#Jockey Club Gold Cup

For most people, the name King Ranch brings to mind images of a sprawling western ranch filled with cattle and cowboys. But for fans of Thoroughbred racing, King Ranch brings to mind a different image - the image of one of the most influential and successful racing and breeding operations in the history of the sport. King Ranch had existed for many…

For bettors who think the expected favorite Arctic Arrogance can lose the $150000 Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct on Saturday, there are other viable options in this Kentucky Derby trail points race. Eight 3-year-olds are entered and set to travel the one-turn mile. Here is a Daily Double linking an alternative choice in the Jerome to two deep closers in…

The biggest race run on American soil is here. The $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic, which is supposed to draw the best horses that the world has to offer, will be run at embattled Santa Anita Park on Saturday night. Eleven horses have been entered to run in the 1 1/4-mile race, which is in its 36th year. While the horses should be getting the most…

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…

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The New York Racing Association Inc. (NYRA) will host a special cross breed Cross Country Pick 5 on Saturday, featuring Grade 1 thoroughbred action from Whitney Day at Saratoga Race Course and standardbred racing from the Hambletonian card at Meadowlands Racetrack. Free Equibase past performances for the Cross Country Pick…

The history of horse racing is filled with rags-to-riches stories of jockeys, trainers, and horses that rise from humble beginnings to achieve success at the highest levels of the sport. Few such stories can compare with that of the remarkable gelding Lava Man, who went from claimer to Hall of Famer to dominate California horse racing for much of…

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…

One of horse racing's biggest events runs this weekend - the Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar Racetrack. Our ponies ace has you covered with a full breakdown of the field and her trifecta in our Breeder's Cup picks and predictions. Breeders' Cup weekend is upon us with a stacked card kicking things off Friday, featuring the top fillies and mares,…

If you bet $5 on the picks for the 2021 TVG Pacific Classic from Bookies.com handicapper Adam Thompson in August, your account would be $232 fatter. That's just the latest in a string of horse racing betting success for Thompson, who won $480 on a $10 wager at the 2021 Preakness Stakes and hit the exacta at the Belmont Stakes, taking $75 on a $10…

Mind Control after the 2021 G2 John A. Nerud, his most recent win on the NYRA circuit (Susie Raisher) By Ryan Martin - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables' dual Grade 1-winner Mind Control will attempt to go out on top when he takes on a field consisting of three other Grade 1 winners in Saturday's Grade 1,…

Editor's note: An earlier version of this report included Giacomo among the Kentucky Derby winners who never had another win. Giacomo won the San Diego Handicap in 2006. The Kentucky Derby is the Holy Grail of racing, and this is the time of year when the frenzy peaks. The preps are over, the future bets are down, and the obsessive overanalyzing is…

Olympiad isn't a born homewrecker, but if there is one sleeper in the 2022 Breeders' Cup Classic field, it's he. William Mott's training style is careful, as evidenced by the extremely judicious campaign that has brought the four-year-old grandson of Medaglia d'Oro to Keeneland this Saturday. Mott has not often let this athlete race outside…

The feature race of the Breeders' Cup comes in the form of the G1 Breeders' Cup Classic. The race headlines a stunning second day of racing at Keeneland in 2022, as the world's best horses on the dirt compete over 1 ¼ miles for their share of the $6 million purse. When: Saturday, November 52022 Where: Keeneland, Lexington How To Watch: NBC…

The son of Not This Time finally chose a time and a place for his first Grade 1 victory, Saturday's $1.25 million Run Happy Travers Stakes at Saratoga. With his convincing five-length closing cruise over Cyberknife, Zandon and Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Rich Strike, the Jim Dwyer (G2) victor immediately shot to the top of a three-year-old male…

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…

In the latest chapter of his widely acclaimed series recalling his personal favorites, Jay Hovdey tells the story of an unsung hero who ran in four different races in four years at the Breeders' Cup Let's hear it for the unsung heroes. The anonymous donor. The unnamed benefactor. The Good Samaritan who was first to help at the scene of the crash,…

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…

Dubai World Cup day is Saturday, March 25, and it's an event that racing fans from around the globe look forward to each spring, with $29 million up for grabs across eight races that attract some of the best Thoroughbreds worldwide. Like the Breeders' Cup World Championships, Dubai World Cup races have varied distances, surfaces and purse value.…

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…

Flightline can race into equine immortality if he does what most people expect him to do in the Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday. If ever there was a horse to take the breath away, this is it. Talked about in America as perhaps the best since Secretariat, the John Sadler-trained colt is unbeaten in five starts and produced an incredible…

