#Delaware Park

Knicks Go, seen winning the Grade I Pegasus World Cup in January, is favorite for Saturday's Grade I Whitney at Saratoga. Photo courtesy of Gulfstream Park Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Rich purses drew some top foreign talent for the Saratoga Derby and Oaks on Saturday and Sunday on the upstate New York turf to highlight a big weekend of Thoroughbred…

This is "last call" weekend for Breeders' Cup hopefuls with more than a dozen "Win and You're In" races spread across three U.S. tracks. It's also Arc weekend in Paris and Winx seeks her 28th straight win in Australia. There's even more, with important 2-year-old races in Canada and the Group 1 Sun Chariot in England. Twenty-eight straight wins? It…

While the vision for the future of the Preakness continues to improve and excite, the economic reality grows dimmer and more desperate. Under a law passed last April, the Maryland Stadium Authority was required to submit two progress reports to House and Senate Committees, the first by Sept. 30, 2022, and the second by Jan. 1, 2023. The racing…

Cheval Grand, shown winning the 2017 Japan Cup, returns seeking a repeat victory in Sunday's renewal. Photo courtesy of Japan Racing Association Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Weekend horse racing action stretches from Tokyo to Bahrain with a stop in England and a quick look at Hong Kong's preparations for its big weekend two weeks down the calendar. The Grade 1…

There is one important face you won't see in the winner's circle photographs from this year's Kentucky Derby. Perhaps one of the most vital parts of the team, Rich Strike's regular exercise rider Gabriel Lagunes watched the race from the clocker's tower on the Churchill Downs backstretch. "I cried after he won," Lagunes said. "Before the race,…

Morello drawing away to a win in the $62000 Feature Allowance at Laurel Park, Oct. 8, 2022. (Jim McCue/MJC) NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Blue Lion Thoroughbreds, Iapetus Racing and Diamond T Racing's graded-stakes winner returns from a two-month absence in Friday's $135000 Gravesend, a six-furlong sprint for 3-years-old and up, at Aqueduct…

Zandon, shown winning the Grade I Blue Grass Stakes, runs in Saturday's Grade I Cigar Mile at Aqueduct. Photo courtesy of Keeneland Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Triple Crown contenders from the past three seasons will battle it out in a field of seven for one of this weekend's top races, the Grade I Cigar Mile at Aqueduct, where 2023 Kentucky Derby hopefuls…

When the casino and racetrack at Delaware Park were sold last year to a Canadian private equity firm (Clairvest Group) and a subsidiary of Rubico Gaming, it marked the first ownership change at the facility in nearly 40 years. Some wondered how that might impact - for good or ill - the racing side of the business. During the 2022 meet there were no…

Friday's Breeders' Cup card at Santa Anita offers six championship races, giving horseplayers plenty of opportunities to find wagering value. Large fields and competitive races can lead to long shots, and the Ladies' Classic (formerly known as the Distaff) has produced a few bombs over the years. Among the long shots that have won the…

Bobby Flay's homebred Pizza Bianca (#4 outside) under Jose Ortiz on her way to winning the Hilltop Stakes at Pimlico May 20, 2022, and earning Black Type. (Maryland Jockey Club photo) By Maribeth Kalinich There's a phenomenon happening in North America. Turf races are booming. That is in part thanks to more European horses coming across the pond to…

Like a lot of kids who grew up on the racetrack, Jesus "Jesse" Cruz hoped to become a jockey. But long after he outgrew that king-sized dream, he continued to forge relationships with horses. When a homebred named Help a Brother arrived in the barn of his stepfather, Lewis Craig, Jr., at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races in 2012, 18-year-old…

Simply put, the Jockey Club Gold Cup on the final weekend of the 2022 Saratoga meet this Saturday is trainer Todd Pletcher's to lose. The all-star trainer has four of the race's eight runners, meaning that just by mere arithmetic, Pletcher has a 50-50 chance of standing in the winner's circle with one of his horses moments after the 10-furlong…

