Mr. Ed's Keeneland Play of the Day 10/8

The SEC Championship Game matchup is set, y'all! We're getting SEC West champion Alabama taking on SEC East champion Georgia after both the Tide and Bulldogs clinched their spots in Atlanta on Saturday. While Alabama clinched its own spot by thumping Kentucky, Georgia locked up its spot before it even set foot on the field against Ole Miss. Mizzou…

City SC, the upstart St. Louis entry in Major League Soccer, has had a much better performance in the standings than in conventional television ratings. The expansion club miraculously won the Western Division title, at odds as high as 50-1 at the area's legal sportsbooks, and all its matches were streamed on Apple TV platforms. That company does…

New York, NY - Simplebet, the global technology leader in micro-betting, will unveil its golf markets at the LIV Golf Chicago event beginning Friday, September 22. The course at Rich Harvest Farms in Chicago will play host to a field of 48 of the world's best golfers, marking the first event where Simplebet will create micro-betting markets for a…

Casual horse racing fans watching Saturday's Kentucky Derby might download a phone app to bet on the nation's marquee race while they watch the nationally televised broadcast. A few others may stop into their local off-track betting parlor to lay down a wager. But for a group of local horseplayers, the back patio at a Prospect Heights sports…

Keeneland Barn Notes: Blazing Sevens Works (Blazing Sevens / Photos by Coady Photography) From the Keeneland Media Team: TOYOTA BLUE GRASS THIRD-PLACE FINISHER BLAZING SEVENS WORKS HALF-MILE IN:48.60 Rodeo Creek Racing's Blazing Sevens, third in the Toyota Blue Grass (G1) on April 8 in his most recent start, worked a half-mile on his own in:48.60…

Keeneland Barn Notes: Key of Life May Be "Key" to Sunday's G2 Beaumont (Key of Life / Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the Keeneland Media Team: EVENLY MATCHED FIELD OF SEVEN ENTERED FOR SUNDAY'S BEAUMONT PRESENTED BY KEENELAND SELECT An evenly matched field of seven 3-year-old fillies was entered Thursday for Sunday's 38 running of the $400000…

G3 Sham Stakes Preview: Spun Intended Could Spell Trouble From the Santa Anita Media Team: In what appears to be a David vs. Goliath scenario at Santa Anita, trainer Mark Glatt's Spun Intended will take on no less than four Bob Baffert Derby hopefuls among a field of six sophomores in Sunday's Grade III, $100000 Sham Stakes at one mile. Named for…

The Maryland Terrapins and the NC State Wolfpack will square off in one of the quirkier bowl games, the Duke's Mayo Bowl on Friday afternoon. It's time to continue our college football odds series with a Maryland-NC State prediction and pick. Maryland finished their regular season at 7-5, their second straight bowl appearance under head coach Mike…

Churchill Downs' Barn Notes: Mr Wireless Was Well Connected On Friday (Mr Wireless / Coady Photography) From the Churchill Downs Media Team: It was a sentimental win Friday at Churchill Downs for Jon Lapczenski and JIL Stable's Mr. Wireless. Just days before his allowance victory, his co-owner/breeder John Kerber passed away at age 86. Kerber, who…

Welcome to our regularly scheduled "Team Tuley's Thoroughbred Takes" Saturday column, though it's extra-special this week as our crew is looking at the 9 Breeders' Cup races at Keeneland. "Future Stars Friday" didn't go too well for our crew overall, though I did have #4 Forte as my top pick in the BC Juvenile, paying $12.04 to Win as he upset…

Pletcher-trainee Atomically out for a breeze at Keeneland Wednesday morning. Coady Photography Breeders' Cup Notes/Edited LEXINGTON, Ky.-Trainer Todd Pletcher's 12 Breeders' Cup victories have come from nine races, but one race missing from that resume is the NetJets Juvenile Fillies (G1). He will have two chances to alter that statistic Friday…

The NBA today announced that all Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92 games - featuring French star and top 2023 NBA Draft prospect Victor Wembanyama - will be available for free on the new NBA App throughout the 2022-23 LNB Betclic ELITE regular season and playoffs. The live streams will debut on Saturday, Oct. 29, when the Metropolitans 92 play JL…

