Every year, seemingly without fail, the $2 million, Grade 1 Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff draws a stellar field worthy of its championship status. The 2022 renewal is no exception, with a deep and competitive field shaping up for the Nov. 5 showdown at Keeneland. Seven Grade 1 winners… two GradeContinue Reading
Whether you like betting on favorites or longshots, the $2 million, Grade 1 NetJets Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies is the perfect race to play. As counterintuitive as it might seem, it’s a fact backed up by statistics. How can this be? It turns out North America’s championship race for 2-year-oldContinue Reading
Despite drawing only seven runners, the $500,000 Ballerina Handicap features an abundance of depth and quality with three Grade 1 winners, three graded stakes winners, and a budding star riding the crest of a four-race winning streak. It makes sense given the seven-eighths of a mile sprint Aug. 28 atContinue Reading
The historic $1.25 million, Grade 1 Runhappy Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course dates all the way back to 1864, which means it is older than the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets. It annually attracts some of the best 3-year-oldContinue Reading
For the sixth year in a row, America’s Best Racing is challenging some of the brightest minds in horse betting to come up with their top three picks for key races every weekend leading up to the 2022 Triple Crown and then continuing through the 2022 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. TheContinue Reading
Can the lone female in the field defeat the boys in Saturday’s $500,000 Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap at Saratoga Race Course? It’s happened before, and it seems very likely to happen again. The Fourstardave is one of the most prestigious one-mile grass races in North America. The roster of winnersContinue Reading
by Mac McBride/Del Mar|08.06.2022|1:34am Sumter winning the Pasadena Stakes Owners of racehorses find great joy when their horses are able to win a race, of course. But they find more than joy – something bordering on ecstasy – when one of the horses they have bred is a winner. It’sContinue Reading
For the sixth year in a row, America’s Best Racing is challenging some of the brightest minds in horse betting to come up with their top three picks for key races every weekend leading up to the 2022 Triple Crown and then continuing through the 2022 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. TheContinue Reading
by Mac McBride/Del Mar|07.30.2022|11:28pm Royal Ship and Mike Smith winning the San Diego Handicap Fox Hill Farms and Siena Farm’s Royal Ship stayed close to the leaders on the backside, then when Hall of Famer Mike Smith let him roll approaching the far turn the 6-year-old Brazilian horse found anotherContinue Reading
The $1.5 million, Grade 1 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course follows the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve as the second leg of U.S Thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown, taking place just two weeks after the fabled showdown at Churchill Downs. But what a difference two weeks makesContinue Reading