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By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman  Ready, set, go! We're less than 30 hours away from the first race of the 2017 Breeders' Cup, and now is the time to start finalizing selections and plotting wagering strategies. Let's jump right in--here are my thoughts on all thirteen races... Breeders' Cup Juvenile ...

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By: Erin Shea, @BH_EShea Three years ago at the 2014 Breeders' Cup World Championships, a gelding named Cary Street flew three wide around the final turn of a 1 3/4-mile event, came storming into the Santa Anita Park stretch, and pulled away from his competition to register a 9 1/4-length victory in the $200,000 Las Vegas Marathon Stakes ...

As always I am focusing on longshots and value and who might sneak into the exotics at a big price. So let's cut right to chase. JUVENILE FILLIES TURF - It's going to take a big effort to knock off both Aidan O'Brien fillies, especially Happily, as well as Euros Juliet Capulet and longshot Madeline, and Chad Brown's pair of Rushing Fall and ...

Last weekend’s Wall Street Journal (Oct. 28-29) featured an article “101 Things to Do Before You Die (At Age 101),” that includes such items as No. 1: “Drive cross-country. Any country,” and No. 76: “Accept that there is nothing you can do about the traffic.” In that bent, we’ve thought this through and have come up with a few “Things to Do in ...

This has to be one of the deepest contingents of European invaders, with a number of proven contenders, such as defending BC Turf winner Highland Reel; the leading miler in Europe, Ribchester; Juddmonte International and Eclipse winner Ulysses; English and Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Churchill; Nunthorpe Stakes winner Marsha, conqueror of Lady ...

There are different weapons horses use to win a race, and the key is to get a chance to use those weapons. But sometimes the battlefield is not conducive to a particular weapon. In the case of Gunnevera, he has one main weapon, and that is a wicked turn of foot and an explosive move on the far turn. As powerful a weapon as that can be, it is ...

A few days after new standards for tax reporting and withholding of big wins in pari-mutuel wagering were put in place Sept. 28, professional horseplayer Mike Maloney hit a Pick 6 that returned $46,000. Even though he was well aware of the new standards—he's been pushing for the changes for 15 years—he recalls an odd feeling when the ticket ...

Few, if any, owners and trainers have been more on a mission to win a single race than Coolmore and Aidan O’Brien when it comes to the Breeders’ Cup Classic, which has eluded them for 17 years. Here they are still trying to avenge the neck defeat of Giant’s Causeway at the hands of Tiznow back in 2000. In between, there has been another ...