DRF Plus handicapping reports for Thursday, Oct. 15
Download DRF Plus handicapping reports for Thursday's races, including DRF Bets GamePlan, the Positive ROI Report, and Key Race Report.
DRF StaffOct 14, 2015
Download DRF Plus handicapping reports for Thursday's races, including DRF Bets GamePlan, the Positive ROI Report, and Key Race Report.
Jockeys Drayden Van Dyke, Martin Pedroza, Fernando Perez, and Felipe Valdez face suspensions in the coming days for riding infractions earlier this month, according to recent rulings published by track stewards.
Om, the winner of the Del Mar Derby on turf in his most recent start, worked five furlongs on dirt Wednesday in 59.20 seconds under jockey Gary Stevens at Santa Anita.
The full Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has agreed to rehear a case involving sports betting in New Jersey, citing the possibility that previous rulings contained conflicting language that failed to resolve federal questions critical to the case.
The New York state comptroller issued a report on Wednesday that was critical of the New York Racing Association’s long-term planning for capital-improvement projects, citing specifically the estimated overruns attached to the building of a simulcast parlor at Aqueduct.
After stops in Dubai, England, Illinois, and Kentucky, California Chrome returned to trainer Art Sherman’s stable at Los Alamitos on Tuesday for the first time in nearly seven months. He will not be going far for a while.
There may have been a passing of the torch at Charles Town last Saturday night when the 3-year-old Charitable Annuity finished strongly to win the $450,000 West Virginia Breeders’ Classic while the 9-year-old Russell Road backed up in the final three furlongs of the 1 1/8-mile race to finish ninth.
Jockey Angel Castillo has been suspended 20 days and fined $1,500 for a Sept. 21 incident at Parx Racetrack in which the rider snatched a whip out of a fellow rider’s hands and used it to urge his mount on to a second-place victory, according to a ruling by the track’s stewards.
One of the more interesting horses on the Maryland Million card at Laurel Park on Saturday is Not Abroad, an 8-year-old who will run in the $150,000 Classic.
When Adam Bowden and his father Chris bought female pacer Western Montana in the formative days of their Diamond Creek Farm a decade ago, it was with an eye toward the future. Today as Western Montana’s undefeated 2-year-old daughter Pure Country prepares for the upcoming Breeders Crown, it appears the future is now.