NBC Sports analyst Matthew Berry will also be joining nVenue's advisory team to advance the micro-betting service, the company announced. DALLAS - Dallas-based sports data analytics startup nVenue announced Thursday it has launched its own NFL "micro-betting" markets utilizing its NextPlayLive API technology. nVenue provides these micro-betting…

Note: In anticipation of his upcoming comprehensive coverage of the Breeders' Cup World Championship (Friday-Saturday, Nov. 4 and 5 at Keeneland), regular Team Tuley's Thoroughbred Takes member and VSiN handicapper Ed Sehon (aka Mr. Ed) will share his Play of the Day throughout the regular Keeneland fall meeting. Mr. Ed's Keeneland Play of the Day…

Note: In anticipation of his upcoming comprehensive coverage of the Breeders' Cup World Championship (Friday-Saturday, Nov. 4 and 5 at Keeneland), regular Team Tuley's Thoroughbred Takes member and VSiN handicapper Ed Sehon (aka Mr. Ed) will share his Play of the Day throughout the regular Keeneland fall meeting. Mr. Ed's Keeneland Play of the Day…

Editor's Note: In anticipation of his upcoming comprehensive coverage of the Breeders' Cup (Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4 and 5, at Keeneland), regular "Team Tuley's Thoroughbred Takes" contributor and VSiN.com handicapper Ed Sehon (aka Mr. Ed) will share his Play of the Day throughout the regular Keeneland meeting. Mr. Ed's Keeneland Play of the Day…

Churchill Downs' Barn Notes: Echo Zulu Returns in Saturday's G3 Dogwood Stakes (Echo Zulu / Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the Churhcill Downs Media Team: L and N Racing and Winchell Thoroughbreds' three-time Grade I-winning filly Echo Zulu will make her first start since finishing fourth in this year's $1.25 million Longines Kentucky Oaks (Grade…

Keeneland Barn Notes: Blue Grass Winner Zandon Zooms in Pre-Derby Work (Zandon in his work at Keeneland / Coady Photography) From the Keeneland Media Team: TOYOTA BLUE GRASS WINNER ZANDON TUNES UP FOR KENTUCKY DERBY WITH KEENELAND WORK Jeff Drown's Zandon, winner of Keeneland's $1 million Toyota Blue Grass (G1) on April 9, worked 4 furlongs…

Keeneland Barn Notes: Champ Letruska Returns to Regular Work (Letruska / Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the Keeneland Media Team: CHAMPION LETRUSKA RETURNS TO KEENELAND WORK TAB St. George Stable's Letruska, who made Keeneland her main base of operations during an Eclipse Award-winning campaign in 2021, worked 5 furlongs in 1:02.40 over a fast…

The emotion is palpable in Jason Loutsch's voice whenever he talks about the possibility of standing in a Breeders' Cup winner's circle celebrating one of Albaugh Family Stables' own, but amends himself slightly when asked about the venture earning its first triumph in the World Championships. While the Albaugh blue and white silks have yet to…

Bell's the One Returns in Saturday's G2 TCA Stakes at Keeneland (Bell's the One / Coady Photography) From the Keeneland Media Team: Trainer Cipriano Contrereas and Andrew Knapczyk's Inthemidstofbiz will face five other fillies and mares as she goes for a repeat victory in the 41 running of the $250000 Thoroughbred Club of America (G2) Saturday…

War of Will back in the winner's circle … The Haskell is coming, the Haskell is coming … The Brad and Flo show at Indiana Grand … Belmont's closing weekend … Tiz the Law resumes training … racist post from Kentucky horseman … A look at some news, notes, quotes and anecdotes from the world of horse racing this week, with a peek ahead. Where there's…

The 1993 San Francisco Giants are about to get company. The last year before MLB expanded the playoffs to include the divisional series round is also the last year to produce a truly great team that didn't make the playoffs. The 103-win Giants of 1993 hold the record for winning the most regular-season games without making the postseason, and in…

The inaugural PFL Europe season roster features 32 fighters from 14 countries competing across 4 weight divisions in the PFL SmartCage PFL Europe features the best mixed martial artists from across Europe including Dakota Ditcheva (7-0), Simeon Powell (7-0), Ali Taleb (8-0), Connor Hughes (6-0) Dom Wooding (9-5), Francesco Nuzzi (9-1) and Frans…