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Saturday Aqueduct, Race 7, Local Post Time 3:14 pm ETThe G3 Red Smith, 1 and 3/8 Miles, 3YO+, TurfBy Douglas Salvatore With a field of 13 horses assembled, the Red Smith Handicap is an extremely attractive betting race. The 11-furlong distance means that this race will be contested around three turns, with a fairly short run into the first turn, ...

There are a lot of angles to use when handicapping a horse race: trainer angles, jockey angles, pedigree angles, track surface plays, shippers, bias statistics, and speed figure patterns are some of the more popular, but chances are, if it's in the past performances then someone somewhere has a betting angle for it. In many ways, that was the ...

Fasig-Tipton has been long known for allowing consignors to push the envelope by accepting supplemented horses into a sale well after the entry deadline has passed. All sale companies worldwide have accepted supplemental entries to some extent for years, but Fasig-Tipton pushed this concept even further this summer with an inaugural Horses of ...

Who can say for sure when Mucho Macho became a Man? After all, he was a precocious 2-year-old, despite being a giant of a horse, and was good enough to finish second in the Nashua and Remsen Stakes, even though he was a June 15 foal. How could a horse that big and gangly, and that young and immature, perform the way he did so early in ...

It is November and that means T-Time – Thanksgiving, Turkey….Twin Spires?Those two inverted drumsticks atop Churchill Downs will be playing a major part in the holiday season this year with the expansion of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager. Now, those who can’t get an early enough start on Derby fever can make their first Future Wager bets from ...

When Orb won the Kentucky Derby, it certainly was not a rags-to-riches feel-good story like Smarty Jones or Funny Cide. But in many ways it was just as popular because it brought racing back to a better time and place when sportsmen ruled the sport – people like the Phippses and the Janneys and the Galbreaths and Vanderbilts and ...

Erin Mckenna Flannery was the runner-up in the Thoroughbred Charities of America's inaugural Youth Essay Contest, which was open to writers 18 years or younger who have been volunteers, supporters, or benefited from the services of an organization that received a grant from TCA in 2013. Contestants were asked to submit an essay between ...

Saturday Aqueduct, Race 6, Local Post Time 2:45 pm ETThe Summer Secretary S., 1 and 1/16 Miles, 3YO Fillies, TurfBy Douglas SalvatoreThe $100,000 Summer Secretary has attracted a strong field of 13 three-year-old fillies, and the TimeformUS Pace Projector indicates that it will be run at a fast and contested early pace. • TimeformUS PPs for the ...