The sadly-missed Arrogate is slowly starting to pick up as a sire, with the former champion's tally of winners now up to six. Rated by some agencies as the best North American-trained horse of the 2010s after phenomenal victories in the Travers S. (G1), Breeders' Cup Classic (G1), Pegasus World Cup (G1), and Dubai World Cup (G1), Arrogate was sadly…

The Pegasus World Cup was created in 2017 and is held annually in January at Gulfstream Park. It is a Grade I event run on dirt at a distance of one mile and one furlong and is available to horses four years old and up. The Pegasus World Cup was created in 2017 and is held annually in January at Gulfstream Park. It is a Grade I event run on dirt at…

Delaware Park has a strong card on Saturday that includes a bevy of stakes, including the G3 Robert Dick Memorial and the G2 Delaware Handicap. Picks to follow with some well-timed analysis... Race 1: 5-4-7-2 Race 2: 6-3-7-5 Race 3: 5-2-7-1 Race 4: 8-4-3-7 Race 5: 1-2-7-5 Race 6: 8-10-6-4 Race 7: 6-4-7-5 Race 8: 11-7-3-8 **Most Likely: Bad To The…

Malibu Moonshine breaking her maiden on a super sloppy track by 6 lengths at Pimlico Sept. 9. (Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club) By David Joseph/Maryland Jockey Club LAUREL, Md. - Happy Face Racing Stable's Malibu Moonshine, scratched as a top contender from last month's Maryland Million with a fever, returns to Laurel Park to make her Maryland and…

Zandon, shown winning the Grade I Blue Grass Stakes, runs in Saturday's Grade I Cigar Mile at Aqueduct. Photo courtesy of Keeneland Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Triple Crown contenders from the past three seasons will battle it out in a field of seven for one of this weekend's top races, the Grade I Cigar Mile at Aqueduct, where 2023 Kentucky Derby hopefuls…

Graded Stakes on the turf at Del Mar is where I would dream to have a horse run; if you know, I could afford a thoroughbred racehorse. The (G3) Jimmy Durante Stakes will be taking place this Saturday from Del Mar Racecourse and is carded as Race 7, going to post at 6:30 pm (ET). This graded stakes affair will be on the turf course, with the prize…

A trio of stakes races, headed by the 82nd edition of the Grade 1, $400000 Hollywood Derby, will highlight a special racing card Saturday at Del Mar on the penultimate day of the sport for the 2022 Bing Crosby Season. Also on the nine-race program will be the 32nd running of the Grade 3, $100000 Jimmy Durante Stakes for 2-year-old fillies and the…

Racing on the 2023 Kentucky Derby trail in New York resumes on Saturday at Aqueduct with the Grade 2, $250000 Remsen Stakes. The 1 1/8-mile contest, which is the second official Derby qualifying race of the year at the Big A, attracted a field of seven 2-year-olds and offers points to the top five finishers (10-4-3-2-1). Last year the Remsen…

Past Kentucky Derby winners Pleasant Colony, Go for Gin, and Thunder Gulch … Preakness Stakes winners Pleasant Colony and Pine Bluff … Belmont Stakes victors Thunder Gulch and Mo Donegal … Since 1980, the Grade 2 Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct has been won by a bevy of top-class horses, including the above-mentioned American classic winners. Other…

American Revolution, shown winning the Grade I Cigar Mile in December, is among the likely ones in Saturday's Blame Stakes at Churchill Downs. Photo by Joe Labozzetta, courtesy of New York Racing Association June 3 (UPI) -- Weekend racing is all about the doings on Epsom Downs southwest of London, where the Oaks on Friday and the Derby on Saturday…

Tuskegee Airmen breaks his maiden first out Sep. 24 at Parx (Bill Denver/EQUI-PHOTO) By Mary Eddy - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Cash is King and LC Racing's undefeated Tuskegee Airmen will make his graded stakes debut for trainer John Servis in Saturday's Grade 2, $250000 Remsen, a nine-furlong main track test for juveniles, at Aqueduct…

Dalaika, shown winning the Grade I Beverly D. at Churchill Downs, returns for the $1 million Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf on Saturday. Photo courtesy of Churchill Downs Sept. 9 (UPI) -- It's all about the turf in weekend horse racing with Kentucky Downs staging an extravaganza unmatched anywhere in North America short of the Breeders' Cup World…

