Voice of Parx offers insight on Saturday stakes

The premier day of racing in the Delaware Valley is coming up on Saturday, September 23 at Parx. The Pennsylvania Derby Day card features ten stakes, five of which are graded. Many of the best jockeys in the country are coming in for a share of over four million dollars in purses. Trainers on the card include Pletcher, Cox, Asmussen, Baffert and…

For the seventh year in a row, America's Best Racing is challenging some of the brightest minds in horse betting to come up with their top three picks for key races every weekend leading up to the 2023 Triple Crown and then continuing through the 2023 Breeders' Cup World Championships. The handicappers face off in what we like to call the "Big Race…

The Pennsylvania Derby is the big US horse race this weekend as a decent field do battle for the $1m purse. It's a prize that trainer Bob Baffert also has a top record in - winning the race four times since 2014 and he's another leading chance in 2023 with Reincarnate. This Saturday's Pennsylvania Derby at Parx racetrack sees a field of 11 runners…

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer Brad Cox is taking three swings at the Grade II Jim Dandy on Saturday. The reigning 2-year-old male champion will be trying to strike him out. And trainer Steve Asmussen also has a dangerous horse entered. That's it. That's the entire field, but as Cox said on Friday morning, "Short field, but it's a Grade I [caliber]…

The eyes of the racing world on this September Saturday will be turned to a place that usually gets virtually no national attention: the day's best card, and the day's biggest races, are at Parx Racing, just outside of Philadelphia. With a staggering ten stakes races on a 13-race program, this is the biggest day of the year for Thoroughbred racing…

The Pennsylvania Derby is the big feature horse race this Saturday at Parx racetrack as a field of 11 do battle in the Grade 1 contest for a purse of a cool $1m. We take a look at who is the Penn Derby favorite, the latest betting and give you our pick on the weekend highlight. Run over 1m 1f and for 3 year-olds, the Pennsylvania Derby is run at…

The TwinSpires Jury - Kellie Reilly, Vance Hanson, and Ashley Anderson - this week takes a look at Saturday's Pennsylvania Derby Day card and the "Downs After Dark" program at Churchill Downs for the weekend's best plays. Kellie Reilly: In an open-looking Gallant Bob (G2) at Parx on Saturday, #8 Witty (12-1) makes sense, especially at the price.…

When a heavy favorite starts at a lower price than the horse that beat him in their previous meeting, the latter is usually a value play. This pattern often happens in big stakes races where bettors favor fan favorites, even if they do not earn their role as favorite. In the Grade 1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby on Saturday, Taiba starts as the…

For Pennsylvania horse racing fans, this is the ultimate exacta. The synergy between Parx Casino and its horse-racing entity built Saturday's record-setting showcase. Parx Racing, bolstered by slot money from the on-site casino, offers more than $4.1 million in purses, dwarfing the entire thoroughbred horse-racing industry. Parx unfolds two $1…

Cyberknife, shown winning the Arkansas Derby, runs in Saturday's $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing. Coady Photography, courtesy of Oaklawn Park Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Saturday's Pennsylvania Derby brings together many of the top U.S. 3-year-olds just hours after a few of the top prospects for next year's European Classics kick off the…

BENSALEM, PA - Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert will look to win the $1 million, Grade 1 betPARX Pennsylvania Derby for a record fourth time Saturday when Zedan Racing Stables' Taiba leads a field of 11 3-year-olds in the signature event of the season at Parx Racing. The 1/18-mile Pennsylvania Derby is the 12th race on the 13-race card with a…

BradCox admitted he was not sure how Cyberknife and Tawny Port will like - or notlike - the main track at Parx Racing, where they will run Saturday in the Grade1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby. "It'skind of tough," Cox said this week in the office at his Churchill Downs barn. "Youprobably need to breeze them over it a time or two to really, really…

Join our channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The Pennsylvania Derby has 11 horses engaged to run in Saturday's $1m Grade One Parx contest, with the likes of Taiba, Cyberknife and Skippylongstocking three of the star names entered. Run over 1m 1f and for 3 year-olds, the Pennsylvania Derby is run at Parx racetrack. ��Date: Saturday…

Join our channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The Pennsylvania Derby build-up is hotting-up by the day and you can watch below what leading trainer Brad Cox has to say about his big entries Cyberknife and Tawny Port. Run over 1m 1f and for 3 year-olds, the Pennsylvania Derby is run at Parx racetrack. ��Date: Saturday September 24,…

Tawny Port schools in the paddock at Churchill Downs Saturday's Grade 1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby drew a strong field of 10 including six who participated in the Kentucky Derby this spring. Among that group, Cyberknife must be mentioned first as he rebounded off an 18th place Derby effort to win both the Grade 3 Matt Winn Stakes and Grade 1…

Join our channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The Pennsylvania Derby 2022 one of the big US horse racing highlights this Saturday and at this stage we've a possible field of 11 runners chasing the $1m purse at Parx Racing. Two of the leading fancies - Cyberknife and Taiba - are also half-brothers, so who will come out in the battle…

The $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing on Saturday attracted six runners from the Kentucky Derby in field of 11 that includes four Grade 1 winners. The 1 1/8-mile Penn Derby is the final Grade 1 stakes race restricted to 3-year-olds that is run around two turns. The seven-furlong Malibu Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita on Dec. 26 is the final…

On Saturday at Parx Racing, 11 talented 3-year-old Thoroughbreds will square off going 1 1/8 miles in the $1 million, Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby. The Pennsylvania Derby isn't technically part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series, but there's no denying the Pennsylvania Derby ranks as a key steppingstone toward the Grade 1 Longines Breeders' Cup…

BENSALEM, Pa.- Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert will look to win the $1 million, Grade 1 betPARX Pennsylvania Derby for a record fourth time Saturday when Zedan Racing Stables' Taiba leads a top field of 11 3-year-olds in the signature event of the season at Parx Racing. The 1/18-mile Pennsylvania Derby is the 12th race on the 13-race card that…

BENSALEM, Pa.- Nominations are set for the Grade 1, $1 million betPARX Pennsylvania Derby with as many as 28 3-year-olds under consideration for the 42nd renewal of the 1 1/8-mile event Saturday, Sept. 24 at Parx Racing. The betPARX Pennsylvania Derby anchors a 10-stakes program that also co-features the Grade 1, $ million Cotillion for 3-year-old…

Nominations are set for the Grade 1, $1 million betPARX Pennsylvania Derby with as many as 28 3-year-olds under consideration for the 42nd renewal of the 1 1/8-mile event Saturday, Sept. 24 at Parx Racing in Bensalem, Penn. The betPARX Pennsylvania Derby anchors a 10-stakes program that also co-features the Grade 1, $ million Cotillion for…

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…

Eight days after the Triple Crown ended, the horse that was officially "17th" in the Kentucky Derby emerged from his Monmouth Park stall and ran for the first time since that bizarre first Saturday in May. On paper, Maximum Security did not look as if he could lose the Pegasus Stakes. His odds were 1-20 (bet $20 to win $1). The colt that crossed…

The 2023 Pennsylvania Derby, to be run Saturday at Parx Racing, features a large group of contenders with one final chance to have a breakthrough victory in the 3-year-old division, while securing a path to the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita in November. Many of the country's top trainers will have runners in the starting gate at the Bensalem,…