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One of our regular bloggers, Matthew W, gave me a good idea for a fun blog: Breeders' Cup prop bets. How many of you fellow gamblers enjoy playing the multitude of prop bets during the Super Bowl? I know I do. For those of you not familiar, prop bets are unique, individual bets that are made available during marquee events. During the Super ...

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 Breeders' Cup I am off to Breeders' Cup Saturday morning at 6am. My plan is to try and give you all a few blogs from the track, sights and sounds, updates, and interesting observations. This will be my first time at Santa Anita, so I am excited about the trip. I wish Chantal was still around, but maybe I can meet Kayla eh? Stop Stable Boy ...

Courtesy of Becky Johnston  How did this happen? The Breeders' Cup smack in the middle of the LSU Alabama football game? I guess it's payback time for me. I sarcastically empathize with my Gator horse racing friend each year when he has to make a choice between their biggest rivalry game with Georgia and the championship day of horse racing. ...

War Cry (TrueNicks,SRO) has the credentials to make a big impact at stud. He’s by Unbridled, who has firmly established himself as sire of sires with sons like Unbridled’s Song and Broken Vow, not to mention being the grandsire of Birdstone. War Cry also hails from one of the hottest female families in the stud book. He’s out of the Lord at War ...

I tuned in Aug. 8 to listen to Ralph Wilson give his acceptance speech when the longtime owner of the Buffalo Bills was enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame. As the applause quieted, I dialed Bruce Hundley’s cell number to ask a question, the answer to which I already knew. Bruce raised and sold horses for Ralph for decades. “What are you ...

Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey have done a tremendous job with their stallion, Catienus, a Storm Cat son whom they claimed, then sent out to win a minor stakes, run second in the Suburban Handicap (gr. II), two renewals of the Saratoga Breeders' Cup Handicap (gr. II) and place third in the Whitney Handicap (gr. I). Catienus has never been a fashionable ...

The Breeders' Cup pre-entries are out. Here is a complete list for each of the 14 races. I'm interested to get your thoughts on some of them. Anything surprise you? Any disappointments? I have a few thoughts. First, as far as some of the horses cross-entered, I wasn't too surprised to see Zenyatta has first preference in the Classic. I had ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA  Betfair, the London-based online wagering juggernaut that purchased TVG earlier this year, is making further inroads into North American racing.  Breeders’ Cup and several U.S racetracks recently entered into simulcast agreements with Betfair which will allow Betfair’s 2.5 million customers ...

Last year, I gave you 6 Tips to Get More Out of the Stallion Register Online. One of my suggestions was to use the ''Advanced Search'' tool to find stallions by sire, dam, damsire, and year entered stud. Over the years, I've heard from lots of SRO users about that advanced search tool and how they never knew it existed because it was ''hidden'' ...