#With Anticipation

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…

Well, we've finally arrived at my final blog of 2022. Have you had enough of racing yet this festive period? Of course not! Let's kick off 2023 as we ended 2022, with more superb sport headlined by Cheltenham's New Year's Day fixture. The first horse I'm pinning my hopes on to get the new year off to a flyer is SECRET REPRIEVE in the AIS Handicap…

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Wit, who races for the Repole, St. Elias and Gainsway Stables, followed his usual racing pattern of coming from off the pace when he took the trophy in the Spa's $135000 Better Talk Now Sunday afternoon at Saratoga Race Course. With Jose Ortiz in the saddle for Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher, the colt by Practical Joke…

Ahead of Arsenal's Europa League game away against Bodo/Glimt in October, The Athletic asked the locals about Odegaard's standing in Norway and the hopes that the country has for him. To one side of the airport is the Norwegian Sea. The other hosts the snow-topped mountains of the Arctic Circle. This is Bodo, a northern Norwegian town of 55000…

Veteran UFC welterweight Neil Magny is predicting that he scores a knockout win over Gilbert Burns at UFC 283. Magny will travel to Rio de Janeiro and take on Burns in enemy territory. For Magny, this is a massive opportunity for him to jump into the top five of the UFC welterweight division by beating an absolute stud in Burns. On paper, Burns…

Determinedly makes his first try against dirt stakes horses in the $100000 Gun Runner Stakes at Fair Grounds on Monday after an impressive maiden win at Churchill Downs. He does offer a few questions, but he might present a fair enough price for bettors. Here is a more detailed explanation of why Determinedly is the selection plus an idea for a…

On Dec. 26, 2021, Fair Grounds hosted the inaugural running of the $100000 Gun Runner Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile qualifier on the Road to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve. The winner was Epicenter, and the fifth-place finisher was Rich Strike; the following spring, Rich Strike and Epicenter ran 1-2 in the Kentucky Derby. The second…

Minnesota has only made the playoffs once since 2005, but it has a chance to clinch a berth when it faces the Clippers in the 2022 NBA playoffs play-in tournament on Tuesday night. The Timberwolves posted a winning record for the second time in 17 seasons, while the Clippers are trying to build on last season's trip to the Western Conference…

Fair Grounds' Barn Notes: Jace's Road Will Return in Dec. 26 Gun Runner Stakes (The Alys Look will run in the Untappable Stakes / Hodges Photo & Courtesy of the Fair Grounds) From the Fair Grounds Media Team: West Point Thoroughbreds and Albaugh Family Stables' Jace's Road, who finished a good third in the Iroquois (G3) at Churchill Downs two…

The Indianapolis Colts (4-8-1) will visit the Minnesota Vikings (10-3) in a Saturday afternoon affair. Indianapolis leads the all-time series 18-7-1. Meanwhile, the contests between these clubs have been lopsided in recent memory. The Colts have won the last six games against Minnesota, while the last Vikings win against Indianapolis came in 1997.…

Pinatubo, last year's unbeaten champion two-year-old, lines up for today's Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket with the world watching on to see what he will produce. During his two-year-old year, which peaked with his demolition of the opposition in the Group 1 National Stakes at the Curragh in September, Pinatubo came within touching distance of…

Sharp Aza Tack ran off to a 7 1/4-length victory in the Tyro Stakes at Monmouth on July 30. Bill Denver/EQUI-PHOTO Breeders' Cup Notes/Edited LEXINGTON, Ky.-R3 Racing's Juvenile Turf Sprint contender Sharp Aza Tack galloped 1 1/8 m over Keeneland's all-weather training track Wednesday morning with exercise rider Connor Murray aboard. The…

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…

McLean's Selections for Breeders' Cup Friday - Nov. 4 (Keeneland this Fall / All Photos by Coady Photography) Stats Are Completely Updated Well, it is upon us. Another Breeders' Cup. Another day of Championship racing. Another wonderful day to celebrate the breed, the horses, all those connected, and, of course remember the brilliance and…

Fifty-two years this past August, my father became the Publisher of The Richmond Daily Register which was the name of the local paper in 1970 and moved our family to Richmond, Kentucky. Next, my father became a proud owner of a few thoroughbred mares, and I was introduced to horse racing. For most, it is either love at first sight or not really…

Churchill Downs' Newsstand: Jace's Road Returns in Sunday's G3 Street Sense Stakes (Trainer Brad Cox conditions Jace's Road / Photos by Holly M. Smith) From the Churhcill Downs Media Team: Albaugh Family Stables and West Point Thoroughbreds' Jace's Road, an impressive debut winner and recent third-place finisher in the $300000 Iroquois Stakes…

Courvoisier, shown winning the Jerome Sakes, returns for Saturday's Grade III Withers at Aqueduct, a Kentucky Derby prep. Photo by Chelsey Durand, courtesy of New York Racing Association Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Three official Kentucky Derby prep races top the U.S. weekend horse racing schedule while Hot Rod Charlie, one of last year's Triple Crown…

The most promising two-year-olds in the country will stretch out to two turns on Saturday for the Breeders' Futurity (G1) at Keeneland! The 1 1/16-mile race offers a $600000 purse and an automatic berth to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile for the winner, and an overflow field has lined up. A maximum of 14 horses can run, though the field also contains…

The National League's fourth seed and highest-ranked wild card, the New York Mets, play host to the fifth-seeded San Diego Padres in one of Major League Baseball's four best-of-three wild-card series that begin Friday. The Mets are a large -194 favorites to advance, per the series price offered at FanDuel, with the Padres getting back odds…

Like its companion race for 2-year-old turf fillies the day before, the $200000, Grade 3 Pilgrim Stakes has been a productive prep race for the Breeders' Cup and offers the winner an expenses-paid "Win and You're In" berth in the World Championships. The Grade 2 Pilgrim is a 1 1/16-mile grass race for 2-year-olds Sunday at the Belmont at The Big…

Life Is Good, seen winning the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park in January, warms up for the Breeders' Cup Classic in Saturday's Grade I Woodward at Aqueduct. Photo courtesy of Katsumi Saito Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Seven Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" races, from New York through Kentucky and on to California highlight the weekend U.S.…

With the flat season concluding at Ascot's prestigious British Champions Day back in October, the National Hunt Racing season has once again taken centre stage and it was fantastic to finally see racegoers back at a jumps event when they turned out in their thousands for the Cheltenham November Meeting - the season's traditional curtain…

The Saturday card at Parx Racing is absolutely stuffed with stakes, including the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G1) and $1 million Cotillion S. (G1). It also features a mandatory-payout Pick 5 carryover. The prize pool for the 50-cent "Philly Big 5" has climbed into the six-figure range-$102129, to be exact. This lucrative carryover will be…

1ST RACE - 2 3/8 miles, Steeplechase, 4YO and up, Allowance. Purse: $70000. No. Horse;Jockey;Trainer;Odds 1 Bandua;Jamie Bargary;Neil Morris;2-1 1A Project Two (IRE);Thomas Garner;Leslie Young;2-1 2 Ancient Times;Ross Geraghty;Archibald Kingsley;8-1 3 Who's Counting;Sean McDermott;Sean McDermott;6-1 4 Fightinirishtabit;Harrison Beswick;Richard…