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Ready to test your handicapping skills in a series of informal handicapping contests? Then you've come to the right place! Every Saturday, the Unlocking Winners readers gather to share their selections for eight major race across North America and occasionally the world. Winning isn't easy, but the victor takes home the prestigious honor of ...

Another Derby Dozen draws near and that means the same old formulated thinking and same old logic and same old historical perspectives, with only the names of the horses changing. Uh, not so fast. That had been my thinking every year since Derby Dozen began for Bloodhorse in 1999 and on Derby Watch for Daily Racing Form from 1992-1998. But ...

Last week on Twitter we were interested to see if there were any thoughts on the most popular nick ratings. After getting the seeds of some ideas for what constituted a the most tried/successful nicks, we decided to gather the data, as one should, to see what story was told. In order to make it fair we stuck to the following: Direct ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman When handicapping major turf races in California, I am usually of the opinion that shippers from the East Coast have an advantage. With the powerful stable of trainer Chad Brown based out east, and with the majority of the richest turf races taking place across the region's numerous ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman On a very quiet weekend of racing with only one graded stakes race on the agenda, the event that Kentucky Derby-minded handicappers will want to keep an eye on is surely the $75,000 Sugar Bowl Stakes at Fair Grounds. The six-furlong sprint for two-year-olds serves as a steppingstone ...

In the winter of 1997, Joe Hirsch began a column in Daily Racing Form: “Pulpit, Pulpit, Pulpit. That’s all people are talking about.” The legendary Turf writer was musing on the buzz in South Florida surrounding Claiborne Farm’s colt as the son of A.P. Indy worked his way along the Triple Crown trail.In 2018 racing people were talking a lot about ...