#Daily Racing Form

Even if a race does not carry qualifying points, if there are 3-year-olds running, it could end up being a prep for Kentucky Derby 2023. In addition to the Pasco Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, there are six other races Saturday that include 15 horses who already are in the Derby futures market in Las Vegas or are on the verge of being there. Maiden…

Matt Bernier, handicapper for the Daily Racing Form, is a Massachusetts resident who is one of the sport's most enthusiastic young ambassadors. He's a regular presence as an analyst on NBC Sports' television coverage of the Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup and is also a leading expert on handicapping tournaments. Matt previously worked in real estate…

Welcome to Noel Michaels' Weekend Winners, the place to go for weekend best bets and spot plays from veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer Noel Michaels. Check back every week for a couple of highlighted selections designed to help you cash a few bets and make some money. Noel's selections have been featured just about everywhere horse…

Artificial Intelligence is altering online gambling, shifting the odds away from handicappers and card counters and point spread calculators in favor of data scientists who can code. But that has left the non-coders of the world out of the money. So, when the founders of the no-code AI platform Akkio offered to let a curious novice use their…

In this biweekly series, racing analyst Keeler Johnson shares promising horses from his handicapping watch list, reviewing runners who have recently caught his eye and previewing horses scheduled to run back in the near future. New to the Watch List A daughter of two-time horse of the year Curlin and a half-sister to Toboggan (G3) winner Great…

Now we are talking Kentucky Derby preps. This time we mean it. Life Is Good can race across, up and down or diagonally through the San Felipe. Greatest Honour can close on pedestrian fractions in the Fountain of Youth. Concert Tour can be anointed prince of the Bob Baffert Invi … er … Rebel Stakes. Essential Quality can be forgotten with his…

Dr. J. David "Doc" Richardson, the distinguished Louisville surgeon who was an owner, breeder and widely-respected leader in the horse racing industry, died Tuesday at the age of 76. According to the Daily Racing Form, Dr. Richardson had been admitted to a hospital in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. with pneumonia following a COVID-19 diagnosis, then…

Welcome to Noel Michaels' Weekend Winners, the place to go for weekend best bets and spot plays from veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer Noel Michaels. Check back every week for a couple of highlighted selections designed to help you cash a few bets and make some money. Noel's selections have been featured just about everywhere horse…

Just because you came in first in the loser's bracket of your fantasy league does not mean you're a seasoned gambler, which is why we're here with an easy-to-follow guide on how exactly to make money at the racetrack, whether you're a beginner, a veteran, or just a really, really rich person who is bored of only hanging out on private islands. Once…

LAS VEGAS - It was sure to happen, wasn't it? With the rising popularity of handicapping contests in horse racing, there had to be growing pains. And you had better believe the news that broke late this week from the Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge is a pain. "I have full confidence that there was nothing amiss there," said Nisan Gabbay, 40, the…

Welcome to Noel Michaels' Weekend Winners, the place to go for weekend best bets and spot plays from veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer Noel Michaels. Check back every week for a couple of highlighted selections designed to help you cash a few bets and make some money. Noel's selections have been featured just about everywhere horse…

OCEANPORT - Jason Servis is confident he has Maximum Security fully cranked for the $1 million TVG.com Haskell Invitational Saturday at Monmouth Park. However, what Servis, Maximum Security's trainer, is not completely confident of is whether the horse likes the Monmouth Park racing surface. "I don't know if people have thought of this, but last…

Twenty-five years after the nearly white and cleverly named Alphabet Soup made headlines by narrowly defeating the legendary Cigar in the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) at Woodbine, his name and pedigree (Cozzene-Illiterate, by Arts and Letters) live on through his 18 crops of offspring that often sport equally creative monikers such as Egg Drop, Alpha…

Welcome to Noel Michaels' Weekend Winners, the place to go for weekend best bets and spot plays from veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer Noel Michaels. Check back every week for a couple of highlighted selections designed to help you cash a few bets and make some money. Noel's selections have been featured just about everywhere horse…

New York Racing Association stewards ruled Sunday's seventh race at Saratoga a No Contest due to a mechanical issue with the starting gate tractor. That mechanical issue created a delay in removing the gate once the field started the race. The outriders communicated to the jockeys there was a problem. Several pulled up their mounts during the 1…

The rains stopped at Pimlico Thursday morning just as Kentucky Derby winner Justify (pictured) stepped out to test the track in preparation for Saturday's Preakness. Photo courtesy of Maryland Jockey Club The sun didn't shine on My Old Kentucky Home on Derby Day this year and it's unlikely to shine on Saturday's Preakness, either. But for Derby…

World-class Thoroughbred racing returns to Keeneland on Friday, April 6, for 15 days of racing that includes the April 14, $750000 Toyota Blue Grass (G1), a springboard to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1), and special events for some of the largest crowds in all of horse racing. On opening day, Keeneland will become the first track…

