The $750,000, Grade 1 Cigar Mile Handicap Presented by NYRA Bets Saturday at Aqueduct brings together six-horse field (the original seven reduced by one after O Besos was not allowed to ship in from Kentucky due to an outbreak of equine herpesvirus at Churchill Downs). That group is headlined byContinue Reading
by Paulick Report Staff|12.03.2022|12:47am Trainer Richard Baltas has been suspended 365 days and fined $10,000 by California Horse Racing Board stewards for “conduct detrimental to racing” and violating medication rules over a 24-day period at Santa Anita Park last spring. Baltas, who has won 722 races including seven Grade 1Continue Reading
The $400,000, Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes Dec. 4 is the closing-day marquee event for Del Mar’s Bing Crosby meet before the Southern California circuit shifts briefly to several days of dirt-only racing at Los Alamitos and then picks up momentum again in late December at Santa Anita Park. The Matriarch,Continue Reading
by Del Mar Thoroughbred Club|12.02.2022|4:04pm Regal Glory winning the 2021 Matriarch at Del Mar under Jose Ortiz Del Mar’s ninth Bing Crosby Season will finish strongly Sunday with a nine-race card enhanced by the 42nd edition of the Grade 1, $400,000 Matriarch Stakes for fillies and mares as the highlightContinue Reading
Welcome to Noel Michaels’ Weekend Winners, the place to go for weekend best bets and spot plays from veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer Noel Michaels. Check back every week for a couple of highlighted selections designed to help you cash a few bets and make some money. Noel’s selections have beenContinue Reading
by Press Release|12.01.2022|4:59pm The 2023 Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale will be held on April 5, 2023 at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas. The breeze show is scheduled for Monday, April 3, 2023. “We’ve already had a lot of interest in our 2023 sale season,” Texas Thoroughbred AssociationContinue Reading
There is a risk-reward element to betting races with 2-year-olds, and especially 2-year-old fillies, that makes them at times frustrating but also very appealing when looking for a nice score. Juvenile races feature mostly lightly raced runners capable of showing significant improvement, either by the natural maturation process or aContinue Reading
Shandian near the start of his career with Chichakly, three years before his death. On Nov. 18, 2022 we published a story tracing the story of Shandian, who was euthanized after being diagnosed with serious chronic injuries soon after running at a Pennsylvania racetrack. Trainer Amira Chichakly submitted the followingContinue Reading
Past Kentucky Derby winners Pleasant Colony, Go for Gin, and Thunder Gulch … Preakness Stakes winners Pleasant Colony and Pine Bluff … Belmont Stakes victors Thunder Gulch and Mo Donegal … Since 1980, the Grade 2 Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct has been won by a bevy of top-class horses, includingContinue Reading
Cash is King and LC Racing’s undefeated Tuskegee Airmen will make his graded stakes debut for trainer John Servis in Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Remsen, a nine-furlong main track test for juveniles, at Aqueduct Racetrack. The Remsen, which offers 10-4-3-2-1 qualifying points for the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby to theContinue Reading