OK, so it’s fair to say GMB Racing’s Tom’s Ready wasn’t quite ready for the Kentucky Derby (GI) five weeks ago, but the Dallas Stewart-trained son of More Than Ready was way more than ready fo...
In a previous post, I documented how favorites in the Belmont Stakes have fared over the years. While they win as often as — or even more often than — they should, they are generally overbet. Of c...
It hardly seems like an entire year since racing witnessed American Pharoah win the first Triple Crown in 37 years, but here we are. And despite a year with no Triple Crown on the line, this year’s ...
Six of the best sophomore fillies anyone has seen in New York in a long time will line up and face the starter in Saturday’s $700,000 Acorn Stakes (GI) set at a mile over Belmont Park’s main track...
Seven of the East’s best distaffers are set to square off over 1 1/16 miles in the 48th running of the Ogden Phipps Handicap (GI), which has been carded as Belmont’s fifth race on Saturday’s Bel...
A day with 10 stakes races, nine of them graded, and six of those being Grade Is, is bound to be loaded. A day stacked with races of such high quality is bound to attract the best horses currently run...
“The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles.” ~Garth Stein Exaggerator can stake his claim as the top three-year-old in training on Sa...
We all have our own way of handicapping. Generally, I use pace and sprinkle in profitable spot play angles when I find them in the past performances. One of my favorite longshot angles focuses on ...
US Racing contributors Laura Pugh and Ryan Dickey discuss the Vanity Mile won by Beholder and the Penn Mile won by Catch a Glimpse. They also chat about the upcoming Belmont Stakes Day card. The view...
Beholder is fast. Beholder is brilliant. Beholder is a winning machine. Beholder is in a class of her own. For the last several years, those thoughts ran through the minds of many a horse racing fan, ...