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By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman At every Breeders' Cup, two of the key races to decipher if you want to have success in the multi-race wagers are the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I) and the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I). With the latter usually falling as the first race on Saturday and the former being a ...

Godolphin didn’t make the right decision pointing Frosted for the Breeders’ Cup Classic instead of the Dirt Mile. They made the only decision. Although many feel the son of Tapit has a better shot to win the Dirt Mile, there is absolutely no reason for Godolphin to pass up an opportunity to run in America’s richest race against the two ...

The hopes from the Breeders’ Cup for the breeding industry are that the day’s best runners would go on to advance the breed through their offspring. The breed-shapers of the day have indeed come out of Breeders’ Cup races…horses such as Galileo, who ran sixth behind Tiznow at Belmont Park in the 2001 Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) and has gone on ...

Question: How good is Arrogate and do you think he can beat California Chrome in the Breeders’ Cup Classic? Answer: I’ll let you know around the three-sixteenths pole. No, that isn’t much of an answer, but what other answer can you give? Do we really have a clue if Arrogate is going to come close to or duplicate his freakish performance in ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman Now that the major Breeders' Cup prep races are behind us, we have three weeks to analyze the races, research horses that we aren't familiar with, and plan our wagering strategies. One of the most competitive races of the Breeders' Cup figures to be the $1,500,000 Breeders' Cup ...

With the Breeders’ Cup fields finally beginning to take shape and everyone having a much clearer picture of who the leading stars are, it is time to begin looking past November 4th and 5th and getting a long-range view of racing’s newest phenomenon, the $12 million Pegasus World Cup, which Steve Martin would describe as “a wild and crazy ...

Blessed with beautiful weather and an indigenous, knowledgeable fan base, Keeneland Race Course broke in stride during its Fall Stars weekend Oct. 7-9. More than 19,000 turned out on a blue-sky Friday afternoon for some fun and frolic, and despite a local power outage that delayed the racing action a half-hour more than 28,000 were on hand ...

Arrogate will go into the Breeders’ Cup off a 10-week layoff. Frosted and Shaman Ghost will go into the Breeders’ Cup off a nine-week layoff. Melatonin will go into the Breeders’ Cup off a four-month layoff. Heck , if American Pharoah can win the Breeders’ Cup Classic off a  two-month layoff, why not take the cautious route? It is that ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman With just four weeks left until the Breeders' Cup, the racing action is really heating up! Following the excitement of ''Super Saturday'' on October 1st, we're set for another ''Super Saturday'' on October 8th, with thirteen graded stakes races to be held at Belmont Park, Keeneland, ...