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Saturday, Oaklawn, Race 8, Local Post Time 4:38pm CTThe Fifth Season Stakes, Dirt, 1 and 1/16 Miles, 4+By Douglas SalvatoreThe opening weekend feature at Oaklawn Park has attracted a large and deep field. Indeed, nine of the 13 entrants have earned in excess of a quarter-million dollars in their racing careers. • TimeformUS PPs for the Fifth ...

Given that the common perception of U.S. commercial breeding would be that the most prized performer is one that is at its best between seven and nine furlongs on dirt, it might be considered something of a paradox that the title of 2013 leading sire came down to a hard-fought battle between a champion turf horse and a champion sprinter. The lead ...

There are other TwinSpires.com promotions that give away more money/prizes/points than Let 8 Ride, but I don’t think any is more fun than the weekly game that starts with an $8 win bet on the eighth race at a designated track. The promotion certainly appeals to the game show junky in me. Part Press Your Luck, part Let’s Make a Deal, part Sale of ...

Since the inception of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, only six juvenile males have been crowned champion without winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I). Of the six champions that weren’t Juvenile winners, three won the year’s top honor without even starting in the race.A strong chance exists that the 2013 racing season could crown ...

It's rare that I make a full (every entry) fair odds analysis for a race outside a seven-figure Grade 1 race, but I felt compelled to do so for the Jerome Stakes on Saturday at Aqueduct (click for FREE Brisnet.com Ultimate PPs) because of the presence of a clear favorite/most likely winner who doesn't have to win. In addition to the $200,000 ...

Saturday Aqueduct, Race 8, Local Post Time 3:48pm ESTThe G2 Jerome HandicapBy Douglas SalvatoreIt's very rare to see a Grade 2 stakes race in which no horse in the entire field has ever won so much as an ungraded stakes race. Moreover, the 7/2 second choice on the morning line, Scotland, is still a maiden and has never even competed at a route ...

Ed Stanco most likely will not have an Eclipse statue on his mantle, or wherever he is displaying his collection of Princess of Sylmar trophies. But that is the only thing he won’t have. What he does have is the respect of everyone in the industry, most notably the fans, Santa Anita, and the Breeders’ Cup. Stanco, along with trainer Todd ...

Although wagering on horse racing with any seriousness is better viewed as one, long grind versus a day-to-day/week-to-week/month-to-month/year-to-year venture, there's just something about turning the page that makes us want to check the scoreboard. And to be honest, I'm getting blown out this year. To finish in the black for 2013 would require ...

In early December the late Kent Hollingsworth, editor of The Blood-Horse from 1963 until 1986, became one of the latest inductees into the National Museum of Racing’s Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor. While reviewing many of Hollingsworth’s columns during his final years at the magazine, we discovered his perspectives 28 years ago on racing and ...

This is one of those essays sent to me that I had to share with my readers. Not only is it the best collection of Hollywood Park memories I’ve read, and written brilliantly, it, in many ways, brings us all back to the innocence and wonder of youth and the memories that endure through our entire lives.On the last day ever of racing at Hollywood ...