The road to the 2017 Kentucky Derby (GI) continues this Saturday with another edition of the $400,000, Grade II Xpressbet Fountain of Youth Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile event to be held at Gulfstream Park in...
There is little question that some very good, even great, horses have won the Grade II Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park. The race was first run in 1945 and is for three-year-olds going a mi...
The impressive winner of the 2017 Southwest Stakes, One Liner was purchased for $150,000 at Keeneland’s January 2015 Sale by J.S.B. Stable. The bay 3-year-old is now jointly owned by WinStar Farm, t...
Proving that Janet Jackson’s question “what have you done for me lately?” resonates with bettors, McCracken, recent winner of the Sam F. Davis (GIII) at Tampa Bay Downs, closed as the favorite i...
Brad Grady’s lightly raced Girvin officially announced himself as a legitimate Triple Crown candidate on Saturday with an impressive two-length score in the $400,000 Risen Star Stakes (GII) at Fair ...
The Rachel Alexandra Stakes (GII) was born in 1982 and originally named the Davona Dale Stakes after the champion filly and Hall of Famer Davona Dale, who raced in New Orleans in the late 1970s and wo...
All eyes will be on the Fair Grounds this Saturday as the Grade II Risen Star is the first 2017 Kentucky Derby prep race awarding 85 points in the Road to the Kentucky Derby point system. But the Rise...
Saturday’s $400,000 Risen Star Stakes (GII) at Fair Grounds drew a full field of 14 sophomores, which isn’t much of a surprise since it’s the first North American Kentucky Derby (GI) prep race t...
D. Wayne Lukas has over 4,770 career training wins, four Eclipse Awards for outstanding trainer and was voted into the thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame in 1999. On Saturday, he’ll send out Hor...
Valadorna is clearly the one to beat in the Rachel Alexandra Stakes (GII) at Fair Grounds on Saturday, but I’ll be using trainer Keith Desormeaux’s Majestic Quality in all my exotic bets. Majestic...