In the United States, it took 37 years for American Pharoah to follow up Affirmed's 1978 Triple Crown sweep. In Canada, the sport's iconic achievement has taken place on a far more regular basis. Since 1983, five horses have swept Canada's Triple Crown of the Queen's Plate, Prince of Wales and Breeders' Stakes, and one of them was an amazing…

Jake Paul, the Cleveland-born social media star turned professional boxer, is betting that millennial men like him are ready to plunge into legal online sports gaming. But not with traditional bets - like whether the Browns are going to beat the Steelers, or by how much. Paul this year co-founded an online betting app that lets users bet in real…

When handling a top thoroughbred racehorse in excess of 1000 pounds, Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens often remained acutely aware of a mechanical issue in the starting gate that could imperil the safety of the riders. Now, working as an analyst with Saratoga Live for the famed Saratoga Race Course summer meet, Stevens reacted with incredulity on…

Colorful Breeders' Cup-winning trainer Julio Canani, who died in Pasadena last week at the age of 82, made an indelible mark on horseracing throughout California. Here Team Valor International boss Barry Irwin, a longtime friend and associate, pays tribute. Such was the make-up of Julio Canani that many others are bound to have better, funnier and…

As the dust settled on Rich Strike's improbable 81-1 victory in the 148th Kentucky Derby on Saturday, the question of who would challenge him in the Preakness Stakes on May 21 in Baltimore, Maryland began to make the rounds across the country. Rich Strike, a last-minute Derby entrant who got a dream trip under jockey Sonny Leon for trainer Eric…

Fridays Race Recap from Aqueduct: (All odds US) Replays for yesterday's races from Aqueduct can be found here: Aqueduct: Race 3: 3rd@ 13.10/1 Race 8: 2nd@ 2.30/1 Race 9: SCRATCH In Race 3, jockey Luis Rodriguez had Keen Dancer well behind and didn't move a muscle on her until the race was practically over. Once he finally began flailing his arms…

OCEANPORT - His turf course. His race.Jockey Joe Bravo gave the Mike Maker-trained Bigger Picture a picture-perfect rail-skimming ride as that horse rallied from last in the field of nine with five furlongs left to win the Grade I $300000 United Nations Stakes by a head over Can't helpbelieving Saturday at Monmouth Park.For Bravo, a 13-time…

The 154th running of the Belmont Stakes takes place on Saturday in Elmont, N.Y., with Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike returning after sitting out the Preakness. At 80-1, Rich Strike was the second-biggest long shot winner in the history of the Kentucky Derby. Although he didn't run in the Preakness, there was a Rich Strike effect. Fenwick opened…

It's the fastest two minutes in sports, but it's still an all-day party and not just at Churchill Downs. Casinos and off-track-betting locations in the Philadelphia area have a full day of fun planned for the Kentucky Derby, whether fans are in it for the mint juleps or are there to study the Daily Racing Form. Where to watch and bet on the Derby…

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…

The Triple Crown is one of the most elusive achievements in all of sports. In the long history of racing, just a dozen horses have found the right blend of speed, stamina, durability, and luck required to sweep the three-race series comprised of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes. Many other horses have won the first two legs,…

Speed figures are arguably the most prevalent metric used primarily by handicappers to determine which horse they think has the best chance of winning a race today. Throughout their origin, speed figures have demonstrated remarkable consistency in their capacity to quantify a horse's running speed. It may appear to be a straightforward concept, but…

Pre-race favorite Nadal took down the second division of the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on Saturday. The victory gave trainer Bob Baffert wins in both Arkansas Derby divisions, as Charlatan took down the Division 1 field by six lengths. Here's a look at the order of finish, payouts and odds for the race, which…

Gary Barber's Perfect Flight rallied from last under Ricardo Santana Jr. to upset Apprehend and Ramon Vazquez and give trainer Peter Miller a one-two finish in Tuesday's $250000 Zia Park Derby at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M. The Derby was one of seven stakes on the Land of Enchantment Day program with purses totaling $900000 and came one race after…

Taibahas won the Santa Anita Derby after surpassing Messier with a great run down the stretch. Order of Finish, Pre-Race Odds, Payouts 1. Taiba (4-1): Win ($10.60), Place ($3.60), Show ($3.20) 2. Messier (6-5): Place ($2.80), Show ($2.10) 3. Happy Jack (25-1): Show ($4.20) 4. Armagnac (70-1) 5. Win The Day (25-1) 6. Forbidden Kingdom (Even) Odds…

Imagine for a moment being loaded with money. So loaded there was plenty to unload on any of the three sure-fire ways to blow an investment. As some financial wizard told Tony Kornheiser, they are a private plane, a restaurant and a racehorse. Forget about the plane and the restaurant. How about being someone like Jack Wolf? He and his wife Laurie…

