#Crown Jewel

The Derby is finally here as the crown jewel of racing sets off at Epsom Racecourse once again. The winner takes home £909628 but for the one horse that makes it over the line first, it means much more. Out of all the thoroughbred foals around the world, which amounts to nearly 100000, just one of these can win the Derby. This 1m4f race is strictly…

Just like that, Montreal Canadiens forward Michael Pezzetta went from hero to goat (in the derogatory sense). Scoring against the hosting Dallas Stars on Dec. 23, Pezzetta put the the Habs up 2-0 in the second period with a shot that had the Reseau des sports telecast comparing him to Cole Caufield. However, Pezzetta was also in the box for an…

Don Alberto Stable's Forza Di Oro gets the honors of morning line favorite at 7-2 in the $100000 Tenacious Stakes Monday at Fair Grounds, but last year's Tenacious exacta returns in the form of Estate of James J. Coleman Jr.'s Chess Chief and Lothenbach's Happy American, who is cross-entered in the $100000 Buddy Diliberto three races earlier on the…

John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports First race of the round of 16 in the NASCAR playoffs takes place this Sunday Chase Elliott remains the leader in the Drivers' standings After an enthralling NASCAR Cup Series regular season, the pressure continues to build this weekend as the NASCAR playoffs get underway. The latest NASCAR odds for the Cook Out…

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Weeks after the Cleveland Cavaliers' season ended with back-to-back play-in tournament losses against Brooklyn and Atlanta, president of basketball operations Koby Altman stood inside Cleveland Clinic Courts and recapped the successful-yet-painful season. When asked specifically whether it was time to raise expectations on the…

This is Newmarket but not as we know it. With one of two canters completed, horses amble through what feels like a dark, thick forest that paints an elegant impression of Chantilly. As they make their way back towards the woodchip gallop, David Elsworth drives slowly and carefully in between trees. Behind us Racing Post photographer Edward Whitaker…

THERE will be no dream Derby win for The Queen on Platinum Jubilee weekend - but the great race could still end up in the hands of racing royalty. That's because Her Maj's old ally, Sir Michael Stoute, is back in the big time and firmly in the hunt for racing's Crown jewel. Many believed the days of a Stoute-trained favourite for the Derby were…

After the first round of games at the World Cup, an all too familiar script looked to be playing out for African football fans. Five games played, three losses, two draws and only Ghana putting the ball in the back of the net in a defeat by Portugal. Another disappointing tournament appeared to be looming for the continent that Brazil soccer great…

After waiting until a month after the World Series for the winter meetings to get the ball rolling, Major League Baseball's free-agent spending spree has been something of a runaway freight train. There have already been 30 free agents who signed contracts with an average salary of at least $10 million. And, no, we're not just talking about the New…

The College Football Playoff odds for 2022-23 feature the No. 4 seeded Ohio State Buckeyes and the No. 1 seeded Georgia Bulldogs. Ohio football fans are fired up to see their beloved Ohio State Buckeyes back in the College Football Playoff, and this time around they'll be able to legally bet on all the action. That's because legal sports betting…

In his 2017 book, What We Think about When We Think about Soccer, English philosopher Simon Critchley elucidates what it is about soccer that can give it such a hold over people. There are the social aspects, the sense that supporters share a heritage of moments lived through together. But more powerful than that, perhaps, is the way the experience…

The upcoming Super Bowl could help determine the future of sports betting in several high-profile states. [Image: Shutterstock.com] Widespread sports betting in the United States, in its four-and-a-half-year lifespan, has proven to be an inevitability. Sportsbooks have launched in 31 states and are due to appear in another five, live commentators…

Matthew OHaren-USA TODAY Sports Fourth NASCAR Crown Jewel Race of the season takes place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway The first race was held in 2021, as it replaced the Brickyard 400 One of the standout races on the NASCAR calendar takes place this weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as the Verizon 200 takes place. The race is the final…

The Golden Slipper is the crown jewel of the Sydney Autumn Carnival, and we will be treated to another exciting edition of the world's richest two-year-old race this Saturday at Rosehill. The $5 million feature has attracted some of the top juveniles from around the country, including Ciaron Maher and David Eustace's undefeated filly Coolangatta,…

In 1919, Sir Barton became the first of 13 horses to win the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes, capturing what would become known as the Triple Crown, horse racing's most cherished and elusive prize. Before the Kentucky Derby is run each spring, every trainer, owner, jockey and bettor dreams of a Triple…