Rich Strike, seen posing the morning after his Kentucky Derby win, returns in Saturday's Grade I Clark Stakes with a chance to stake a claim for year-end honors. Photo courtesy of Churchill Downs Nov. 25 (UPI) -- It's getting to be crunch time for horses who seek year-end honors, and this weekend's Clark Stakes at Churchill Downs provides one of…

White Abarrio, seen winning the Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park, is among the Kentucky Derby contenders returning to action in Saturday's Ohio Derby at Thistledown. Photo courtesy of Gulfstream Park June 24 (UPI) -- Derby contenders from Louisville and Epsom Downs return to action in weekend horse racing and "Win and You're In" spots for…

Kentucky Derby winner Mandaloun works out at Churchill Downs in preparation for Saturday's Stephen Foster Stakes. Photo courtesy of Churchill Downs July 1 (UPI) -- The Fourth of July weekend kicks off the second half of the horse racing year with a bang as Mandaloun, Life Is Good, Ce Ce and other notables return from layoffs. Adding to the…

Ronald Cuneo's Armando R, scratched from a Thanksgiving Day allowance, came with a steady run on the far outside down the center of the track to upset favored Ournationonparade by a half-length in Saturday's $100000 Richard W. Small at Laurel Park. The 22nd running of the 1 1/8-mile Richard Small for 3-year-olds and up anchored three stakes on the…

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.…

In his seminal tome'The History of Thoroughbred Racing in America', William H.P. Robertson began a significant post-war chapter with the following observation: "During 1947, for the only time in history, four different horses were listed as the world's leading money-winner at one time or another." Today such a statement would be greeted with a…

The Elkstone Group's Grade 2-placed Hybrid Eclipse, under a patient ride from Sheldon Russell, split horses in midstretch and went on to earn her second stakes win in Maryland this year in Saturday's $100000 Thirty Eight Go Go at Laurel Park. The 12 running of the 1 1/16-mile Thirty Eight Go Go for fillies and mares was the last of three stakes on…

There are four stakes on the docket this weekend in the Mid-Atlantic, all Saturday. Three, including two for two-year-olds, are at Laurel Park, while the fourth is Saturday evening at Charles Town Races. The two-year-old races at Laurel are of particular interest - any stars in the making? - while the Charles Town stake, the renamed Randy…

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…

Candy Light wins an allowance at Keeneland Oct. 13 (Coady Photography) By Keith McCalmont - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y- Trainer Graham Motion will saddle Fortune Racing's multiple stakes-placed Candy Light in Sunday's $135000 Winter Memories, a 1 1/16-mile outer turf test for sophomore fillies at Aqueduct Racetrack. Motion, who sends out Pao…

July 8 (UPI) -- Three-year-olds from Ireland, England and France will see what they can do with American rivals this weekend at Belmont Park in the $1 million Caesar's Belmont Derby and $750000 Belmont Oaks. The weekend also includes the Indiana Derby, Iowa Derby and Los Alamitos Derby in California, where trainer Bob Baffert returns from…

There is plenty of great horse racing across America on Tuesday, including at Parx race track. We have been on fire with our picks for a long time now and we are up+295.64 units with our race selections to our recommended stakes dating back to August 5, 2021. Let's keep it rolling! Here are our best bets for today's action at Parx race…

Thursday's Race Recap from Delaware Park: (All odds US) Replays for yesterday's races from Delaware Park can be found here: Delaware Park: Race 1: 1st@ 2.50/1 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Race 3: 5th@ 1.70/1 In Race 1 at Delaware our 8/1 morning line selection Coronova was bet down to 5/2 odds here in the U.S. and that proved to be smart money as she won by 5 in her…

By Mary Eddy - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Pine Brook Farm's impressive maiden winner Foggy Night will step up to face winners for the first time in Sunday's $150000 Tempted, a one-mile main track test for juvenile fillies, at Aqueduct Racetrack. Foggy Night, trained by Butch Reid, Jr. , was last seen dominating a one mile and 70-yard…

