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By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') There’s plenty of major racing action to look forward to this Saturday, but there’s no question that—from a sporting perspective—the biggest race of the day is the $750,000 Delaware Handicap (gr. I) at Delaware Park, a ten-furlong race that has become a major early-summer goal for the best fillies and mares in ...

The commercial market is never helped when fewer horses sell, as occurred collectively during the major 2-year-olds in training sales this year. But the forces expected to shape the upcoming yearling sales seem largely positive because of significant growth and change in key racing markets.The end of head-to-head racing between Gulfstream Park and ...

If you ask someone to pick out one memorable victory by Ruffian they would have a hard time singling one out. That is because Ruffian’s career was not made up of one or two standout performances. Each one was equally as brilliant and that is why her career, as brief as it was, is remembered as an accumulation of spectacular processions. To those ...

I cannot in good conscience write about Dahlia without also writing about her arch rival Allez France, who, physically and mentally, was everything Dahlia was not. As much as I loved Dahlia, I loved Allez France a little more during their racing days. The reason why will become evident in the paragraphs that follow. As mentioned in the previous ...

Pick 4 analysis by Brisnet.com’s Ed DeRosa $100,000 guaranteed pool races 4-7 The guaranteed pool Pick 4 action on Queen’s Plate day kicks off at 1:23 p.m. EDT with the fourth race on the 13-race card. This sequence sports a $100,000 guaranteed pool and concludes with the first of four stakes on the day, the Grade 2 Dance Smartly for older ...

The 1 ¼-mile Queen’s Plate, Canada’s premiere race and the first leg of the Triple Crown for Canadian-bred three-year-olds, proved popular at the entry box with 15 entrants, but a large disparity exists on the morning line, with #6 We Miss Artie (8-to-5) and #14 Lexie Lou (4-to-1) listed as solid one-two favorites with Matador the third choice at ...

The Grade 1 Belmont Oaksby TimeformUS Analyst Mike BeerBelmont Park/July 5 /Race 9/5:45 EDT: Get started on TimeformUS PPs for the G1 Belmont Oaks The Belmont Oaks, one of two 3yo turf races repurposed and repositioned from the Fall calendar, has attracted an interesting field of 11 fillies, and of the five graded stakes races to be run at ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') On July 6th last year, two days after Independence Day, Belmont Park hosted a moderately interesting race card that featured the Suburban Handicap (gr. II) and the Dwyer Stakes (gr. II). But thanks to some major race schedule changes and purse enhancements, this year’s Independence Day celebration (scheduled ...

On Saturday, Belmont Park will run two million-dollar races on the grass for 3-year-olds – the Belmont Derby and the Belmont Oaks. Both are expected to attract several top-class horses from Europe. Grass races designed to attract Europeans have spread throughout racetracks all across America, from the lucrative Arlington Million Day to big events ...

Following on from the earlier post on the racing class of the dam, we decided to take a look at the fluctuation in graded/group stakes winners over the first eight crops of a stallion's career. We took some 50 proven stallions and extracted out the number of graded stakes winners sired in each of their first eight crops. As you will note, they ...