Manchester United is on the block, as the Glazer family has begun looking at options in regard to selling one of the world's storied soccer squads. The move has come with much fanfare and potential interest among the world's billionaires. After 17 years, the Glazers, who also own the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL, have begun working with…

On March 31, 2019, Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Elvis Luciano became the first player born in the 2000s to reach the big leagues. In the years since, a wave of talented young players who weren't even born when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire were chasing down Roger Maris during the 1998 season has descended on Major League Baseball. 2022 Rookie of…

No. 2 Ohio State meets No. 3 Michigan at Ohio Stadium on Saturday in a clash of 11-0 teams. The Big Ten championship, College Football Playoff, Heisman Trophy and bragging rights in the greatest rivalry in college sports are among the stakes in Columbus. "One of the beauties of this thing is there are no second chances," New York Times bestselling…

Whereshetoldmetogo winning last year's edition of the Bender by a neck. Photo by Jim McCue/MJC David Joseph/Maryland Jockey Club LAUREL, Md. - Defending champion Whereshetoldmetogo, a 13-time career stakes winner, and graded-stakes winners Cordmaker and Double Crown top 24 horses nominated to the $75000 Howard & Sondra Bender Memorial Friday, Nov.…

Position: C Bats/Throws: R/R Age: August 21st, 1990 (32 years old) Traditional Stats: .274/.315/.399, 9 HR, 32 XBH, 52 RBI, 41 R, 69 K, 426 PA Advanced Stats: 16.2 K%, 5.2% BB%, 99 wRC+, .312 wOBA, 1.6 fWAR Christian Vásquez took the good with the bad in 2022. On one hand, he was dealt to the Houston Astros midseason and won a World Series title.…

Outside of the eventual college football National Championship Game, the Orange Bowl appears to be the crown jewel of the 2018-19 Bowl Season. The No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide and No. 4 Oklahoma Sooners are set to take to Miami with a National Championship berth on the line. It's the game with the most star power in the bowl season. Names like Tua…

Notes & Quotes From the Claiming Crown Jewel (& More): Keystone Field (Keystone Field / All Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the Churchill Downs Media Team: Keystone Field, owned by Kirk Wycoff's Three Diamonds Farm, swept past early leaders Benevengo and Frosted Grace leaving the final turn and determinedly turned back a late charge by 2-1…

Like the national open stakes schedule on this first post-Breeders' Cup weekend, the TwinSpires Jury has a slimmed-down look this week. James Scully and Vance Hanson opine with their best opinions on a weekend that includes the 2022 Claiming Crown at Churchill Downs. James Scully: #2 Divine Leader in Saturday's ninth race at Churchill Downs, the…

One week after racing's biggest stars contested the Breeders' Cup, the sport's hard knockers are featured Saturday under the Twin Spires. Intrepid Heart is the 5-2 morning-line favorite for the 2022 running of the $175000 Claiming Crown Jewel. Post time from Churchill Downs is 5:35 p.m. EST, with the race shown on FS2. The Claiming Crown features…

Churchill Downs' Barn Notes: Sconsin Returns in Sunday's Dream Supreme Stakes (Sconsin / Photos by Coady Photography) From the Churhcill Downs Media Team: Lloyd Madison Farm's growing broodmare band will add another member to their roster with their homebred Sconsin, who has a date with 2017 Horse of the Year Gun Runner in a few months. The…

Set Piece Is Set to Return to Churchill Downs in Sunday's G3 River City (Set Piece / Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the Churchill Downs Media Team: Juddmonte's multiple graded stakes winner Set Piece (GB) leads an oversubscribed cast of 14 horses that were entered in Sunday's $300000 River City (Grade III) at Churchill Downs. Sunday's featured…

Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Last weekend, some of the world's best horses were on display in the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. This weekend, the blue-collar horses get their time in the sun in the Claiming Crown races 75 miles to the west at Churchill Downs. We'll also see if the Twin Spires folks have been able to coax grass to grow, as two of…

Benevengo with trainer Jesse Cruz, left, and groom Leo Rico. (Gwen Davis/Davis Innovation) Kentucky HBPA Press Release LOUISVILLE, Ky.- Benevengo is a prime example of how young horses can change. Because of that, trainer Jesse Cruz has his first Claiming Crown horse with the 3-year-old colt - known as Benny around the barn - going in Saturday's 1…

Churchill Downs Press Release/Edited LOUISVILLE, Ky.- A total of 95 of some of the nation's top claiming-level horses, including seven also-eligible entries, have been entered in Saturday's 24th annual Claiming Crown Championship Series, which will be staged beneath Churchill Downs' historic Twin Spires in Louisville, Ky. for the first time. The…

