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Over the next two weekends, 41 graded stakes will be run. Many of them will have Breeders' Cup implications. All of them present us with an opportunity to make money. Let's get to work. On Saturday, Belmont takes center stage with five grade I's on Jockey Club Gold Cup day. Let's take a brief look at each of them and try to put together a winning ...

Bloggers: I'm off for a few days, be back at the end of the week. In the meantime, here's a guest blog to help get us pumped up for the Breeders' Cup. Jason By Dani Pugh In recent years, racing seems to have fallen from its previous throne of excitement, beauty, and majesty. It is a far cry from where it was in the seventies, eighties, and ...

Question: At this time last year, if you had to name the one juvenile filly with the best chance of being a 3-year-old superstar, who would it be? Chances are, most of you would have chosen champion 2-year-old filly Stardom Bound, not Rachel Alexandra. I know I would have. I was blown away by her spectacular late runs in both the Oak Leaf and ...

As many of you know, there aren't many horses in training that I like more than Fabulous Strike. The gutsy 6-year-old will try for his second Vosburgh win next week and then a decision will be made whether to send him back to California for the Breeders' Cup Sprint, where he finished fifth a year ago. Until very recently, I thought Fabulous ...

Between Woodbine, Belmont, and Louisiana Downs, this weekend has shaped up to be a very intriguing and deep graded stakes calendar. Let's try to make it a profitable one. Woodbine The Woodbine Mile was good to me last year, as I banged Rahy's Attorney at 12-1 and had the $700+ tri. Hopefully Sunday will produce the same kind of results, but I ...

As promised, here is part 3 of our Fantasy Breeders' Cup races, courtesy of Harry's bar & grill in Lexington. In part 1, Secretariat won the Breeders' Cup Classic with 43% of the vote. In part 2, Dr. Fager took home top honors in the Breeders' Cup Sprint by garnering 41% of the vote. No surprise in either one. I'm not expecting any ...

With less than two months remaining until the World Championships, I thought it would be a good time to briefly go over some of the division leaders. Obviously, there is much to be decided, and like last year, the synthetic cloud hangs over the status of several horses, most notably in the Classic. Anyway, here is what I came up with for a few ...

I'm writing this blog just few hours after Rachel Alexandra's historic Woodward win. What a race! I wanted to get a new blog posted tonight mainly to give people a chance to talk about her sensational performance. For me, it was the most exciting race of the season, bar none. I'll just pose a few questions, give a couple thoughts and then let you ...

No need for any long intro on this post--it's all Rachel, all the time. We're just a day away from the Woodward, where Rachel Alexandra takes on older males for the first time and tries to become the first filly to win the prestigious event. If she does, she will not only lock up Horse of the Year, but cement herself as the best 3-year-old filly ...

Quietly and without much fanfare, Linda Rice has been putting up big numbers at Saratoga. With just six days remaining in the meet, the 45-year-old trainer is tied with Todd Pletcher in the trainers standings with 15 wins. Maybe most impressively, Rice's 15 wins have come from just 45 starters, 55 fewer than Pletcher. Rice, who learned ...