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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 ...

The Grade 1 Mother Gooseby TimeformUS Analyst Mike BeerBelmont Park/June 28/Race 4/2:53 EDT: The Grade 1 Mother Goose has long been a fixture on the NYRA calendar, and pulling a list of previous winners of this historic race, one finds a veritable who's who of racing's most celebrated 3yo fillies. In all, nineteen fillies who would later be ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') While last weekend’s racing action was slow, with only a handful of graded stakes races being run across the country, this weekend promises to be much, much more exciting. All told, there are twelve graded stakes races scheduled to be run on Saturday alone, including a trio of grade I events. Furthermore, some ...

As we get ready for the start of the Northern Hemisphere yearling sales series, one of the more pertinent questions that we are often asked at TrueNicks is how important is the racing class of the pedigree at hand in determining the success of a mating. While the TrueNicks rating of a yearling can be the same, the chances of a stakes winner ...