Summer is starting to heat up here in Chicagoland, and so is the racing at Arlington International Racecourse. The biggest race day of the year is, of course, the Grade I Arlington Million. But this...
Dirt route races are just one of the many facets of handicapping in New York that are challenging at this time of the year. Horseplayers who understand the differences between horses that excel in two...
Twenty-seven years ago, at Gulfstream Park, handicapping author Andrew Beyer had a sad epiphany. “I felt that I was at the very top of my game as a gambler. And I still couldn’t win,” Beyer wrot...
Today marks the 158th running of the Queen’s Plate at Woodbine, the most prestigious race for sophomores contested north of the border and also the race with the longest consecutively run streak in ...
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...
The other Group 2 on the Wednesday Royal Ascot card is the one-mile Duke of Cambridge Stakes (GII), the name changed from the Windsor Forest Stakes in honor of Prince William, the current Duke of Camb...
A field of 24 juvenile fillies is expected for the five-furlong Queen Mary Stakes (GII), a race named in honor of the British Queen Mary, best known as the consort of King George V and the grandmother...
In Not All Favorites Are Created Equal – Part 1, I discussed the difference between strong and false favorites. I also introduced the concept of the qualifier, or a horse that shows most of the crit...
It’s finally that time of year. Summer stakes season has arrived in harness racing just as summer will in the coming weeks. It’s both North America Cup time and, more importantly, shaming-our-coll...
Here we are again ready to start the next lap of this stakes-season merry-go-round. We are coming off of a particularly good week with last week, which could only make our performance this week appear...