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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…

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…

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…

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…

According to Churchill Downs' Mike Battaglia's opening odds, thoroughbred contender Cyberknife is a 20-1 shot for Saturday's Kentucky Derby. Even if he doesn't win, his owner deserves a bouquet of roses or at least a glass of champagne. You see, Al Gold had more important things on his mind when he named his Chestnut colt. The prostate cancer he…

The 2022 Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) at Saratoga offers a purse of $600000. It is the premier local prep for the Travers Stakes (G1), The Spa's flagship race for three-year-old dirt routers. Though the 2022 Jim Dandy only drew a field of five horses, the group is long on talent. The second- and third-place finishers in the Kentucky Derby (G1), Epicenter…

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…

During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Singapore Pools outlets were to the dismay of some punters. But since the easing of Covid-19 measures, it seems punters have had no issues resuming their betting routine. According to the Tote Board, S$9.2 billion was spent on lotteries and sports betting in the financial year ending Mar 2022. This…

The last time the North America Cup and Meadowlands Pace winners met in a final of the Delvin Miller Adios, the harness racing contest produced, in the words of track announcer Roger Huston, "an epic battle." It was in 2017, and North America Cup Champion Fear The Dragon used a lengthy first-over march to overtake pacesetting Meadowlands Pace champ…

A total of S$9.2 billion was wagered on lotteries and sports in the Tote Board's last financial year, which ended in March 2022 -- the largest sum placed on such bets in the past decade. This was in comparison to some S$6.6 billion spent on bets in the previous financial year that ended March 2021. The year-on-year increase was about 40 per…

The calendar has turned to December with plenty of other sports going on (including World Cup soccer added to the mix), but Team Tuley continues to look for value at tracks from coast to coast. I'm joined by my regular contributors Ed Sehon (aka Mr. Ed from his Saratoga and Keeneland columns here at VSiN.com/horse-racing/) and Rampart race and…

Trainer Chad Brown won four consecutive graded stakes on the Haskell Stakes undercard to tie a record set by Todd Pletcher when Adhamo defeated stablemate Tribhuvan and eight other top turf runners in the Grade 1, $600000 United Nations Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth Park. Pletcher won five races on the 2016 Haskell card but not four straight…

SARATOGA SPRINGS - How much of a future is there for Mo Strike? That's the question facing Brad Cox, the trainer of the 3 1/2-length winner of the 107th running of Saratoga's Grade II Sanford Stakes. The contest for 2-year-olds drew a field 12, with most of them making their second career starts. Mo Strike, fresh from a maiden win at Churchill…

A field of eleven 3-year-olds are scheduled to break from the gate this Monday, Nov. 21, in the $250000 Steel Valley Sprint at Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Valley Race Course in Youngstown, Ohio. Trainer Guadalupe Preciado sends out Grade 2 Gallant Bob winner Scaramouche as the lukewarm 3-1 favorite in the race. The Munnings gelding is sitting on a…

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…

The 154 running of the Belmont Stakes will take place Saturday at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. While the Triple Crown won't be on the line, Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike will be part of the eight-horse field. Post time for the race is set for approximately 6:49 p.m. In last year's edition of the race, favorite Essential Quality came in…

The Pegasus World Cup, to be run at a distance of 1 1/8 miles, drew a field befitting its purse by attracting just about every major handicap division horse still in training. The race is headlined by Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) champion Accelerate, who comes in riding high and looking nearly unbeatable on the strength of a four-race winning streak…

Race 14: 1 1/8th (Dirt), Curlin Florida Derby (G1), Purse $1 million, 3 (Saturday) Named for that celebrated Steve Asmussen runner, the Curlin Florida Derby is a Grade 1 staple on the Kentucky Derby Trail, offering "Points" of 100-40-20-10 in that order to the top 4 finishers. The race continues to be dominated by trainer Todd Pletcher, who has won…

Still sorting out just what went wrong, Keeneland racingofficials had to correct an embarrassing mistake in the results of the fifthrace on opening day Friday - but not before an untold amount of money was paidinto the wrong hands. "They really haven't figured it out," Keeneland vice presidentof racing Gatewood Bell told Horse Racing Nation.…

Oaklawn Park has become a favorite meet for horsemen and horseplayers alike. The all dirt meet includes massive purses and Kentucky Derby prep races. Oaklawn Park will host 4 Kentucky Derby points races. Early in the meet the Smarty Jones Stakes and the Southwest Stakes will offer points on a 10-4-2-1 scale. Very rarely do these races have…

Like everyone else, I downloaded the Breeders' Cup past performances the moment they were available Monday night. My urgency was driven by a desire to see by how large a margin my prediction model, Equus, would favor Flightline in the Classic. Well, the model has spoken, and its opinions of three of Saturday's dirt matchups come with some surprises…

While the undefeated, unchallenged 4-year-old colt Flightline may be drawing the majority of the headlines for this year's Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland, there are, as always, a number of other compelling stories hidden amongst this year's contenders. Some of those listed below are race favorites; others may well offer the longest…

This doesn't happen. Horses at odds of nearly 81-1 don't win the Kentucky Derby. Jockeys who have never won any big stakes race of any kind don't win the Kentucky Derby. Owners with fewer than 10 career wins don't win the Kentucky Derby. Rich Strike and his connections disagree with those sentiments. One of the biggest upsets in racing history…

The Alcibiades Stakes (G1), a 1 1/16-mile race for juvenile fillies, is the traditional opening-day feature of the Keeneland fall meet. The spoils of the race on Friday, October 7 are rich: a $500000 purse, as well as an expenses-paid bid to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. Since Keeneland hosts the Breeders' Cup this year, the field was well…

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…

With undefeated phenom Flightline (Tapit) and sophomore star Epicenter (Not This Time) headlining a respectably deep GI Breeders' Cup Classic, one oft-repeated quip is that 2022 is turning out to be "a tough year to have a good horse" aiming for a divisional championship. Yet a few rungs farther down the class ladder-more than a few, in truth-a…

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Well Spring Stable's Leave No Trace skipped all the steps between being the winner of a maiden race to being a Grade I winning filly when she galloped home the winner of Saratoga's Sunday feature, the $300000 Spinaway Stakes. Trainer Phil Serpe noted Leave No Trace had "grown every six inches every way since we left Belmont Park.…

Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) Executive Director Michael Freimuth joins Mike Hydeck to give an update on plans to bring sports betting to the XL Center. What will it look like once complete and why is the project behind schedule? Mike Hydeck: Sports betting in Connecticut launched almost a year ago now and in the first six months of…

With complicated, ever-changing win rates and different types of bets, it can be difficult to figure out how horse racing bets actually work. So, how do you decide which horse to wager on and calculate how much you could win? All is revealed in this simple guide to understanding horse betting odds. What is pari-mutuel betting? In the U.S., most…