Winchell Thoroughbreds' Epicenter - born and raised in Bowling Green, Ky. - will attempt to cement his status as North America's best 3-year-old and stake a claim as Horse of the Year in Saturday's $6 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland Race Course. Epicenter is the 5-1 second choice in the morning line behind unbeaten sensation…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - First the dark of night lifted, then the thick mist of a dense fog, which reduced the racehorses to ghostlike silhouettes on Thursday morning, also lifted. All clear, we are set for takeoff. It's perhaps a measure of a horse's mystique when his rival connections are more effusive than his own trainer is. Or maybe John Sadler just…

Breeders' Cup Notebook: A Look-In at Classic Contenders (Epicenter on Thursday morning at Keeneland / All Photos by Coady Photography) From the Breeders' Cup Media Team: Classic Look-In: Epicenter - Winchell Thoroughbreds' Epicenter continues to thrive in his training as he had another strong gallop Thursday morning under Roberto Howell leading…

The 39th running of the Grade 1, $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic may be talked about for years if the top contenders repeat their best efforts to date, with six of the eight horses entering the race off wins at the top level. None was more impressive than the undefeated Flightline, a lightly raced colt who won the Grade 1 Pacific Classic Stakes…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The gates open on Saturday for the Breeders' Cup Classic, with the top online racebooks and sportsbooks giving five horses odds of 14-1 or shorter to win. Flightline 4-9 (-225) Epicenter 11-2 (+550) Life Is Good 7-1 (+700) Taiba 8-1 (+800) Olympiad 14-1 (+1400) Hot Rod Charlie 25-1 (+2500) Cyberknife 33-1 (+3300) Rich Strike…

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…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- West Point Thoroughbreds, Scarlet Oak Racing and Titletown Racing Stable's Dontlookbackatall will seek to parlay a promising career debut into stakes company when targeting next Saturday's Grade 3, $150000 Matron for 2-year-olds fillies going six furlongs on the turf at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. Trained by Christophe…

At80-1, Rich Strike was not the longest shot ever to win the Kentucky Derby, buthe was the one whose shocking victory resonated the fastest. Theonly bigger betting surprise to win the race was Donerail, who carried odds of91-1 in 1913. Not only was that before the internet made communications fasterthan the blink of an eye, it was more than a…

In the days leading up to the 38th Breeders' Cup at Del Mar in California, usracing.com is publishing profiles of the horses in the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic (Saturday, Nov. 6). Profiles will be updated followed the post-position draw on Monday, Nov. 1. By Jenny Kellner Last two times out, Max Player proved he's not a horse to be overlooked…

It's 2-year-old showcase weekend at Saratoga and Del Mar, with top trainers sending out what they hope will turn into promising contenders for the 2022 Triple Crown. Throw in the $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) and the $600000 Flower Bowl Invitational (G1), a pair of Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In'' races the Spa, plus a $1 million race at…

Quickquestion. What was Rich Strike's most impressive race? Not-so-quickpause. Take away the trappings of the Kentucky Derby, of the 80-1 odds thatmade Rich Strike the second longest shot in the race's pari-mutuel history towin it. "That'sa good question," trainer Eric Reed said this week at Churchill Downs, where hehas been preparing his growing…

channel to stay up to date on the latest in marketing See our Belmont Park free horse racing tips this Saturday as the New York track stages an 11-race card that is spearheaded by the Grade One Woodward Stakes. Plus, you can snap-up a stack of free horse racing bets to use on the action at Belmont Park this weekend. LIFE IS GOOD is a racehorse…

Rich Strike, the upset winner of the Kentucky Derby earlier this year, will face older horses for the first time in Saturday's $500000 Lukas Classic at Churchill Downs. The 80-1 shot who shocked the world with his rally to win the Run for the Roses will make his first start at Churchill Downs since the first Saturday in May. In his two races…

Bet with the Racing Dudes TODAY using our friends at BetPTC and get a $200 new member bonus! Enter promo code DUDES! WinStar Farm and CHC Inc.'s multiple Grade 1-winner and $4-million earner Life Is Good headlines Saturday's 69th running of the Grade 1, $500000 Woodward at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. This year's edition of the prestigious…

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - WinStar Farm and CHC Inc.'s multiple Grade 1-winner and $4-million earner Life Is Good headlines Saturday's 69th running of the Grade 1, $500000 Woodward at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. This year's edition of the prestigious nine-furlong test for 3-year-olds and upward will mark its first running at Aqueduct Racetrack…