We have plays in four races on this hot July Sunday, from New Jersey to Ontario to Southern California. We expect fast dirt and firm turf in all of them, so let's go. = Monmouth Park, Race 10, 4:27 pm ET $100000 Colleen Stakes, 5 furlongs, Turf, 2-Year-Olds Eight juveniles line up to sprint five furlongs on the grass in the Colleen Stakes at the…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Blue Lion Thoroughbreds, Craig Taylor and Diamond T Racing's Morello returns to the site of his lone graded stakes victory in Saturday's Grade 2, $300000 Kelso for 3-year-olds and upward going a one-turn mile at Belmont at the Big A. The Kelso offers the top-four finishers a free nomination and starting fee in the Grade 1, $750000…

The short but elite racing seasons at Del Mar and Kentucky Downs will hit the finish line Sunday, but not before the two tracks put forth some more important stakes races and top betting opportunities. It's an untraditional week, to be sure, with Del Mar extended beyond Labor Day against calendar norms. Meanwhile, the New York circuit goes dark…

It will be a different Haskell this year. The $1 million TVG.com Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park has been changed from an invitational and will serve as a Kentucky Derby prep race, with the Run for the Roses shifted from May 2 to Sept 5 due to the coronavirus pandemic. There will be 170 qualifying points available toward the Derby in the Haskell…

A sentimental renewal of the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup and the turf marathon known as the Sycamore Stakes will put Keeneland's grass course front and center during the second week of its Fall Meeting. Friday's $300000 Sycamore is three weeks and a day out from the Breeders' Cup Turf and could provide a member or two to that field. The…

Opening weekend of the prestigious meeting at Keeneland runs Friday through Sunday, including 11 key stakes preps that will be showcased at this year's Breeders' Cup host site. Stars like Golden Pal, Letruska and Malathaat are just some of the names expected to grace the Lexington oval. But Keeneland won't fly solo on the national marquee, which…

Did you know active subscribers receive our Inside Track wagering guides absolutely FREE? Subscribe today and be the first to receive our upcoming MONSTER wagering guide to the 2022 Breeders' Cup! Dublin Fjord Stables, Racepoint Stables, Kevin D. Hilbert and Thomas E. O'Keefe's Drafted will vie for his third graded victory of the year in Saturday's…

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Dublin Fjord Stables, Racepoint Stables, Kevin D. Hilbert and Thomas E. O'Keefe's Drafted will vie for his third graded victory of the year in Saturday's Grade 2, $250000 Vosburgh, a seven-furlong main track sprint for 3-year-olds and up, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. The winner of the Vosburgh will earn a berth in the…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- NBS Stable and Elements Racing's stakes winner Danse Macabre will look to make the grade in Saturday's Grade 3, $150000 Matron, a six-furlong outer turf test for juvenile fillies, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. The Matron, set for Race 6, is part of a stacked card that includes the Grade 1 $500000 Joe Hirsch Turf…

In a key Breeders' Cup prep, Wonder Wheel and Fun and Feisty, both stakes winners at Churchill Downs, headline a full field of 14 juvenile fillies entered in Friday's Grade 1 Alcibiades at Keeneland. Wonder Wheel was the runner-up in the Grade 1 Spinaway at Saratoga in her most recent start, five weeks ago. The daughter of Into Mischief was a debut…

Handicapper J. Keeler Johnson shares picks and plays for Thursday, Sept. 29 at Delaware Park and Churchill Downs, including a midrange longshot in the First Dash S. Churchill Downs Bet Back: Receive refunds on win bets (up to $10) if your horse finishes second in select races at Churchill Downs. $1000 Hoosier Park Pick 4 Hit It and Split It: Hit…

The Grade 3 Iroquois Stakes, Saturday at Churchill Downs, represents the first points race for the 2022 Kentucky Derby. Continue reading to see how the experts are playing the race. Ron Flatter, Horse Racing Nation Winner: #9 Guntown On the board: #6 Stellar Tap Longshot I like: #7 Red Knobs Analysis: Guntown had a troubled debut but made up for it…