Category: Horse Racing Betting
2017 Eclipse Award Finalists
The Eclipse Award winners will be announced on January 25 at Gulfstream Park with Horse of the Year finalists being Arrogate, Gun Runner, and World Approval. Get all the finalists and details about them here. Click here to read the full article…
McKinzie sheds blinkers in Sham victory
McKinzie sat comfortably just off a moderate pace while wide, then powered home to win the Grade 3, $100,345 Sham by a widening 3 1/2 lengths and solidify his position among the nation’s best 3-year-olds. Click here to read the full article…
Itsinthepost scores San Gabriel win
In 2017, Itsinthepost was second in his first two starts and later won three stakes in a nine-race campaign. Saturday, Itsinthepost won his first start of the year in the Grade 2 San Gabriel Stakes at Santa Anita. Click here to read the full article…
Gun Runner tops Horse of the Year finalists
The success of Gun Runner on the track in 2017 translated into Eclipse Award finalist recognition for he and many of those connected to him when the top three vote getters in all 17 divisions, both human and equine, were announced on Friday. Click here to read the full article…
Navigating Eclipse Awards’ gray waters
Even though the trend is leaning toward fewer starts for the best horses, there is at least enough revealed during the course of a long season to mix and match records worthy of Eclipse consideration. Click here to read the full article…
2017 Year in Review
As we near the end of the year, it is time to take a look back at the highs and lows of 2017 and remember those people and horses that we lost. Click here to read the full article…
Daddys Lil Darling scores Grade 1 victory
In the nick of time, Daddys Lil Darling became a Grade 1 winner in Saturday’s $301,380 American Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita. Click here to read the full article…
Midnight Crossing out front all the way in Frankel
Midnight Crossing proved impossible to catch in Saturday’s Robert Frankel Stakes for fillies and mares on turf at Santa Anita, rewarding jockey Brice Blanc’s decision to put the longshot on an early lead. Click here to read the full article…
Veteran riders play big role in Santa Anita opener
The Grade 2 San Antonio, at a mile and one-sixteenth, was supposed to be batting practice for Collected, whose date in the Pegasus World Cup has been chiseled in stone for months. Click here to read the full article…
Unique Bella finishes strong to win La Brea
Unique Bella’s speed has been her biggest asset, but in the Breeders’ Cup it became her biggest liability. Click here to read the full article…
City of Light breaks through in Grade 1 Malibu
City of Light made his first stakes appearance in Tuesday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita, and he ran the best race of his young career to win. Click here to read the full article…
Giant Expectations too much in San Antonio
Giant Expectations, in the Grade 2 San Antonio Stakes for older horses, took advantage of unexpectedly being left alone on the lead, and parlayed that into a front-running, upset victory in the first of four stakes run on opening day at Santa Anita. Click here to read the full article…