Life Is Good is expected to be an overwhelming favorite in the Grade 1, $500000 Woodward, which will be run on Saturday as part of the Belmont at the Big A meeting. With eight victories in 10 career starts, Life Is Good will race the 1 1/8-mile distance around two turns at Aqueduct. Todd Pletcher is the only trainer in the field with a victory in…

G2 Lukas Classic Preview: Rich Strike Could Hit It Big Again This Saturday (Rich Strike / Photo by Holly M. Smith) From the Churchill Downs Media Team: Saturday's G2, $500000 Lukas Classic is shaping up to be one of the more competitive races in North America this year. Grade I winners Happy Saver and Hot Rod Charlie are among the nominated…

Seventy years ago this week, 50000 fans congregated at Hollywood Park to witness what must be considered among the finest assemblages of Thoroughbred accomplishment for any race of that era, and to this day certainly one of the best of all time. That a race of such caliber would be held in December is unusual by today's standards and was even more…

The fight for the top of the podium in the older male division was thought to have been between the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile champion Life Is Good and the multiple graded-stakes-winning Olympiad in Saturday's 95th running of the Grade 1, $1 million Whitney. But CHC Inc. and WinStar Farm's Life Is Good, the esteemed 4-year-old son of Into…

The biggest weekend of the Belmont Park fall meet's calendar is upon us this Saturday, September 28, 2019. This year's theme is "quality over quantity" because although the field sizes might be small, the talent level is top-notch. Several high-end horses will enter the gates in hopes of showing enough to convince their connections to head to…

The winner of the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) and Pegasus World Cup (G1), Life Is Good has drawn the outside post of a talented field of six older males entered in Saturday's $1000000 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga. A disappointing fourth in the Dubai World Cup in March, the son of Into Mischief returned to his winning ways last time, easily…

Unless Life Is Good runs off the screen in the Oct. 1 Woodward (G1) at Aqueduct and earns an eye-popping speed figure, the expectation is that Flightline's price in the Nov. 5 Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) at Keeneland will mirror his closing odds in Pool 2 of the Breeders' Cup Classic Future Wager held over Labor Day weekend. That being 4-5, or…

Joe Bravo / 14 Edwin Maldonado / 13 TRAINERS / WINS Bob Baffert / 14 Philip D'Amato / 13 Doug O'Neill / 13 Peter Miller / 12 Jonathan Wong / 12 Saturday • $1 million Grade I Pacific Classic, 3-year-olds and up, 1¼ miles • $300000 Grade II Del Mar Handicap, 3-year-olds and up, 1-3/8 miles (turf) • $300000 Grade II Del Mar Mile, 3-year-olds and up, 1…

The Racing Dudes preview and give picks for the 2022 $1 million TVG Pacific Classic (G1) at Del Mar, a Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" for the 2022 Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). Then the Dudes give rapid-fire selections for the three remaining Breeders' Cup Challenge Series races this weekend at Del Mar and Saratoga. Featuring your resident Racing…

Join our channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Saturday's Jockey Club Gold Cup 2022 will see a strong field of eight runners battle it out for the lucrative $1.25m purse at Saratoga, while there is also an added carrot for connections with this being a'win and you're in' Breeders' Cup race - meaning the winner will book their place…

The Jockey Club Gold Cup 2022 will provide horse racing fans with some more Breeders' Cup clues ahead of Saturday's $1.25m Grade 1 at Saratoga as the racing summer at the New York track draws to a close. It's another'Win and You're In' Breeders' Cup contest so the successful horse this weekend will also book their ticket to Keeneland on November…

Change. Sometimes we fear it, and sometimes we embrace it. President Bill Clinton once said that "the price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change." Few major races have had as much change in their history as the Jockey Club Gold Cup. One of those changes began last year with the race moving to the final weekend of the…

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Steve Asmussen fielded a question Sunday morning asking for an example of a 3-year-old he's trained who experienced aftereffects later in the season from having weathered the grueling Kentucky Derby prep season and Triple Crown series. He laughed and said, "Every single one of them that wasn't Curlin or Gun Runner." Judging from…

In this week's edition of the Racing Roundtable, James Scully, Kellie Reilly, and Vance Hanson recap the Whitney and address the future of two star mares. James Scully: Life Is Good showed his terrific turn of foot from the starting gate, and speed can play favorably at Keeneland in the fall, but the Whitney reinforced concerns surrounding the 1…