Archive for the 'Horse Racing' Category
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 | Comments Off
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 [...]
2012 Kentucky Derby Prep Race Schedule
Yazan: Steve | 26 January 2012 | Comments Off
Categories: Horse Racing
This is my 2012 Kentucky Derby prep race schedule. There are many like it, but this one is mine. The Kentucky Derby is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. The Kentucky Derby, without me, is useless. Without the Kentucky Derby, I am useless. Ok, [...]
New Faces, New Places
Yazan: Paul | 18 January 2012 | Comments Off
Categories: Horse Racing
With both Hawthorne and Arlington on hiatus, the Author felt it was a good time to take a break. Here, Paul Mazur (@heylaserbeam) returns from hiatus to chime in on some events and do some general housekeeping. –WirePlayers is pleased to announce that it has joined the Thoroughbred Bloggers Alliance (TBA). You can find about [...]
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 [...]
Betting Alone While At One With The Universe
Yazan: Steve | 28 December 2011 | Comments Off
Categories: Horse Racing, Our Philosophy
Like snowflakes, our thoughts are by nature individualistic and unique. However, within our innate uniqueness, lies an underlying similarity of consciousness – that we alone are the only ones in the universe, the only ones capable of knowing what we know, and feeling how we feel. A sense that is both overpowering and frightening. It’s [...]
Two Bucks To Show: More Than a Wager
Yazan: Paul | 20 December 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: Horse Racing
Meet Mark Kerber. Mr. Kerber is the manager of the racing syndicate Two Bucks To Show, LLC.. In this telephone interview, WirePlayers introduces you to him, his stable, and his horses. You can find the syndicate on Youtube. WP: Tell the readers about Two Bucks To Show, LLC. What’s your role with it? Is it [...]
Block Takes Top Two Spots in Edgar Futurity
Yazan: Paul | 11 December 2011 | Comments Off
Categories: Horse Racing
STICKNEY/CICERO — Three Chris Block trained horses appeared in the 33rd Jim Edgar Futurity, with YANKEE DEALER the betting favorite among the three. But the fastest closer was the winner, and it was REAL POWER, piloted by Florent Geroux on a cold clear evening. TWELVE HUNDRED, the 9-10 favorite and recipient of late money, went [...]
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 [...]
