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Can Billy Joel Play the Winning Tune in The Louisville?
5/21/2022 2 CD The Louisville (GIII) $200.000 4yo&Up 1 1/2m Turf 122lbs The big weekend will focus on PIM as we moved from the CD oval after the KYD, but don’t think we don’t have a big meet and… Read More ›
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A Field Of Nine Set for The PIM Special On Friday
5/20/2022 12 PIM The PIM Special (GIII) $300.000 3yo&Up 1 1/4m Dirt 3yo 119lbs Older 124lbs More Friday race action and we look at the field for The PIM Special (GIII). This mile and a quarter stakes brings together… Read More ›
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Seven Fillies To The Gate For The Black-Eyed Susan
5/20/2022 11 PIM The Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (GII) $250.000 3yoF 1 1/8m Dirt 122lbs To stinky ol’ Bal’mur we go and the run-down, dilapidated skeleton of a once thriving race track, PIM. We look at the field of seven… Read More ›
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Winchester Takes The Cartier In Tight Finish
5/15/22 5 WO The Cartier (GIII) $150.000 4yo&Up 6f Dirt 122lbs +penalties Another Sunday Stakes, another swing and a miss for my handicapping as Winchester found the fast WO oval to his liking and returned to form, winning The… Read More ›
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Dellas Boy Kicks Clear Late To Take Gold Fever At BEL
5/15/22 6 BEL The Gold Fever $100.000 3yo 6f Dirt 122lbs Dellas Boy had aspirations of the TC Trail… when that went up in smoke with a ninth place finish in the Lexington, Alydar Stables decided to go back… Read More ›
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Tugela Force By A Nose In SRP Stakes
5/14/22 6 SRP SRP Stakes $75.000 3yo&Up 4 1/2f Dirt 3yo 120lbs Older 123lbs +penalties I certainly missed handicapping this one, and the public didn’t do much better… it ended in a bang-bang finish of double-digit-odds horses and we… Read More ›
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Sunday Sprint Action at WO – The Cartier
5/15/22 5 WO The Cartier (GIII) $150.000 4yo&Up 6f Dirt 122lbs +penalties Older sprint types will be going six furlongs on the main track, here at WO, and we look at the field for The Cartier (GIII). This is… Read More ›
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Sunday Sprinting Sophomores in The Gold Fever at BEL
5/15/22 6 BEL The Gold Fever $100.000 3yo 6f Dirt 122lbs Sunday stakes racing and we catch a small field of five sprinting sophomores set to go six panels over the BEL main track in The Gold Fever. I’m… Read More ›
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Nine Speedsters Set for SRP Stakes
5/14/22 6 SRP SRP Stakes $75.000 3yo&Up 4 1/2f Dirt 3yo 120lbs Older 123lbs +penalties Northern NM and SRP, at least we get some good food. Today, we catch a group that will be running the abbreviated four and… Read More ›
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Gigabyte Runs Down Individuation, Gives Smokey Stover KYD Win
5/7/2022 12 CD THE KYD (GI) $3,000.000 3YO 1 1/4 mile Dirt Weight 126lbs Fillies 121lbs Preference to TC-KYD Qualifications I’m the one constantly preaching big races, big purse, big horses, big barns… but I don’t listen to… Read More ›