Welcome to Noel Michaels' Weekend Winners, the place to go for weekend best bets and spot plays from veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer Noel Michaels. Check back every week for a couple of highlighted selections designed to help you cash a few bets and make some money. Noel's selections have been featured just about everywhere horse…

Making the Grade, which will run through the 2018 Belmont Stakes, focuses on the winners or top performers of the key races, usually from the previous weekend, who could impact the Triple Crown. We'll be taking a close look at impressive winners and evaluating their chances to win classic races based upon ability, running style, connections (owner,…

As a young man in Vancouver in the early'70s, Michael Roxborough was drawn to the world of gamblers. That led him to hanging out at the race track, pool halls, and the Vancouver Stock Exchange. Roxy, as he came to be known, worked as a bookie, taking bets on NHL and NFL games. He'd spend time at Seymour Billiards on Seymour and Nelson streets and…

The encore to the 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic was Ghostzapper's 2004 performance. The 1998 Classic was said to be the greatest field ever assembled. Then the 2004 race was said to be the best. November 5, 2022, we saw Flightline win with a hand ride to an 8 1/2 victory and that race and Flightline were called the best. So, who is the BC Classic…

Despite the small field of six horses, handicapping the Grade 1, $1 million Whitney Stakes at Saratoga and deciding on a final bet took some time. While the scenario of Life Is Good sprinting to an uncontested lead and never giving it up could happen, that is not the only possible outcome. The best horse to use instead of Life Is Good…

Repole Stable's Chocolate Gelato backed up a highly impressive maiden victory, utilizing a ground-saving trip under jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. to capture a breakthrough win in Sunday's Grade 1, $400000 Frizette for 2-year-old fillies at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. Chocolate Gelato came into the Frizette off an 8 1/2-length maiden victory at…

Welcome to Noel Michaels' Weekend Winners, the place to go for weekend best bets and spot plays from veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer Noel Michaels. Check back every week for a couple of highlighted selections designed to help you cash a few bets and make some money. Noel's selections have been featured just about everywhere horse…

On a sloppy track at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Omaha Beach held off Improbable to win the 2019 Arkansas Derby on Saturday. Omaha Beach entered the Arkansas Derby as a slight 8-5 favorite over Improbable at 9-5, and by virtue of his win, Omaha Beach earned 100 Kentucky Derby points and further established himself as one of the top…

In his latest column, Charles Hayward reflects on Keeneland's two-day championships - which he watched avidly from his couch at home in Saratoga Springs Like everybody else in the racing world, I was transfixed by Flightline's astonishing display in the Breeders' Cup Classic, which came as a triumphant climax to two wonderful days in front of the…

The Breeders' Cup prep season begins to draw to a close beginning this weekend, with major domestic stakes at Aqueduct, Churchill Downs, and Santa Anita on Saturday. There's also significant racing on both Saturday and Sunday at Longchamp in Paris, site of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1). The TwinSpires Jury of James Scully, Kellie Reilly, and…

Sunday was another busy day in and out of the Tuley's Takes home office, made worth all the hard work this past week as underdogs continued to bark in the NFL. After getting a precious extra hour of sleep thanks to turning the clocks back, I was up early Sunday to get down to VSiN's studio at Circa to appear with Uncle Brent Musburger on his…

Never televised in prime time and hardly known outside racing circles, the 4-year-old is favored for a grand opening, and grand finale, in Saturday's Breeders' Cup. Outlined against an orange-pink October sky, the horseman rode again. Juan Leyva, the only exercise rider for perhaps the greatest American racehorse of the 21st century, spurred his…

Outlined against an orange-pink October sky, the horseman rode again. Juan Leyva, the only exercise rider for perhaps the greatest American racehorse of the 21st century, spurred his mount from a trot into a gallop at the five-eighths pole on the Keeneland Race Course backstretch and was gone. The sunrise that was painting the eastern sky had not…

Will this weekend's Breeders' Cup Classic serve as the crowning moment for a horse that will go down in the history books, or will it be the setting for a major upset? We'll find out Saturday evening at Keeneland, which will host horse racing's World Championships for the third time and welcome one of the sport's biggest stars in recent memory. The…

KY Downs' Sunday Program Features G3 Ladies Marathon & Return of Family Way (Family Way / Coady Photography) From the KY Downs Media Team / Jennie Rees: Sunday's FanDuel Meet at Kentucky Downs racing program is headlined by three stakes: the $550000, Grade 3 AGS Ladies Marathon, $500000 Nelson's Green Brier Tennessee Whiskey Music City for…

The mood around Woodbine Racetrack last week was subdued with the news that long-time thoroughbred owner Hugh Galbraith had passed away. Affectionately known to his friends around the track as "Hyper Hughie," Galbraith owned horses for years and was best remembered for his partnership with Derek Ball and trainer Dave Cotey. That partnership owned…