Archive for the 'Handicapping' Category
Your Guide to KY Derby Glory – WirePlayers Derby Dozen Volume I
Yazan: Steve | 01 February 2012 | 3 Comments
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
Yes friends, it’s here again, Derby Road. While hopeful owners, trainers, and jockeys well . . ., jockey for a spot in the Kentucky Derby starting gate, we’re here passing judgement with our Derby Dozen list. Sure, we offer the perfunctory 1 to 12 ranking you’ll find most anywhere, but our list offers opinions by [...]
Let the Sunshine In
Yazan: Paul | 27 January 2012 | 1 Comment
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
On Saturday January 28, Gulfstream Park in South Florida will present its “Florida Sunshine Millions” racing program. The program features six stake races restricted to Florida-bred horses. Sunshine Millions this year will be different from prior years. Prior years featured Florida-breds and California-breds racing against each other in stakes that alternated between in venue between [...]
Elegant Attire Required
Yazan: Dylan | 27 January 2012 | No Comments
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
Saturday’s feature at Aqueduct is the $75k Evening Attire Stakes which was postponed last Saturday due to snow. The race is written for three year olds and up, but in fitting nature, features all seniors of five and up in the 1 1/16th miles race. Let’s take a look at the field. #1 REDDING COLLIERY [...]
Remembering Hal and Hoping For a Payday
Yazan: Dylan | 13 January 2012 | 3 Comments
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
The other major stake at Gulfsteam this weekend is the 24th Running of the Hal’s Hope Stakes. Hal’s Hope was a horse that dominated the Gulstream strip highlighted by a win the in 2000 Florida Derby. This year’s race is interesting, as several in the field have had good success over this track. Here’s a [...]
High on Grass – Ft. Lauderdale Edition
Yazan: Derek | 13 January 2012 | 1 Comment
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
Race 10 at Gulfstream on Saturday offers a sneak peak into the male turf division for 2012, with the running of the Ft. Lauderdale Stakes (G3). The weather forecast calls for sunny skies and temps in the 70s, so I’ve handicapped for firm turf. Post time is scheduled for 4:45 ET, so lets take a [...]
Are the Best Horseplayers Nihilists?
Yazan: Steve | 05 January 2012 | Comments Off
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
In many ways the sport of horse racing is a femme fatale; you love its intrinsic beauty and mysterious ways, but you don’t quite trust it, you know it doesn’t love you back, and if you’re not careful, it’ll be your undoing. After betting the races for over two decades I can’t say I know [...]
Wintering with Juvenile Statebreds Part 2
Yazan: Paul | 09 December 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
Born in Oklahoma in 1946, Jim Edgar served two terms in the 1990s as Governor of Illinois. Governor Edgar is a rare species: an honest Illinois politician, as the Prairie State would then have two consecutive governors who each have faced criminal charges and prison sentences. He maintained and left office with favorable approval ratings. [...]
Wintering with Juvenile Statebreds Part 1
Yazan: Paul | 02 December 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
Patricia (Pat) A. Wentworth (1936-2011) served for many years as an executive board member of the Illinois Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Foundation, ITBOF, (www.itbof.net), a “not-for-profit service corporation, representing Illinois breeders and owners and dedicated to the growth and development of the Illinois state-bred incentive program for Thoroughbreds.” While President of the ITBOF board, the [...]
Aqueduct’s Inner Track Meet
Yazan: Dylan | 30 November 2011 | Comments Off
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
Today officially starts the winter racing season in New York as the action moves from the Main Track to the Inner Track at Aqueduct. While the big stakes and turf racing on the New York calendar are behind us, there are still reasons to look forward to the 84 day Inner Track meeting. Below are [...]
Hawthorne’s Post-Thanksgiving Leftovers
Yazan: Paul | 25 November 2011 | Comments Off
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
The biggest event at Hawthorne this weekend doesn’t take place on the track. Rather, Hawthorne will hold a qualifier to the NTRA/DRF National Handicapping Challenge. The event also serves as the final leg of a meet-long handicapping series. Players will spend their race days looking to turn one hundred dollars into one of the event’s ten [...]
Making (and Playing) an Allowance at Hawthorne
Yazan: Paul | 19 November 2011 | Comments Off
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
After a week off for the Breeders’ Cup, Paul Mazur returns home to Hawthorne. Without a major stakes on the calendar in the month of November, we look for our plays in the allowance ranks in one of Saturday’s two features. Hawthorne – Race 5 – N2X/$35K-$25K Allowance Optional Claimer (AOC) (Turf) – Post time [...]
Delta Destiny – Princess and Jackpot Stakes Start Triple Crown Aspirations
Yazan: Dylan | 17 November 2011 | 2 Comments
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
On Saturday Delta Downs in Vinton, LA will host two races that could have Kentucky Oaks and Derby implications come springtime. The Million Dollar Delta Downs Jackpot S. (G3) effectively kicks off the 2012 road to the Triple Crown. The Delta Jackpot has been known for producing exciting finishes (dead heat in 2007) and a [...]
Breeders’ Cup Sprint Preview
Yazan: Steve | 05 November 2011 | Comments Off
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
Brian Hoffacker (aka Ghostzapper04) of the Trip Handicapping blog reviews the field in today’s BC Sprint. It figures to be an exciting race. BC Sprint – Churchill Downs Race 5 – Post Time 2:37 (Eastern) #1 EUROEARS (4-1) – 7 year old horse (Speed) Once the doors spring open for the Sprint, we’ll know within [...]
Breeders’ Cup Challenge – WirePlayers vs Hello Race Fans
Yazan: Derek | 03 November 2011 | 4 Comments
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
In addition to our own picks and analysis, this year the handicappers from WirePlayers are going head-to-head in a BC challenge against the handicappers from Hello Race Fans. Each member will pick a winner for each race, with five points towards the overall score for a win, two for a place finish and one point for [...]
Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic & Dirt Mile Preview
Yazan: Paul | 03 November 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: Handicapping, Horse Racing
For an in-depth analysis on the two-day Breeders’ Cup program, here’s Paul Mazur’s take on Friday’s Ladies Classic and Saturday’s Dirt Mile. Churchill Downs — Friday — Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic — Race 10, post time 7:30 ET ROYAL DELTA clearly needed the first race at Saratoga in the CCA Oaks, and she beat IT’S [...]
