Idiomatic took the lead from Randomized heading into the stretch and held off all comers in posting a half-length victory in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) at Santa Anita Park on Saturday...
The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1), worth $1 million again this year, is a one-mile turf test for 2-year-old colts and geldings. It was inaugurated in 2007 at Monmouth Park and this year will...
By Ray Wallin You don’t leave the house on the weekend without knowing where you are going. You don’t jump over the fence into the lion exhibit at the zoo without a plan (and live to tell about it...
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by Ray Wallin One of the popular phrases we’ve all heard is that “there are no limits.” A simple web search yields that the following things have no limits — churches, love, the outdoors, trav...
by Ray Wallin 40. This is a number that defines middle age to some, when you wake up and something else hurts. It is also the number of days and nights that it rained after Noah built his ark or, if y...
by Derek Simon In an excellent article that appeared in the Thoroughbred Daily News a while back, “Lasix: Why the Effinex Team Just Said Yes,” author Bill Finley recounts the story of Effinex, a f...
by Ray Wallin For novice handicappers, there is often room for improvement in their horse racing handicapping as they try to start to track down the dream of making a living playing the races. Many, m...
by Ray Wallin A recent study found that 80 percent of high school students thought that they are smarter than the average student. In another study, 90 percent of drivers thought they were better than...
I hate excuses. In fact, one of the things that makes playing the races so appealing to me is that bad luck is irrelevant. Sure, one can whine and complain that their horse missed the break, that they...