Wesley Ward: five-strong team for Royal Ascot Day one of Royal Ascot is expected to start with a bang with superstar milers Baaeed and Coroebus in action, but they could be overshadowed by King's Stand favourite Golden Pal according to Wesley Ward, who describes the four-year-old as "the fastest of the fast". No trainer quite encapsulates the…

Jesus's Team winning the 2020 Claiming Crown Jewel. Photo by Lauren King David Joseph/Maryland Jockey Club HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Jesus' Team has made more than a million dollars the hard way, outgrowing his claiming roots to knock heads with the best horses in training and more than holding his own. The 5-year-old son of Tapiture will make his…

There's a reason we're the #1 trusted source for premium racing picks & info. A total of 95 of some of the nation's top claiming-level horses, including seven also-eligible entries, have been entered in Saturday's 24 annual Claiming Crown Championship Series, which will be staged beneath Churchill Downs' historic Twin Spires in Louisville, Ky. for…

KY HBPA Interviews: "Claiming Crown" Coming to Churhcill Downs This Saturday From the KY HBPA Media Team / Jennie Rees: The Claiming Crown was created 24 years ago to serve as a Breeders' Cup-style event celebrating the blue-collar horses that populate most of America's racing programs. With the eight-race series coming to Churchill Downs for the…

If nothing else, the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) could turn into be a bettor's bonanza. A field of 12 durable but far from dynamic horses is likely for the race at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 25, with no super standout among them. Favorites (Arrogate, Gun Runner) and second-betting choices (City of Light, Mucho Gusto) won the first…

The New Jersey Devils are owned by the Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment group. Most people associate our ownership with Josh Harris and sometimes David Blitzer. The partners started buying up teams back in 2011 when Harris built the group to buy the Philadelphia 76ers. That became the crown jewel of what the group would become. They then had…

Social media star and undefeated professional boxer Jake Paul is reportedly expected to be in the corner of his brother, Logan Paul, for his WWE Universal Championship match against Roman Reigns at Crown Jewel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday. PWInsider.com's Mike Johnson was the first to report the news, and it was later confirmed by Dave…

If Flightline had never been born, we might have seen Nest try to make history in Saturday's $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic rather than facing members of her own sex in the Distaff two races earlier. Zenyatta is the only female to win the Classic, turning the trick in 2009 at Santa Anita, but Nest, a 3-year-old daughter of two-time Horse of the…

Ronda Rousey has an idea for how Logan Paul could beat Roman Reigns at WWE Crown Jewel, and she explained her reasoning on her latest YouTube stream. Logan is set to face Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship at the PPV and Rousey discussed why she thinks Paul should go over in the match. You can check out the highlights below, per…

Maybe Todd Pletcher is a good poker player. After all, he holds a pretty strong hand heading into the 39th Breeders' Cup on Nov. 4-5 at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky. No other trainer this year holds aces up his sleeve in the $6 million Classic and $2 million Distaff like Pletcher, a Dallas native who's playing a good game of Texas Hold'em while…

An important SEC football showdown awaits Saturday when the No. 8-ranked Tennessee Volunteers take on the No. 25-ranked LSU Tigers in one of just three Week 6 contests featuring a pair of ranked teams. Kickoff is set for noon ET from Tiger Stadium. The Volunteers (4-0, 1-0) come to Baton Rouge off a bye following their 38-33 home win…

It's only fitting that after playing one of their worst preseason game against Seattle, the Canucks would follow it up by playing one of their best. Sure, the final score was a 7-2 drubbing by Dylan Holloway and the Oilers. But a much more shorthanded Canucks lineup tightened up in the places they needed to, keeping the score close until the final…

Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Like the last fighter standing after a rain-soaked street brawl, Alpinista and her connections now look around after Sunday's sparkling win in the Qatar Prix de l' Arc de Triomphe thinking, "Who's next?" The 5-year-old Frankel mare overcame day-long rains and very soft turf to win Europe's premier race by 1/2 length, running…

I feel a little bit icky doing a postseason speculation post when the San Francisco Giants are still in playoff contention (lol), but yesterday for The Athletic, somebody suggested they trade Camilo Doval to supercharge the rebuild. Well, I had a post in my brain queue that was along those same lines, only about J.D. Davis! So, I'm writing it now,…

The 2023 NHL Entry Draft is a long way from September, but there's a long road ahead to get to that point. While the Montreal Canadiens fell to the lottery picks in 2021-22, some fans hope they can do so again in 2022-23 to re-group and add another top piece. Not to mention, the consensus top pick in next year's draft is already known. Hockey…