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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, ...

As we head into the Breeders’ Cup, everyone’s attention will be on California Chrome and Arrogate in the Classic and stars such as Songbird, Stellar Wind, Beholder, Tepin, and Flintshire, and which race Frosted will point for. While these horses dominate the headlines, we tend to forget or simply overlook those hard-knocking, consistent horses, ...

In Hollywood’s film industry, studios seek to develop a franchise—such as “Star Wars” or “Indiana Jones”—that’s so successful they become tent poles that ensure the well-being of the company and, by extension, the industry for years to come. Thoroughbred racing is fortunate to count within its ranks human pillars that have done similar yeoman’s ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman One of my favorite days of racing each year is ''Super Saturday,'' when Santa Anita and Belmont Park put on a show with massive cards filled with graded stakes races. Some of the best horses in the country will be in action this Saturday, and these races will undoubtedly have a ...