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SaturdaySanta Anita, Race 7The CalifornianBy Justin Finch The Grade 2 Californian has attracted a field of eight horses to run nine furlongs on the Santa Anita main track for a purse of $200,000.A Special Offer on Unlimited TimeformUS PPs for Bloodhorse Readers  According to the TFUS Pace Projector, Fury Kapcori (#2, 4-5 Morning Line) will ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') With one more weekend left to go before the much-anticipated Belmont Stakes, racing fans everywhere are struggling to contain their excitement and wait out the final nine days that separate them from Belmont Day. Fortunately for these fans—myself included!—Penn National has compiled a tremendous card of racing ...

Here's a heartwarming story for you: an eclectic group of friends brought together from a shared love for Preakness Stakes (gr. I) winner Shackleford will now campaign a homebred offspring by that stallion. Dubbed the ''Shackettes'' the Shackleford enthusiasts connected via Facebook during the son of Forestry's decorated campaign, during ...

There is a lot going on today at Arlington Park: in addition to the daily promotions Brisnet.com (free early Pick 4 PPs) and TwinSpires.com (Let 8 Ride) does, there are a bunch of carryovers at the Chicagoland track, including $21,190 in the Pick 5 that this scribe plans to attack. My ABC grid for the entire sequence is below, but we’ll zero in ...

Churchill Downs Inc. has certainly been taking some body blows over the past several weeks.The Louisville-based publicly held corporation has been subjected to a barrage of criticisms from owners, a Hall of Fame jockey, handicappers, regulators in other states, trainers, and fans since early April.CDI took its first public relations hit April 10 ...

MondaySanta Anita, Race 7The Gamely StakesBy Justin FinchA Special Offer on Unlimited TimeformUS PPs for Bloodhorse Readers  The Grade 1 Gamely has attracted a field of nine fillies and mares to run nine furlongs on the grass for a purse of $300,000. The morning line gives a good indication of just how contentious this field is: Five horses ...

One would think that analyzing the pedigrees for the Belmont Stakes hopefuls would be fairly easy, considering the extreme distance of the race and the lack of true mile and a half horses. It should be pretty obvious who the stayers are and which horses are going into the race on the proverbial wing and a prayer.But the truth is, many of the ...

Nice score on Thursday at Santa Anita with 7-to-2 on Seduire to kick off that card, so let’s see what we can come up with on Friday. Churchill Downs Race 2 (click for free Brisnet.com Ultimate Past Performances) A field of seven runners will dash five furlongs in this Maiden Special Weight event. The two fancied debuters are #2 Cloverdale Nine ...

Quite often in catalog pages you will see a nick where a full brother has been used in preference to another. We decided to take a look at the raw data and see what it says in practice. Is it in fact just a matter of names on the page, or is class really that important? There are a lot of circumstances where replacing full brothers in various ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Well! It looks like a pretty exciting set of graded stakes races are on schedule for this Memorial Day weekend! Granted, they aren’t quite as exciting as a certain set of graded stakes races scheduled for June 7th at Belmont Park, but hey—as much as I’d like to fill up this week’s blog post with early thoughts ...