2012 Eclipse Awards: Male Turf Horse
Candidates for the 2012 Eclipse Award for male turf horse
DRF StaffDec 05, 2012
Candidates for the 2012 Eclipse Award for male turf horse
Saturday afternoon at Parx Racing, a 2-year-old Pennsylvania-bred colt trained by John Servis, owned and bred by the Someday Farm of Pat Chapman and coming off a fast and impressive effort in a small stakes, will race in the Pennsylvania Nursery.
Michael Hammersly's weekly "Trip Notes" report, which this week includes a pair of Betfair Hollywood Park stakes over the weekend of Dec. 1-2. Included are the Native Diver and Vernon O. Underwood Stakes.
If you handicap the Grade 3, $100,000 Grade 3 Vernon O. Underwood at Hollywood on Sunday, you’ll probably like trainer Bob Baffert’s chances. But when you reach that point in your handicapping process, your work won’t be over as Baffert trains four of the seven horses entered in the six-furlong race.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix Saturday December 1, 2012
After last year’s Claiming Crown was contested at Fair Grounds in New Orleans and only 37 horses ran in five races, critics all but wrote the obituary for the event. And now here it is, a year later, resurrected.
Dan Illman's analysis of the field for the Sandpiper Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.
Dan Illman's analysis of the field for the Inaugural Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.
If you want good betting races, you don’t have to look any further than Saturday’s opening-day card at Gulfstream Park, where there are seven Claiming Crown stakes on tap, every one of them with a big field. Get picks for the Claiming Crown Emerald and Jewel, as well as Aqueduct's Garland of Roses, in this week's edition of Weekend Warrior.
Michael Hammersly's weekly "Trip Notes" report, which includes stakes races for the weekend (Friday - Sunday), this week including action from Aqueduct (Cigar Mile) and Betfair Hollywood Park (Hollywood Derby).