Given the presence of INDEPENDENCE HALL Saturday in Tampa Bay Downs‘ Grade 3, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes, this minor 2020 Kentucky Derby Prep Race will receive major attention. INDEPENDENCE HALL created a stir back in November when he Won the Nashua Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct with big speed numbers on both the Beyer Speed Figure and Time-form scale. But some of that luster came off later … Continue reading The Sam F. Davis Stakes @ Tampa
Last year’s Withers Victor, TAX, ran 14th on the first Saturday in May but then went on to Win the Jim Dandy (G2) at Saratoga. SHOTSKI, after a Win in the Remsen here, returns to the Big A to head a field of eight 3-year-olds in this year’s Withers. The entrants have an opportunity to acquire Derby qualifying points with a top four finish on a … Continue reading Winner In The Withers ?
The 2020 Kentucky Derby trail returns to Aqueduct Park on Saturday for the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes. The race is held each February at Aqueduct Race Track. It was first run in 1874 at Jerome Park Race Track and had been run at several tracks since, before finding a permanent home at the Big A. It is a 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds that … Continue reading The Withers Stakes
Last week the Daily Racing Blog looked at the top trainers at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas. This week we give you the top jockeys to watch for at this eight week meet. Ricardo Santana Jr. He could easily be described as jockey of the decade at Oaklawn, Winning six consecutive riding titles from 2013-2018. In April 2019, he recorded his 1,000th … Continue reading Oaklawn’s Top Riders
Both OMAHA BEACH (swelling in right hind leg) and SPUN TO RUN (hives) are out of the $3 million dollar Pegasus World Cup on Saturday at Gulfstream Park. That pretty much makes this a wide open affair for the remaining 10 horses. Here then a Daily Racing Blog closer look at the field: 1. TRUE TIMBER (15-1) Trainer: Kiaran McLaughlin. Jockey: Joe Bravo. Third in three … Continue reading Pegasus Picks
This Saturday’s Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park is the first marquee Stakes race of 2020 and brings together several of the best older (4 years and up) dirt racehorses, all with their eyes on the prize of the $3 million dollar purse. The headliner among the 12 Pegasus starters is OMAHA BEACH, who will be making his final career appearance before heading off to a stud … Continue reading Pegasus Field
One of racing’s most popular competitions returns to the land of the Ozarks this week. Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, raises the curtain on its 2020 meet Friday, January 24th. This meet offers big fields and even bigger purses for three months of sensational racing. Oaklawn is indeed unique among major tracks in that it does not have a turf course, but rest assured … Continue reading Trainers To Watch At Oaklawn Park
The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) announced last week that its 2019 race meets conducted at Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course generated an all-sources handle of $2,108,126,369. For the first time in history, NYRA generated more than $700 million in all-sources handle during the 2019 meet at Saratoga Race Course, which was conducted over a five-day race week. Wagering from all-sources … Continue reading NYRA Final Accounting
Happy New Year from the Daily Racing Blog. We hope that you (like us) are aiming to make 2020 even better than last year, when it comes to the thoroughbreds. Horse racing can be a confusing sport, regardless of how long you’ve been following the game. So in our on-going effort to elucidate and educate, Here is a follow-up to our first edition of basic … Continue reading Always Learning
It’s no secret that we here at the Daily Racing Blog are always in search of a Value Play. A bit of common knowledge indicates that playing a long-shot is a cocktail best served with equal parts trust and intuition. In most cases, there are more reasons to stay away from these horses than to bet them, so you have to have some faith in … Continue reading Why Back A Long-Shot?
