Raceway in Westchester County, New ...
Kentucky Derby Preps Betting: In the early runnings of Tampa Bay Downs’ Sam F. Davis (G3), which will be contested Saturday for the 40th time, the race wasn’t really considered a serious one for t...
By Margaret Ransom The road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) continues this weekend, with five California-based fillies set to race a mile in the $200,000 Las Virgenes Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park on Satu...